Friday, January 21, 2011

Mary's a Red Belt !!! Yahoo!









Insert Mom braggin'.... Mary did AWESOME saturday Jan. 15th.



She was Senior Student and the only one testing for Red Belt. It was cool. She was nervous enough so we didn't tell her that part until halfway through the testing.



Here pattern was flawless, she knew her pattern meaning and the Korean words she had to know. She also fought the 5 people in the circle with her self defense and it was great.



The next step for her is black tab testing which is March 26th. If she passes...(depends on how much work she puts into it or not)... then it's black belt testing in September for her.






She always fights with a SMILE on her face....not very intimdating Mary!!!



Friday, January 14, 2011

Wreaths Across America

Mary places a wreath on a grave.



Mary took this picture from 20 feet above and about 100 feet away. This flag was flown at the world trade center on 9/11/2001, It is all cut up and torn but it's symbolism is amazing.
Our Girl Scout Troops goes every December to do this service project. This was the 3rd Annual and our 2nd year and it was HUGE...26 thousand wreaths. It was bigger than Arlington National Cementary's celebration in Arlington, Virginia.

Every family should make the sacrific to do this...it's the 2nd weekend in December.

Monday, January 10, 2011

It's Monday Ya'll...

Family Sports update... Mary did break her two boards a few weeks ago and she will be testing for Red Belt saturday Jan. 15th. It will be great! she is so ready and will do well. Next is black tab testing at the end of March (If she is ready). Or September if not. Then it's 6 months to black belt testing. Now she is really practicing hard and applying herself well. She is very excited for the months ahead. She went last summer to watch her Taekwondo friends test and supported them for 5 hours that day. She know what is required of her it's up to her to do it!!!

Delynn is coming up on the District JV Swim Meet Jan. 22nd and is working hard on her practicing. She has done very well at all her meets this year.
She is looking forward to another Summer league season in April - June.
It will be interesting to see how much she has progressed now that she is in the pool 4 to 5 days per week.

Webb has put in for 3 promotions....all with Sunday's off....That's what I am hoping for. I enjoy the family going to church on sunday together and have missed that very much.
He starts this Sunday having sunday's off. He got a co-worker to switch with him so either way it's all GOOD.

And I am busy being the mom.

Dayna

Sunday, January 2, 2011

News ....Smooze !!!

Well it's 2011 ...The girls don't have school for 2 more days. What to do? Something Fun!!!

We had a quiet (not really) New Years celebration at home this year. The neighbors dogs freaked out because of the fireworks so they choose outside our bedroom window at 4am to bark back at a "yappy" dog through the fence. So at 4:15am ...i opened the patio door and walked to the backyard and yetlled...."go lay down and shut up". Probably not smart cause I leave next to an HPD Officer. Oh well....She was probably clapping from inside her house or wasn't home. We would finally get back to sleep and it would start again...finally at 8:30am I was fed up with it so I took a hammer outside and Delynn and fixed the problem...no I didn't hit the dogs! I put the 3 boards that the dogs knocked down back up and locked the dogs back in their own yard.

This is why we have one pet ....It's Mary's Betta fish his name is G2 (NCIS Los Angeles) is Mary's favorite show.

Thinking about new years resolutions....

Get Fit and loose a bunch of weight. (this one is my top priority)
Get more spiritual (I am lacking in my scripture study)
Stay Organized - I actually have do this one the past two days...I have the cleanest linen closets in town.


That's probably enough for 2011.... Oh yeah write more than once's a month on my blog. To my defense, I have been busy with a new job. But I love my job.