3rd Quarter Awards

I'm proud to share that both of my big boys received another Gold Card at the 3rd quarter Renaissance Assembly!  Not only are they good little athletes, but are awesome students too!!

School District Wrestling Tournament

Both Tucker and Trey participated in the school district wrestling camp and tournament!  I was so proud of Trey for getting out there and doing his best.  He ended up taking 2nd place (but honestly the kid he lost to I really do not think that he lost the both were wearing pretty much exactly the same thing and they had the same hair color, so I'm pretty sure they got the points wrong a couple of times...but whatever...I just had to throw that out there ;) But Trey did great, his biggest thing was if the other kid was getting up, he would just let go and start over, so he gave up a lot of points that way, but other than that, he did awesome!  Tucker, did awesome and took first place for the 2nd year in a row.  It was a fun way to officially end the wrestling season for Tucker and give Trey a taste of what it is like to wrestle someone besides his brother.

So proud of Trey

Look at him getting in that half!

Tucker wearing his new CO singlet...he rocked this tournament!

Tucker1st place (2nd year in a row) and Trey with his 2nd place ribbon...I promise he was very excited, but he was just being a stinker about smiling because he was is a 'wrestler' :)

Trey is RaNdOm!!!!

Trey is my random/funny child!  He always says the most random things and is always cracking us up.  He brought this home from school awhile back.....

"I enjoyed the animal that was attacked by the hunters because he was ridiculous."

Oh that boy :)

State Wrestling Tounament 2013

The 1st weekend of March Tucker wrestled in the State Wrestling Tournament (Saturday was regular state and Sunday was Rookie State...1st year wrestlers only, so Tucker only wrestled Sunday....I think he would have done a great job at regular state, but nerves and emotions got the best of him).  I still (even 2 and 1/2 months later) feel like Tucker pretty much got screwed over...but sometimes in wrestling things just don't go your way.  He was so excited and pumped up, but he had to wait over 2 hours for his first match and then he ended up having to wrestle the kid who took 1st Place on Saturday in regular state...this kid was a great wrestler...there was no way in heck this was his first year wrestling, just the things this kid knew there was no possible way...but...anyways, Tucker fought hard, but those dang emotions got in the way and he ended up loosing. 

 

He handled his emotions and came back and won the next 2 matches, but then he freaked out again because he thought he was going to wrestle the first kid again, even though everyone explained to him that he would not wrestle him again, he just wouldn't listen and went into his match against another kid with the mind set he wasn't going to win...so despite his effort, he couldn't manage to pull off a win.

 

He did end up with 4th Place and despite all the crap, I am so proud of him! To say wrestling is tough is an understatement...and adding in Tucker's extreme drive to win...it was a long season for everyone emotionally!  Our club team did end up taking 1st place overall in Rookie State!!!!!

 

It's nice to have a break from wrestling, but we are already thinking of next year...where I could possibly have 3 wrestlers (Tucker and Ty want to wrestle, but Trey is still on the fence about it....I don't blame him...he knows it's going to be a lot of hard work!)

 

Tucker ended his first official season of wrestling with 18 wins and 8 loses.  He had 2 - 1st places 4 - 2nd places 1 - 3rd place and 1 - 4th place (and if you add his two school district wrestling camp tournaments, you add 4 more wins and 2 more 1st places!)  I'm so proud of him and if we can work on controlling his emotions next year he will have an even better season!