Wrestling Meet

 January weekends are always busy as we try to see a wrestling meet and a volleyball meet before we head to Baja - so even though we just got home from Estes Park on a Monday afternoon, Friday found us heading back up that way to Ft. Collins!  And we had snow - it was a miserable drive up there as we didn't drive out of bad roads till we got past Castle Rock!  But we made it safe and sound which is all that counts!

We had brought both of our computers up for Robby to work on so he got busy on them - I actually relaxed a while till Jill got home!  After a great dinner, Jill had to pick up Parker from practice and then we played some games!

Saturday morning I woke up early, glanced at my phone and read the time wrong so I was up PLENTY early!   But noticed that I had 40 emails!!!!  I NEVER get that many in one day!!  So looked at the first one and then noticed they were basically all the same - an alarm was going off at our house!!  PANIC!  After I went upstairs, Robby came down as he was getting the same emails that I was getting as he is the Admin on our camera outside - I immediately texted neighbor Al to see if he was up but no response!  Robby said the outside camera which is mounted on the outside of the office wall, was picking up the sound!  At that time, we figured it was just a low battery on a smoke alarm (they're all connected) but it still was an unknown!  So I called Brad who was up and asked if he would drive over there to check it out!  Sure enough, it was just the alarms going off and as soon as he turned up the furnace, they went off!  Gosh that was a scary moment for a while!

Robby headed out early to get Parker to the meet and the rest of us followed later!  The meet was in Ft. Collins at a different school but the gym was really small!  In facte, all the wrestlers had to sit in the bleachers with the spectators so it made for some cramped quarters!

We got to see Parker wrestle at least 3 times I think!  In between we would get up and walk outside to get some fresh air or watch the other wrestlers!  Parker did great, even though he had a hurt shoulder.

Sitting in the stands - Aleah joined us late morning!

Parker pinned this guy!  He's fun to watch!

And another win!

His last match of the day was for the championship of his weight class - he did well considering he was wrestling a junior with 2 more years experience but he ended up in 2nd place which was great!

It was nice to grab pictures of the 4 of us at the meet!

Parker was hurting by the time he came home but was all smiles for the picture!

It was a relaxing evening!  And after coffee and donuts the next morning, we headed on back home!