My New Love

I guess I should have seen this coming, but I've found a new love and Eric actually approves... SOCCER! Seeing as I married a soccer loving/playing enthusiast, I guess it was only a matter of time. I assumed that one day I'd be a soccer mom, but I didn't really think I'd be a soccer playing mom. I took a beginners soccer class back at BYU in 2008 right before I got pregnant with Logan and played two coed intramural seasons with Eric around that same time. While I really enjoyed playing, I assumed that leaving BYU and their intramural program meant my "budding soccer career" was over. Lucky for me a couple of friends from my ward volleyball team here in Idaho started inviting me to sub on their indoor soccer team. I was hesitant at first and didn't actually take them up on it until about March and since then I can't get enough of it. I now play on a coed indoor team and sub for a women's team and it's been such a blast. I come home from games bruised, winded and as happy as can be. I normally play (and prefer) defense since I lack a lot of ball handling skills, but recently my teams have been pushing me up on offense since we've had a lot more girls who want to play defense than offense. Part of me is terrified to play up top because I feel so inadequate, but it really has forced me to grow and I think I'm slowly getting better. Playing offense actually gave me the biggest high a few days ago when I scored my second EVER goal. It felt like a miracle because I barely beat the goalie to the ball and chipped it up over their head to score and I still feel all warm and fuzzy inside about it. :)

Here's a picture of my coed indoor team.

It's pretty fuzzy but they sure are a great group of people. :)