Start of soccer season tournament (plus a visit with the Kings)

***Warning***  this is a whole post on a soccer tournament that I am super proud of how Colin did, so there will be lots of bragging!!!

We decided to have Colin play club soccer again for another couple years, after going back and forth about possibly switching to a rec league.  

We love his coach, they have a pretty new team and we just weren't seeing any improvement or growth in Colin's skills.  But...we went to tryouts anyway and found out there would be quite a few new kids playing on his team, so we decided to give it another try.

The boys always play in a soccer tournament at the beginning of the season, just to get some good playing time in and work together as a new team.

It was hot...

so so hot...

but Colin played his hardest in almost every game!

He got to take some sweet penalty and corner kicks and had great shots!

And our family was a trooper and sweated through all the games 

(with a little help from other soccer moms and families that helped entertain the little ones!)

Colin booting the ball from the corner

He has such a big foot!

The tournament was played out in south KC, so we visited with Tiff and Chad in between games.  Barb and Bob King were in town from Chicago and were over visiting as well.  It was so nice seeing everyone if only for a few hours!

Then everyone came out to cheer Colin on in his next soccer game!

We were all yelling like crazy people!

Meemaw and her crew!

More games over the next couple days...

Which ended up with a tie in the championship game. 

They did a penalty kick shootout to determine the winner, which didn't go our way.

But, the kids had fun and played hard and it was a lot of fun to watch!

After the boys got their medals for being runner -up in the tournament, the coach presented Colin with the MVP award for their team. 
He was so surprised and shocked!  It was nice to see him with a huge smile!

Colin with his buddy Finn

So proud of this kid

Logan, Ethan, Colin and Finn

It was definitely a LONG weekend, but it was time well spent on the field!