We went to St. George for Thanksgiving this year. Hagen's soccer team "The Strikers" signed up to play in a tournament on Friday and Saturday. We thought that since the kids were out of school on Wednesday we would make a bigger trip of it and spend a few extra days playing in nice sunny St. George. We had been planning this trip for several months and right off had decided to take our trailer with us so we could use it one more time this year, cook our own breakfasts and lunches easier, and most of all, take LulaKate. It just seemed like a great idea!
The "Great Blizzard" arrived on Tuesday and really wasn't so great, so it didn't really change our plans except give us colder weather to deal with. It made parents and grandparents really worried though!
Long story short we had a great drive down to St. George. We stayed at a really nice campsite area right in the middle of town. Spent some great time together just hanging out as a family. Went to a Dinosaur Museam, went shopping at the outlets, played Set (a new math game the boys have been playing at school). Adam and I even walked to a movie theater that was right next to our campground area and saw Harry Potter.
The soccer tournament started on Friday and Hagen's team did great. Hagen was able to play goalie for the entire time so he was very excited to practice and prove his goalie skills. They played two games on Friday and won both of them. Hagen only let in one goal in each game! Since posting pictures on blogger is way time consuming and it still wont work sometimes, I can only get one pic to post of him as goalie.
The first of potentially three games on Saturday turned out different. In the first 10 minutes there was a play that Hagen bravely jumped into to stop the ball and he got kicked in his hand. I happened to be standing right there very near when it happened (taking pictures). Hagen grabbed his hand and started rolling around on the ground like it was hurt pretty bad. I took off his glove (which is very nice and has lots of added protection built in) and his hand was hurting pretty bad. He went and sat on the side lines and Adam and I tried to not coddle and baby him so he would mabe toughin it up and go back out there to play. Hagen was the only goalie for the team. He did put his gloves back on and Adam threw a couple of balls to him and the second one was too painful. It was clear, he was done for the game. It was a fierce game against a team from Logan (that we have played before) and it ended tied at 0 to 0.
We took him to an instacare after the game and x rays were taken to prove the worst. He had broken two bones in his hand. My pictures are out of order, but I took a picture of the x ray with my phone. See below! A hard/soft cast was put on his arm and ordered to be done with soccer for the rest of the tournament. His hand was hurting pretty bad, so Hagen was kinda ok with that. We did go and watch the next game though! We had to support the team!!!
The fourth game was crazy. We were both tied for first place. And as long as this game did not end up a shut out (someone with no points), we were to play them again for the final.There was a lot of bad sportsmanship from the other team. So bad in fact the refs made the entire fan section of the other team go to their cars. Long story short on this. The other team was kicked out of the tournament. And are not ever welcome back.
Our team took first place in the tournament!
Hagen was the first to recieve a gold medal since he had sacrificed the most!
His Hand!
Go Strikers!!!
Hagen and his best soccer buddy Matthew!!!
After the awards were given out, the entire team went to In & Out for dinner! It was crazy busy but all the kids had a ton of fun! Since there was another storm coming due to hit the freeway at 3 am. Most of the team decided to leave early. Like right after dinner. Instead of going home on Sunday morning. We had our trailer we were pulling (the only ones), and we thought we had better leave early too. The thought of sleeping in late on our own beds sounded so dreamy. So we went back to the campsite. Adam hooked up the trailer. I secured everything in the trailer. And we left at 8:30 pm. The drive went pretty smooth. Except when Breeley coughed so hard she threw up all over herself, and her blanket. We pulled in at about 2 am. Backed the trailer onto the driveway, off the road. Walked into the house and all went to bed.
Story to be continued tomorrow...
