~~ODNEAL FAMILY BLOG~~Port of Readlyn, Iowa

Tyler had another wrestling meet at Hudson yesterday. He wrestled well, but unfortunately didn't have a very good night. He lost his first match 2-3, his second match he lost 7-11, and his third match he lost 6-6 in double overtime. Bummer! But as I said he wrestled hard and tough and looked pretty good. Of course he doesn't think so! All of his kids were from W. Marshall so I don't think that they are his favorite school or team right now. The last meet for the year is next Thursday at Traer. Pretty soon track season will be here and at least that means spring! Hooray for that!!! Everyone have a great weekend. Heatwave tomorrow (upper 30's) or at least it will feel like one to us. Finally making it to another of Taylor's basketball games tonight, so should have some pictures to post from that on Monday. Both our boys and girls won last night against Tripoli. I think Kyle said Taylor had 16 points. Good job Taylor!

So, one of my bosses went to Jamaica for a week this past week and we had been saying that we needed to spruce up and paint the office. So we did it while he was gone. The walls in these pictures look yellow, but actually the hallways we did a light tan, and the front entryway is a darker tan. It definitely looks cleaner and brighter. And the messy office is where I spend my 8 hours a day "working". We only had to spend about 8-9 hours total to get it all painted with two of us working at it. I trimmed and Vicki rolled so it went pretty fast. And we had a much better time chatting and painting those two days than we would have doing actual "work stuff"! Now we need to get some decent pictures for the walls and we will have a new space to come to everyday. Yeah!

Tyler had a wrestling meet last night at New Hartford so snapped a few shots. I get too worked up to get any "great" ones-oh well. He did a great job. Lost his first match 3-7 but wrestled tough, and won his last match 5-0. I was looking at the score wrong the whole time and thought he had lost. Duh! Bruce threatened to send me to "wrestling rule school" whatever that is!!!!! Good job Ty!

Or is it supposed to be "cat out of the bag"? Give Gizmo & Gadget a shopping bag and they can have hours and days of fun. And the rest of us are definitely entertained watching them fight and play and hide in the bag. Cheap entertainment for sure!

Sometimes even when it is freezing cold outside a sight such as this can make us forget it for just a while. Took this picture Saturday afternoon when we ran to Fairbank. The ones from inside the truck didn't turn out so well! Don't mind the finger smudge in the middle. Oops!

Bruce went to Minneapolis Thursday to look at some machines for work. They had to leave at 4:45 am so he was out of the house by 4 I think. When he got home he was tired, and this is how he looked after supper in the living room. He is lucky my batteries died in the camera and this is the only one that I got. Notice the remote glued to his hand? I had to pry it out carefully to not wake him up to change the channel. Too funny!

I have been needing some jeans so ran to the mall yesterday after work. Well, Maurices had like everything on sale 75% off. So I went through all of the racks and tried on a bunch of stuff. When I was checking out I asked about winter coats (my zipper fell apart on the one I wear all the time) and they were 75% off also. So of course most of them were X Small, but I found one that I liked and it fit. It is white but I'll just have to wash it quite often. I'm not like the kids throwing my coat on the floor or wherever when I walk in the door. I actually hang mine up! So, everything I got if not on sale would have cost me $206.49 with tax. My total bill for the jeans, 3 shirts, one pair of leggings, and of course the coat was......are you ready? $74.90! Woohoo! Wish they would have had more stuff that I liked! Yeah Maurices-and I even got double punches on my card. I love that store!