Spring Soccer Celebration

After a whirlwind of rain-outs, smoke-outs, and a silly swine flu scare, the spring soccer season has finally come to an exhausting end. The team celebrated with a parent/kid scrimmage on the practice field, a water balloon fight, giant cupcakes, and the distribution of trophies along with kind and encouraging words from the coach. Bub was named "Best Goalie!"

Fall Soccer 2008

Both kids kicked off the fall soccer season today. We have a pretty sweet schedule this year with maybe only one game scheduled before 10:30 A.M. We have no overlap, and both games are generally back-to-back and on the same field. You can't beat that!

Bub plays for "The Heat," a team that does not mess around. Bub seemed to really blossom today on a team that takes what they're doing very seriously. They played hard, and won the game 6-2.

The biggest lesson we learned today was that it is a really, really bad idea to have a sleepover the night before a morning soccer game. Gracie could barely keep her eyes open during Bub's game. Fortunately, she perked up in time to play.

Since this was Gracie's first season, she was the kid of crazy antics. She really had no idea what in the world was going on, but she kept up, ran her little legs off, and had lots and lots of fun. Fortunately, several of the other girls owned the soccer field, and "The Purple Ponies" won 8-1.

Lesson Learned


Shots of the Day

Practice Makes Perfect

For the first time ever, we are the parents of two soccer players. The ballet/tap class Gracie took all last year was the only organized activity she's ever done. Bub, however, has been on two different soccer teams, and has played football and t-ball, and every single team has ever been on has seriously been like the Bad News Bears.

This year, they both opted for soccer, so we took a chance and signed them up with the local league. Both kids are on really good teams (teams that we'll want to stick with), and we've found ourselves at back-to-back, doubled-up practices intensely preparing for the season opener.