Soccer and Friends

We have great friends here in Charlottesville and are extremely lucky to be living so close to several of them. More often than not, these friends make their way over to our apartment in the afternoons and for a few hours we have complete chaos and fun. While it gets loud at times, I wouldn't trade it for anything and am so grateful my boys have such great families so close.

Jude and BoBo--best buddies!

Jude and Killian, our next door neighbor and Lance's best friend. He's a "baby magnet" as we like to say. The little ones just flock to him, as you can see.

Lance loves Killian, too, and they're always playing together with Kendall (Killian's twin sister) and their other good friend Jabrien.

Jude and Bobi again.

Bennett, Lucy, Jude, and Lance

 Jude, Lucy, Bennett, and Lance in our backyard (no, this was not my camera...)

We LOVE living here in Family Housing and if George ends up matching here at UVa, we'll probably opt to stay right where we are. 

Lance even started soccer with Killian. This past Saturday was Lance's first practice/game. It's every Saturday but Lance missed the first week because he was up in Fairfax with his dad. Oh well. It's a beginning program that's really supposed to show them soccer is fun so I think it's okay he misses every other practice.

Jude was so excited to see all the other kids there and running after the balls. He constantly tried to get away and join the fun by running directly into the middle of the field and kicking the first ball he found. Stinker!

I brought his own tiny soccer ball, but when he saw the "real" balls, he couldn't have cared less about his ball. He wanted the big ones!

Lance getting some one-on-one with the coach (he was the first one on his team to practice).

Lance and Killian

Lance and Killian

After 30 minutes of drills and running around, the teams paired off into games. We only had 5 players so all our players played the whole time. It was so fun to watch these kids have a ball (literally) on the field.

Can you tell Lance was loving it? (You can see his smiling face peeking out from behind the orange player in front). The kids never really stopped because when the ball went out of bounds or they made a goal, the coaches would just throw another ball into the field and the game would continue. 

It was hard work.

This is where Jude ended up because he kept trying to get the ball from the players. We had a great time! Right after the game, the boys and I got in the car and drove up to Ashburn so we could watch General Conference with our family. George was already up there attending an Emergency Medicine event at George Washington University so we were extra excited to get up there to see him!