Sharks Last Game!!!

Luke had a great last game of the season...he even scored a goal!!! His coach, Coach Bobby was great and the team really got along well! Part of me hates to see the season end...but not the part of me that wants FREE Saturdays for a while :) Amy Lopez took these cute pictures of the boys!

2 GOALS!!!!

This whole season Luke has been dying to get a goal...he has had troubles getting in there and being real aggressive. Also his team has struggled to pass to each other, they all have the same goal in mind...GET A GOAL! So they end up fighting EACH OTHER for the ball instead of playing as a team. You always hear us parents yelling "You are on the SAME team!" This week Luke has really been thinking about today's game. In fact he has this journal at school called the Parent's Journal, he writes to us and then we write back to him. His entry this week said he thought he would get a goal. Our coach could not be at the game today and so he asked Matt to coach for him. Luke was VERY excited about that! Well today was Luke's day. Usually he starts the game but today Matt didn't put him in right away. He was itching to get in there. When Matt finally put him in Luke was on fire! He scored two goals right away. AND he was passing to his teammates! It was the BEST game! He was so excited. It melts my heart because after each one he would look my direction for my approval :) I bet you won't hear me saying that when he is in high school...instead it will be some teenage girl writing on HER blog that Luke would look HER direction every time he scored! SO I WILL ENJOY IT WHILE IT LASTS!

After the game I asked Luke what got him so pumped up out there, I asked if it was because his dad was coaching and he said "Ya I just wanted to show him what I could do" :) CUTE! It was a great day!

It seems like it is always the girl teams that whoop Luke's team and so Luke is always so intimidated when they have to play them. So in this picture it shows him playing against a girl :)

I have a plan....

We got to Luke's game on Saturday night and were surprised to find a family from our ward there who has a daughter that is 9 almost 10 years old. We wondered what they were doing at our field and then were shocked to realize that their 9 year old's, all girls team was going to be playing our poor little 6 year old boys who were missing our top two players and our coach! YIKES! The league they play in is a little unorganized and I don't think they have as many teams as they would have liked and so this girls team had to play us. To make it fair they made a rule that the girls had to pass 3 times before they could score a goal. So thankfully they only beat us 6 to 1 instead of the whooping it could have been :) After our one and only goal the boys were so excited that they were jumping around and Luke says "Hey guys come here I have a plan". So the boys spontaneously stop the game to huddle and hear Luke's plan! It was cracking us up and Amy caught the moment beautifully with her camera! I asked Luke what he was saying and he was telling them "I know you don't like to pass, but we need to pass the ball and go around these girls, so pass it to me". It was pretty funny....we only had 5 boys there and they play 4 on 4 and so our boys had to work SO hard!

Each picture Amy took Luke has a very focused look on his face! Here is a picture of Luke's "fierce" kick as Amy called it :)

Here they are after the game, you can almost hear Luke and Carver saying "We got beat by a bunch of girls!"

Luke's First Soccer Game of the Season...

How did I get so lucky to have a best friend that is a talented photographer!!!! Carver and Luke are on the same soccer team and Amy took these pictures for me at the game. With Amy around I don't need to bring my camera :) Their team name is the Sharks and they won like 6 to 1 or something! Fun game! THANKS AMY for the great pictures! You know she is starting her photography business and I can give you her number if you're interested! :)