heartland invitational tournament {2014}

Grayson's soccer team played in the Heartland Invitational Tournament in Overland Park, KS this past weekend. It was such a fun weekend!

 the tournament itself is soooo big that they hosted all the girls' teams the previous weekend, and then all boys' teams were there this past weekend!

i think there were 30-40 teams in G's age group alone!

 a throw-in (G is number 5)

 going for a header

 he takes a shot!

on Saturday evening, they played under the lights! it was a first for G!

and he scored TWO goals!

Notice Grayson's super-shiny new Nike cleats in the pics... on Saturday morning, as we were in the hotel about to leave for the game, Grayson announced that he had packed 2 right cleats. What?!?! 

I told him to stop joking with me, and he said -- Mom, I'm not joking. (insert complete panic feeling by me...)

 Thankfully, Dick's was about 10 minutes away, and they opened at 9am (G had to be on the field by 9:30)... so we sped over to Dick's for some new cleats and were back to the fields just in time.

 Whew!! 

Merry early Christmas, Grayson!!

the boys loved playing on the turf and under the lights... there were games as early as 7am and as late at 9pm... glad we didn't draw either of those! ;)

(it was 34 degrees out when they started their game at 8:15 on Sunday morning... brrrr!)