Summer Soccer and More

The boys both played travel soccer this year. This was Trevor's first main season on travel soccer (he did the fall season last year, but the summer season is the main season).  Trevor played on a U9 team and Austin played up to U16 and played for 2 teams!  He also trained as a referee and was able to squeeze some ref games into his busy playing schedule. I didn't catch many soccer pictures this year, partially because it was so busy, I didn't make it to all of the games, and also because Austin's fields are SO big now that I can't get a good picture from that far away. Trevor's team is still in the bunch up in a group mode, so it is tough to grab pics of him too!

Here is Trevor's team at the Shakopee Cup

Trevor enjoyed playing goal keeper often this year. He even got to do some extra goalie training throughout the season. His team struggled with camaraderie and was pretty tough on him if he missed a save in goal, but he did a great job as goal keeper and when the coach put each of the other kids in goal to see how hard it is, it helped them understand how well Trevor was doing at it and back off on the criticism.

One of Austin's teams. 

They didn't have enough kids on either the U15 or the U16 team, so they made them both U16 teams and traded players back and forth.  Austin played every game and every tournament for both teams except for 2 games that occurred while he was at soccer camp!  He played over 30 games, plus a week at residential soccer camp, and 3 weeks of soccer camp at BSM!  He was a busy soccer player this summer!  He played quite well, was one of the leading scorers, and was an asset to both teams.

Winners of the Lakeville Father's Day Cup!

Austin got to come into my clinic to get his COVID shots!

The other 2 kids aren't old enough yet, but we're hoping the approval for their age groups comes through soon!

We hosted vaccine clinics at our clinic and volunteered our time to get more shots in arms.

Father's Day cookout at Olympic Hills

Trevor did some puzzles with Mommy.

He loves the Ravensburger Escape Puzzles that we put together to reveal the clues and then put them together to "escape" from the situation the story details. 

For 4th of July, we made a berry lasagna dessert and headed to Nanny and Grandpa's for dinner. 

The big kids loved getting to hold baby Adam and it was so great to have Jenny with us!

Sparklers!

How my dancer does sparklers!

Chanhassen Dinner Theater opened again and we took the kids to see "The Music Man"

Sarah and Trevor discovered kiddie cocktails.

On the way home from a soccer game, the car died spectacularly while I was driving down the highway. We ended up having it towed to a dealership, then had to arrange to have it towed to another dealership because the first was so back up on service that we wouldn't even be able to have it looked at until a week later. Then the compressor in our relatively new fridge/freezer died, and our window shade in our eating area broke.  The day after we picked up this car from its $2700 repair, the other car needed $1100 of repairs. Ugh! What a week!

Next up...our Grandview Lodge weekend.