Tyler lost his first match vs. Dustin F. from Sheldon 2-4.

Tyler won his second match vs. Eric K. from South O'Brien by a 20 second pin.

This was the teams first meet of the season. It's also Tyler's first time wrestling since 4 years ago. He did a great job his first meet back.

After the second game the team went to Villager for dinner.

Tournament Team
front row: Mitchell, Tyler, Ross, Grant
back row: Coach Noah, Charlie, Chase, Yach, Fernando, Caleb, Coach Dave

First game: SL 25 vs. Manson NW Webster 26
Second game: SL 17 vs. Spencer 39
Third game: SL 25 vs. Schaller 24

Last Friday at school the boys decided to have "dress up day." This is what they came up with. They were quite the hit at school. Kids, teachers, and even the principal gave them high fives and thought it was great they had a little fun with the dress code.

Last night was Tyler's last regular season basketball game. Tyler did another good job of having great vision on the court and getting the ball to the open man. Afterwards, we headed to Legacy to celebrate Tyler's success in basketball and in school. We had a fun evening visiting with Boun, talking ISU, and watching football.
Tyler and his "not so frumpy" mom;)

Trying to get open on the in bound.
Another in bound play.
Lining up at the end of the game to shake hands. The team showed good sportsmanship.

Tyler had a respectable game. He had great passes down to the posts from the one spot. He had a dandy move on defense to draw the charge (no acting either.)

While I spent the day getting used to my new snowblower Tyler enjoyed his first day of snowmobiling with his friend, Justin.

Tyler had a good game of ball. He had some good back door dishes, fakes to score a bucket, and lots of aggressiveness on defense to get some turnovers.
Today Tyler and I mourned the loss of our "other Grandpa Bill" at his funeral. Bill was a great nieghbor to both of us. Tyler and him shared the love of ISU Cyclones, fruit, and playing games. Bill loved watching Tyler serve mass. For one final hurrah to Bill, Tyler served at his funeral mass. He's definitely looking down and smiling. Either for serving or ISU making it to a Bowl game. Which ever one it is they both are doing a thumbs up.

For the last 2 days I've been hearing how Tman's feet hurt. I finally took it upon myself to actually "see" for myself if his shoes were too small. They were. He now wears an 11.5.
Tyler wanted to take this pic to see who has the "upper eye." Mom does, but not for long.

Tyler's first basketball game for the green n white was this afternoon in Odebolt. He played half the A game and all of the B game. He had 4 points in the B team game. 2 were free throws that were the clinchers at the end of the game.

We spent Thanksgiving in Sioux City with the Reinert clan. Tyler got to eat a feast, play football, basketball, and spend time playing with all his cousins. It was a blessed day.

Tyler had a stellar day. He passed a test in gym without even studying, had his favorite lunch of cheese pizza and salad, and got invited to try out for the basketball tournament team. Not bad for a first day of school. After school, we went and cheered on his new basketball teammates. Tyler starts practice with the team tomorrow. He had a great time getting reacquainted with some new (old) school friends.

Tyler and Steve participated in the annual turkey shoot. They won the 8th grade boys group with Tyler making 11 of 15 freethrows and Steve making 8.
Tyler receiving his certificate and turkey
All the winners

Today was Tyler's first game of his 8th grade basketball season. He's the starting point guard. He had 2 beautiful layups off of fast breaks.

In Tyler's Science class they are talking about renewable energy. Today, Steve spoke with the kids about wind as a renewable energy source.
Trivia question: What state is the windiest?

Today we were in Rock Rapids for Tyler's Mock Trial event. The teams did very well in their first ever trial in the Regional event. Tyler personally had 2 lawyers (that were judges) come up to him after the hearings and congratulate him on how well he did. Their team was unable to make it to the next round at the state level but learned alot of valuable lessons that will be able to be used in future mock trials or endeavors in life. It most certainly has helped Tyler learn to plead his case with me at home, as if he needed anymore help.

Tyler and Caden ready to cheer on the Cyclones!
Justin and Scott came to the game and over to play some football of their own with Tyler while tailgating.
Sunny and 71 on November 7th? Sunglasses, tshirts, and shorts? Can you believe it???
The reason Tyler loves ISU games: "guy time."

Tuesady night was the NWIJH Honor Choir in LeMars. Tyler and 7 other students from St. Mary's were selected to spend the day learning music and then performing it at a concert in the evening. The Choral Director is a professor at Luther College, coming from Dominican Republic, and was a neighbor to Sami Sosa. Tyler enjoyed his day reuniting with friends from basketball camp, eating taverns at Bob's and ice cream from Blue Bunny, and learning different kinds of music.

This morning St. Mary's held their fall festival. As room moms we are in charge of the snacks. We brought apples n caramel, popcorn mix, cookies, fruit rollups, and water for the kids to enjoy.
The kids enjoying their goodies. Boy, they sure can eat!
After the snacks the class wanted to play a game called Apples to Apples. It is a fun game to play. The kids laughed practically the whole time.
The "nice" pic. 2 girls are missing. Their home sick with the flu:(
The "crazy" photo. I'm doing a lot of "lasts" this year. Being room mom is one of them. It's sad yet a happy time for Tyler and I. We've made lots of happy memories and look forward to the good times to come.

After a long week of Tyler having the flu, Friday, we headed to Ankeny to celebrate Dad(57) and Chloe's 1st birthday. It was a wonderful weekend of eating, visiting, and shopping. Rich and Andrea were once again the perfect hosts. It was so great to be with everyone and share in their birthdays.