Soccer Star and Family Day

Last weekend was a busy, fun filled weekend for us.  It started off on Friday night at Derek's work.  His company has a family day festival once a year for all its employees.  Payton and I met Derek there and the fun never stopped.

This is Payton waiting for Derek to change from his work clothes to his play clothes.  She was so ready to go to the festival.  She had a long talk with Daddy about what took him so long.

Once at the festival, Payton did the bounce houses and slides.  She insisted that we take her picture on the worm slide.

There were tattoos and crafts for the kids to do as well as a band.  Also, part of the festival was to raise money for the United Way.  So they had a ton of gift baskets that you could purchase tickets for and enter to win.  Payton was thrilled and used most of her tickets for the Princess Basket and Barbie Basket.  She was so hopeful that we would win, but it wasn't meant to be.  She did come up with a plan for next year.  Her plan was to just stuff the jars with the tickets in it full of our tickets that way no one else could put a ticket into it.  It really is a brilliant plan, but for the fact that it would be super expensive.

We stayed way later then we planned because we were having so much fun.  Here is the final picture of the night with her on the train.

On Saturday we had our first soccer game.  It was supposed to be last Saturday, but the fields were too wet to play on so everything got moved back a week.  Payton was assigned a jersey upon arriving.

She was so excited about her number because it is Tony Romo's number.  Do you think Derek has properly brainwashed her into being a Cowboy's fan if she knew his number?  Payton did awesome.  I was really surprised by how well she did.  Granted they are four year old kiddos and a lot of it looked like herding cats, but still she rocked.  Seriously, her team won 3-0 and she scored two goals and assisted on the other.  It would be a blob of kids running and then you would see hot pink break away with the ball and she was off. She even won the first medal of the season for being the best listener.

She was so excited that she said she was going to win the medal every week.  I had to tell her that she could try, but it would probably go to a different kid on the team each week.  I also reminded her that I was proud of her, but the most important thing is to have fun and participate.  I also mentioned that I would be just as proud of her if she didn't score any goals as long as she tried her best.   I don't know if last weekend was a fluke, so I am preparing her.  However, Derek was there and added his two cents regarding my speech.  Let's just say his was more of win, win, win and score as many goals as possible.  Hahaha.  It was said in a loving way, but I guess he thought she should be reminded about the winning part of team sports.

Here are some other pictures from the big soccer weekend as well as her special treat for getting the medal.