Wrestling Season 2010

As I type, Jason is heading down to Pocatello for the State Wrestling Championships. He'll be there most of the day today and tomorrow. This is how wrestling season is for my family and I don't even have a kid that wrestles (though it seems that I might just be doomed to that fate). Jason wrestled in high school and all of his 3 younger brothers have followed suit. Cavin is a senior now and is the last wrestler in his family. Jason has been sure to make it to as many wrestling events of his as possible. Now, wrestling is not a sport like unto football or soccer that have a certain start time, end time and duration (say 2 hours or so). It is common for wrestling tournaments to last ALL day for a COUPLE of days. Needless to say, all that gym time can be draining. Don't get me wrong, I love that Jason is all for supporting his bros, and at times, being there can be quite fun and engaging, but it is a hard sport...not only for the wrestler, but also for everyone else involved. But these boys sure love it.

Here are a few shots from the times I got to attend along with Jason.

As you can see, things can get rather intense and entertaining.

Cavin is the one in black and orange. Check out those guns! That's just crazy!

Andrew was very much enthralled by it all. It was not rare to see him mimicking the moves being made on the mat by the wrestlers as he wrestled himself or his imaginary opponent. (Here he is taking himself down.)

And it begins...

My nephew, Hunter, a casualty of an all day tournament.
'Tis the life of wrestling.

The Big Mac

We finally took the plunge. We've had our little Dell laptop for much longer than anticipated and we were running out of memory and patience. We decided to go for the Mac rather than the PC. We've heard that once you go Mac, you never go back. So far, so good. It has taken some getting used to (no right click button on the mouse), but I think it will work out nicely. As for any pictures, I've not gotten those all transferred over yet, but I'll get there. Slowly, but surely.

California Vacation

I have a confession. I get so busy reading every one else's blogs that by the time I think about doing a post of my own, I'm out of time. So it seems I've been really behind. We'll see if I can't get my act together and start posting about current things, aye?

We left the day after Christmas to head for California for Jason's grandma's 80th Birthday bash. And if we're going to be all the way over there in Cali, we might as well go to Disneyland and Sea World while we're at it.


While at Disneyland, Kate was chosen to be a padawan, or Jedi in training, at the Jedi academy. They taught her some sweet light saber moves just in time for Darth Vader and Darth Maul to show up and try to get the padawans to come to the dark side. Kate had a chance to brandish her new learned moves on Vader. It was intense. Jason was just tickled pink and Kate loved it. It was definitely one of the highlights of the trip.


We went to Sea World on New Year's Day and surprisingly the crowds were relatively small. We got to see the sea lions and dolphins perform. Kate got to feed the sea lions later. It was pretty crazy...the birds and seagulls were extremely aggressive and would just about fly over and nab the fish right out of her hands. They even had a cat and dog show. (At Sea World? I know, that's what I thought.) But it was actually really cool. Did you know that you can train a cat to do tricks? I sure didn't. We sat in the splash zone to see Shamu, so I wasn't going to have my camera out. It was a great show and we didn't even get a drop of water on us. GRRRRR.


We had a fabulous time and it was nice to be in some warmer weather for a little while. When we got back, the snow pack had been added to quite a bit and some angel with a four wheeler had plowed out our driveway for us. Thank you whoever you are!!! That was a great way to end a great vacation.

This is a picture I took of a lemon on a tree in Jason's grandparent's backyard. It was really cool...seriously, who has a lemon tree?