State tournament

Woohoo!!!! What a great tournament! Jordan was awesome and ended up taking 3rd place. He wrestled out of his head and had the biggest cheering section! Of course, his mom did the most screaming. It was just so much fun, though! We took everyone down and stayed in a hotel in American Fork for two days. The other kids had a blast swimming and playing around. We went to a movie, ate ourselves silly, and stayed up late each night. It was so much fun to spend three days with my kids, and my kids only. At home it's tough to keep everyone around long enough to do things together and most times we have an extra kid or two with us, so it was a treat to have time with just my kids.

The first night we were there, we came out of the tournament to a huge snow storm. IT was unbelievable! Almost a complete whiteout. Unfortunately, Jay had to drive back to Brigham because he had an appointment he couldn't miss. We got settled in at the hotel and he left to head up north. It was bumper to bumper traffic, he said, and barely moving at a crawl. We kept in touch as he inched his way home. There were cars off the road everywhere and I kept the news on to see what was happening. Apparently there were places where people had to abandon their cars and walk! Thankfully, Jay didn't have to do anything like that but it did take him over 5 hours to go from Utah county to home. After he finally called to say he had made it safe and sound, I was so worked up that I couldn't sleep so I spent the night playing on the computer. I'm glad I thought to take the laptop with us! Around six in the morning I finally got up and jumped in the shower and then meandered on down to the continental breakfast. It was pretty gaggy, so I went back up to the room and laid down. I finally fell asleep around seven and slept for a couple of hours. Needless to say, I was pretty wiped out the rest of the day! I took the kids to a movie and fought staying awake during that, and then did a little shopping with Cecy. The tournament didn't start up again until five, so we had time to just bum around for awhile. The little kids didn't want to go watch the tournament so we left Jaxon in charged, ordered pizza for them, and went back to watch Jordan wrestle again. It was a fun day and I literally fell into bed that night. I think I was asleep before my head even hit the pillow!

The next day we checked out of the hotel and spent the whole day at the tournament. The little ones got restless and were more than ready to be home by the time the tournament ended. It was a nice little vacation, and even nicer to be home. Now I just have to dig through the laundry!