Soccer Season

Soccer ended for the boys a couple of weeks ago.  The last Saturday of games was a little crazy as Rylan's baseball tournament started that same day (and that game overlapped with Carter's soccer game), Carter had his only overlap of baseball and soccer, and Rylan's team had two soccer games that day.  Between Brian and I, we were able to get the kids to all five of their games (with Carter only missing 15 minutes of his baseball game) and one of us coached every game that Brian is the head coach for.

Rylan's soccer team ended up only losing one of their nine games this season.  Carter's team had 4 wins, 1 loss, and 3 ties.  Both teams are great but Rylan's is definitely a stronger overall team.  They are very consistent and each player has become a major contributor to the team.  They have become a really fun team to watch.  The players on Carter's team are less consistent (most have good games and bad games) and we have a couple that are still beginner players.  They are still a great group of kids and could have potentially won every game they played this season.  We really love both of our boys' soccer teams.

Because we had such a crazy day for our last games, we decided to have a celebration on Sunday evening at Crockett.  We invited both teams, ate pizza and cupcakes, gave out trophies, and let the kids play on the playground and surrounding fields.  I try to do something a little different every season for the cupcakes and this is what I did this season ...

All the players from both teams showed up (AMAZING!!!).  Brian said something about each player as he handed out the trophies (this is the eighth season of the exact same participation trophies - we really need to request that the Y change things up!).

Hopefully all these boys will be back next season!