Purple blasters

It's official: Gracie is now a 'purple blaster'.

She is playing soccer for the first time and loving it!

She hasn't a clue what she is doing but with time I am confident that she is going to 'bend it like Beckham'.

Her first game was this past saturday.

Here she is with her team mates stretching before the game.

 Waiting her turn at practicing her goal shot.

Game on!

Gracie going up against the black team's secret weapon - a fiesty and incredibly talented soccer player.

 Go Gracie!!

Gracie took her turn at playing goalie. We quickly found out just how green she is at soccer when she let a ball go right into the goal without even attempting to stop it. Prior to that she spent most of her time hanging on the net. She is definitely in a learning phase! :) Look how confused she is...

Water break! 

What a cute soccer player! :)

When the team sat down with the coach to determine what their team name was going to be a lot of names were thrown out there - names like the purple dragons, the purple blasters, the avengers, and the purple cobras. Gracie's idea was "the awesome team" and she was seriously confused when all of the kiddos didn't scream "yes!" with excitement when she proposed it. She still thinks they should be called "the awesome team" and she is not fond of the name 'the purple blasters'.