State Champs

We had the state soccer games this past weekend.

Clay's team lost their first game and won their second game.

Ken's, Cole's, and Jack's team won all three games in their pool. Then for the championship game, they just could not score. They stayed on the other teams side almost the whole game, but could not get a ball in the goal. So, they went into overtime. After overtime, we scored two goals and the other team scored two goals. Then we went into sudden death...The other team made their goal, and we missed out goal. So, our team came in second.

Luke's team won their first three games easily. Then the last game they had to win because both teams were undefeated. It was a tough game. The other team did a great job passing, but we had brute strength. Luke took it away from their forwards so many times. At the end of the game, neither team had scored. So, we had to go into over time. Our first three kickers made their goals and the other teams first three kickers missed their goals. So, Luke did not need to kick and neither did kicker number 5. Luke's team won state.

So, out of all of my boys, Luke's team won state. I am so proud of all of them. They worked so hard!

Zoo Day

The boys and Ken were out of school for Veterans' Day. So we took them to the Montgomery Zoo. We all had a great time. Tate loved seeing all of the animals and the older boys enjoyed seeing Tate have so much fun. When we saw a Bengal Tiger, he was sitting right next to the glass. We took some pictures of him and I got the boys to sit next to him. When Ken got close to the glass the tiger showed his teeth. Ken back away, then another man got close and looked at the tiger. The tiger lunged and growled at him. Everyone jumped. I said that I do not think that he likes men. So a woman went real close and put her face on the glass and roared. The tiger did nothing. The man came back and the tiger did it again. I was able to get a picture of the second time. It was soooo cool! The guys loved it and it scared Tate just a little. Of course, once we were away from the tiger, Tate was talking all about the tiger going "ROAR!" We had a great time!

Soccer Champs!

Luke's soccer team won their district and get to go to state. Luke is on the 13 and under team. Ken's team that he is coaching is the 11 and under team. Cole and Jack are on that team. They also won their district and they get to go to state. Clay is on the 9 and under team and they came in second place. They might get to go to state. Sometimes the second place team gets and invite. The boys did and great job and I am very proud of all of my boys.