Futsal

Some of the girls on Allison's club team joined a Saturday night Futsal league.  She has never played before but figured it would be great for her reaction time in the goal and a fun time with her friends.

 Since Allison is the only keeper on both the A and B club teams, she is playing on both Futsal teams.  She made some great saves tonight and loved it!  Once she got comfortable with how the game was played, she was in "beast mode"!

I lost count of all of her saves, but she did an amazing job!  She will be quite sore tomorrow.

Winter Formal

While we were at the game, Taylor and Andrew went to Winter Formal.

Luckily, his mom captured a few pictures before they went to Claire's for pizza and more pictures.

 They looked so cute together!!

 Taylor with her great friends Jacob and Jenner.

All of the girls ready for a fun night.  Taylor said the dance wasn't the greatest, but they all made it fun for each other.  

USA vs. Ireland

After years of watching the USA women play in World Cup and the Olympics, we were excited to see them live at Qualcomm for a "friendly" against Republic of Ireland.

We got there early to bbq, tailgate and play a little street soccer and corn hole.

 Several of Allison's teammates got tickets together, but I had already purchased tickets for our family as a Christmas gift.  Zoey, Darian and Leslie sat with us and we had great seats!

 We were there early enough to watch the team warm up and Allison and I especially loved watching Hope Solo warm up in goal.

 The girls sported some fun new gear

 and chowed down on some cotton candy.

 Fun team bonding!

Team USA dominated Ireland with a 5-0 victory.  Carly Lloyd had a hat trick, Alex Morgan scored 1 in her 100th game and a new 17 year old scored the 5th! Hope Solo didn't have to work too hard, but it was such a cool experience to watch the greatest goalkeeper in the world!

New Year's Day Hike

It was a nice sunny day so we drove up to Palomar Mountain for an afternoon hike.

 We didn't think much about the temperature change we would have in the mountains and were shocked to see snow and ice towards the end of our drive.  It was chilly, but the hike was still pretty through the meadow.

It was a nice big loop…dry on the sunny side

 but lots of snow for the hike back.  It was freezing, but fun anyway!  Shorts probably weren't a good idea :)