Soccer Season

 Because we are apparently insane, we had three kids playing soccer this season (all for the first time!). We had soccer practice on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, plus three games at three different times and locations on Saturday mornings. If it weren't for Uncle Timmy showing up to help on Saturdays, it would have been completely insane (or people would have to miss some games).

Three soccer babies!

The most terrifying 15 minutes of my soccer mom career:

He actually did a decent job as goalie and seemed to enjoy it!

Elise's official soccer portrait:

(taken by me because I am not paying for that nonsense)

She wanted a picture with the back of her jersey.

Not awkward at all. 

Elise's cute little team.

She became good friends with Alyssa (back row, 2nd from left).

Alyssa was the team MVP and a blast to watch.

I didn't get any pictures of Catherine since Jon was the one who usually took her to practices and games. She was the only 6th grader on the team, the rest were mostly 8th and a few 7th. She lucked out and was on a phenomenal team. They never lost a game, even when there was a miscommunication on the schedule and they ended up playing a team of boys for fun. I thought the girls would be crushed, but they held those boys to a tie! They ended up losing in the championships because so many girls (including Catherine) were not able to play in the final round on Sunday. But Catherine had a great experience and is even thinking about playing again next year! Are we crazy enough to do this again??