First week of 2011

On Monday we returned to work and school after Christmas break. Hunter is already counting down to summer. I told him that will just make time go by slower. Avery's new season of football starts on the 16th of January. Hunter started swimming up and still doesn't like water in his ears. Robbie graduates on the 10 of January. Next he is waiting on a test date to test for master.
Hope everyone is having a great beginning of the New Year.

recipe update

I found a new recipe for granola bars and they turned out really good. I melted some chocolate chips and spread it over them and they are delicious.
Peanut Butter granola bars.
2 cups old fashioned oats
1 cup rice krispies (organic if you can find them)
1/2 cup smooth peanut butter, (i use Adam's brand because it has no sugar or hydrogenated oils.)
1/2 cup honey
2 tbsp ground flax seed.
In a small saucepan with honey, pb put on low until honey is liquid and mixes with pb really good.
In a bowl put oats, rice krisipes, and flax seed, mix together. Then ad the honey and pb mixture. mix well. put in a 9x9 baking dish lined with parchment paper. Press down mixture into pan. Spread melted chocolate chips over and let cool. Cut into 18 granola bars. The boys love these. Easy and cheap and healthier for you than packaged food. My goal for the 2011 year is to stay away from as much processed food as possible. I want to have everything fresh and homemade. With the exception of the boys cereal. They don't want to give up their sugary cereal.

Happy New Year 2011!!!!!!!!

Happy New Year!!!!

Hope everyone has a great year. We have alot planned for this year, so it should be a pretty busy year. We are hoping to do a trip in march either around here or take hop somewhere. In the summer time we plan on climbing Mount Fuji. And then right before school starts up we should be able to find out what is available for when we pcs. Hunter was being silly one night, saying that his legs were cold, so he stuffed his pant legs with blankets.

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.