5 and 5

Well Allie's first season of soccer ended on Saturday and the ended the season being 5 and 5. In fact they actually won the last 4 games. A HUGE improvement considering the first half of the season (we did not play) the team did not win a game and when we started the first 4 games it looked like more of the same. Allie actually played Goalie the first quarter of the game. I think I was more nervous after watching her warm up. Thankfully not a goal got past her. She did great. Heath and I have learned from the other parents to bribe the girls with ice cream if they score a goal It just gives them a little extra push to try hard). Well we have been telling Allie that but she honestly really was never that interested until last week. While she did not score a goal (she got close 2 times) she played harder and kicked the ball more than I think she has all season, so needless to say we went and got ice cream that night. I am so proud of her and I think it has really been good for her to play on a team sport. She has always done dance or gymnastics so it is nice to see her play with a group. I think we are all a little sad the season has come to an end. I know I will miss watching the games and usually during practice myself and a couple of the other mom's walk the track, so I am going to have to find another activity to do on those nights. I am including a few pics of her in Goal- the are actually right before the game started, I was not able to get any while the game was going because whenever the ball would get on her end I was to busy watching to get pics.

If you look close you can see the ball between her feet.

I really like this one because you can see she is really running to get the ball from the other team.