A Boy, A Man, A Wrestler......

Ahh... The winter sport has began. Jimmy started wrestling in January and had his first meet on Thursday. He had three opponents. Unfortunately the second one was a girl. I opposed this, I said, " Forfiet and make a statement that girls do not belong wrestling boys." " If they want to wrestle they need to wrestle other girls." I was out voted and the match began. He kicked her butt! He is extermely stronger than her, and was flipping her all around. He beat her 13-1. The other two matches he held his own, but he did lose, 4-2 and 6-1.
Waiting his turn.

" Let's do this"

" This is not what I had in mind."

"You're a girl!" " I will annihilate you."

....and that's a pin.

It is a strange feeling to cheer when your son is wrestling. It sounds a lot like this, " Gett'em Jimmy. Come on push with your legs. Pound 'em. You got this, head and arm. "

As you know Grace was in gymnastics, she quit, but we all knew she would. Trying to get her into volleyball. But they don't have it in the winter. She doesn't want to ski, she doesn't want to do softball. Thank the Lord she doesn't want to wrestle.

Guess, she'll just be a fan.

Just an update from Tuesday's meet. Lost the first match, won the second one with a pin in under 20 seconds, won the third with a pin within the first minute. WAY TO GO JIMMY!!!

A day at Wanoga Park

Okay so my New Year's resolution is be a better blogger. So we went sledding today and I took the camera! It wasn't very crowded and the weather was pretty nice. There was a learning curve though. Lesson one: Bring your gloves! You can't sled without them, atleast not without freezing your hands. Lesson two: Bring lunch. Lesson three: Bring a chair. So we are going to try it again tomorrow after church. This time we will be well prepared. Hopefully the weather will cooperate again with us.

I am still recoving from surgery, so I just watched.

Grace and Derek coming down the hill.

She was covered in snow, and not to happy. But not too sad.

And then it was Jimmy's turn.

Gotta use your feet to stop. Would be nicer with gloves. Poor hands.

Now they have realized they could go together!

Here they come!

Oh no they wiped out~

"Get up Grace. Let's go again."

"No way I'm done."


So we headed into town to get some lunch at Bend's favorite hot spot, " Pizza Mondo".

So we headed home, took a nap, published a blog post and called it a day.

If you want to get away for the week-end let me know, I'll change the sheets on the bed.

See ya!

Where does the time go?

So here it is 2009 and I am so far behind on my blog. You girls are so great about it, really puts me to shame. Not to mention I haven't taken enough pictures to post for the holidays and what not. So I'll just have to piece this post together. Not really sure where to start. I guess I will start with now and work backwards. I am recovering from my hysterectomy, which was a Christmas gift from my OB. Yes, I had surgery on Christmas Eve. But I did get to stay in FBC to recover so that was pretty special. Had some really great nurses who made sure that I never hurt or threw-up which are two very important things. New Years of course was uneventful. High on percocet was about it. Derek suggested Grace beat a pan at midnight and then got irritated when she did. He was tired by midnight. Me, I was still numb from the meds. We celebrated Christmas on the 23rd, which was actually good. The lines were non existent for returns. I think we may do it again next year. hehe. We drove down to Medford for Thanksgiving. Stayed in a hotel, that seems to be a better idea than crowding Derek's mom and dad's house now that Sarah has gotten married. Unfortunately I did not get to watch the Macy's Day Parade, which is something I really enjoy. But o'well. That is really all that is going on here. Derek and Jimmy have gone skiing a couple times. I guess the snow on the mountain is great. I saw that Coutiers went sledding. I think they went to Sun River, but hmm, they didn't call.

So here are some pictures that I have showing all this great fun....

Grace's note to Santa... she's crazy.
Electronics for everyone.
My tree post christmas
It's time to take in the patio furniture.

If you don't have friends, make two. Out of PACU. It was a tough 1st day. But I survived w/o pneaumonia