Soccer Saturdays Return

I loved last Saturday...we got to watch both of the kids play soccer! It was Matt's first game and well...Marlie is not playing soccer this year but her old team needed an extra player so she was excited to help!

Matt is playing again with the Texans Academy.  Last year he was the youngest on his team and all of those kids have moved up.  So he has a whole new team this year which he is excited about, but his team last year was amazing and it challenged Matt so much that I miss him playing with those boys.

They lost their first game Saturday 3-1 but they played well and the other team was really good. Most of these boys play soccer year round so Matt always struggles the first month trying to catch up and get back in soccer shape.  But he played right-mid the entire game and although he was exhausted, he made it through!! He had a beautiful cross to his teammate that scored and he had another perfect cross that should have been a goal but we didn't quite get it in. I got lots of great action shots...I love the faces he makes as he's trying to win the ball or beat someone to the ball.  This kid plays hard!!

Then it was off to watch the good ole Fairy Ponies!! Marlie got to play forward and she looked like she'd been practicing with the team since the start of the season. She had so fun much being out there with her friends. She was out of soccer shape too but managed to play hard for almost the whole game. She feel asleep on the way home!! I hope we get to help the Fairy Ponies again! So fun to watch!!