My Soccer Season- Catherine

Here for your viewing are the pictures of some of my soccer games.

I am the one with the ball by my feet

I had a great team and a great season.

Spring Soccer for Spencer

Spencer had a great spring soccer season. His team, the Blue Tornadoes, didn't get creamed quite so often, in part thanks to Spencer's increased aggressive play. He had a few games where he scored multiple times.

This one was a particularly good game on a particularly nice day. I think he scored 6 (Spencer thinks it's 9) goals that game. I finally had to tell him to stop. :)

Emma keeping herself entertained.

This was his final game of the season. It was the beginning of May and we were all freezing! Spencer had a rough first half, but the second half he came back invigorated and scored at will. Here are a couple of his shots.

Spence was so excited to get his very own medal! (His only lament was that he wanted it to be gold.)

Yay Blue Tornadoes!

And here is a shot of the crowd.

Recent short outings

A couple weeks ago the kids and I had planned to go explore the trails in the foothills above our home. You know that park that is high up with the views of the valley? There are trails that mysteriously weave up and around some small passes.

We've been having crazy non-summer weather, so when the Friday night arrived, it was cold with imminent rain. The other kids were fine, but Spencer was really disappointed and cried and cried. So I took him. Luckily the rain held off.

He wanted to take one of me:
The trip became awesome when we wandered into a gully and found these bones. That weekend our cousin Madeleine identified them as a femur (or humerus - they're pretty much the same on four-legged animals) and some vertebrae. We found them by a bunch of feathers. So we figure that whatever it was (baby deer carcass?) either got eaten by a vulture, or whatever ate this also ate a bird, too. Spencer carried the femur around for the next two days.
The next day was a little nicer, so while mom was out we went to explore the American Fork River that runs behind the high school about a mile away. This outing reminded me of many my mom would take us on during summers to rivers such as the Gunpowder and whatever the one is that feeds the Greenbrier and Cunningham Falls lakes.
Every outing would be about half as long if it weren't for snacks. Of course we spent a lot of time throwing rocks.
Next post I will show the photos from our epic Memorial Day weekend.

Summer, Summer, Summer!

Here I Come!