New Year's Eve Weekend in Boise

For New Year's Weekend we decided to go to Boise. Bryce's parents live there and Boise State University was hosting Oklahoma State for a Wrestling dual. Oklahoma is where the boys went this summer so they were excited to go see the dual. Bryce got talking with Weber High's wrestling coach and he wanted to take the team up there to see it. So after a lot of hard work, stress, and time, Bryce was able to set up a quick trip to Boise for whoever wanted to go. We ended up with about 70-80 kids and adults. We drove up on Friday and got everyone checked in at the hotel. Bryce's parents helped out with this and were at the hotel to give everyone their room keys and tickets to the dual. We headed off to the dual on Friday night and had a great time. Oklahoma kicked butt again BSU, but it was fun for the kids to see the coaches and wrestlers who did the wrestling conference this summer.

This is Brayden and Tyler's favorite OSU wrestler-Justin Oliver. He is the #1 seed wrestler in the country right now. He is awesome!!

OSU ended up winning all but 1 match that night. After the dual, we headed to Grandma and Grandpa's house to eat dinner and sleep.

The next day, Bryce had set up a 3 hour seminar at a wrestling club in Boise (not far from Grandma's) with a guy named Ivan Ivanov. He is from Bulgaria and was in the 1996 Olympics for Greco-Roman Wrestling. He put on a great seminar and it actually lasted over 4 hours.

Ellie did pretty good while we were there to watch. Here she is posing on the mat.

Silly Ellie Girl!!

Here is Ivan with Bryce. Bryce was very impressed by his style of coaching.

They had some awesome equipment that they train with. Ivan allowed the boys to try some of it out. Here is Brayden trying to swing it around his back. It weighed approx. 25 lbs.

Go Tyler Go!

In the background is another coach that helped with the seminar.

Brayden got to face off with Jake Woolsey at the end with this equipment. He did great!
They also did some live wrestling towards the end. It was pretty intense. The music was blasting and Ivan would have the older group out for about a minute and then the younger group would go out for a minute. They did this for quite a while. It was fun to see our kids get to wrestle some boys from this gym. They had some competitive boys.

Here is the team photo with Ivan's team also.

After the seminar, everyone loaded their cars and headed for home. Grandma Clark was nice enough to make all the boys a sack lunch to enjoy on the ride home. She loved having us all there. We actually stayed a bit longer and then headed for home around 3:00. We had to get home for church the next day because Bryce was being released from the bishopric and I was being put in as the Primary President. YIKES!