Last Tournmament of the Year!

Yesterday was Zane's last wrestling tournament of the year. He took 1st place in his age and weight division and earned a gold medal!  It was in Reardan and we hosted the tournament. That meant up and at 'em at 5:15 AM and running check-in/registration by 6:30 AM. The tournament went well and we were done and home by 4 PM. After helping run registration, I spent most of my day in the bracketing room. Thankfully I saw all but one of Zane's matches. These photos were taken by Doug, the resident sports photographer and grandpa of one of Zane's friends.

Next weekend is a livestock show in Moses Lake and the following weekend a shoot for Hunter's safety.

One week until Spring break. Maybe true spring weather will arrive with it? We had snow on the 1st and 2nd days of Spring this past week.

Wrestling Video

I'll try to post a video Bailee took this weekend at the wrestling tournament. Zane ended up earning a bronze medal for 3rd place overall. He wrestled 4 matches and won 3 of 4. This video is showing one of his winning matches. Take a peek and let me know what you think. Zaner is in the maroon singlet.

Grandpa was here this weekend. It was great to see him.

The kiddos are gearing up for two livestock shows this spring. Steve, the lamb is here at home and the pigs are offsite at a local youth ranch.

Our chickens are finally starting to lay eggs. Or at least one or two are starting to lay. Usually they lay them on the floor the the coop but today one managed to lay an egg in the nesting box.

It was gorgeous on Friday and today it did a bit of everything from snow to hail to rain and wind. It's snowing again as I type. I guess this is spring in the Inland Northwest!

Now on to wrestling...

Yesterday was the first of several wrestling tournaments in the month of March. I used my Rebel because I have misplaced the battery cover to my new camera when last charging the battery. I know I put it in a safe spot so I wouldn't lose it but can't remember where that "safe spot" is. I forgot how to change my shutter speed on the Rebel so my pictures turned out a bit blurry.

The chickens started laying eggs this week and our first calf arrived on March 1st (a nice little heifer)! Spring has arrived I hope. The temps are supposed to be up to almost 50 by the end of the week. It's definitely a muddy, mucky mess outside.

Here are a few shots of Bailee looking thrilled to be sitting all day in the gym. I am sure she will be excited (sarcastic here) to see these on the blog.

Here a few of Zane wrestling. He is in the maroon singlet. Wish they were a little sharper. I took a few that were blurry but would have been great shots otherwise so didn't post them. Darn!