End of Soccer

Soccer season ended a few weeks ago, and since I never posted any picture of it (probably because I didn't take many as I have been chasing McKay around at most of the games :), I decided that it was time to do a few. All of the boys had a great season. Palmer lost his jersey midway through and ended up wearing his indoor one to ever game. I guess it worked :)
He was thrilled when his teacher came to watch him in one of his games. She is seriously such a great teacher.
The awards this year were probably the boys' favorite as the ball on top was squishy and came off so they could play with it. That is a pretty smart idea I think. We also made each member of the team a little "have a cool summer" treat like we did for their school classes. The saddest thing happened at this last game, there was only a few minutes left and Palmer was nailed in the face with the ball. His nose started bleeding profusely and guess what...I didn't have any wipes! I don't know how, but they were taken out of my diaper bag somewhere. So all of the parents on both teams pitched in and we got him cleaned up, but they decided to call the game. The poor kid had to end the soccer season on that? Oh well, he had a great season so I am sure he will forget it :)

McKay totally thinks he is one of the big kids. He loved sitting in this chair (as I hovered worried he would fall out)
Hunter loved his season as well. He had a pretty great team. They were all so silly and had a lot of fun together, but worked very hard. Hunter really surprised me with how aggressive he was this season. His personality is very laid back and it was so fun to seem him stay with the ball until he got a goal. He did this over and over each game.
This was the last cheer. The boys wanted to put their heads in instead of their hands. I told you they were silly! Their coach was a good sport :)
Very proud of his trophy. He doesn't have as many as his brothers since he hasn't played as long, and always is very frustrated when he gets a medal instead of a trophy as he is trying to catch up :)
I finally got a picture of Lincoln getting a goal. Lincoln has grown to love soccer. It surprises me as for a while he really wasn't too into it. We were pretty close to taking him out of it all together because it didn't seem he enjoyed it. He ended up playing last year only because Hunter's team needed someone else and that was the season that he started to love it. I haven't gotten to see very many of his games this year because Josh was coaching him and Hunter needed someone at his games. I always tried to run between games, but it got crazy. I got to see a few though and he did so well.
His dad/coach was pretty impressed as well.
I told Palmer I would give him 2 ice cream scoops if he would "babysit" McKay (yep I use them as bribes). This mostly just mean keep him happy, since I was standing right there, but he was so miserable. Palmer did a great job and McKay was thrilled to play with him.
Lincoln handing his treats out to his team. Lincoln has played with some of these kids for a few years and it will be interesting to start all over with teams in the new area.

Josh has loved coaching the boys this season. He has seen so much improvement for all of them.
At the end of the game Palmer went and got out Josh's bag of soccer balls for McKay to play with. He was so funny playing with the cones.
He was being so good for a long time and I wondered what he was so interested in. I came over to find that he and the boys had gotten into some "dum dum" suckers that Josh had in his bag. McKay was covered in pink. He had to have eaten 4. He had a great time :)
The boys had a great season and are looking forward to playing again in the fall!