Go Flyers!

Our 16U Flyers team made it to second place this weekend at the tournament in Davis, CA. We missed the games on Saturday because Phil had to work. It was great that we didn't lose the first game and have to go all that way for one game. LOL

The tournament organizer announced during the medal ceremony that our organization, the Fremont Flyers, had a team in each division in the finals. This is the first time that he's seen that in a tournament. And he runs a lot of tournaments.

I think that is pretty awesome, because when we started with the Flyers, we weren't the best team in the league. But as we've progressed and matured, the girls have become a much better team. Very proud of you girls!

Fremont Flyers Softball 16U

We spent our 3-day weekend at a tournament in San Carlos at Carlmont High School. We played a total of 6 games over 3 days. The championship game was 11 innings and ran 3 hours! The girls did great. We were undefeated for all our games. We played teams from San Carlos, Scotts Valley, and Santa Cruz. And we played our fellow Fremont Flyers 16U team.

The girls with their championship trophies.

Our catcher Lindsay Carroll at bat.

My niece Alex pitching.

Safe!
Ari Monges at bat.

It was such a great time. The girls played so well for their first game, setting the bar very high! Every year our group of girls get better and better. There are a few new additions to our team this year, and they make the team that much better!

Go Flyers!!

Softball Logo

So, one of our local softball teams wanted a logo done for their coaches shirts. They gave me this picture to create the logo. So I redrew it in AutoCAD, and digitized it.

This is the final product. I liked how it turned out. Their school colors are purple and gold, so we did the girl in gold, the swoosh in white, and on a lovely purple shirt. We also put each of the coaches names on the shirts.

I have to figure out some more softball logos so I can do more things with it.

Flyers in Stockton

Today the Fremont Flyers were in Stockton. It was a bit warm for me, so I didn't take a whole lot of photos. I got this one of Lexi which was cool. LOL

I thought Alex and Melissa looked really cute with their matching orange sunglasses.

And I just loved this photo of Alex.

Debi's niece Shania is visiting from Colorado. She's just so cute and fun.

We had a great time today, the team didn't win any of their games today, but there's always tomorrow!

FGSA Closing Day

This past Saturday was closing day for the FGSA. Kinda sad cause we spend a lot of time here during the week. Today is gonna be so weird not having to be anywhere. Above are the flyers girls. They're the FGSA tournament team. It's so cool that they all get along!

Here are my girls, Danielle, Alex, and Lexi. They're so cute! They're part of the 14U Flyers team, Dani and Lexi are on the Thunder team, and Alex is of course a Rocket! Go Rockets!

Here's Coach Phil with the girls. He spends a lot of time coaching Alex and Dani cause they're his pitchers and catchers. And Lexi is starting to become a pitcher too. :)
And this is where I spend a lot of time, at the snack shack. Hopefully we've raised enough money to have electricity and sewage at the snack shack. Then we can finally be indoors!!

This year, in our inaugural season in the 18U, the Rockets took second place! YAY! It's so cool that they could be in second in their first year in the 18's.

And here's the team accepting the reward for the most volunteer hours for the 12U/14U/18U. Go Rockets! They won a day at the local water park. :)

I know we've just finished, but I can't wait for next season!!

Fremont Flyers first tournament in 2009

The Fremont Flyers 14U team's first tournament was in San Ramon this past weekend. It's always a lot of fun to go watch the girls play, plus visit with the other parents. Phil helps to coach the pitchers and catchers on the team.

Lexi running to catch the ball.

Danielle and Alex mugging for the camera. They just crack me up!


Here's the team between games. I love their uniforms this year! I gotta learn how to do tackle twill.

Here are the coaches. Larry, Phil, Clint, and Rusty.

Phil talking to Lindsey.

This is how we spend a lot of our free time during the summer. Phil's been helping Rusty coach since Alex was about 6 or 7. And we've been watching her games since she was in t-ball. I love how much she's grown since we've first started watching her play.

FGSA Opening Day

Today was a really nice day. It was Opening day for the Fremont Girls Softball Association, and it was a lot of fun.
Vicky Galindo was there to throw the opening pitch. It was awesome, she was on the last Olympics team for softball. She also is on a pro team. The girls were very excited to have her there.
Alex got to catch the first pitch, and she was so nervous. And she got to shake her hand, and I think Vicky actually signed her ball.

We did pretty good, we got a couple of jobs out there for our embroidery. So it was a great day for us out there too.

A Broken Aluminum Bat

Here's Phil back in his softball playing days. And he actually broke this bat during a game. We had to take a photo cause the bat is Aluminum, and it is pretty unusual to break an aluminum bat! The game actually stopped so that they could look at the bat. I don't even remember if he got a hit off that or not.

I had my engineer boss at the time look at the bat, and he said there must have been a flaw in the metal to make it break like that. Ok, burst our bubble. We'd like to think that he hit the ball so hard that it broke the bat. ;)

Flyers Jacket

Here is one of the Jackets I embroidered. It was fun trying to place the embroidery on the jacket. Since we don't have a small hoop, we have to figure out how to hoop things without hitting the snaps in the middle, and still having the logo in the correct place.

With the larger jackets you could go to the right side of the opening and miss the snaps when hooping. On medium sized jackets, you have to begin the hoop to the left of the opening to miss the snaps and to not hoop on the ribbed material.

So, a light shined when I realized...duh! Just move the embroidery over in the program. That way I could place it where I wanted to.

I love learning the process of embroidering!

I'm Finished!!!

I just now finished embroidering the 15 jackets for the Fremont Flyers. YAY! They have a tournament Saturday, and practice tomorrow, so it's great that they'll get to use them this weekend. I'll take a photo of them tomorrow and show you how they turned out. It was a bit of a challenge trying to hoop the Medium size ones.

I started off with the XXL ones for the coaches, and worked my way down to the size Mediums. It's like a puzzle, trying to figure out how you're going to miss snaps while hooping. I realized I can move the embroidery in the hoop to adjust for the placement of snaps.

I'm just glad there were no mishaps!

And another thing I'm excited about is I've had my first sale on Etsy! I always wonder if anyone else will like my pieces. And I always am happy when someone does. It gets me excited. Kind of like when I would draft things on paper, and then see it in real life. The first time I saw the Air bearing slide I drew back from the machinist, I was just in awe! LOL

Thank you to all my friends for all their encouragement and support! I love you gals!

Fremont Flyers Logo

Here's the second logo that we've digitized. It's for the FGSA tournament softball team, the Flyers. Phil helps our friend Rusty coach the 14U team. This logo was a bit tough, and I still have to work on the softball. It doesn't look all too great, but I'm working on it.

The old logo has a white softball, and it's always bugged me because the girls use a yellow softball. :) So, I hope they like it!

Softball Krispy Treats

Here is our new invention. The yellow chocolate covered Krispy Treat. We made these for the girls that Phil coaches. Tomorrow is our team BBQ, and we decided to make them something really cool.

Phil made his own molds, but we're thinking it's easier to cut them out by hand. I then dipped them with yellow chocolate and used red icing for the lacing. Although I think next time I might try that red chocolate instead.

They turned out cute. I didn't have the right stuff to make the lacing right, but it was good practice. :)

I hope they like them.

Oh, and I'm on this sugar high now cause I ate all the leftover krispies in the pot! ROFL.

Fremont Flyers in Benicia

Today we had a tournament in Benicia for the Fremont Flyers. It's one of the Softball teams that Alex plays on that her dad Rusty coaches. Phil helps out coaching the catchers and pitchers. We've only been to two of the tournaments so far, and I know I'm having a good time watching the games.
It's so neat seeing how Alex has grown from a t-ball player to a fast pitch softball player. I love watching her play, and she actually got a home run hit today during one of the games! YAY!
If you've ever wondered what the city of Oakland looks like, here's a picture of Oakland from the side. We were passing through on our way to Benicia today.