Summer soccer fun

This photo really sums up Spencer's first organized soccer game.

Last year when Teressa and the kids went to visit her family in Washington state, Aunt Opal signed Mason up to play soccer with his cousins Drew and Cody. This year she decided to continue the tradition, but on a grander scale. This year Spencer was signed up to play on a team with cousin Baylee in addition to Mason playing on a team with the older cousins. I only caught one game before I had to fly back to Texas for work, but it was an interesting experience. Mason was a bit timid at times, but it was obvious that he had played before and knew the flow of the game. Spencer on the other hand, was the youngest player on his team. (In fact, he was so young that he was under the age limit for the league.) It showed. At times, Spence ran to the ball and tried to kick it, and at other times he stood around in the middle of the field as if he didn't have a care in the world. It looks like we have a long way to go to realized that college athletic scholarship.

According to Teressa, as the season progressed, Mason became a bit more assertive, but Spencer was still off in his own world. In the middle of a game, he would stop tracking the ball and start doing karate moves. I suppose in Spencer's mind that if soccer equals kicking and karate equals kicking, you put the two together and you get some really wicked soccer moves.

For more photos of the initial soccer game, click on the link below.

2008 soccer photos