A Last Day One and a First Day One . . .

Time runs quickly. . . .

Incredible that today Sarah & Laura begin their Senior year at King and Luke his Freshman year at King . . . and Emily is at Hardin-Simmons beginning here Junior year of college!!

They change quickly, checking out the post from last years first day of school (click here to see it) Luke has grown about a foot.

I know that God tells us that there is a 'time for everything' - it's just hard to believe that this time next year we will possibly only have one of our awesome kids at home . . .

On The Pitch . . .

We're in Brenham (yes, the home of Blue Bell, but none for us so far) today at Sarah and Laura's soccer tourney.

We tied the first game today 1-1, then lost in pk's (that's penalty kicks for you non-soccer folks). The second game we won 5-1! Laura had a goal and 3 assists and Sarah played great 'D'!

The Carrol Tiger w/Sarah is Cecy Gonzalez who also goes to Oso Creek - if we win in the morning and they win, we would play in the afternoon . . . Go Mustangs!

Rummagee or Rummagor?

King HS Soccer (where Laura & Sarah play) is having a very large rummage sale tomorrow (Saturday) from 8am to Noon. (click here for map to King HS).

If you have some rummage you want to get rid of and bring it by the school between 5pm and 8pm tonight (Friday), we'd love to get rid of it for you!

And if you want to find some good rummage the sale is Saturday morning!

Proud Dad

Last night we had the King HS Soccer banquet . . . in addition to their All-District awards that I talked about in a past blog, the girls got two of the five awards that the team voted on.

Sarah got the Most Improved Award and Laura got the Offensive Most Valuable Player.

Way to go girls!

Super Soccer Players!

If you looked (closely!) in the Caller Times Sports page on Monday morning you saw this:

District 27-5A Girls All-District Soccer Team:

1st Team - Laura Bradshaw (was also 2nd Team All South Texas)
Honorable Mention - Sarah Bradshaw (she didn't even start playing until the 2nd game of district!)

I'm way proud of my girls for using what God has given them and giving their all! Way to go beautiful twins!

No 'W'

I promised I would report back, and the King Lady Mustangs couldn't pull it out last night, but they did have a great season.
It's a blast being able to watch my kids play - and win or lose nobody can take that away!

Now we're on to Luke's baseball season opening day next week! And then the week after club soccer begins (soccer really never ends :)

Go Lady Mustangs!

Tonight we have our first King HS girls soccer playoff game! We're traveling to San Antonio to play San Antonio O'Connor.

I never thought I would have more fun watching my kids play than I did playing -- but it is a blast. I'll update you tomorrow . . .

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!!

Wow, we had an exciting soccer game last night! We are in first in district and played Victoria who is in second, but if we lost we would virtually be in a three-way tie with them and Carroll (who we lost to last Friday for our first loss of the year).

The first half we played terrible and at half were losing 2-0. Now, for those of you who are not soccer fans, that's like being down 28-0 in football (especially as flat as we were).

THEN, in a 10-minute span in the second half our Laura scored 3 times - a hat trick! - and we won 3-2!

And what was really cool is that Sarah started for the first time and played the entire game and played awesome! It was a proud and exciting night for us at Cabaniss Field!

Guts!

I'm so proud of our girls King HS Soccer Team . . . we just finished the first half of district undefeated (6-0)! But so much of what we have done is on pure guts/courage (which has been sparked by great coaching by Jorge Garcia).

We beat all three of the other best teams by one goal --- against Victoria we scored with 20 seconds left to win 1-0. Against our rival Carroll we scored early and then held them off to win 1-0.

And then last night against San Antonio Southwest may have been the best.

A little background - in the Victoria game we lost our playmaker forward for the year with a torn acl. Then last night with 10-minutes left in the game (which was more like a war of attrition) we lost our best defender (Megan Escobar who was the Area Defensive Player of the Year last year) with an ankle injury. Then a couple of minutes later we lost another defensive starter to an injury.

Because of the injuries and her skills, Laura has been moving back and forth between offense and defense. When we lost our main defender, Laura came back from forward to play that position and Sarah (who just came out three weeks ago!) was playing beside her on the strong side.

One of our awesome mid-fielders (Gabby Perales . . . FYI, I'm putting these girls names in here just in case some of you know them and want to give them a high five!) broke through their defense and just willed a goal in with 6 minutes left . . . and then for the last 6 minutes our girls gutted out their assault on our goal (with Sarah and Laura both making some awesome plays!) and we won!

Quite honestly, a couple of those teams probably have more overall talent than us (and even more so after the injuries!) . . . BUT life is all about how faithfully and passionately you use what you've been given! And it's so awesome to watch a group of young ladies who have worked so hard and are coached so well, courageously play with all their hearts!

Soccer Twins!

Last night Sarah & Laura played together for the first time in a High School Varsity game!

Sarah didn't play soccer last year (and had not intended to do so this year) but the soccer coach heard she had played and asked her to come and work out a couple of times after basketball. She did and he put her on the Varsity!

Last night they both played as we beat San Antonio Highlands 4-2. They are doing awesome . . . so far we are 3-0 in district . . . Go Lady Mustangs!

Game Time!

Beginning this afternoon we have 3 individual basketball games (2 King HS, 1 YCA), a basketball tournament (YCA), and a soccer tournament (King HS) - between now and Saturday evening.

That's somewhere around a dozen games in the next 48 hours (and oh yeah it's gonna be lovely weather for those soccer games!) . . . we're blessed to be able to have fun watching our kids!

Need something to do in the next couple of days?