More Snow...

Another snowy day! So about 3:00 this morning it started raining. Then it turned to snow. The above picture is what our fun trip home from church looked like. This is a state highway, so it is usually kept pretty nice. This is the corner right before our driveway. Today we are suppose to get another 6"-10". We got 8" on Thursday. The wind is suppose to pick up tonight. Our mailbox is now totally under and Steve will have to dig it out so we can get mail this next week.

Here is our driveway shortly after noon. Steve and Kaleb have been taking turns snow blowing it. It is 1/4 mile long plus he has to do our rental house in the front. He said if he does not do it now it will be far too deep to do when it does finally stop snowing and blowing. Spring is just around the corner right?!?!?!

Garrett Galesville

Well, as I stated in the previous posts weights did not matter. Garrett won all 3 of his matches. He pinned the first two and won the last one against his best friend Myles 4-0. I posted the match of Garrett and Myles wrestling. We were teasing them that they should just both go out and play patty cake. Myles also pinned his first two matches, so the boys were going for first and second.

Levi Galesville

I do not know if it was just me, but Levi seemed to get stuck in a bracket with guys that were quite a bit bigger than him. He left his first match with scratches and bruises on his arm. His second match he got picked up and dropped. He was pinned even before he was able to catch his breathe. Steve went and checked on him. He said his eyes were funky and was complaining that his head hurt. Between Coach Kaleb, Dad and Levi they decided it was best that he forfeited his last 2 matches. He was in a 5 man bracket and the kids coming up were even bigger than the first two. So Levi pulled a last place this time. He dropped his record to 6 and 5.

Seth Galesville

Seth, it seems, is being punished for being so small. If he weighed more than the other kids they would not have to wrestling him. So why does he always have to wrestle kids so much bigger than him? Take a look at the pictures. The other kids tower over him. The last match Steve had the ref call. The other little boy must of thought it was football and not wrestling. He loved to just run and tackle. He would let him up and charge again. Steve felt Seth was just getting hurt so he told the ref to stop the match. I uploaded just a clip towards the end.

Galesville Champs

Well, today we had an extra child. Garrett's best friend Myles is spending the weekend with us while his father went to watch the high school regionals. The weight brackets were all screwed up at his match. It seemed that the weights did not matter. Garrett and Myles were 7 lbs apart and ended up wrestling each other. Levi was injured in his second match (uploading video) so he forfeited his last two matches and ended up in last place.

Garrett - 1st Place
Myles - 2nd Place
Levi - Last Place
Seth - Non-competitive place (we tell him first :) )
Shelby - Official bracket holder

Coach Kaleb Poynette

So I have been forgetting a very important part of our wrestling, Coach Kaleb. Since it was his birthday yesterday, I thought it fitting to post a couple of pictures of him. He spends his day running from mat to mat coaching the kids all day long. He goes in twice a week for practices, both age groups for 3 hours. The kids love working with him and he loves coaching them. In the first picture behind Kaleb is one of his best friends, Heath and his dad, another coach.

Garrett Poynette

Garrett got new socks last week. Do they not "fit" him? He did pretty good today. 3 pins = 3 wins. So far he is undefeated and has not been bracketed against any girls, so no forced forfeits. One of the pictures are Garrett with a couple of his friends, Heath & Myles after his match.


Kaleb told Garrett not to pin this match right away. He said he needed practice with his moves and to make it go at least into the second round. Even though I appreciate a fast pin (gets me home faster) he obeyed his coach...

Seth Poynette

Check out those new wrestling shoes! I finally found a place where I could order them small enough. When Steve opened the box he was so sure they were too small. He actually even has a little growing room. Seth still wears a size 9.5-10 shoe. Sethy did wrestle 3 matches but only two got pictures. My photographer (Steven) watched Garrett's match and ran up to get Seth (his match was right after Garrett's) and put the camera down and forgot to pick it up. At least he remembered the wrestler. :)

Seth did very well and, as you can see, almost pinned right away. He is determined!!! He did loose his tempter in the end and was scolded by the ref. I showed him the video and explained to him what he did that was wrong. Hopefully this will never be an issue again.

Poynette Champs

Garrett -1st (3 pins)
Sethy -3rd

I'll start you here while the videos are uploading. Levi took the day off and went to the Winter Carnival at Camp Chetek.