OOPPPSSS!!! Forgot about the Hockey Champs!!!

So I was looking back through all the posts and realized I TOTALLY missed posting about Grace and Matt's big hockey win!!

So a couple weeks ago was the year end tournament for Grace's hockey team. Going into it Matt kept saying "They can win this" and so he set out to keep the girls focused on playing as a team and having fun. Saturday morning was game one and we tied the game. It was a good match up and we were pretty excited to start off on a good foot. Game two was that evening. It was a very close game and the team was pretty aggressive but our girls played their hearts out and won!!! This meant we would go on to play for the #1 spot!

Now I have to tell you, all but 3 girls are in the school play and Sunday at the same time as the game was the first dress rehearsal for the play. Needless to say we had some girls who were pretty worried about this. Our wonderful directors for drama knew this could be a possibility and told those girls to out there and win it!

Sunday we woke up and headed to the arena. The girls weren't as pumped up as normal so us mom's came in and got them all pumped up best we could. One girl, she is pretty quiet and doesn't say a whole lot, said to me "You moms better bring your game and cheer us on". Well, I took that as a challenge.

The team the girls played was our other local team and the girls new many of the other players. The coach goes to our church also. So we knew this was going to be a great match up and a very close game. It was pretty even playing but our girls came out of nowhere and took hold of game and blasted them. What an awesome feeling!! These girls have never gotten very far in this tournament and most have been playing since they were very little. So here they were BUILDERS DIVISION CHAMPIONS!!! They were awarded medals and a trophy. We are so proud of our Pee Wee hockey girls. They didn't have the best regular season and had some hard games but they came out of nowhere post season as a team. Encouraging each other, supporting each other and being one unit playing for the same goal! What a wonderful end to the season!!