Camp Fire

My kids favorite nighttime activity is having a campfire on our back patio. Chad is so good to do this - while I stay snug inside with Jason :)

Striker Update

Well Collin's first year of playing soccer ended up well...
They only lost one game and tied one game so they were destined for the playoffs. They replayed both of the teams that they didn't beat and emerged victorious!
Since they won they then had to go to the championships. Understand, during the season if it sprinkled the night before they would cancel all the games - this time with Thanksgiving next week and everything (the parents were done :) they simply moved the games to the older field and warned us they would play, rain or shine!

Needless to say, it was pouring down!
Well, Collin wanted to play in the rain! I stood under the canopy with Jason and we still got soaked! We won, which meant we had time to go wash all our clothes and come back in the afternoon to play another game. We were told that the winners of those games would get trophies and the losers wouldn't get anything... there was a lot of pressure on those kids.
We played so hard but the other team barely won in the end. Our kids were very emotional, some tears were shed (I was reminded of the World Cup). We cheered each other up and the kids were soon smiling again. It was hard then when the officials came out with the trophies and walked right past our team to take them to the middle of the field for the other team. They conferred with our refs then brought a box of trophies to our side. We tried to tell them that we didn't win, the other team did. Imagine our surprise when they pulled out second place trophies for all the boys!

...and such nice trophies too!

What a great year we had! I'm so glad Collin was on a good team. Not only did we get a trophy but the boys all played well together and the parents all got along. Collin has told me he wants to play again next year - hope it's as fun as this year.