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Friday, February 3, 2012

Sam's Awards

AC Reynolds Middle school had the winter sports banquet last night. This is the event where they acknowledge the athletes for their accomplishments during that season.
Sam received 2 awards last night for which his dad and I are very proud of him.
The first is the Scholar Athlete Award presented to those athletes that have exhibited strong academic leadership in the classroom.

The second award he received was a plaque for the Coaches Award for leadership and dedication.

We are so proud of you Sam. You have handled yourself amazingly well with moving to a new school, new home, new city. Achieving straight A's while excelling in Wrestling. That is a great accomplishment.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Braces and Wrestling, What else.

That's a big 'ol mouth isn't it? I asked Sam to give me a smile big enough to see his teeth and this is what I got. He is just like his dad as far as not seeing their teeth when they smile. I wanted a few pictures of him before his braces.

He is eating his "last meal" of a Sonic chocolate shake and tater tots. He is all smiles right now.

Still pretty calm, watching a movie on the ceiling. Kung Fu Panda.

Now I am getting the look of "MOM, your embarrassing me." You would think that they would have figured it out by now that that is my job.

He cannot talk....might need one of those for Sophia...hmmmm.

Tada! Just the top ones today. The bottoms go on in a few months.

Then we had to haul butt to get to his wrestling match. Unfortunately this guy was a buzz saw and pinned him.

His mouth felt pretty good and was not bothering him yet. But the next day he was hurting a lot and had another match that night.
The team they went up against does not wrestle with much integrity and it was the first match in three years where I had to stop myself from going on the mat. They do a lot of uncontrolled picking their opponent up and slamming them on the mat and I had visions of him breaking my son's arm. His opponent also hit him across the face in the mouth, hurt him a lot. So needless to say I was rather ticked off. I dislike poor sportsmanship and it usually comes down from the coaching.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

My youngest turns eight today.

Eight years ago today my youngest son was born.
Time flies. It is pretty amazing how you can think, ugh, will this ever pass and then POOF! 8 years are gone!

And not only is today his birthday but the day of his first baseball game.
He was soooo excited I thought he was going to burst.

A little nervous, but not too much. He headed to right field for the first two innings.

As you can imagine it was rather quiet out there, he did get one ball hit in his direction but that is it.
His first at bat was 3 strikes but there was "focus" let me tell you!

He then headed to 3rd base. Ya got to be on your toes for 3rd.

Next at bat... isn't he the cutest thing on the planet?

And he is soo sweet to his mother...wish the other two would get a clue about that nice to mom thing.

His next at bat went better, the butterflies had subsided. He connected with the ball but it went foul.

When he is really concentrating the tongue goes into the cheek.

His team mates then sang Happy Birthday to him. This kind of stuff means the world to him, makes him so happy.

Way to go Carter, great job today.

Monday, February 14, 2011

VACW Elementary & Middle School States {Culpeper Wrestling}

Sophia's first match at states. But first...don't her little braids look cute?

From Each Day....

Oops, this don't look good for her. And she asked me why I only took one photo. All I could say was "Girl, that was a fast match!" In her defense...this guy WON states. She quite honestly did not have a prayer.

From Each Day....

The second match went a a full three rounds. She even gave him a bloody nose and I thought she was going to win but he was a little stronger than her.