Making Our Ball Field

About two weeks ago, I asked Dad if I could mow a spot in the bottom of the field to make a place to play baseball and he said yes! We marked where all the bases were going to go, then I mowed. I had made cardboard bases out of pizza box lids. They were good but they got a little bent up and moved everywhere when you ran around the diamond.

After I got the mowing done, we started working on the seats. We wanted to make the seats for anyone who did not want to play and for whoever wanted to take a break. To make the seats, we took two little logs and laid them on the ground, then we found one big log and laid them on the two little ones. The seats are long enough to hold about five people.

That same day we made the ball field, Ryan, and Amanda and all the kids came to spend a couple of days with us. After they unloaded their things from the van, we went down to show them the field. While we were down at the field, we played a little ball game. We had lots of fun playing. About every day after we made the ball field, we went down to play baseball.

While Ryan and Amanda were here, a box came in the mail and Mom called us in to open it. We opened it and it was bases! Mama got them for a surprise for us! We were all excited! We took them down to the ball field to try them out. The bases worked very well; they did not slide around when you ran on them. We all had fun playing baseball on our new ball field.