Girls Week

Well, the boys made it to Tampa yesterday. It took them a while, and they stopped for several adventures along the way.

First major stop was to tour Florida State stadium. Turns out and employee happened to be around and took them inside for a tour. The next major stop was Florida Gators stadium. They found an open gate and let themselves in. After wandering around for a while, the children found their way down onto the field. Somehow, they ended up in the coaches offices and met Will Muschamp. This was a pretty exciting thing for my football head husband.

Now onto a week of wrestling a vacation. They are having a great time and the boys are making memories and friends that will last a lifetime. I am slightly jealous that they were at the beach today and I was here in Alabama where it is about 100 degrees.

Oh well....life goes on.

Summer is Here!

For those of you not in the South, it is H-O-T here. We have been in the upper 90's and low 100's all week. Summer arrived with it's mad on this year. It has really been to hot to do anything but sit inside or go to the pool.

Maggie and I have spent the last two afternoons at the pool. It has been great. Nice and cool in the water. Great time with friends.

Riley has started his summer tour of wrestling camps. The first one was here in Alabama. He finishes that one Sunday and leaves Sunday night to go to Georgia to the Alex Tucker wrestling camp. He leave the Sunday after that to go to Brandon Florida for a week long camp. I will not see my child for about 2 weeks straight. I guess that's what happens when they get to be teenagers.

Katy has been gone all week to the beach. She will be home tomorrow night. It has been a weird week since I have essentially only had one child. I don't know quite what to think about that.

However life returns to normal next week. Back to the grind of the daily work schedule.

The one thing new that I have to report is that I have started my couch to 5K program again. I am trying to do that and Zumba so I can get back to a more healthy weight. Sounds fun I know. I will keep you updated.

Until next time, stay cool and have a fun summer!

SE Regionals

Well, we have finished our 4th year of heading to Atlanta for Southeast Regionals Wrestling Tournament. It is a two day tournament with some of the most talented wrestlers from around the southeast.

We arrived on Friday for weigh-ins, and wrestling started early Saturday morning. We had a LOOONG 12 hour day on Saturday. Riley ended up finishing in the 7th out of 19 in Greco-Roman Wrestling. It was a long day, and a little disappointing that he did not finish in the top 6, but overall a success.

Sunday started almost as early for Freestyle wrestling. Once again we had 19 wrestlers in our bracket and we finished 6th!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, we go got a medal that day. Riley's success was hard earned this weekend. Nothing came easy for him this time.

This has been the official start to our summer for 4 years now. We finish our wrestling for the year in the great city of Atlanta, and we make some wonderful new memories with old and new friends every year.

So, now we are onto summertime. Riley is spending some time in Mississippi, Katy is at the beach for a week, and the rest of us are up to a whole lot of nothing for a few days. We need the recovery time from a LONG school year.

Hope everyone else had a peaceful, restful, and fun Memorial Day weekend.