Wednesday night was Kellen’s final soccer game of the year. And thus ended our first foray into the world of competitive soccer, which began almost one year ago. A year filled with summer camps, tryouts, practices, fall soccer, indoor winter soccer, spring soccer, tournaments, and even our first out-of-state competition. And most painfully, a year [...]
Nothing says, “I love you, son” quite like getting up early on a weekend, to watch your son’s soccer team play in the cold and rain. Especially when they lose. And one of the parents on the other team almost gets in a fist-fight with your son’s coach, which was about the most ridiculous thing [...]
OK, I know I said I had a favorite photo less than an hour or two ago, but I’m still sitting here browsing through the tournament pictures, and I’ve found a few more favorites. I love this one:because it shows off Kellen’s ninja warrior athlete prowess. I love this one:because it shows off Kellen’s stealth, [...]
Amended to add: It’s 3am, and I actually woke up, worried that someone might read this (heaven forbid, someone local who knows a kid on the other team) and think I was bashing the other players or their parents. That wasn’t my intention, although I think it might have come across that way. They are [...]
I was tagged by my new scrapbooking friend Alisa a few days ago but wanted to save the tag for today. It seemed fitting, considering we’re on our way to Arkansas for a soccer tournament as I type this. The tag was to take the sixth photo, from the sixth folder, on your computer, and [...]
Kellen had a soccer tournament this weekend. The venue was a soccer club about forty minutes from our house, and his team had a game Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon … then again Sunday morning (What the heck? Don’t the people who schedule these games go to church? The tournament had games at 7:30 AM Sunday [...]
Does anyone besides me see the resemblence??? Anyone? Anyone at all??? I’ll give you a second to think about it ….. really study the photo …… dredge your brain for some long-forgotten memory ….. Still not getting it???? OK, maybe it’s just me, but I think his hair makes him look just like Farrah Fawcett [...]
We spent our weekend: Flailing our legs about on the soccer field. Falling down. Because apparently that’s what all the best players do. But did you know this is also considered an illegal kick? Because that is the foul Kellen had called on him for this play where he basically ….. was responding to that [...]
So, Thursday night I was driving Kellen to his soccer practice and as we rounded the corner to the playing field, he pointed to a boy playing goalie and said, “That’s Omar. He’s a new boy on my team.” Ok, let’s back up. When my kids went to school in Georgia, a large number of [...]
Kellen’s new soccer team played in their first tournament this weekend. And in some kind of miracle, the weather cooperated for three of the four games, with temps *only* in the low 90′s and overcast skies. The fourth game, well, we pretty much all melted on the sidelines, one kid got a bloody nose he [...]