Spring sports

Spring is upon us and have been full of sports. Travis and Landon finished up their USA wrestling season last Thursday with a dual in Greybull. Travis lost both of his matches (they were against kids he's wrestled and lost to before). Landon won both of his. The team was scheduled to wrestle in Worland this weekend, but Worland ended up cancelling the tournament. They both had fun this year and learned lots.

Christian coaching one of Travis's matches.

Travis participated in rec. basketball this year for the first time. We convinced him to try it and he enjoyed himself for the most part. He's always argued that he didn't want to try basketball because he was going to wrestle in high school and not play basketball. Their team had a rough time and only won one game, but I think he learned some good things. He's definitely very aggressive and is more like a basketbrawler, but hey he isn't afraid to get in there. After his last game we had 3 people come up and comment that you can definitely tell he's a wrestler!

He's #23

Track season has begun and Carson had his first track meet in Cowley on Saturday. He participated in the discuss and 200. He improved from last year on his times and distances.

March

March has been a busy month so far! Here are some things we have been up to...

The Lovell elementary, middle and high schools had a combined POPS concert that included the choirs and bands. They prepared and played/sang popular songs. It was a great concert and they all sounded so good!

Carson playing the trumpet.

The elementary school singing

Although Carson is only in band, they had some of them join the choir for a song.

Travis singing with the 4th and 5th graders.

The bands and choirs all singing.

 We celebrated  St. Patrick's day with our annual St. Patty's day dinner. We enjoyed rainbow fruit salad, corned beef and cabbage along with veggies and asparagus. The boys always enjoy when we do something fun and out of the ordinary for our meals.

We have been busy every weekend with wrestling. Two weeks ago, we traveled to Thermopolis on a Friday to stay the night for a tournament the next morning. We ate at a Mexican Restaurant for dinner, the boys swam for a bit and then it was time for bed so we could be up at 5:45 to make it over for check-ins on time. Both boys had a rough weekend. Travis lost all of his matches but took 6th. Landon won one and lost two and didn't place. He had a huge bracket of 13 kids, but is improving each meet!

Landon ordered mini tacos for dinner and they were seriously the cutest little tacos you've ever seen!

Landon got his first bloody nose during one of his wrestling matches.

 One of the mom's of the boys on our wrestling team always takes pictures of all the kids during the meets. The boys love getting to see the pictures she takes and I love that she shares them with us.

Travis working hard in one of his matches.

A win in Thermop

Last weekend we were in Cody and it was a better tournament for both boys. Travis was in a round robin and won one, lost three for a 4th place finish.

Landon (somehow) lost two pounds during the week and was able to wrestle down a weight. He had the biggest bracket of the tournament (16 kids) and ended up taking 6th place. It was the best I have seen him wrestle all year! I was so proud of him. He could have place 5th, but didn't give that match his all because he said he was just too tired. We're going to have to work on not just giving up!

The elementary school had their annual books with buddies where you go to the school, have a muffin and juice and read a book with a family member or friend. This year, Christian got to come and Landon was super excited to have his dad there to read to!

Last Days

We packed as much in as possible the last two days of our vacation. On Friday, we decided to head back to the lagoon for the day. The kids, once again, had a blast snorkeling (grandpa and I even took them out into the ocean where the water feeds into the lagoon), paddle boarding and playing in the sand.

When we walked into the resort, there was a lady with a salmon crested cockatoo. She let the boys hold it if they wanted to. Carson was the only one that opted not to. It would lift it's wing up for the boys to scratch under. 

The boys exploring the tide pools after lunch.

A couple of lizards by our table at lunch.

 

Landon getting ready to head into the water to snorkel. There was a huge turtle right next to him.

 Travis was quite the photographer during the trip. He loved getting the go pro and taking pictures of all the things he saw under the water! It was so fun to have a devise to take pictures and video in the water!

Landon

Travis paddle boarding

Landon and Carson...snorkeling buddies!

Travis and Landon really wished they had a net to catch the fish in.

Saturday, we were torn about what to do. We had to fly out that night at 10, so we had all day to fill. The two younger boys wanted to go back to the lagoon or one of the other pools we hadn't been to yet. Carson wouldn't really say what he wanted to do, but finally said he wanted to do another day at the beach (and so did I). So, we decided to hit the beach for a few hours, get some lunch and then go to another pool at one of the other resorts where they had facilities for us to shower and get ready in before we had to catch our flight. 

Everyone was sure happy that we decided to hit Hapuna beach again. The waves were lots bigger and prime for boogie boarding!  The boys got rolled by some pretty good sized waves!

We were so covered in sand!

Grandpa even caught some waves...and Carson (in the green shirt) got engulfed in some!

 

Grandpa and grandma watching the kids

 We had lunch at one of the other resorts that day and then swam in their pools. They had a couple of slides that the kids had a blast going down. I bet we have 10 videos they took of themselves going down. They were quite entertaining!

This one is by far my favorite slide video!

Travis coming out of one of the slides.

Landon getting in some last minute snorkeling.

Around 6, we were all showered and dressed, so we drove into Kona for dinner at KFC and to walk around until we had to go to the air port.

Landon fell asleep hard from all the playing he did. All 3 boys went 100 miles an hour the whole time!

The sunset in Kona while we were walking around.

Our flights home went well and we got back to Lovell around 7. It made for a really long night and day of traveling, but it was so worth it to be able to go and spend time in Hawaii!