Big Happy Birthday wishes to Bob today! I wish we could celebrate, but mid-week birthdays are rough. I'm sure he will take a rain-check for birthday fun!
The boys cooperated with me last weekend to get the traditional, annual Santa Hat picture. Love this almost as much as I love them!
Newsy-stuff...
Tomorrow the varsity team is heading over to Pigeon Forge for the Smoky Mt Duals*. They went last year too and had a really fun time. Spencer is wrestling the 220 spot and Quinn got invited to go in case coach wants to juggle up the lineup. Bob's driving the "Bob Mobile" with a car full of boys and will likely be playing Uber-duties for the team during the trip. They should get home late on Saturday. Can't wait to see how they do! It's a big tourney with a lot of high quality teams attending. I like our chances against most of them!
Then Sunday, Zane got chosen to compete with the Morris Fitness Elementary School duals team. He's SOOOO excited. Bob should get home just in time to grab some sleep, repack the cooler and head to a different gym full of wrestling mats. 'Tis the season! (Spoiler alert, next weekend looks very similar...)
Have a great week everyone! Get all that shopping and baking and shipping and wrapping outta the way so you can sink into the magic of the season next week!
* For anyone who doesn't know wrestling... a Dual is a team event. For the high school, there are 14 weight classes, so the best kid at each weight class is part of the Dual team. The team competes against another team and each of the weight classes wrestles head-to-head. Points are earned by one team, based on the type of match/win. The team with the highest point total at the end of the 14 matches is the winner. I love Duals. They are super easy to watch because all of our guys are wrestling back-to-back on the same mat. There is a great combo of strategy and skill - because the coach can juggle the line up a bit to get the match-ups he wants. For example, if our 120 is good, but the opponent has an amazing 120 and has a gap at 126, we may send out a back-up 120 (expecting the loss) and take the win at 126. It's a bit cat-and-mouse and very entertaining! It's also really awesome to watch the team cheering for each other. Wrestling is an individual sport, but Duals folds in the team aspect in a really exciting way.
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