Henry and Max went to their first practice Friday evening. Elizabeth came by work to pick me up and we went to a completely overwhelming, highly confusing, unorganized and intimidating (for the boys) practice. There were so many kids there, Max got lost twice in the crowd and cried bitterly. We are probably partly to blame for that, as we left them both alone with all the other kids. The coaches had told the parents to stay behind the lines, but most of them simply ignored that request. As you can see there were easily 300+ people on the field with at least half of them adults.
They had their first game on Saturday and that went much, much better. Although most of the kids didn't have much of an idea what to do (yet), they all kept chasing the ball pretty good. The opposing team was mostly LDS kids, with Tanner Mayfield (the son of our former bishop in Jonesboro) kicking the ball and scoring like an old pro. He of course has three older siblings that are all active soccer players who must have shown him a trick or two!
Anyways, it seemed all the kids had fun and Henry and Max are still excited to play soccer this year!
Looks like fun - your boys are getting so big!
ReplyDeleteSo...I didn't know what the heck foosball was until now...SOCCER! i got it now.
ReplyDeleteWe spend all of our Saturdays on the soccer field, too, this time of year. Bridger refs the younger kids (U-5 and U-6) which are my favorite age to watch. Aiden moved up to U-10 which doubles the size of field they are used to playing on. He was incredibly sweaty after running up and down that field on Saturday.
ReplyDeletewhoa! that's quite a practice. like how strappin' the team looks. good luck to the boys; hope the next practice goes better.
ReplyDeleteoh, and your block party looked fun.
Holy Cow! Could that practice be any more disorganized? Good grief...it's a amazing that you guys came home with the same set of twins as you came to practice with. I hope the practices get better. Good Luck Max & Henry...have fun!
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