Meet my baseball-star-nephew Wyatt.

These three budding beauties are my granddaughters...Lucy (7 years old), Juni (8), and Ellie (8 1/2).

In all of my 66 years of going to Emerald Isle nearly every summer, this year was my first to spend the 4th of July seaside.

It's no surprise to anyone who knows us very well that the Grays are fierce competitors.

Anyone who knows our family very well knows the Grays are just a bit on the competitive side.

Little Ada, 14 months old, is the youngest of our 12 beach babies...

Rounding out so many summer evenings watching 7 of our grandchildren compete on the diamonds, our 10-year-old twin granddaughters Kassie and Kelsey had plenty of fun playing on the majors softball league team Bomb Squad.

Our only true little leaguer this summer was Abram, who played on the Harrison Junior Baseball 9U team.

As you have probably figured out, we spent lots of fun days and evenings at various ballparks this year, from t-ball diamonds all the way up to college stadiums.

Our 7-year-old Lucy made her softball debut this summer in her hometown Harrison, Ohio league.