State!

They lost 30-36 against Brighton but they did a great job! Mike's brother, Dave surprised him by coming to watch too. It was pretty special having the whole family there to help cheer them on! :) On a funny note, Luke had to go potty...and he has an issue with whether or not his bum is clean after he "goes". So I stood on the stairs between the stands watching the meet while he ran to go potty, which was straight from where I was.....in comes Luke with his pants down to his knees at the Kellogg Arena. He bends over and says Mommy is my butt clean!!!!! I am totally not joking! I thought I was going to die, but thanks to Carl Nystrom's match being a real nail biter no one else seemed to notice. Phew!!!!

GOING TO STATE!!!!!

Tonight Mike's wrestlers battled and beat Rockford and then Grand Haven to advance to the State Championships. We were all so super excited!!! And this time all my kids were helping roll mats with the Rockford guys.

District CHAMPS!!!

Tonight Mike's team beat Jenison and Granville to win the District title and advance to regionals. We were so excited for them. Jake fell goofing off with some of the JV wrestlers, so we had to find a trainer to help us with a HUGE scrape on his back ;( Then after the meet was done, Luke helped the Grandville kids roll up their mats....thankfully they were all very nice to him!

Jakey TURNS 6!!!!

I can not believe he is already 6!!!! Jake has to share his birthday with wrestling so parties for him are difficult, since I work every weekend and Mike is gone every Saturday. We had a nice little family celebration and plan to have an actual party for him in midMarch when all the wrestling is done! :)

Hudsonville BEATS Rockford!!!

Mike's wrestling team has been doing amazing this year, we are hoping to make a run for Team State. One big thorn in the side has been the inability to beat Rockford. They did it tonight in the tiny, very outdated auxiliary gym at Hudsonville. It was fun! (well for us Hudsonville Rottier's). Dan coaches at Rockford so it wasn't so fun for them, sorry!!!!

Woah, we got a BLIZZARD!

We had an amazing blizzard go though last night and today. We got so much snow that stuff was shut down for a day or two. The kids had a blast...Mike? Not so much! It was a neighborhood effort to dig our street out as we knew the road commission wouldn't get to us for a while! :)