Spring Soccer

First- the freaky gross epic bruise Whitney got from an elbow in a soccer game!  She was battling this tough forward the whole time. But the girl never scored! This was on about day 4? It proceeded to get more green and yellow for a few days, so crazy!

Once again Marcie took amazing pictures of the team.

Eric and Whitney and I are pretty attached to these girls!  There was a crazy couple of weeks around tryouts when we thought we were going to have to let some of the girls go down to the B team and it was heartbreaking!  Even though it wouldn't have been anyone who had been on the team for years- Eric says he will never cut those girls as long as they are still committed. He cares about them too much and they are too much a part of the team.  Anyway we ended up being able to keep everyone and it was such a relief!

Maris the little cute-face runner girl finally started to "get" soccer by doing Junior Shooters. When she did city soccer for 3 years, she just ran happily around and played with her teammates.  But this season she realized that she could score, beat people and stop them from scoring, spread out from teammates and try to get a pass, etc. It was SO fun to see. Here she is stopping a goal, and posing all sweaty after a game- she worked hard!

She is in the orange Pennie on the right here.

and again in orange taking the ball down to shoot.

Oh and insert here- random pictures from Springtime- Emma about to fall off her bed in her sleep:

Whit had a balloon stuck to her face for a while by static!

The kids got out the slip n slide when it was maybe 60 degrees haha

And Owen had a good Spring soccer season.  He decided to try out for Club though, because it's just annoying to play with people who don't care about soccer.

Here he is in the middle in gold, and on the right in blue.  He has decided he likes to play defense.

Also we went to a couple of cousin's soccer games, and Emma few in love with their fluffy puppy named Rolo!

Here's Owen's team:

Maris with some teammates on their last day:

And Whitney and Eric with the team at their last Spring game.  They finished in 5th place (out of 10) in Division 1, which was really good for their first season of being in that division!