Soccer & Football

Saturday morning Maggie (and coach Arnie) had her 1st soccer game! She did great. She started the game at goalie, where she stopped 2 or 3 goals....then later in the game she scored a goal! She was super pumped! She told everyone we saw all day about it.

I don't think this kick has anything to do with the game :) I think she was dancing and not paying attention!

After the soccer game we headed for Lincoln. There is a group of students from a college in England who have been visiting Northeast Community College in Norfolk and so as a part of their "cultural experience" we hosted them for the Red/White spring football game. To me it was a goofy practice with lots of weird stuff going on, but they LOVED it and had an awesome time. They took about a zillion pictures and one even ended up on the giant Husker vision screen which was definitely a highlight of their day. They told me that they only thing they have that's comparable is the Manchester United Stadium and that once the game starts it's not a "fun" place, it's very serious.

Thankfully a few friends joined us as well, so the girls had some playmates. After "kickoff" they weren't really interested in the game....

Brandon stopped by for a minute too. He has a big birthday this week so the girls had to give him some
Birthday love!

We joke about Gracie sounding like she has a British accent, she probably felt right at home
among our English guests.

 

They brought us a tea kettle cover as a gift....Gracie has probably never seen a tea kettle but she was
happy to wear it as a hat (and even happier that she got a laugh!)