Green Belts

On Nov. 1, Andy and Ryan tested for their green belts. Their first real belt tests. They actually needed to KNOW stuff for the test. They did great.



Daddy is looking at getting his brown belt around Christmas time.

Monday morning

some thoughts from the weekend:

• I don't think the Hulk was actually a result of Gamma Radiation. I think he was bipolar.
• We're going to see Maiden. Todd is considerably more excited than I am, but I am actually looking forward to it.
• Andy made a fantastic block in soccer yesterday. He then proceeded to pick dandelions. I did try to get pictures, but that turned out to be a bunch of blue and white blurs. They did win the game.
• Tequila can make people say/do strange things - and no - I didn't get naked in the moon bouncer- no matter how many time I was asked told to.
• Saturday, Todd has announced that he WILL quit smoking as soon as he gets his red belt. He got his second stripe that day.

Catching up...

1. Ryan is getting REALLY good at hockey - fast. this week he did a drill where he had to dive under the coach's stick, get up and shoot a goal. He scored twice. He came home and said "Dad, I scored two girls!" oy!

this was taken toward the end of his second practice - as you can see he was getting pretty tired.

2. the shawl is off the needles and blocking.


3. Todd's socks are past the toes and maybe 1/3 the way up the instep. no new photos..

4. The epic quilt is assembled. I do have pics in it's current state, but FIL took them with his camera and I didn't get digital copies - yet. I had a stroke of creative genius. I added tabs to teh top of the quilt to hang it from. the hanger is a fishing pole... how smart am I???

I'm also crocheting "seaweed" to embelish the quilt.

Once the quilting is done I can add the hemotite beads for the fish eyes. shell beads to the sea bed. the crochet seaweed and I also have some rough peridot beads to add in somewhere in there.

5. Todd got his Blue Belt.