extracurriculars

Jacob has been into Ninjago for a while, and is pretty sure he's going to be a ninja when he grows up, so we thought it best to enroll him in karate classes. We found this great karate place just a couple of minutes from our house and Jacob has been loving it.

Fingers crossed that this teaches him discipline and self-control instead of increasing his already violent tendencies.


We have had a lot of trouble finding a sport for Caleb. Then we were watching this video one day

And decided to look for parkour classes in our area and guess what! It's a real thing! So he started taking these classes in San Jose and has really been having fun with it.

I had a cute video of him in class, but it's not working well with blogger for some reason.

It keeps the family busy, but I am really happy Caleb has found something that he likes so much.

Birthday Time!

March 1st is a special day in our house. Not only is it the day before Dr. Seuss' birthday, it is both Caleb and Joseph's shared birthday! It has been a lot of fun to have them share the day.

Here is Caleb opening one of his most highly-anticipated gifts...

... a bow and arrow! This has been super fun and only confiscated 6 or 7 times in the past 3 days.

And I haven't been sewing much lately, but I did put in some time to make a scripture case for Caleb since he received his first set of real scriptures this year. I made a similar really cute floral case for Emily when she turned 8, so it was fun to work with Caleb to choose fabrics this year.

That night we did a trifle because trifles are delicious. I also knew that Joseph loves them and Caleb would be getting a cake at his party on Saturday.

This year, since Caleb turned 8, we invited a few friends over and had a little party. Anyone that knows me knows that organizing things like this stresses me out so we kept it small and I relied a lot on Joseph to keep things running smoothly.

Joseph made this perfect cake the night before.

He also made this simple but so awesome pinata.

Caleb blowing out his candles.

And a terrible picture of present time.

It's been so fun to celebrate Caleb and Joseph. Lots of other stuff going on, but for now I am breathing a sigh of relief that the birthday party is over and beginning prep in earnest for the baptism next Saturday.