Garrett Mauston

Garrett had an excellent year this year! Thank you all for your prayers. He met no girls the whole season! He improved his wrestling skills phenomenally. I can't wait to see what next year holds for him. It may be tough since he will be at the bottom of the 7th-8th grade brackets.

Garrett finished his season with 19 wins:22matches. Out of the 19 wins 14 were pins.
I also uploaded videos from State and will post them in that post, so check back to that date!

Levi Mauston

Levi had a tough year. I was trying to tell him that Garrett had tough years too. Levi was ready to quit. I asked him if he thought Garrett was a good wrestler. He, of course, said no. So then I had to rephrase it and I asked him that if this guy sitting next to me was not his brother, would he think he was a good wrestler? He then answered yes. :) I reminded him that a few years ago Garrett had some big struggles and that we where just pleased if we went home and he was not pinned. Levi lost all 3 of his matches but did not get pinned! Rejoice in what is in front of you! If you look at the pictures, the boys he wrestled today loved to do the double chicken wing. One boy even sat while doing it which is an illegal move. His arms are hurting today.

Levi's year end record was 6 wins:15matches Out of his 6 wins 4 were pins.

Seth Mauston

Well, Seth finished his first year of wrestling with nothing broken! He had fun and that is what makes the difference. He did not understand the difference between winning and loosing so he never got discouraged. He got a medal at the end of each day and that was what mattered to him. Who knows what next year will hold! He placed 4th. His year end record was 2 wins:18 matches. He did have to forfeit twice to girls so in my eyes his record should be 4:18.

State Wrestling

Here are the 4 boys from our club who made it this year.
Garrett-#115, Myles -#105, Christian-#110, Heath-#110
Garrett placed 7th
Myles and Heath lost their first 2 mathces (double elimination)
Christian placed 3rd

Here is the crew and their coaches warming up...why are none of them moving around?

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Match 1

2 very tired young men! Garret lost this match 3-0 This boy placed 6 all around

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Match 2





Garrett wrestled hard and came out a winner this match. He won 5-0.

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Match 3

This match, again, went very well and Garrett pinned him in the 3 round. In the end of the second round the ref had his hand in the air ready to slap the mat and time was called before his hand came down.

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Match 4

We all agreed that there is no way this young man could be in the 6th grade or born in 1995! We were all joking that we saw him shaving between rounds. Oh, well Garrett had the verse "I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me" taped inside his head gear. I saw him take off his head gear numerous times and read the verse when they broke. He knew that if God wanted him to win it would happen. This is where God wanted him to end up and 7th place in the state is nothing to be ashamed of. Speaking of broke, this young man broke Garrett's nose. He had a habit of smacking him in the nose when ever they were head to head. Garrett has already had his nose broke 3 times so he knows how to deal with it. The other boy placed 4th all around. He wrestled the match 1 boy for 3rd and fourth place and won.

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Here are the three boys right before heading home. They are in front of the Alliance center. All three of these boys have been home-schooled there whole lives. I am very thankful that God has placed such fine young men in our lives!

Flash from the past

So today Steven decides to clean out his locker at work. He brought home this key chain (alas the cut picture corner) with pictures of the kids. It only contained 3 kids and Garrett (now 12) was a baby so it shows you how long it has been since he cleaned out his locker... He said when he pulled it out and saw this picture he first thought it was Levi. I agree, I never saw before how much Levi looks like Heath when he was little. Maybe the beard throws me off now, Heath?!? Levi also always makes those faces when I take his picture. Oh no, one Heath was more than enough! :)

*Edited to add that the key chain contained 3 kids not this picture. He had a baby picture of Garrett on the other side.

Westby Regionals

This is his first match, his one and only loss.

Well, today was Garrett's day. Regionals are only for birth year 1999 and up. Levi decided he was not ready for it so he sat this year out. Seth was not old enough. So Garrett weighed in at 111.1 lb that put him in the 115 lb bracket. Regionals is not like any other tournament. They do not break you up in 4 or 5 people per bracket. You wrestle everyone who shows up in your weight bracket, double elimination. In other words, you loose twice you are done! Thank you all who were praying, there were no girls in his bracket at all today. So he did not have to forfeit and got to wrestle real matches. There were 5 boys all together in his weight bracket. Garrett did loose his undefeated title though. He lost his first match 4-0 with some dumb mistakes. The other boy did have the advantage of wrestling at least one match before he wrestled Garrett, so he was warmed up. Garrett had a buy (no matches) the first round so he was his first match. He said it will not happen at state when they wrestle again.

Collecting his medal and State papers.

The video below is of his last match. They were wrestling for 2nd and 3rd place. Only 1st and 2nd get to go to State. I forgot my video camera at home so I took the videos with my digital camera which means I got next to none snap shots...oh, well!

Garrett gets to go with his friends Heath and Myles too!

WE ARE GOING TO STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A whole list of qualifiers names can be found here.

Garrett's Solo

Boy am I posting a lot lately. I guess that is because life is busy! Last night Garrett performed his first Solo Ensemble part. He also did his trio with Myles and Heath. He played it for our Home Educators group since SE was scheduled the same day as Big Blue.

King Kong

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Ok, so early last week we get a call for the upstairs renter. There had been this little dog in the yard all week and was crying all night. They cannot have pets in the house and they were leaving (truckers) on the road this next week. So they called us and asked if we could take care of it. Levi and Shelby fell in love with it. The pound could not take it until after lunch so it spent the day in the living room in a box. Sydney was so good. I thought for sure she would freak out when she saw Levi carrying it in and out of the house. They named him King Kong since they thought it looked like a gorilla. I thought it was one ugly dog. It had a horrendous under bit so all you could see of it's face was it's bottom teeth.

Shelby & Sophia

So Miss Shelby really loved this wrestling match! She got to spend the whole day with her baby cousin Sophia. She has a lot going for her...she is s baby, a girl, she cannot tell Shelby to go away or be quite. So far Shelby likes her a whole lot better than she likes her brothers.

Garrett Big Blue

Garrett is doing very well this year. At this point he is undefeated. Please keep this is your prayers...the only thing that has kept him from going to state is girls. Please pray that there are no girls in his weight bracket next weekend at regionals. If he runs up against a girl he will forfeit. We do not believe boys should have that kind of physical contact with girls. At regionals 2 loses puts you out of the running to go to state.

Levi Big Blue

Levi, well...Levi is not having a good year. He hurt his elbow at Thursday night practice. He has been wearing an ace bandage on it the rest of the week. His first match the boy grabbed his elbow and Levi grimaced. The coach noticed it and directed his wrestler to not let go of that elbow, which is how the rest of the day went....

Seth Big Blue

Seth got stuck with two girls this time around so he had to forfeit. So actually he had only one match. Our caoches know that our guys will not wrestle girls and do their best to help out. The 2 girl's names were Loren and Alex which could of very easily been boys' names. He gave it his best and got a very cool trophy!

Big Blue Champs

Well, we had last week off. Not that we were not busy, just not wrestling... This week was our home match. Traditionally we have a blizzard either the night before or the day of. Thankfully today the weather was beautiful. I am a day behind because Steve's folks, brother, sister-in-law, and baby niece came to watch the boys. It was a long day and we all went to bed early and exhausted!

Garrett -1st place (still undefeated)
Levi- 3rd place
Seth - 4th place

I'm uploading the videos now and they should be ready by morning.