HAPKIDO

Leslie has a new adventure. She is taking Hapkido classes twice a week at the community college. Hapkido is a martial art of self defense. It is a bit out of her element, but she is not giving up. She is afraid of getting hurt, but I told her she will be okay. The board breaking has her a little scared, but she will not have to worry about that for a while. I have posted several videos. This is only her fifth class. She will get her uniform in a few weeks and will be tested on her first belt in a few months. She has to memorize teminology and a few moves for her first belt. Between this and dance she is pretty busy, but as long as her grades stay up Nephi and I think it is great for her.

The first videos show a few of the million warm ups they have to do before even starting to do routines. They also have discipline rules they have to shout and one of them is obedience to parents! My favorite!!! I know it is killing her to say it! haha.

Look what Santa brough me!

Santa brought Danica a ball pit. She Loves it! She yells "Ball pit!" and jumps in it. Here is a picture of Leslie and Danica on Christmas morning.

Sombrero

My sister and her husband take off for Mexico every November. Tami always asks everyone what they want while she is south of the border. Leslie was dead set on getting a real sombrero this year. SO that is exactly what Aunt Tami brought back. It is actually a charo (sp), which is just a fancy sombrero. It is hanging on a wall in Leslie's room, but she would like to wear it to school. I don't think it will fit thru the door. I should have taken the picture on a different colored wall, but oh well. You get the idea.

Tiny Dancer

Aunt Millie brought down several pairs of tap shoes. One pair was too small for Leslie so Danica is wearing them ALL the time! In one more year she can start dance lessons!

Danica

Just some fun pictures of Danica. We got a gift card from my Grandma for Christmas so we were able to get a new TV stand for the new TV! Danica did a good job helping Dad put it together.

Halloween video

Halloween!!

On Halloween we had lots of things going on. Leslie carved a pumpkin pretty much all by herself and did a great job. She had some friends over in the afternoon and they played in the leaves, made mummies out of toilet paper and then we made cupcakes for snacks. The skunk is our little neighbor, Leah. That was the cutest outfit ever! During trick or treats, Jac and I finally had to take our kids and kind of split up. Leslie is way to fast. She also ditched Isaac in a haunted house thing and he started slaying people with his sword. She was like "Mom! I told him to come on and he said no, so I said then you just stay right here and wait." Oh well. She ment well. Nephi had to work so he could not join us, but he has been having fun inspecting the candy.