The team relaxes after a Mexican feast

Now, as any soccer parent or coach will (or should) tell you, it’s all about the kids. But I’ll admit one of the highlights of the year is seeing what type of creative coaches gift the parents come up with. Not that I necessarily want or expect anything, but it’s fun to see what they come up with and this year was no exception. Last year’s gift was very cool. But this year they managed to out do themselves when they came up with related gifts for both the coaches and players.

First, all of our girls have Lunachick practice shirts that we got them at the beginning of the season. Once they got those, the parents had to have their own shirts and hoodies to go along with the team. So what better way to thank the coaches than to get them their own Lunachick shirts? Except instead of the royal blue everyone else had, they got bright yellow:

Coach Joe gets his very own Lunachick T-Shirt.

No question we’ll be easy to find in those! But wait, it’s all about the kids! What did the kids get? Well, one of our parents, who likely will have arthritis in a few months, made every player a blue and yellow fleece pillow with soccer balls on it.

Peyton and Morgan pose with their new soccer pillows

Yes, that’s fourteen of those pillows and every bit of fringe had to be tied into a knot. As you can see, each shirt came with it’s own Sharpie pen so the girls could sign them. But just when you thought the gift fun was over, the coaches and team manager got these HUGE white boxes to open. Inside we found these HUGE fleece soccer blankets made just like the pillows the girls had.

Coach Grey opens up his blue and yellow soccer blanket

There is something quite funny about the Lunachick Fringe giving gifts with so much fringe on them to the players and coaches. Throughout it all, the Lunachick Fringe enjoyed great Mexican food (and beverages!) and conversation.

The Lunachicks show off their pillows and silly side

One of the key topics being how funny it was when our team manager gave the assistant coach his ONE email to the team in a nifty report cover, followed by a huge binder for me containing all of mine. I tend to type … a lot … when I email the team – can you tell from these stories?

So thanks to all the parents and Leslie our team manager for helping make this end of season party such a success! All the pictures from that night can be found in our party photo album.

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