Hockey and Birthday Parties

Since playing in 5 hockey games and watching your brother in four games isn't enough in three days, you can always come home and rollerblade.  

They make me nervous

Liam's team before their 3rd place victory game!

Go Blue!

Celebrating after a 10-0 shutout and 3rd place win

The other team didn't get many shots off because we played some great defense

3rd place!

Liam also got the MVP award and 3rd place trophy for his team

Liam and his buddies, Alex (left) and Ethan (right)

Celebrating at lunch

We had quite possibly our busiest weekend ever.  I will attempt to record it here because I have a feeling we will surpass this number of games in a few years when Finn and Aiden are a bit older.  Over the weekend, Luke and Liam each played in a different hockey tournament in different places and at different times.  They are on slightly different AAA teams this spring and summer.  While thankfully all of their practices are together, their tournaments are different and sometimes fall on the same weekend.  With the help of friends and a babysitter for Aiden and Finn, we survived.

Liam's team came in 3rd place in the Mountain Dew Blast and Luke's team was challenged by some fierce competition from Canada and ended up in 4th place at the Independent Classic.  Liam's team has a lot of new players this year and has struggled a bit to get things going so it was really fun to see all the hard work pay off for these boys.  Luke and Liam played in a combined 10 hockey games over the weekend with 1 game Thursday, 3 games Friday, 4 games on Saturday (two each), and 2 championship games on Sunday.

Aiden was not without his own agenda for the weekend with a whopping FOUR birthday party invites over the weekend.  It seems that all of Aiden's close buddies were born in the month of May so we made arrangements for a babysitter to stay at the house so Aiden could ride with friends to and from each party.  He had a blast and was exhausted by Sunday night.  Finn, too, had his second birthday party invite.  He attended the 4th birthday party of his buddy, Max, at a local gymnastics gym and loved it.  He, in fact, did not want either John or myself to stay with him since he is so big now.

We had a really fun weekend of hockey with several fun friends and families.  We are taking a break from hockey for awhile and will pick back up at the end of the summer.  For now, its baseball and hopefully a bit more free time.