Soccer girl

This past spring Ash was so excited to be able to join the "big kid" ranks in our family and try out her soccer skills. We now officially have three soccer players and one basketball player.

Sometime around that magical age of 8 we let our kids begin playing on a sports team. And even then they can only play one sport a year, and with soccer's double seasons, we've had to say only one season . . . spring or fall (except we made an exception last fall and allowed Nate to play).

After watching Nate and Kiersten play soccer and having Nate coach her a few times in the backyard, she settled on soccer and boy was she was she fun to watch. That girl has more energy and was in constant motion tracking that ball down. Sadly she never scored a goal but came close a dozen times.
After the last game of the season, a competition coach approached Tyler and Ash and tried to recruit her to play on his competition team. This was only her first season!! We had to turn him down. I just want her to have fun and not feel the pressure to win. I also did not want our summer spent doing soccer. Summer is family time and I'm not going to have anything intrude on it.