Wrastlin'

It seems that our evenings are now consumed with a new pastime and that is...wrestling. No, not the fake WWE (or whatever it's called) style, but the real, honest to goodness wrestling. Kenny has become the first in our family to try this sport and boy does he love it. United has a youth club team that competes in the Canfield tournaments every Sunday. Not only are our Sundays now filled but so are the practice evenings on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays (not to mention the extra tournaments that they can choose to enter on Saturdays). It is very intense to say the least! I was hesitant about it at first after seeing the insane schedule, but Kenny has tons of energy, and he really enjoys it. Not only is Kenny a newbie, but Otis and I were absolutely clueless about wrestling at the beginning of the season, we've been learning right along with him. At first, he struggled in the matches and didn't understand that aggressiveness was the main component in wrestling. He lost 8 of his first 9 matches. Since then though, Ken looks like a completely different kid, something clicked and he has now won his last 6 matches in a row!! Three of them ending in pins! We are very proud of our little guy, the first year of wrestling has a HUGE learning curve and he tends to wrestle kids that already have experience because of his size. Lately he has gained tons of confidence and says his goal is to wrestle at Ohio State-not a bad goal haha! Friday night the team gets to go watch a Mount Union wrestling meet, and he cracked me up when he told me that he's not sure but he thinks they get to wrestle the Mount Union college guys. Haha, I had to tell him that I think they are just watching. Too funny! Above is a picture taken 2 weeks ago of him after he won both matches and got his first two pins, as you can see they are awarded actual pins by their coaches which they can display on their hats. I'm also including links to the videos of his last four matches if anyone would like to check them out. (Below)

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Let it snow...

Well we've finally gotten the first good snowfall of the year with about 8 inches on the ground. The kids have been chomping at the bit to use their new sleds they got for Christmas from Aunt Sara. We spent a couple of hours outside sledding and I also pulled them around with the 3-wheeler which was a blast. As you can see by their faces in the pictures, they had a great time. And I must admit, I did too!! Unfortunately Otis had to work so he missed out on all the fun :(

Oh, and another positive effect of sledding: it wears them out!! Haha, I didn't hear a peep out of them once I put them to bed. Very nice.

I'm a blogger??!!

Well I could no longer stand it. It seems that everyone and his uncle now has a blog so I just had to give it a go. Yea, I know I probably will do a great job for the first few weeks, but slowly my posts will become farther and fewer between. Haha, oh well I'll give it a go. At least this isn't my first venture into blogging/web sites. We've had a kennel website and blog for the past couple of years and I figured it was time to do the same with the focus instead on our kids and all of the adventures we get into.
With baby number four coming, I shouldn't run out of interesting topics to post on. The kids are so busy now that there is always something fun (or not so fun) to write about. So, welcome to our blog and I hope you come back often to check out what we've been up to.