LaRoca Cup U12 Premier Champions!!!

I am so proud of Brin's new team. They are great! Great girls, great families, great coach and great players. The best of everything in the soccer world. They did so good in the LaRoca Cup...taking 1st place in the Premier U12 division. They played some great teams and they did so good. Way to go! Way to play hard!The last game came down to the two LaRoca teams...Brinley's old team and her new team. And to tell the truth, I was so happy that they won the old team! Yippy! 1 to 0.

Soccer, Friends, and Fireworks!

Wow, we had a fun 24th of July. We started out our day with an intense game of soccer. Brinley's new team was playing her old team and it was a close game. I wanted Brin's team to win so bad, but we lost 1 to 0. Brinley played so good, her whole team played amazing. Even though they lost, they probably dominated the field most of the game. This team has only been together for 1 and half months and they are going to be incredible! After the first soccer game, we had another one and then we had just enough time to was Brin's uniform and then head down to the REAL game. We went down with Stephanie Sill and her two girls and we had so much fun. It was a great night and the second half of the game was so exciting and then the fireworks were awesome too!

Here are some activities before the game:

All of the LaRoca soccer players were able to be in the "Parade of Kings" before the game started and go out onto the field. Here are some pictures of Brinley with her new team waiting to go out there.

After the game was over...REAL won...we were able to go out onto the soccer field to watch the fireworks. Brinley and McKenna thought that it was so cool to be out on the actual field again, that they thought they would "Kiss" the ground that they played on. We had such a fun night...it was a great 24th of July! Yea!

Boating!!

Boating can be a lot of fun...if nothing breaks down on the boat! And today, everything went great! Sydnie was able to bring Sara and McKenna, while Lyndsie had to stay back because the Clearfield Cheerleaders were having a car wash fundraiser. The sun was hot and the water was well...we went to Willard Bay and ran over a dead fish, but other than that...refreshing. Our new tube was a hit and everyone loved going on it. Sydnie was the only one that would wake board and she did awesome...she just about jumped the wake!

Football

Someone is so excited for football! We signed Sam up this week and on Thursday, we went to the city offices to get his football gear. When we came home, he immediately started to put everything on to get ready to show Steve when he got home. While he was waiting, he would put everything on and then take it off and line it up in front of him and then put it on again. You could just tell by watching him that he can't hardly wait to put it on for real!

Cheer Camp for Syd...blue ribbon winners!

Cheer Camp for Sydnie was in Park City this year. They all met at the McKenzie's house on Tuesday morning to go up...Then on Friday, we went up to see the week's worth of hard work. They did fabulous! They have got a very talented squad with fun girls. Sydnie had a great time up there and every night that I talked to her, she would say "I am having fun!" Yea...if you're having fun, it must be a success then!

The All-American winners...

Impact Tournament Champions!

Brinley is on a new soccer team. It is still with LaRoca but a different coach and different girls. It is going to be an awesome team. They are very talented girls. This tournament is the very first time they have played together as a team and they took 1st place. They all played so good, it was a lot of fun to see them doing so well and being so successful! Her new coach is Souli and we like him a lot, he is a great coach. When Lyndsie was in the 9th grade, Souli was a teacher there at Syracuse Jr. High and Lyndsie was his T.A. and she really liked him too. It is going to be a good year for soccer and I think that Brinley will enjoy it a lot more than last year.

A Super Fun Weekend!!!

Wow, we had the best weekend! We started out friday morning with Sam's golf tournament and after that Sam left with Stephanie to go up to Midway for the weekend and we would catch up with them later... Brinley was in a soccer tournament in Cottonwood Heights...so we had to go there first to play their third game of the tournament. They won and then afterwards Brinley and I drove up to Midway. We had so much fun up there. Stephanie invited us to go up for the weekend. Kim and her girls went up along with Amy Davis and her kids. It was a fun bunch...thank you Steph for inviting us! We had a yummy dinner and then went swimming with all of the kids. After swimming, we all just relaxed while the kids played and played and played.

I always tease Stephanie about her being the best photographer...her pictures are always so good! Well...I had spotted this nest and had taken a picture of it and a few minutes later, Steph also took a picture. Check out how good hers is. Mine is the first one and hers is the second one with the mother swooping in while all of the babies have their mouths open. The perfect picture. We compared our photos and just laughed at the difference. She is good!

The next morning in Midway, we woke up to this beautiful view. Thanks again Stephanie for a great overnighter! My family loved it.