Last week of Wrestling

This weekend was the last tournament for wrestling, for now. Bryce wants them to continue on this spring in freestyle wrestling. They both did really well and had a great season. This last tourney was at Weber High. Brayden had 3 good matches and took 1st place. He actually took 1st at every tournament this season. Way to go Brayden!! Tyler had some tough matches also. He tied for 1st place. Below are some more video clips of some of their matches.

Horse Riding at Aunt Suzanne and Uncle Gregg's

The day after Thanksgiving, Bryce's whole family went up to his aunt and uncles in Richmond. Richmond is north of Logan. We had a great time. Jennette took some yummy soups to make for the herd and Aunt Suzanne made some breadsticks that were unbelieveable. We all enjoyed the lunch. After lunch Uncle Gregg and his son Richard saddled up five of their horses for the kids and everyone to ride. The kids were excited, me not so much. I have only ridden a horse once in my life, and it wasn't the best experience. But Brandi, that is Jim's wife, made me get on and take a ride. It turned out alright, but Uncle Gregg led me the whole time. Call me chicken, but at least I got on it.

The kids had a good time riding also. It was Tyler's first time riding a horse and he loved it. Brayden and Ellie wanted nothing to do with it. They just played on the hay stacks with the two kittens. After the horse riding, the kids had a BB gun contest with Uncle Gregg's "BB gun on steroids" as he calls it. You should see this thing. You should see his gun collection. WOW!! Anyways it turned out that out of about 9 people Tyler ended up facing off with Uncle Gregg who beat him by one shot. The kids had a great time. Thanks again Aunt Suzanne and Uncle Gregg!!



Jim and Tom

Bryce and Matt

Bonnie and Brandi

Jennette's boys lookin' good!



Sweet Ellie Girl


Go Brandi Go!!

Ian (a bit nervous)

Seth (calm and relaxed)

Jessie and Brady

Tyler and Richard

Thanksgiving Weekend

I know Thanksgiving was last weekend, but I haven't had time to do a post yet. We stayed home and Bryce's mom and dad and brother Matt came from Boise. Jennette and I fixed dinner and it turned out pretty well. I was glad to have her there to help because I don't think I could fix Thanksgiving dinner by myself. I did however, for the first time, make homemade pies. I did an apple, pumpkin, and banana cream. They turned out really well. But we just didn't have enough people to eat them so the majority went to waste. Oh well!!

Thanksgiving night, Bryce's other two brothers and their families came to do gingerbread houses. Jennette and I had made the gingerbread the night before. That is a lot of work! We made enough for each family; Jim's, Tom's, and ours to make one. Jennette made the royal frosting and had bought a ton of candy for the kids to use. Well, some of the gingerbread had not set up enough or hardened enough and so ours and Jim's families fell apart. You will notice in the pictures we had the hair dryer out trying to get it to work. Jennette felt bad and on Saturday before she left to go back to Boise she made 2 more batches of gingerbread. So we were able to complete our gingerbread as a family last Sunday. The kids enjoyed doing it, but I'm not sure I will make it from scratch again. I will probably buy the $10 kit next year. Sorry Jennette!!

YEA!! It worked

Ellie enjoyed eating the candy

Brady creating his masterpiece! His turned out great.

Hairdryer Remedy!

FUN, FUN, FUN!!

More Wrestling

The boys have been enjoying the wrestling season this year. We have been to 4 tournaments and they have both done really well. This last tournament was at Weber High which is where Bryce and I went to school. So it brought back some old memories. This tournament is always pretty tough. Brayden wrestled on Friday night and did great. He had 3 matches and lost 1. There was actually a 3 way tie for 1st place because the other kids all lost 1 match too.

Tyler wrestled Saturday morning and had 3 matches also. The first 2 matches he pinned his opponent in the first minute/round. But his last match was pretty tough. It was a 3rd grader from his school that wrestles up because he is so good. Ty didn't get pinned and he put up a good fight, but he lost. There were a few tears too. He placed 2nd overall.

Enjoy the videos from the tournament. Tyler's video is his 2nd match where he cradles his opponent to win. Brayden's video is his last match of the night.

Wrestling

Tyler started wrestling a couple of weeks ago and he had his first meet a couple Saturdays ago at Logan High. He had 3 matches and did really well. He practices at Fremont High on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Brayden definitely likes to wrestle his brother but was a bit too shy to do it in public. Although he finally decided he wanted to try it. So Bryce took him to get wrestling shoes and he went to the wrestling meet last Saturday at Clearfield and did really well. Bryce enjoys coaching his boys. He was a great wrestler back in his day! I was able to post part of one of Brayden's matches below. Tyler's matches were too long to download. I will try to get one of Ty's next matches on the blog next week.

Happy Halloween!

The kids had a great time trick-or-treating last night. Brayden and Ellie went with Bryce while I passed out candy at the house. Tyler went with his friend Parker around the neighborhood. They didn't even have parent chaperone's. He is getting too old! Brayden went as Incredible Hulk. Tyler was a haunted skeleton. Ellie was a spider. At first she wasn't sure about getting on her costume, but with some candy as a bribe she was more than happy to get ready. She definitely has a sweet tooth. The weather was great. We have had 70 degree weather all week.

Like I said I was the one passing out candy at home. There weren't a lot of trick-or-treaters this year. We still had candy left over. Oh and thanks to Grandma Clark's fun Halloween book she gave me, I was festive enough to make pumpkin stew. It is a stew with meat, potatoes, carrots, and onions. But the fun part is you bake it in a pumpkin. I was a little worried it would taste like pumpkin, but it was really good. The kids even had seconds. Thanks, Grandma!!


So cute!


Already diving in, she hasn't even went trick-or-
treating yet.


Ellie the spider.


SCARY!!

Fun Family Night

Well, last night after our Family Night lesson, we were able to carve pumpkins. The boys look forward to this each year. I think Bryce does too. He is really good at it. He helps the boys clean the seeds out and then carve cool things on the pumpkins. Ellie got involved this year also. She enjoyed digging into the pumpkins and pulling out the guts too. She even enjoyed tasting it. Yuck!! We all had a great time and the boys were very proud of their finished products.