Jake Finishes His Spring Baseball Season with the Mets

Jake enjoyed another season of baseball with Odell Rec Sports with the Mets. It was his first season playing in the infield and he played a lot of games at third base. He loved it because that was the position his Daddy played in college. He had a lot more action and always did his best and showed lots of improvement over the season. He had one play where he scooped up the ball and made the throw to first base to get the out. It was awesome!!!

Brian was an assistant coach again this year and the team did pretty well. Jake had a lot more hits this season and even got a few into the outfield. He seems to get a little better with each season and continues to enjoy having his Dad coach him. This summer he will do his first baseball camp at an indoor batting cage facility, which will be nice to beat the heat in the summertime.

Halloween 2008

The boys had a great time at their friend's house for a Halloween party and also did some trick or treating of course.

Jake was very protective of his little brother while trick or treating and escorted him to every door step, which is just priceless for a Mom to watch. He could have been running off with his 7 year old friends, but said he wanted to help his brother because he loves him! Yes, I was in heaven :)

Perry Family Celebrates Another Race for the Cure

We participated again this year in the Race for the Cure in honor of my mom who is now a 19 year survivor!! It is hard to believe that she was dealing with this way back when I was just a freshman in college. Seeing her hold her 19 balloons and growing each year is always an emotional time for us. It was a beautiful day and we all enjoyed it very much!

Family Pictures

We recently hired a photographer to come take pics at our house. We love how they turned out! You can click on any of them to see them larger.

Lisa Finishes First Triathlon!

I have been training for about 4 months for this big event and I finally completed it! It was a great sense of accomplishment and something I can check off my bucket list. It was so amazing to do this race with some of my closest girlfriends and hundreds of other women.

The Ramblin' Rose is an all female triathlon...250 meter swim, 7 mile bike, 2 mile run. My goal was to finish in the top third and break 1 hour...I finished in 58 minutes, and was 183 out of 568 athletes, so was very proud of my effort :)

Jake Starts a New Season of Baseball

Jake had his first game of fall baseball today and had a good day, going 2-3 at bat. He also played in left field and only had a couple of balls hit to him, but stopped them and prevented some runners from advancing. He hurt his wrist on his scooter last night but "played through the pain" and did a good job for his team. His uniform "The Storm" is pretty fitting for all this hurricane weather going on.

Lisa Completes Full Practice Triathlon

After months of training, I finally completed a full distance practice triathlon, 3 weeks before the big race on October 5th. I had done some back to back bike/runs and one shorter distance practice tri, but this was the first time I did the entire distance (250 swim, 9 mile bike, 2 mile run).

The swim actually kind of wakes you up and energizes you as you start the bike ride, but the transition from the bike to the run is like trying to run while carrying a refrigerator on your hinny! It started to rain during the run, so Brian rode my bike along side me so he could track my distance and I would know exactly when I could stop. By the 1 mile mark it was pouring down and we were sloshing through puddles, but I finally finished in about 1 hour and 12 minutes!

Bri took me out to lunch after and I enjoyed a great big steak!! This training has really upped my appetite. I am really looking forward to the race and doing this all women triathlon alongside hundreds of other ladies and some of my closest friends.

- TriDiva Lisa