Rylan - End of Soccer Season

Rylan finished up his soccer season yesterday.  He is definitely one of the top players on his team and rarely sheds a tear during his games (he's our emotional one!).  Yesterday he scored 4 goals and played some stellar defense to prevent the other team from scoring when he was on the field.

I finally took some videos of Rylan playing (Carter didn't have a baseball game at the same time and Gray was napping).

One of Rylan's goals ...

Rylan is the go-to player for goal kicks.  I didn't get a video of it but he scored off a goal kick again at this game (no one else touched it - he just kicked it all the way down the field and it went in!).  Here is one of his other goal kicks ...

I love Rylan's pass to Caleb here (a lot of kids still don't pass at this age) and then getting back on defense to prevent a goal ...

Almost another goal (off the post!) ...

Rylan is also the go-to guy for corner kicks ...

Rylan has come a long way in the last two seasons.  We are so proud of his effort out there!  He's really matured and it's so much fun now that he doesn't cry every time he gets knocked down :)

After the game yesterday we had a small celebration.  I made cupcakes ...

And Brian handed out trophies ...

Rylan moves over to the big fields at Crockett Park next season.  They get to play 4v4 plus a goalie instead of 3v3 with no goalie.  It's a big change but it's exciting!  We are looking forward to having both boys at the same location again (we still have a couple of years before Gray can play and make Saturdays even more complicated!).