HOLY SNOW, BATMAN!!!!

Last week we got a ton of snow!!!  It was awesome because it was wet snow, so we were able to build snowmen, snow forts, and throw some snowballs (just an FYI for those that don't know, CO has very dry powdery snow that you can't make anything with).  The snow was so plentiful that the boys even had a snow day and that never happens ( I only remember 2, maybe 3 snow days in my entire school years here)!!!  It was such a blast and we were outside for over 3 hours!  Plus the weather has stayed cold and it has even snowed another 1/2 inch or so yesterday, majority of the snow is still sticking around 5 days later which also rarely happens here!!! 

This amount of snow fell in about 3 hours!!!

The cat thinking she might want to go see what the snow is all about, but she decided she didn't want to venture out!

working on the snow fort..we eventually made 3 of them and had a snowball fight!

The dog being crazy and running around...she loves snow!

Having fun with my boys!!

Me and my Trey

Trey was invited to a little friend's birthday party this past week and he really wanted to go.  The little friend just happens to be a cute little girl and her mom works at the school with my mom and we were informed that she really wanted Trey to come and wanted to make sure Trey would come to the party, especially since the party was going to be held at Build a Bear.  Of course we made went and despite being the only boy (besides her older brother) and never actually being inside a Build a Bear workshop before Trey had a great time!  He picked out a pretty cool camo bear and it even smells like chocolate!  It was extra nice because it was just me and Trey a pretty special treat for both of us.  He loves that bear!

Meet Trey's bear, Army

Valentine's Day 2013

Happy Valentine's Day 2013

Wresting Tournaments 6 and 7

Wrestling is so stressful!!!  Watching it seriously stresses me out, but not because I'm worried Tucker will get hurt or not really even if he looses, but because Tucker is freaking out when he doesn't win and I don't know how much more I can take of him being so hard on himself.  I always tell him all (and what his coaches tell him too) we want him to do is wrestle hard, listen to your coaches, and never give up!  But Tucker is such a hard worker he can NOT stand to loose.  He wants to win (I mean who can blame him right....) and he does not handle loosing very well.

 

He is a really good wrestler (when he keeps his head right) and his coach decided it was time to move him up a division.  Well, little did we know he was moved from C class up to the highest class, A class.  Well, he was so nervous about the move up, but he still ended up taking 2nd place (which usually doesn't happen when a wrestler moves up 1 class, let alone 2 classes). 

 

Tournament 7 I didn't get any pictures because I have started recording them on my phone because there have been some problems with the people at the table taking score writing down the wrong names or wrong scores, so I want video proof just in case.  (I know it sounds a little crazy, but this happened to my nephew and the table scorer tried to give his 1st place win to another kid, but luckily the Ref remembered who won the matches.)  Anyways, Tucker took 2nd at this tournament too.  The match he lost was a really tough fight for him and I am proud of him for keeping himself together and fighting hard until the end.  (And blogger is still being dumb and not letting me upload any video...which sucks because I have a ton of Tucker wrestling!)

working hard to get the pin

win!

2nd place!

Proud of himself for taking 2nd!

It's only been about 9 years....

On Superbowl Sunday I ran a 5k with my friend...it seriously has been about 9 years since I have ran in a race!  I have been running and working out at home a pretty decent amount for awhile now and my friend has been asking me to run in a race with her, but usually they are on Saturdays and Saturdays are always so dang busy...but this was a Sunday, so we did it!  We are actually pretty good running partners and for not seriously training for this we ended up running it in 30minutes and 52seconds.  Not too bad...it was a lot of fun and we can't wait for the next one!

the second half of birthday celebrations

On Superbowl Sunday Tucker got to celebrate his birthday with the rest of the family.  Thankfully the blackout gave us an oppertunity before the end of the game to have cake and open presents. 
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Ready to open presents during the 'blackout'

Ty freaking out because the paper was not put in a garbage bag

The baby getting in on the new toy action!

Superbowl cake for Superbowl Sunday

8 years!

Tucker had to have the entire 49ers helmet for his piece of cake

The one where he turned EIGHT!!

My first born turned 8 years old on Saturday!  He started the day taking 2nd place at a wrestling tournament and after that we headed to Casa Bonita....a pretty incredible restaurant.  Then we did a little shopping and then headed back home to eat pizza and cake.  The finally he got to open some presents!  His first day as an 8 year old was a pretty good one!

The birthday boy!

Cute cousins...too bad you can't see the waterfall in the background

Excited for some cake

It was such a long day that 2 of the 6 kids slept through dinner, cake, and presents!

Pizza time!

My boy picked out cheese cake again this year

Blowing out 8 candles!

Some awesome new goalie gloves!!

I had forgotten it was winter

We have had such nice weather I had forgotten it is actually still winter.  We could not pass up the opportunity to play in the freshly fallen snow. 

This boy is such a stinker!!

Wrestling tournaments 4 and 5

Tucker had a great fourth and fifth tournament.  In the fourth tournament, he did awesome!!!!  Pinned his opponent every time.  He got his very first 1st Place trophy this time and was super proud of himself! 
In the fifth tournament he had a tough first match, they were pretty evenly matched and it really could have gone either way.  (I would like to see a rematch...I know Tucker can beat him).  He got really down on himself, but he did eventually snap out of it and came back to win his next 2 matches and took 2nd place in the tournament.   Tucker has a hard time loosing..he is driven to win every time so when he looses he shuts down, but his coaches were super proud of him for coming back and giving 100% effort.

Win by pin in the 3rd round

Win by pin in the 2nd round

Win by pin in the 1st round

WINNER!

1st Place Trophy!!

Getting a congrats from his coach!

2nd Place!!

MLK Day

Everyone had off on MLK day so we took advantage of the nice weather and went hiking.  We went to a nature preserve south of town and took the 4 mile loop trail.  The kids did great despite such a long hike.  Ty wasn't feeling the best, but still managed to walk over half of it.  Towards the end of the hike he fell asleep while I was carrying him and slept the whole rest of the hike.  After the hike we went across the street to one of my favorite playgrounds.  It is set up like an old western town and the kids had fun, but it was short lived because Kim was pushing the kids on the merry-go-round and caught her ring on it and majorly messed up her finger.  It looked horrible, but after a very long trip to the ER, she found out it wasn't broken.  Thankfully it is healing fast and despite her finger, we had a great day off.

Too cool to sit with the rest of the crew for lunch

Eating lunch

The evil merry-go-round

The cutest bank tellers you will ever see!

He was the only one who would take a pic for me

Ty's favorite thing...the canon!