My goalie

so i basically missed about all of julia's game. our schedule on saturday went as follows:
8:15am--jacob's team/individual pix
9am--julia's team/individual pix
9:15am--jacob's game
10am--julia's game

the pictures took an hour each and then the games are an hour each. i had evelyn and marcus with me (ryan is julia's coach so he was with her). the kids play at opposite sides of school fields. so really, i got to watch about 5 minutes. :( the next game they play--both games are at 8:30am so i'll miss julia's again. but i'll get the ones after that!







here's the part i caught. ryan and erik (that's erik laney for all those who are from springfield) decided to have her play goalie for a while. she did it a bit in practice and did a really good job. while i thoroughly expected her to duck and cover, instead she took it all head on and saved a couple.





say hi to the camera! evelyn and jacob were yelling her name and i think she was relieved to see us in the crowd. doesn't she look awesome?







um, well, no great saves this day but she sure did try! and she had a lot of fun trying. i think she prefers to be a blocker (um, i think that's the term). or defender? yeah, tells you how much i know about soccer. anyway, she and a couple of other girls defend the goalie. ryan wasn't so sure about the line up during practice (the boys were trying to score while the girls defended), but boy some huge girl power came through! the boys couldn't score at all and julia was right in the middle of it all. she even came home with a battle scar--her thigh took a huge scrape down the whole front from someones cleats (OUCH!!!!!). she's now looking for thigh guards to go with her shin guards. :)