Brighton Wrestling Tourney

Ah, wrestling! First, let us dispense with the crappy stuff that happened. First, Jax had a bye his 1st round, which makes for a REALLY long day. We were there for almost 2 hours before Jax got to wrestle. They were awarding medals in some of the other groups before he ever wrestled! Second, I found a good seat and then a nice but annoying lady with a really annoying grandson came and sat next to me. Before Jax had ever wrestled she had us slid clear over next to another guy and there was nowhere for Jax to sit, he sat at my feet. I was sitting on the aisle at the top of the bleachers, right where the balcony seating was, so, OF COURSE, the grandson and a bunch of other kids were climbing the railing to get up....and down....and up...and down...I cannot count the number of times I was kicked in the head, shoulders, had my fingers stepped on.....Anywho, the very worst part of the day came when we were waiting for the boys to be awarded their medals. Evidently, we had the CRAPPIEST mat. They were incredibly slow getting matches started (obviously), we were way behind all the others and THEN when they had awarded almost every other group medals, one of the moms from our group asked the head table when it was going to be our turn for medals. WELL, the kids working our table didn't circle anything on the bout sheets, didn't write down scores, didn't add up anything or assign winners. So, one of the guys from the head table came over to us and asked if we, the parents, knew if our kids had won, lost, how many points they scored....needless to say, there was much eyerolling!

Jax wrestled hard but got pinned both times. He's so funny! After his second match, he says to me, just matter of fact as you please, "Mom, I suck." I was laughing on the inside, but reassured him that he didn't suck, he just needed more practice. I think it was hard for him to get focused and motivated for that 1st match after having to wait so long to wrestle. But he had a great time and we both got to be better friends with Isaac and his parents :) Luckily, he's not discouraged AT ALL. It just rolls off him and he's ready to go again. He's done with practices and now we just have three matches to go and he's done. He's having such a good time though!

The good stuff is below. Cliched though it is, a picture is worth a thousand words and the bottom photo is worth a million. Because that is what it's all about: learning, sportsmanship, FRIENDSHIP and fun.

I have the best kids ever!

Jax and Isaac, 1st match.

Jax and Gentry, 2nd match. Gentry outweighs Jax by about 7 pounds and has about 3 inches on him!

Proud of those muscles and proud to be on the medal stand!

Friends!

Rambling, mostly...

This is going to be a bit of a rambling because, quite frankly, there aren't enough characters available to put all this stuff on my facebook status.....

Charlie Sheen: W. T. F. The man has lost his mind! Where are his dad or his brother to try and rein him in? I check Yahoo! news every day for the announcement that he's either dead or been involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. And good for his bosses that they fired him.

Lifetime's new show "Coming Home." Didn't catch it until today, CRIED MY EYES OUT! Which is what the premise of the show is, right? They should probably just call it the Kleenex Hour. However, I enjoyed it and will watch again. Also I LOVE the host! So glad to see Matt Rogers back in the spotlight, sans any American Idol connection. He was always one of my favorite Idols and it's nice to see him doing such a great show. Also, as Lifetime showed a million previews of "Army Wives," I think I'm going to have to Netflix the entire previous seasons and start watching that show.

March Madness: It's upon us and I love it! I'm watching BYU play TCU right now in the MWC tourney. I've watched the "lowlight" of the season so far several times--talking about the Rutgers game last night and LACK of officiating at the end. Smart move on the officials' parts by "withdrawing from further post season action" voluntarily....buncha idiots! PS--I love Jimmer.

My office remodel is FINALLY completed! Just waiting for tax money to pick up a few new things (wireless keyboard and mouse for the 'puter), but I have gone through ALL of my scrapbook supplies (hence the reason this has taken SO long) and I have a big box of supplies that I'm donating to Primary Children's for them to use. When Kati was there that last time, Shannon spent a lot of time in the craft area on the unit making things and who better to get this stuff? I won't use it, but someone there will :)

My laptop is still gone. Shane told me last week that someone called and said that it would be shipped on March 8th or arrive on March 8th; he couldn't understand the caller, big shock there, so he wasn't sure. And here we are, March 10th and still no laptop. During the day I open the blinds and the window over the sink in the kitchen on the off chance I might spot the FedEx truck. Yesterday I passed one while I was taking Jax to school. I nearly turned around and followed it to see if it was coming to my house.......Oh well, it'll arrive when it does, I suppose.

I have FIVE crafty projects on my scrap table I can work on now that the office is finished. I'm still trying to find the right supplies for one project (it's an Easter shadow box out of a ribbon box I have) but I think I know what I'm looking for now. When I do that, I'll post photos. Two projects are clipboards, one for Jaxton to hang on the bulletin board in the kitchen to put his spelling list and reading list on and one for me to put instruction sheets on when I'm putting together page kits. BRING OUT THE MOD PODGE! And the last two are something very CUTE I saw on Scrapbook Memories using Altoids tins! I'm making two, one for me and one for someone who reads this blog, so I can't tell ya who! I'll post photos of that project too. I don't usually make the leeeetle albums they show, because I think they're a waste, but this was too cute not to make....if the first two go well I might make two more, also for two people who read this blog so still can't tell ya.....

Anywho, I feel better now that I've rambled. Thanks for er, reading :) Also, if you want to read real blog comedy, go to www.jennsylvania.com. The blog she has up right now will make you pee your pants....

Loves!

It's March

Hello friends,

It's March! It's gorgeous outside and I am SO ready for spring! So what's new huh? Well, wrestling is in full swing, Jax will have his first match on Thursday. It's pretty exciting and it'll be interesting to see how much he's improved over last year. Hayden is getting bigger and more addicted to the Wii every day. We've instituted even more limits because after a while, I just can't take the Wii any more!! LOL. But he loves it, he's good at it and I'm glad. Jakey, ah Jakey. Jakey is recovering nicely from his Dad-inflicted Wii remote wound and subsequent stitches. Pictures and a separate blog on that to follow....Shane is great; work is going really well for him and he's incredibly happy with his shift change. He's counting down the days until the "draft" for Jax's little league baseball and the start of baseball season. But then, I'm counting down the days until Scrapbook Expo USA! (23 days as of today!) I'm ready for the weather to improve so the kids can play outside a little more and I would love to get started on some yard work outside! Meanwhile I've been doing spring cleaning in the house, sorting through the office and making a pile of "yard sale" items!

I've started a new project! Several people I know have done this and I've always wanted to try, so I thought my 33rd birthday was a great day to start! I'm doing a photo book, Project 365, which, for those who don't know, is when you take a photograph EVERY day. Obviously not a hard thing for me! Many of you know of my photography obsession :) It's kinda fun and some days it's easy, but other days it's hard to think of something. But, so far, so good and I've started captioning them. It's been difficult, however, because my laptop is cursed. (Again, another blog to follow later on.) Anyways, I haven't decided yet if I'm going to post/share the photos or not, but I think it'll be a fun thing to do and fun to look back on on my 34th birthday!

Anyhow, things are motoring right along, I'm getting great things done in the scrapbook room (getting ready for Expo), cleaning out lots of cupboards and closets, the kids are growing and growing and life is pretty darn good. :)

Love ya all!