Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Predator




On the 21st Mason and Chili Wrestled in a tournament called The Predator World Championships which was held in Monroe which was nice since we didn't have to travel too great of a distance for a large national competition. The boys each had about 12 boys in their brackets, Chili's group is ages 13-15, and they aren't supposed to be sophmores in high school yet, however the sophmore thing is in the very fine print and is often ignored which makes the competition pretty unfair actually. Now that I'm done complaining, I can say that Chili did very well. He worked very hard and got all the way to the finals and then lost to a sophmore and then had to wrestle for 2nd & 3rd against another sophmore and lost again taking a 3rd overall. He wrestled very well and if the rule had been enforced he would likely have taken 1st place. Mason's age group is made up of 9 & 10 year olds and he is still 9... that being said, Mason went into this tournament looking for nothing short of a 1st place trophy. He wrestled better and stronger than he ever had before and not only won every match but completely dominated every match. He pinned 3 of the kids and won the other 2 by 9 & 10 points!!! Mason came home with his very first 1st place trophy, from a large tournament!! We are so proud of our boys!!

Friday, November 6, 2009

Halloween

So... Halloween this year was a little different for us, Jeremy, Chili, and Mason went to a wrestling tournament in Denver leaving Me, Giuseppe, and Gage here to go to Beppe's football game and to go trick-or-treating... We found out that the tournament was giving out very cool prizes if the kids won a costume contest and that the winners would be chosen by the crowd and that one kid per age group would win... We thought it through and figured that the best way to get the most attention at the wrestling tournament was to dress like girls... Now some may think its not wise to encourage cross-dressing in your children, but seriously, have you met MY boys... no worries here... I made all of the boys tutus and got them coordinating tights, wings, wigs, tiaras, and wands... some would've stopped at the dress... but not us... if we're gonna be gay... were going all the way baby!!! I have good news and bad news... The good news is that both Chili and Mason won the costume contest at the tournament and Chile got an iPod and Mason a sweet RC Car... the bad news is that nobody got pictures of either of them in their outfits!! Chili had a pink wig and pink and black tights with all pink accessories and a tutti fruitti colored tutu... Mason was pretty much the same except in purple... not all hope is lost... Atleast I took pictures of both Giuseppe and Gage... LOL