Practice makes perfect

Our weeks, while hectic, have a certain routine to them.  Monday is gymnastics, Tuesdays are practice, some Wednesdays I work late, Thursdays are Todd's soccer, Friday is family time, Saturdays are kid soccer, Sundays are church and football.  You get the drift.  Usually, Todd takes Brett to practice (Todd and our friend, Mark are the coaches for our boys' team) while Kate and I stay home, eat dinner, and call it an early bedtime.  Well, this week Todd had to go to a college fair to represent Marquette.  It happened to fall on the same night as team pictures.  Let me just tell you now, in case you ever need to know... if you're ever going to miss a practice night, that would be the night to do it!  Pictures are so chaotic, despite how organized they try to be.  Either way, it's mostly a nightmare for coaches who are trying to get the kids focused on practicing.  Eventually, after a great picture like this (see below), everyone finally got into the practice frame of mind and did ok!

Go Dolphins!

The girls are showing them how it's done!

Warm up with some jumping jacks

Stretch those legs!

We don't want any pulled muscles (that's mostly for the coaches... the kids are fine!)

Little siblings got to watch too!

It takes lots of stretching to get ready to play!

Look at that coordination!

Starting to get silly

Cute or hot mess?  You decide!

Finally onto some drills

Dribble away

Waiting patiently (?) for their turn