Happy New Year!

I hope the New Year brings many joys to you and yours.

I know I know it been a few months or 5 months now since my last update. It has been a busy 5 months. Anyway here is the update.

Duncan has started 1st grade is reading writing and do math very well. He needs a little push every once in a while to do his home work but gets it done. Eric we kept out of pre-school until December because of the thought we might move. But since that didn’t happen he is now in school and enjoying it. Both boys have been taking martial arts classes and seem to be enjoying it. They just recently got their Orange belts which is the first step in a long road to a black belt. Duncan says he wants to get one but we’ll see. It’s a good way for the boys to learn other things like discipline and self control.

Lilliana is growing very fast and is a very strong willed little girl. I wonder where she gets that from. She is starting to talk, just single words right now but in the last month she has doubled the amount of words she says. I figure she’ll be talking easily by her second birthday.

Christmas was grand for everybody this year. Christmas day was spent at the Ewoldt’s with the Schmidt’s. Brian Schmidt was home on leave until the 4th, which was good for Valerie, Steven, Chris, and of course Brian too. The kids had a great time and got really cool toys. When you get older and the presents don’t matter any more and you see the joy on your kid’s faces it really tells that the holiday is more than just the gifts or the food. It’s the family and the smiles and the laughter.

Later in the week we went to Oshiro’s for Christmas. Karen’s bother Greg, wife Pat and step son Gil were up from Texas. We had a great dinner and the kids again had good fun with their new toys.

Overall everybody is doing well. We are very healthy bunch and with the mild weather should stay that way. I hope to get back on a monthly update but I have said that in the past. Until next time…