Monday, May 18, 2009

Catching Up

Since I have a little bit of free time I decided I should write a entry in my journal since it has been so long. Things are going well here. We are just finishing up 4th grade and ready for a busy summer. Alex has Karate Camp and Kids College planned as well as STARS reading camp through his school.  He is excited about summer and hoping to get to spend some time hanging out with his friends from both his elementary school as well as his karate school.
  Things have been busy for us running back and forth from place to place all year long and eventually we decided that the best choice for all of us was to stop doing Cub Scouts so that we could free up at least one evening in our week just to have some time to breathe ourselves.  It seems to be working nice and doesn't seem like anyone is missing not going to scouts anymore. I think our time there had run its course.
 Alex is still very involved in Karate and loves it as much now as he did two years ago when he started. He is now a Level 6 Jr. Blackbelt and if he stays on schedule should test again at the end of May. Then the end of June and the end of August. He is excited about moving up to a new belt and learning new things and also loves getting to see his friends at karate.
 I am busy working on learning how to use my new Camera. I got a Nikon D90 DSLR camera for a combo gift of many Christmases and Birthdays. Its worth not getting gifts for a while to have such a nice camera. I am looking forward to learning to use it and have already gotten many great shots that I could never had gotten with my old camera. Its definitly a work in progress as the camera has more buttons and settings than my car.
 Jason is busy working and in his free time he is taking Hapkido classess as the karate school as well. He really enjoys them and misses it a lot when work gets in the way.