It was Grad Night tonight, John got all dressed up looking good for the dance. It was so weird dressing him up to go out, made me remember when he was just a little boy and I look at him now and he is so grown up. The party was at the clubhouse in Celebration and all his friends were there, when we got there, we took some photos and then they all went in to party the night away. I cannot believe he is going to the High School this year.........
We played a baseball tournament this weekend that meant we had to be up at 5.45am both Saturday and Sunday, I am exhausted.....!!!! We played AAA and we did quite well, we are a AA team and played up for this tournament. We won 2 games and lost 2 games, but we got to play in the stadium that the Houston Astro's train in so the kids were happy about that. John is number 8 and here he is with his pal Noah observing the field, they said it was awesome playing on a real field LOL. John and Sam have driven to St Petes to watch the Tampa Bay Rays v the Cleveland Indians.
So Sam has now mastered the Rubiks cube his next mission is the Guitar. Keith John and Sam have wanted to learn to play the guitar for years now, luckily enough we persuaded our Barber Neil to come and give the boys lessons on a Tuesday and we will make him his tea, luckily for us he agreed. Neil is awesome on the guitar and so good with these Birchalls, he is also from Liverpool County Road. Neil is making it look so easy I think I can play too.......!!!!! The kids want to learn to play "Wonderwall" first and "Ring of Fire"............LOL It didn't take long before our John dropped his plectrum in the guitar hole, Sam started complaining his fingers hurt and Keith could play all night.
Not a very good picture but they would not allow cameras into the House of Blues, UB40 last night were brilliant. We saw them back in 91 in Manchester and to see them again 18 years later was fantastic. I was a bit worried as I didn't know Ali Campbell had left the band, no one told me over here......!!!! Duncan his brother stepped in and was every bit as good as his older brother he had all the moves and sounded exactly the same. They sang the old fav's 1 in 10, Tyler, of course Red Red Wine. We had a great night with a couple of good friends and came home and put every UB40 cd I have on my iphone. They are on tonight in St Pete's and if I didn't have plans I would of drove down there and saw them again they were that good.
