Week in Review

Finally sitting down to put up a blog. Hopefully I can mange to keep this one pretty short. Chance is on his holiday vacation as of the 18th. They had his Christmas party on Friday and it was fun. John of course missed it. He had to go all the way to NM to get a paper signed and that took like six hours. Oh well, I can't say that I am really surprised, but Chance still had a blast at his party. We've just been hanging out around the house trying to stay occupied. It's nice not having homework or studying but man oh man. I'm already all caught up with my DVR. Nothing new has been coming on (figures right?) so there's not much to watch on TV which is really fine by me. Watched The Hangover finally and it was great. Also watched Tropic Thunder last night. Way late on this one but I had been planning to watch it during our move, but I forgot to grab it out of the movies before the packers got to it so yeah, that didn't happen. It was hilarious and I think it's safe to say that Danny McBride is one of my favorite actors. He's from Statesboro, GA originally but he is a NC School of the Arts alum, so he gets a big A++ in my book. I figured I would use my spare time to catch up on fun reading but it's been slow going in that department.

Chance had his belt graduation ceremony on Saturday. He is now a yellow/orange belt. I can't wait for him to move up to the intermediate class. But he still has about 6 more months I think before that happens? The demo team did a martial arts adaption of The Grinch and it was hilarious. The kids all dressed up as "Whos" and sprayed their hair with crazy colors and wore silly socks. Since Chance was also playing the part of Max the rein-dog, we had him in a Madagascar Christmas shirt that had a zebra on it pretending to be a reindeer and it said "Reindeer Wannabe". Seemed fitting. I made him a Max styled reindeer antler and gave it some puppy dog ears and he was the perfect Max. The whole program was great. Everyone did awesome and they only had four short practices to prepare for it. For his graduation ceremony, they had him do his Universal 2, but not the entire thing. I could just see the look of confusion on his face when he didn't get to finish but the 7+ kids did. He told us later that he was a little mad about that because he knows the whole thing and has worked really hard on the last part to get it down. Ah well. His age sometimes works against him I suppose.

Here are the videos from the program:

Part 1


Part 2


Part 3


Part 4


Youtube and their 10 minute rule is crap. But I got them all on there finally so yay for me! Still can't believe Christmas is just a few days away. It's hard to get into the Christmas spirit when I'm so far away from family. I mean of course I have John and Chance right here, but it's just weird spending it with just the three of us. We're making the best of it but it just hasn't felt much like Christmas this year for some reason. John just sent the boxes off today to family. I wanted to wait until I got the dvd from Chance's karate thing burned to put in the boxes before we sent them, so they'll be late i'm sure but hopefully only by a couple of days. Still have to buy a birthday gift for my sister, no idea yet what I want to get her. I have a few ideas but nothing definite. I want it to be something good since she did us such a huuuuuge favor by taking Lulu in for awhile.

Anyways, that's about all I have for now. Need to start getting Chance ready for karate. Seems I have to get there an hour or so before his class starts to get my usual spot. I'm not even going to start on that rant.