Trip to Charlotte - Day Three

Shoe flotsam

The Carolina Picketts generally do not wear shoes inside the house.  Even though Liam has built a set of shelves just to the right of this door from the garage into the house, shoes seem to collect as flotsam does after a receding tide.  By the time we got back from our day of football and soccer, this had all been cleaned up and shoes put away on the shelves.  I discovered this was due to Marcie's tripping as she tried to exit the house!

Aidan taking a free kick

My day began with Liam at Aidan's soccer match which his team won 5-0.  It has been a year since I had seen him play and he is a presence on the field as a team leader.  His play has improved and he has grown into a really good looking young man!  I won't see him till Sunday morning.  A friend of his from middle school--a young lady whom he claims is "just a friend"--invited him to join her and her family in their box seats for the South Carolina football game Saturday night.  You can see more photos in the soccer album by clicking here.

As the soccer match was ending, Liam and I took off for Pinehurst NC where Liam was playing his second football game of the week.  His team--Hammer Down--was playing the Sand Hill Patriots team which had won their last fifty games.  Hammer Down played very tough but lost 14-0.  If a

Liam's big block

couple of plays had gone the other way, they would have won; it was that close a game.  Liam had a nice pass reception.  He was exhausted after the game having played every down:  defense outside left linebacker and and offense tight end.  He plays with his head up and is always looking for a play.  This picture shows a block he made on a busted play that resulted in an additional nine yards.  You can see more photos in the updated football album by clicking here.