Metro Junior Wrestling League

Well, we spent all day at the JV Tournament yesterday. What a big disaster. It was awful. Now, I know, wrestling never starts on time... but 2 1/2 hours! It was ridiculous. All spare y'all with the who's, what's and why's.


Once the tournament got started, Jake did well. He ended up with 5th place. He won 1, pinned 1, and lost 2. The matches he lost, he stuck with them and did his best. There were some tough kids there. Overall it was a good experience for him.


Jake said he'd like to do the spring wrestling (3 or 4 tournaments), as long as they aren't that long. I would agree with that.

Wrestling Update

Just a quick note on Jake's wrestling. He is doing so awesome. We went to a dual this past Saturday and he got to wrestle 7 times (in about 5 hours). He was tired at the end, but kept going. He got 2 Techs (won by more then 15), 2 Pins, 1 Win and 2 loses.

He has his big JV Tournament this weekend. It is for 1st and 2nd year wrestlers. His coach says he is tough and has great natural instincts. I'm of course a very proud mom.

Happy New Year

Just a quick note to say Happy New Year. We are all back at school and work. The Steve and Kyler were back to their routine on Monday. Jake and MaKenna started school again on Tuesday. I worked some over the vacation and worked from home on Monday.

The 2 week vacation was nice and at the same time long. We really just took it easy and enjoyed being at home. We kept it pretty low key for Christmas this year too. We really cut back on the number of gifts the kids got. They are kids - they don't need much! Jake got the honor of reading the Christmas Story. We used the Children Readers version. He liked that.

I needed to feel like I got something accomplished over the break, so on Monday - in between meetings we rearranged MaKenna's room. It was nothing like we did growing up, but maybe close. We swapped her bunk bed and dresser around, gave her new comforter sets, and stickers on the door. It was actually a pretty big ordeal. Jake's and Kyler's room is next (but they get paint).