soccer begins

Soccer started Saturday, and Ethan was more than ready to get out on the field.

He has really improved with his dribbling.

He got to be goalie for the first half.  The coach wanted a parent down by the goal to help keep the goalie focused while all the action was on the other end.  That's my friend Tricia standing next to me.  Her son was playing defense in front of Ethan.  Let's just say it was a good thing she was there cause I had no clue when there was supposed to be a goalie kick, corner kick, etc.  I might not be asked to stand there anymore :)

Brian's job was to help watch the time and sub players in/out - and maybe keep the peace on the bench.  I'm thinking that might have been the other mom's job.

Elliott didn't want to play this year, so after kicking the soccer ball around a while and throwing the football with his friend, this is apparently how he and Aunt Meemer spent the rest of their time.  Well, except for when Meemer was taking all of these awesome pictures for me.

This was right after Ethan scored a goal!  If you look closely you can tell that he is smiling - he was pretty excited about it!