Welcome to Beehives Allison!!!!!!

The beehives wanted to come decorate Allison's room for her birthday and welcome her to YW's. We are redoing her room for her birthday so it is all torn apart. So I told them they could do the kitchen. Boy did they do the kitchen!! We had to take her away(they wanted it to be a suprise) and Jason heard me tell Jarin that the beehives were coming. We got home just a little before they were done. Jason was running all over the upstairs yelling "where are the bees?" Anyway Happy Birthday Allison. YW's is so fun and you are going to have so much fun there. Your family loves you.

Jason is a yellow belt

Here is the group of kids getting promoted. Jason was supposed to hide his old belt behind his back but he is so very proud of his three tips. (the two black lines and one red) those are the markers that show he is earning his next belt. He was so good and stayed focused. Karate was one of the best things we ever did for that boy.

Here is jason standing at attention waiting to begin--still a white belt

Here he is doing show time kicks. He can pick any series of kicks (3 kicks) then they do the black belt stance and courtesy and go back. I wish you could see the concentration on Jason's face.

He is making the symbolic sign that means you are leaving the old belt behind and embracing the new one. The two belts form and L. The L stands for longevity, loyalty and constant learning. Aren't they cute?

Here is Jason sitting still and not moving a muscle while the instructors discuss how the class did. He sat still not moving for a long time. This is so amazing. We love Karate!!

Allison got the principal's pride award on Ashley's birthday. She got it for her oustanding work on a big math assignment. Yeah Allison.

Ashley got a lil'kinz pug for her birthday. She loves webkinz. Such a great toy. you get a stuffed animal and something to play on the computer.

We did not have any candles so we used the ones left over for the pumpkins on halloween. Does that sound like something my mother would do or what? We had two candles that were pretty big so I told her each one was worth three. She thought that was great. Jason was singing a very enthusiastic "happy birthday" complete with "cha-cha cha's".

Ashley's birthday party.

Ashley Jean turned six. I guess I have to quit calling her my 4 year old. It is so fun to watch her grow but it is also a little sad. She had a birthday party with some friends from school and church. We played a game where we popped balloons by sitting on them. I think I got the wrong kind of balloons because they would not pop. So I told the kids they could pop it any way they could. They had so much fun doing this and it took almost a half an hour to get them all popped(I blew up a lot of balloons.)