Sentence 1: When I was eight Year's old, all I wanted to do was hit a homerun. 
 Sentence 3: I practiced on my hitting in order to make it happen one day 
 Sentence 4:  On my dad's birthday, I had a baseball game 
 Sentence 5:  At my first at bat, I walked up to the plate and hit a homerun! 
 Option 1: I kept trying and trying to hit one, but it never happened. 
 Option 2: I kept trying and trying to hit one and finally hit a homer on my ninth birthday.