Soccer Birthday Party

Well, I'm way behind on blogging! Now that school is over for the semester it's time to catch up! 

Last month our little man turned 8 years old! Before the big day we had a fun soccer themed party with all of his closest friends.

For the party favors I found soccer gumballs, soccer chocolate balls, 

soccer pencils, 

and then put them all inside water bottles. My friend Kelly has a silhouette machine and graciously made all the soccer ball vinyl stickers to put on the water bottles. I think they turned out pretty cute! 

Because we never know if it's going to rain or not in April, we hosted the soccer party at an indoor Sportsplex.

For food we had your typical half-time snacks which included water, Gatorade, orange slices, cheese sticks, bags of goldfish and other sweet and salty treats, and of course cake and cupcakes! The cupcakes had grass looking icing and then were topped off with a soccer ball. The round cake was pretty easy to make look like a soccer ball and then I added some grass around the edges. 

The party started off with some drills and skills.

Finley of course wore his Messi uniform :). 

The kids took turns shooting. 

We played some dribbling relay games. 

And worked on some passing. 

Then the mayhem began! We divided the kids into two groups and let them scrimmage.

There was definitely a wide range of skill level among the group, but luckily no one got hurt! A few tears were shed when someone's team lost, but we quickly addressed the uneven teams and moved forward!

Here's the party crew!

After a few matches we took a break for snacks, cake, and presents.

Then the kids wanted back out there, but this time against the adults!

The children always have so much fun trying to beat the grown ups. 

Some parents weren't exactly prepared to jump into the game...

so they just played barefoot!

I think the kids ended up winning :). 

This is one of my favorite action shots of the kids and Kip pressed up against the glass wall. 

Finley had a super fun birthday party! We were so glad that so many of his friends could make it even though it was at the end of our spring break week. 

Happy Birthday little man!