Soccer Camp

Last week the boys both got to participate in a local soccer camp that was run by some soccer players from England.  They had a great time! It was Connor's first time playing any type of organized sport. It seems like most everything around here starts at age 4. He is now that magic age where he gets to play on "his own team". He has watched Travis for long enough, time for him to get started! Here they were Monday morning, ready to hit the field!

 Lucky for us the camp was held at an indoor soccer field. Even better was that it is about 3 minutes down the road from our house.  And that is only if the stop light turns red on you first!  Travis went for 3 hours while Connor went for 1 hour.  Here is Connor hanging out waiting for Travis to finish.  The two of us would go home for a bit before coming back to pick up Travis.

 The boys heading out to the field at the beginning of camp.

 You can see Connor LOVED his coach!

 He even found time to make a little friend. She was such a cutie! Too bad they are moving to Australia. 

 Every day they would play a game kind of like a flag football thing where they had to grab a shirt off of somebody.  Travis kept chasing this one kid, here he finally got the shirt.

 Mission accomplished!!  Look how he just tosses it aside.... ready to get another one!

Although it was inside, it was still warm and sweaty in there.  Swamp coolers don't work as well during our Monsoon season.  It was also 114 degrees out last week.  Ick.  Travis found a cool spot during his water break though.

Here is Connor's group on the last day. They were all so cute!

The older group had a "World Cup" ceremony. It was funny!

 I was impressed that each one of the kids got a hand written progress report from their coach.  (There must have been about 40 kids for the whole camp.)  Their words were full of praise and encouragement.  Here is Travis reading his after Coach Harry handed him his paper.

 Travis' coach signed the back of his camp shirt.

Overall this was one of my favorite camps the boys did this summer.  They both got to participate, it was super organized, they learned new things, they HAD FUN, and most of all it was inside.  The bonus was it WORE.THEM.OUT.!!  That is a plus in my book any day!