Soccer and other news

I must admit that I’m not the best soccer mom around.  I don’t go to every game for every kid.  I do my best to make sure that THEY are to most every game, and most every practice, but I’m not all that into it.  I don’t know all the rules, and am always asking the other parents things like “what is off-sides?” In fact, even when I’m there at the game, I’m really only paying attention about 1/2 of the time.  I’m either watching over or taking care of younger kids, chatting with other moms, or whatever.  But I must say, Saturday’s game with Megan was a bit different.  I got her there way early to find the field, and she and her teammates were pretty excited about the game.

   

This team has been together for two years, but this was their first year in a competitive or AAA league (whatever that means, right?) They’ve had a good season, but by no means did they win every game.  They’ve done pretty well in the past two weeks of tournament, though, so this was the championship game.  They were playing a team they had beat before, so that was a little bit of a comfort to them.  They started out great, and scored a goal in the first half.  In the second half, they scored two more, and shut out the other team.  Megan is a “sweeper”, so she’s the last line of defense before the goalie, and that girl can run!  She’s not a goal scorer, but she does her job well, and loves the game.  When the final whistle blew, it was very exciting!

 

Here they are right after the win, and then getting her trophy from her coach.

It was so great!  I was very proud of her! The guy who was awarding them their trophy was so cute.  He said, “In Region 5, Triple A division, 11 and under girls, there’s no team better than you!”   Here’s one last picture of her with her team, all proud with their shiny trophies!

In other weekend news, Jenna’s dance recital was very cute.  Need proof?  Well, here you are:

   

On Saturday night we attended the Butler Stake’s production of the Wizard of Oz, and it was very well done.  I had a few complaints about the boring character of Glinda, but then again, after seeing Wicked, I expect greatness, I guess.  It was a fun show, and the kids really enjoyed it.  John sat still and watched the whole thing, which was kind of surprising.

We had a lovely Mother’s day, too.  I bought myself the kids gave me some nice presents, including the new Donny Osmond CD (what a shock!) and a lovely new watch that I just LOVE.  They also made some cute cards, and Cole even made me a movie!  It should have been titled “a bunch of bad pictures of mom set to music”, but who am I to complain.  He made it with love.  Church was really great, with great youth speakers in Sacrament meeting and an awesome Sunday School lesson, and my lesson in RS went well.  We got some pretty pansies as our Mother’s day gift from the ward, and of course they had extras, so I let the kids choose some, so we’ll be planting those today.  We went to my mom and dad’s for a fun barbeque, and had a very nice day.  We should have Mother’s day more often than just once a year, don’t you think?