Update for the week

Just figured I would post an update in case anyone might be wondering if I had committed myself to an asylum yet( of course I'm just kidding..on a bad day, I know we still have it better than most). We have enjoyed our week in Oakland...this week Holden went to his second birthday party ever, Allie Gross' first birthday and he had a blast. It was during the game in a suite and we really enjoyed our time socializing. The wives also had their first bible study of the season and it was great to be able to see everyone again from last year. Holden has decided that smacking Brady Pennington in the face was a good way to interact with his friends, so needless to say...we have been working on that. He has also been playing with Braxton Wuertz a bunch and those two are hilarious together. Braxton is much better at pulling up, but Holden has been doing quite a bit of research on it,and has been trying a little more in the downtime. We enjoyed our first off day of the season yesterday and it was great. Nothing special, just a little laundry, shopping, dinner and a movie (but that's way more than we can usually ever do together in a month during baseball season). We spent half of it in our apartment in Sacramento before heading back down to our hotel room in San Ramon.
In my never-ending quest for peace,there has been new developments as well. In the wives' bible study we prayed for peace, and the next day we had an e-mail from baseball chapter about peace! And the verse in it was my favorite...Isaiah 26:3. There was some additional scripture on it as well about peace which didn't really resonate until the next day when I got a text from a family member...SAME scripture. So, yes folks...I appreciate all of your prayers, they are definitely making it up there, God is really revealing himself to us and providing peace in this crazy unknown. We are planning on making the flight to Texas on Sunday if Landon is still up in the big leagues, so if anyone needs more prayer requests, we would greatly appreciate it!