Christmas Morning

Look how tall Avery is. He did enjoy Christmas, even though his picture he looks like he is not. He just doesn't like to get his picture taken.

More pictures

Hunter said he was going to go an some adventures with his buddy Chris. Their adventures were climbing trees. Their fifth grade teacher told them to go out and make some adventures on the weekend and that is what those two did.

Avery has been enjoying his padded football, this season ended on Dec 12 and the next season starts up Jan 16th. They play all year round here.
I ended up cutting my hair. I am trying to grow it back to brown and get all the black out of it.

Gingerbread House

The boys made their Gingerbread house on Monday evening. I think they ate more candy than they put on the house. They seem to enjoy doing the gingerbread house. Hunter is getting excited about Santa coming. Avery is trying to be noisy figuring out what the presents are under the tree. Robbie is working hard on his 20 page paper for his last class. He will graduate from college with a BA in criminal justice on Jan 10.

lots of updates

I know it has been a while since I have written on here. Almost six months ago. First, school for both boys are doing good. Avery has gotten all A's and B's this past nine weeks. Hunter has also gotten all A's and B's. Avery is doing flag football and padded two hand touch football against the Japanese. Hunter is doing swim lessons and has taken up roller blading and he goes on bike rides with me on the weekend.

Robbie is one class away from graduating with a bachelors in Criminal Justice. =).

Avery's first padded football game is tomorrow. He had an away game in Ikego today for flag football. Hunter and I went to the craft fair and I took pictures of him playing outside since we didn't have any power for the most part of today.

Last weekend, they had an Oktoberfest here and hunter did a few of the activities. He really liked the climbing wall. He also had stitches in his knee and tried to climb it without bending his leg. He made it all the way up with out bending it. He cut his knee on a chair in his room that had a piece of metal sticking out of it, he had to have 4 stitches.

This past September, we had some friends visit and we went to Fuji. We hiked up part of Fuji, most of it was closed for the season. The boys want to go back in July and hike it. That is our plan for the summer. We plan to hike to the summit.

I will try and keep up with this better than I have been. But for now , enjoy the pictures of the boys.

Avery's team won the Championship

Avery's team played in Atsugi last Saturday and they had a tournament there. The boys won every game and the last game they were down by 7 and came to tie the game and had to go into overtime by four innings and Avery got on second , stole third and then got hit in to win the game. They each got a medal for winning the game. Hunter's team played two games, Hunter did good and he got a hit and also got put on base for getting hit in the back with the ball. He got a run in to help his team score points.
We have three and half more days of school until summer starts. The boys are ready. I will post more later.

Art Show

Here are some of Hunter's art work from this school year.

Hunter's camping trip

May 6-7 Hunter had an overnight camping trip

with his fourth grade class. They left the school at 8:30 that morning and arrived at Campsite "E" at Tama Hills around 1o that morning. His itinerary looked like this:

Thursday:

10:00 arrive at campsite

10:30 set up tents, cooking area, class trash bins

11:00 orientation (camp rules, and directions about activities)

11:30 eat sack lunch

12:00 4 km specimen collection walk, take zip lock and specimen jar, press plant specimen, microscope, compass course challenge.

4:30 free time

5:30 dinner preparation

7:00 Campfire, skits, songs, storytime and smores

9: 00 bed

Friday:

7:00 teams prepare breakfast

8:30 Break camp-organize rented gear

9:15 art activity

10:30 lunch

11:30 clean up camp and pick up trash

12:00 depart Tama Hills.

Hunter had five people in his group and he was responsible for the cereal, pretzels, fruit snacks, and water.

Hunter had a blast and wants us to go there this summer.