Emaleah's Room Makeover!!

As much as I hated to admit it my little girl is growing up. It was time to update her room to a "Big Girl" room. Once I got the idea in my head everything seemed to come along pretty easily. I went bright with the colors and had to stick with Emaleah's signature "Pink". I am really happy with how the room is turning out.

First Day of School!!

As a kid I always liked the first day of school, new clothes, new shoes, new backpack, I even liked brand new notebooks. You always start using the first few sheets of paper very carefully, making sure your handwriting is nice and neat. I've seen my kids notebooks, maybe that phase will hit them when the hit Junior High!

Emaleah is in 1st Grade this year, Nicholas is in 2nd Grade. They both have the same teachers as last year. They both said they had a good first day back, and made some new friends. I hope that this is a great school year for them!

We Did IT!!!!

Nicholas, Emaleah and I all passed our belt exams. Emaleah is a White/Orange Belt, Nicholas is a Orange Belt and I am now a Yellow Belt! At the beginning of our belt exams, Master Depalma gave us all a pep talk about our achievements this far then turned us over to Mrs. Jones to make us sweat! Boy, did she make us sweat! Just as you feel like you are going to pass out, they break you into 3 groups, 1 group gets to work out more, 1 group gets to do bag work with kicks and punches, the last group performs the current form for our head instructor and Master Depalma, everyone gets there chance in each group. After 1 hour you feel like you can't kick another kick or do anymore push ups, I think I was actually praying to do crunches just so I wouldn't have to run in place anymore. Then it is the time you worked really hard for.... You get your new belt, you survived!! Mr. Jones calls your name, Master Depalma gives you your belt, you go back to your place, kneel down place your belt in front of you and when Master Depalma says so you place your hands on each side of your belt and rub the sweat off of your forehead onto your new belt (gotta rub in the knowledge).

As parents we are always proud of our children when they accomplish a new goal, but I think you find a new appreciation for their accomplishments when you do it right along side them and see for yourself how hard it can be. Nicholas and Emaleah are amazing kids and now they out rank their mom in Karate!

Family Fun Day!!

The Summer has been rather dull for all of us, so we decided to have a family fun day! We went to Safford and had Pizza, then went bowling (you would think with my maiden name being Bowlin, I could bowl, yeah not so well!). The kids had fun, they may need to replace the floor on lane 9. Nicholas and I almost caused a few injuries to innocent bystanders, we both lost the grip on our balls and they went flying behind us.

After Bowling we wet to the movies to see Wall-E. It was very cute. We enjoyed our day together. We need more of those, the kids are growing up so fast.