Saturday, October 30, 2010

Fearless!

Don't you wish you were a kid again?  They are so fearless.  Especially boys.  I've had to sit back and watch while Justin tried skateboard tricks when he could barely ride the board itself.  There was the one winter when Justin tried snowboarding.  Another winter when Justin decided to go down the steep Riverdale hill and suddenly disappeared because he didn't see the drop from the top of the hill.  He got the wind knocked out of him but thankfully no broken bones.  When he goes rollerblading he likes to do tricks then as well.  His newest thing now is to jump over things.  As long as the object is no higher than his waist he will jump it.   
Now Julian is following in big brother's footsteps.  Lucky me. :( 
Julian has been asking for rollerblades for quite awhile now.  I've held off buying them for as long as I could but today he finally got a pair from his Uncle Tracy.  He was so excited when he tried them on and realized they actually fit!  He wanted to use them immediately, so we had to go out in the freezing cold so he could try them out.  He did extremely well for his first time rollerblading.  But now that he can rollerblade he is going to naturally start doing jumps and tricks on them.  I videotaped his first attempt at rollerblading but had some trouble posting it to the blog.  So here is a pic instead.


Friday, October 22, 2010

Happy Halloween!!!!!!

I'll start by saying, "I am sorry."
We've been so busy with school, work, lessons and of course our family time that we've just realized it has been almost an entire month since our last post.  Hopefully that won't become a pattern.

Today we carved our pumpkin!
Justin and I tracing the image he selected onto the pumpkin.  (Julian gets his own pumpkin for his own picture.)



 This is Justin's choice.  The before picture.



Julian agreed to let Justin do his picture first because he's such a nice boy.
Right about now, I think Julian was regretting his decision (such enthusiasm...lol).



 He perked up a little bit when I mentioned he could have some of the cookies we had just made. :)



 Julian wanted a chance at carving the pumpkin so Justin let him, with some guidance.



 The during picture....



And THIS is the after picture....


Happy Halloween Everyone!!




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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Taekwondo

Julian has been bugging me to post pics of him with all of his different belts.  So here they are!


 This is his very first belt!

 This is the next belt he earned.  (Advanced white belt)

Last, but not least, his current belt he has worked extremely hard for...Yellow belt!
He is so proud of himself for earning all his stripes. (we all are!)

Monday, September 27, 2010

Finally!!

Hello Everyone!
We've finally started our blog.  It only took us about a year to create.  Hopefully our next post won't take as long...lol
We plan on posting frequently so keep checking for updates.