A Stanford Tradition Continues-Carter's 1st T-Ball Game

Saturday, March 14 may go down in history! That was the day that Carter Stanford began playing baseball (T-ball). Little did we know that we would be the starting pitcher (the position his daddy played throughout his baseball years) and he was also the lead off batter. We were so proud of the way he played. He hustled and gave it his all and the best part of all is that he had a GREAT time. He was so cute playing. The cutest thing he did was while he was playing pitcher, a ball was hit that went all the way into left field. Carter took off from pitcher's mound and ran all the way out to left field to get the ball. Believe it or not, he was the first one to get to the ball even though there were a lot of kids out that direction. He just gave it all he had.

Carter had a huge fan base to cheer him on. MeeMee, Paw Paw, Uncle B, Aunt B, Ryleigh, Elizabeth, Randall and me were all there to watch a new era begin. Ryan had scheduled a bass tournament in advance of the baseball schedule of which he had paid a lot of money to enter. So much to Ryan's disappointment, he was not there.

I wish I had a dollar for all the days that Randall and I have spent at the ballpark with our boys throughout their baseball careers. Now we begin again. How fun!!!!

Are there any RV Parks in Fairhope and Spanish Fort that we could call Home?

Friday, March 13 Randall and I have been doing a lot of cruching numbers and investigating into all that we will need to do to make our dream of extensive travel in our RV come to a reality. We have looked at it from all angles trying to see the best and quickest way to do this.

One thing that we have considered is going ahead and buying our 5th Wheel now. If we did this, we considered renting our house out and moving into an RV park while we still work. We can save more money by doing this. The problem is, there are really no great RV parks in Mobile. I have always wanted to live in Baldwin County. So we decided to ride to some of the parks over there and see what they looked like.

First we went to the new campground at the Blakely State Park in Spanish Fort. It was very woodsy and would be nice to stay at for a while. But I don't think it is a park that I would want to live in.

I also found a park on line in Fairhope that looked nice. So we checked it out as well. It was just O.K. The one big draw back was that it was almost to Point Clear and this would be quite the ride back and forth to work everyday. I would go from a 10 minute drive to work to about an hour drive or maybe more depending on traffic. Not very appealing.

So for now, this doesn't seem to be feasible. For right now, the plan is to save as much as we can. Randall says that it will take 10 years of saving before we will have enough to make it all work. 10 years seems like an eternity! Once again, I leave this in God's hand and we will do it if it is in His will and in His timing. For now it's fun to plan and dream!