Take me out to the ballgame....

Todd and Evan had a boys night out at the Braves game earlier this week and had great time. Todd got some really great seats about five or six rows back from the field, right on the third baseline and right next to the National's dugout. Evan scored pretty big with a Jeff Francoeur baseball jersey, a free t-shirt that the Braves throw up into the stands, a pack of baseball cards, and a major league baseball that a player for the Nationals had given to a teenage boy that gave the ball to Evan. How sweet of him. You would not believe the great baseball player Evan has become. He is playing short stop this season and has had about 20 coach pitch hits this season. His team is 12 and 0 and are just a great little group of kids. But I do have to add one thing. We believe MiMi Sue is Evan's good luck charm because Evan is on six hit hitting streak and playing like a major leaguer since she has been here ;) All in all, Todd and Evan had a fantastic time and enjoyed some much deserved big boy time together.

She Made It!!!!!

Morgan made both squads she tried out for yesterday. She will be cheering for football and on the competition squad. Way to go Morgan, I knew you could do it. Woohoo!!

That time of year again!

Morgan had cheerleading try-out yesterday and we are anxiously awaiting the results. We will not find until tomorrow morning if she made it. To add to the stress, she also tried out for the competition squad as well. She says she thinks she did pretty good and that she also landed her round off back handspring. Yeah!! So keep your fingers crossed and we'll post an update as soon as we find out!

We are Virginia Tech

We are Virginia Tech.

We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning.

We are Virginia Tech.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We are Virginia Tech.

We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did nothing to deserve it, but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, neither do the invisible children walking the night away to avoid being captured by the rogue army, neither does the baby elephant watching his community being devastated for ivory, neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water, neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy.

We are Virginia Tech.

The Hokie Nation embraces our own and reaches out with open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts and minds. We are strong, and brave, and innocent, and unafraid. We are better than we think and not quite what we want to be. We are alive to the imaginations and the possibilities. We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness.

We are the Hokies.


We will prevail.


We will prevail.


We will prevail.


We are Virginia Tech.



-Nikki Giovanni

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