State Wrestling Tournament at Tim Toyota's Center in Prescott

This year's wrestling has been a little hard on Darius.  He is now a freshman and as being a freshman you are now at the bottom of the food chain.  He is used to being the top dog after the last few years and has wanted to quit several times.  It has taken him a while and a lot of work to get to this point.  It was hard for him to just make varsity but he stuck it out and was the one to be able to go to State in his weight class of 128 from Safford.  Bad thing is this year was a bad year because they ended up cancelling Sectionals across the state because of impetigo.  So Darius ended up with a pigtail at State and in loosing his first match was now out of the state tournament.  Which I think is highly unfair, but what can I do?  So Friday night we stayed in this stinky cigarette smelling, nasty hotel in Camp Verde on Friday night and then ended up meeting Emery in Mesa on Saturday at Cici's pizza for lunch.  We then went to the movie at the Arizona Mills Mall and then went shopping a little bit.  We then went back to Emery's apartment, after going to Costco, got some Panda Express and In-n-Out for dinner and watched Smallville.  It was a fun couple of days!

This was what it looked like when they let all the teams out on the mats to warm up.  To give you a better idea, there were ten mats out there on the floor!  It was a big place with a lot of wrestlers!

Here is Kason Bryce, Darius' best friend!  Even though he is goes to Thatcher they still find plenty of time to hang out and spend time together.  They really are the best of friends!  I just love this sweet boy.  He also got 2nd Place here at State.  He is an amazing wrestler!

Here is Darius with the guy from Show Low.  As you can tell the kid is a lot bigger then he is!  Darius got pinned in the first period.  Dang it!

Here is Herman Andrews the Wrestling head coach and the assistant coach (I can't remember his name) while they are coaching a wrestler.  They kids all love Herman!  He is also the jumping coach during Track.  He is a really good coach!

This was a really fun surprise!  Tyanne and Kendal got to see each other at the tournament!  Kendal was there watching her boyfriend who is from Show Low!  She is such a sweetheart.  They have known each other since they were about a year old!  They really have been friends for most of their life.  Kendal's mom was one of my best friends in Snowflake.  Heidee and I have known each other since kindergarten but have been great friends since Jr. High when I lived in Shumway.  When Heidee moved back to Snowflake about when the girls were 1 years old.  We were together a lot so these girls have spent most of their lives together.