end of soccer season spring 2008

So as some of you may know, Tylor has been playing soccer for the past 8 months or so. Kyle played T-ball but wanted to try soccer in the winter (Jan to March). And then in late March we signed all three boys up for soccer. Here they are in their uniforms. Saturday was the last games for the season (YEA!). Not that we didn't like soccer but it gets busy when you're the coach. That's right Carmen and I were the coaches for Kyle and Ryan's team. Yeah believe it or not but they were on the same team (this was the only season that'll work for like 2 years). It was the 4 and 5 year old team, Ryan turned 4 a month and a half before the spring soccer season started and Kyle didn't turn 6 until after the season was half over. So technically we could have bumped him up to the 6-7 year olds but we chose to have them on the same team. Being the coaches was fun even though we didn't go into it planning to be the coaches, it just happened that the parent who said they'd be the coach pulled their kid out and didn't show up to the required orientation day when all the team parents meet each other. Carmen figured as no one else was volunteering that we could do it. And we did, our team wasn't the fastest, or the most aggressive but we all had fun and learned a little soccer too.


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Tylor's team this season was named the Duckenators because of their yellow uniforms. Every season they get a different color. In the fall Tylor's team was black and the winter they were red. Tylor has played soccer on the same team all year, but has had THREE different colors of jerseys! We're going to take the summer off even though the league offers a summer season. It's just to darn hot in the summer to play soccer (we think anyways). So he will start back up in the fall (middle of October). His coach told him at the end of season party to start running hills so he can be faster next year. Yeah, he's a soccer coach always thinking about improving the abilities of his players even at the end of season party. Carmen and I really liked Ty's coach, he's good with the kids, he pushes them and expects them to play hard and good. So we're going to sign up for him as Ty's coach again next year.

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Here are some photos of Kyle and Ryan practicing before their last game. I don't have any pictures of the them in the games because James and I were the coaches. We had a lot of fun coaching for the 4-5 year olds. This was Ryan's first season playing soccer. It was a lot of fun watching him play because of the size difference between the other players and him and how it did not bother him, he'd go for the ball no matter what. I guess that's what comes from wrestling with his brother Kyle at least once a day. He even said once when this fairly large kid (a little bigger than Kyle -and that's saying something) tripped and knocked Ryan down. Ryan told James that "that big kid pushed me down on my bum, so I'm going to push him down on his bum." James TOLD me that he told Ryan, "OK good, as long as the ref doesn't see it". But he'd BETTER have said, "no we don't push the other kids down it was an accident" RIGHT JAMES.

Kyle has improved his ball handling (or footing?) skills a lot over the past two seasons, and he is now pretty good at keeping the ball inbounds at practice and in the games. He loves to play keep away from his dad, or monkey in the middle but that usually deteriorates into a wrestling match, maybe the other football would be the sport for him...

Kyle and Ryan's team's name was "the tigers" Carmen and I weren't sure if that was the name they'd picked at practice but it was the name that three of them yelled when we did our team yell after the first game what six weeks ago.