Green-Brown Belt

Tonight, Eric was awarded his Green-Brown belt, and was officially welcomed into the Master's Club class.

 There are higher level skills and expectations in the Master's Class, as it is the class that leads to the Junior Black Belt.  Above, Eric is doing  series of star jumps for 20 seconds, which alternated with running across the mat to do combative combatives against the bag.

 This was followed by 20-20 sit ups-push ups.  Eric rocks at these.

 A new kick was taught tonight-the double snap kick.  You jump, then do a quick snap kick with each foot before landing.  They also practiced the Pike kick, which involved jumping and kicking with both feet simultaneously.   Eric rocked this kick!

This is Eric's 6th belt advancement.  I believe there are 5 more to the Junior Black Belt.  Eric has worked faithfully over the past 18 months with his skills.  He has also requested to have an 'off season', so he will be taking a 3 month break after Thursday's class for that, and resume class in October.

50th

Don and Kathy celebrated their 50th Anniversary on Friday.  We spent the weekend in Minot with them.  Tyler, Jess, Huxley, Mike, Shellbie, and Breann were also there.

Green-Brown Belt

Eric had testing for his Green-Brown belt last week.  He always gets nervous for testing, even though he does great.  He passed.  We were not able to attend the graduation ceremony on Saturday, since we were in Minot, so he will receive his belt on Wednesday.

 High forward rolls.  He rocked it.

 Punching combos

 Falls

 Kicking combos

 Choke releases with Tyler.

Reading

This has been Megan's favorite book of the week recently.  She can read it all by herself with only help on 2 words....she is excited.  

Photo Book

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Photo books are the perfect gift for any occasion.

Summer Fun

Now that we are home from our cross country trip, we are getting into our summer vacation routine.   

 Megan is taking tennis again this year.  Today they played a volley game, and she was the last player standing!  She was very excited to win something, even if the prize was just pride.

 The boys got new bikes this year.  They will be riding bike in the Bike 2 Believe float in the 4th of July parade, so they have been 'training'.

 Megan would do this all day long if we had enough of these weeds in our yard

 Today, Megan finally mostly mastered the skill of getting her bike to go by herself.

 We have lots and lots of sidewalk chalk, which leads to lots and lots of sidewalk art in our driveway.

 Kacy wants to swim in the pool.....

 We took our inaugural dip in the pool today.  The kids were freezing!  I bribed them with Laffy Taffy to go in the water.  Megan lasted the longest.

 Can you tell which kid this is????

 Eric jumped in.....and got right back out.  He went straight to the bathroom to take a warm, warm, warm bath.