The Lis Family

Here’s to a new school year!

2018-09-07T08:05:00.001-07:00

The kids have started a new school year at Amarillo Collegiate Academy! Christopher is in 8th grade, his last year of middle school. He is in Mrs. Shaffer’s class.

James Henry is in 3rd grade, in Mrs. Utzman’s class.

Makayla started her junior year!!! We just ordered her senior ring!!!! I can’t believe it!! She has Mrs. Watt’s this year & is taking American Sign Language for college credit.

David started preschool, he is in Mrs. Angie’s class and loves it! He comes home every day talking our ear off! He already knows the beginning of the pledge of allegiance!

My very funny husband did not want to be left out on the first day of school... and not to be overshadowed is his work ethic!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Our sweet girlie started her freshman year of high school and has one of our favorite teachers at ACA, Ms. Dryden! She is settling in fabulously!

Birthdays all around!

2018-09-06T09:18:00.001-07:00

August is birthday month crazy around here!

Christopher and David are just 5 days apart and this year we decided to celebrate with a joint pool party for them! We reserved the Southwest pool for an after hours private party and let them each invite their own friends and then we invited our family friends!

Since it was from 7-9 pm, I went with just snacks, drinks and cupcakes.

David and his best friend Avery!

Avery’s little sister Ashton!

My man!!!

I’m saving this one for David and Avery’s wedding!

Four and Fourteen!

Cupcake Faces!!!

Present time!!!

Playing at home with his new Lego Table!

We saved some presents for David to open at home on his actual birthday, 8/13....

And then we went to Air U that afternoon. He loves Air U, he talks about it everyday. He asks to go, every single day.

Christopher choose to eat at Red Lobster on his actual birthday 8/18 & his big gift from us was a fancy gaming chair and a new gaming headset.

These growing boys, had great check ups this month. Christopher grows out of jeans and shoes as soon as we buy them! He is 76 percentile for height and 56 for weight and is still loving volunteering at the zoo.

David is 52 percentile for weight and 44 percentile for height and he just started preschool!!! He comes home so joyful every day!

Summer Fun of ‘18

2018-09-01T12:41:00.001-07:00

Summer of 2018, went by so fast! I wanted to take it in, day by day and I do feel like we did that but I feel like the older the kids get, the shorter the days are. The top picture is here just because James Henry loves pugs and I love that shirt!

I took James Henry and David to a new indoor play place one evening while the teens were at a youth group activity.

We checked out the new aviation exhibit at the discovery center.

Our sweet girlie turned the big 16 and we celebrated for an entire weekend! We kicked it off with pedicures!

We went to Air U with our church one Wednesday night.

James Henry went to Star Wars Lego Camp at Amarillo College with his friend Luke.

Random fun pic with fun shirts.....

We hosted a big 4th of July party!!!!

My mom, my friend Lisa, my girlie and I saw Texas in the Canyon one evening!

Makayla and Chris went to church camp in New Mexico.

James and I celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary!

We had our first VBS at our new church. I was in charge of snacks and all the teens servered somewhere!

We took David to Paw Patrol Live!

And David got some cool new glasses!

Cousin Camp Summer 2018

2018-08-29T06:32:00.001-07:00

My mom bought Devin and Owen out this summer for a week so we could hold our annual Cousin Camp!

Our first stop was Wonderland Amusement Park!

I love this picture of David and Owen! If you ask David who his best friends are he will still say, Devin and Owen!

One day we went to Freezing Roll Ice Cream to check it out.

We saw the new Hotel Transylvania movie.

We went to the water park in Canyon.

The boys spent a lot of time wrestling, jumping on the trampoline and playing fortnite also!

James kept all the boys and us girls had a day to ourselves on Saturday, it was super nice!

Summer Vacation 2018

2018-08-27T10:33:00.001-07:00

This year for Summer vacation we headed to San Antonio!

The first day was the drive down and stopping at our favorite place, Bucee’s! James went to train that evening at Extreme Martial Arts in New Branufels so the kids and I enjoyed our hotel’s fabulous pool and ordered pizza. The kids swam for hours!

Day 2 was Sea World!!!!

That night we went to Pappacitas for dinner. The maraci band was playing and the food was delicious.

The next day we went to Fiesta Texas! This trip was actually inspired and planned by our adoption agency. They pay for all thier families to go to Fiesta Texas. It is phenomenal.

The older kids and James hit the big coasters as soon as the park opened and I took David to toon town.

Lunch time with the A World For Children Families

That night we met with some friends from the Marine Corps at a Magic Time Machine for dinner, it was sooo fun! The kids had a blast! King Julian from Madagascar was our waiter. The kids still managed to close down the pool at our hotel that night!

Our trip was so fun and it was a great time as a family!

#lisfamilypartyof7

2018-06-02T08:04:00.004-07:00

We said yes to a file the last week in April and the call came on May 2nd!!! They wanted us to meet a beautiful teenage girl who was available for adoption.
We met for dinner on Monday May 7th just James and I her caseworker and one of the most beautiful girls in the world!
The following Saturday James and I took the boys (Makayla had to work) to meet her and we spent the afternoon with her. They hit it off right away!! We spent the afternoon at the trampoline park, took her shopping for a new outfit and had dinner of her choosing.
The next Saturday we were invited to her dance recital and she was allowed to stay the night with us. This was the first time Makayla laid eyes on the sister she had been praying for, for so many years. I could hardly contain my emotions!!! We went to a big family dinner that night and the next day took her shopping for new bedding and then we all went to a movie.

Just a few short days later on Friday May 25th, our answered prayer, the daughter I have been praying for, for 9 years, walked through my door and came home. HOME forever.

To say it was a whirlwind is an understand, if you did the math, it all happened in less than a month. It also happened in the busiest month of the school year and the devil was throwing James and I jabs personally and professionally to throw us off track but she felt like a calm breeze because she is for sure God given in our lives. James said "it feels like she has always been here"

She came home in May which is National Foster Care Month and the goal/plan to finalize her adoption, National Adoption Day 2018 ......now that is God's perfect and beautiful plan.

End of School Wrap Up 2018

2018-06-01T10:00:00.001-07:00

Oh May, you always come in like a tornado and leave me juggling an over-full calendar trying to remind myself to take in every tiny memory and moment. May 2018 was one for the record books, more on that later.

James and I were honored at the Amarillo Area CASA volunteer appreciation banquet with the "Dynamic Duo" Award. What an honor! First, to do work alongside my best friend and soulmate but to work for these kids who have no one else.

David made his church stage debut in the Spring PreSchool Praize Choir Performance.

James Henry performed in our church’s Kid Rock Spring Performance of “Kingdom Connection”. He also served on the woodworking team for the production.

James got to attend Pastries with Parents with David!!!!

David and I finished up the year at Kid University! Next year David moves on to Preschool 😩 and I am staying home to help our family with the changes 2018 has bought us. Kid U was such a blessing to us and was exactly where we were supposed to be in this season.

Christopher’s 7th grade awards day:

1000's club (more than 10 100’s), A honor roll, outstanding attendance, the Literature award & the character trait of Virtue

James Henry’s 2nd grade awards:

2 Thousands Club (more than 20 100’s), outstanding attendance, AB honor roll, and the character trait of Diligence!

He also starred as Paparazzi in the 2nd grade play,”American Symbols on Parade”

Makayla’s sophomore awards:

B honor roll, outstanding attendance and the character trait of benevolence

Then there was High School Banquet. Makayla's Sophomore Year 2018.

Makayla's Sweet 16 Party

2018-04-14T12:56:00.000-07:00

We had the best, beautiful time celebrating Makayla's Sweet 16!

It took a village to pull off the party of her dreams and we are so thankful to the small tribe of people who helped us pull it off. The best decision James and I made for that evening was to hire a photographer. She allowed us to live in every single moment with no phones or cameras in hand and she captured it all for us. She delivered to us, 359 photos from that night!!!
Our friends the Fewell's generously offered up their barn to us. GG altered Makayla's dress for hours on end, because it was way to big but she had to have it! There are so many others that made this night so great for our family, we are so blessed.

The big things we did that night were a photo booth, a DJ and BBQ for dinner.

Makayla was beyond blessed by everyone's gifts.

our treat table

dinner

the cake

cupcakes

James prayed as the party got started....

James' friend Jake sang Butterfly Kisses for the Father/Daughter Dance. It was beautiful!!!

Makayla and her friends......

Singing Happy Birthday and Blowing out her candle....

Dancing the night away.........

air guitar

Our DJ was so great, he had multiple generations out there dancing together. It was so fun! James Henry cut a rug all night. Someone said, it was truly his party and Makayla having a birthday was just a formality :)

It was a magical night and one our family will always remember!!!

Easter 2018

2018-04-04T11:16:00.000-07:00

We are enjoying this beautiful Spring!! Easter time is always a blessing for us and this year was no different. Makayla had to work all day Saturday of Easter weekend and Christopher was volunteering all day at the zoo's Easter Eggcitment so we took James Henry and David there to enjoy the zoo's festivities.

petting a bunny

getting eggs from the big animals

playing games

The Easter Bunny

We got to see Christopher doing his thing at a Zoo-fari cart with our family friend Kenzie and the famous Madagascar Hissing CockRoach.

Saturday Evening, we dyed Easter eggs. We tried a new way with shaving cream. It was very messy!

On Sunday morning before church the kids checked their baskets and like last year the big kids received gift cards. They seem to really enjoy them the best.

Easter Sunday 2018 Trinity Baptist Church

Easter morning was sooo cold and windy, so James had to improvise on his egg hiding skills and hide them indoors when we got home from church.

We spent the rest of the day, just the 6 of us enjoying a traditional Easter lunch of Ham and sides and the kids wanted Strawberry Shortcake for dessert. Then we curled up together and watched the new Star Wars Movie.
Earlier in the week David's class went Easter egg hunting at a nursing home. It was so precious.

Our kids as of late......

2018-04-03T17:47:00.000-07:00

David recently started patch therapy on his left eye. His right eye is far weaker than his left eye, so much that his brain has always known so and has just programmed itself to allow the left eye to do all the work. The hope is the patch will force his brain to make the right eye focus and work since the better left eye is covered and out of the picture so to speak. He wears his patch a minimum of 5 days a week at a minimum of 2 hours a day and a maximum of 5 hours a day. He has done amazing with it. He doesn't give us any trouble at all. We will continue with follow ups every 3 months and hopefully between his glasses and the patch, we can get him some real improvement.

Makayla finally got her braces off!!! This was phase two for her, so she is done for life!!! She is just doing some retainer maintenance now and that is it. She has a beautiful amazing smile!

She also just started her first real job!!! She is working at Wonderland Amusement Park. Yes, she worked a few weeks last summer at a Mother's Day Out with me but she did this interview, paperwork, training, the whole nine yards. Y'all, our kid is all grown up.

James Henry got braces on!!! He got his put on over Spring Break. This is phase one for him and he only has them on the top teeth. He had absolutely no issues at all. Dr. Moore had to pull one baby tooth that day so the tooth fairy left $5.00 for the trauma of a dentist pulling your tooth, although laughing gas tends to leave out all trauma.

Christopher is doing great, still doing his thing at the zoo! He has had no medical procedures, ha! So, this is him last weekend holding a Madagascar Hissing CockRoach!

Our little Buddy

2018-04-02T18:50:00.000-07:00

We just got a sweet new addition to our crazy crew. His name is buddy and of course he is a miniature schnauzer. His color on paper is liver but he is a dark chocolate brown.

He is already spoiled rotten and fitting in well with the rest of the gang. David may love him a little too much sometimes.

He's a keeper for sure. He has a feisty personality and loves to talk and talk back. He thinks his bark is very serious.

We just love our little guy!!

Valentine's 2018

2018-03-28T09:00:00.001-07:00

We had such a great Valentine's Day!
David and I had our parties at school/work.

David absolutely loved going through his loot!!

I made a special dinner for the kids that night, they requested appetizers and cupid floats.

even the doggies get goodies in our house

pugs & kisses

I love my little Valentine's so much!!!!

Family Fun as of late

2018-03-13T09:29:00.000-07:00

Fun happenings around here as of lately....

James and I along with our friend Chip went to the David Crowder concert. It was phenomenal!!!

We took David and Addi to see Disney Live! They had so much fun that we had a blast.

I took the kids to the circus...

The boys rode an elephant! It took David some convincing but once he got started he was game!

Circus food = dynamite!

The last two weekends have been so beautiful that we have actually been able to get out to the parks and enjoy the outdoors!

David and James Henry have been putting their Christmas presents to good use.

This guy.....

this is what ER visits are made out of......

a little baseball in the park....

James' Big Promotion

2018-03-12T09:02:00.000-07:00

James started 2018 off on a high note, the second week of the year he got something he had been working so hard for, his big promotion!!!

So, I took my man out to celebrate!!!. He has worked his but off for 2 years to get here! We took a leap a faith in the process of adopting 2 children this year and God provided us the means to do so with this promotion. Here’s to you Convoy Commander James Lis!!
Congratulations, I’m so proud of you!!

Thank you for working endless hours for your family, thank you for showing your children what a good provider is. Thank you for showing us what a true hard working American man looks like. Thank you for traveling 80 plus work weeks away from to provide us with an amazing life. You are everything to us.

David and T-ball

2018-02-12T18:07:00.001-08:00

David just finished up his first season of t-ball. There is nothing better than three year olds playing t-ball.

This was a first for us in that it was indoor t-ball, it was pretty cool!
He was hooked from the first clinic! He even cried that night because he didn't want it to be over.

He did great during the games. Sometimes however instead of running the bases, he would hop them.

His coach was so patient and great with the kids. He had a great season and introduction into team sports.

He wears his medal every day. Every single day still. He is very proud.

Our New Adoption News

2018-01-17T07:48:00.002-08:00

This was our big announcement coming into 2018. Yes, we are adopting again!!

I have always wanted to adopt again and it seemed like James and I could never get on the same page about it, and I won't lie, it was so so hard!! Then out of the blue, James and my mom pulled off the ultimate Christmas gift. We were completely finished opening gifts at my mom's and she yelled, "Wait I forgot a gift" she brings out a box and places it in my lap and all of a sudden all eyes are on me and everyone has their cameras out. I looked down at the box and the tag simply reads, "I'm Ready" in bold print. Of course I burst out in tears. James had already given me an "adopted mom" angel statue for Christmas although he says it a coincidence, It was a good coincidence! So, inside the box was a beautiful stack of adoption paperwork!!!! James says through a sermon on adoption weekend that our family took place in, God had given the peace and knowledge that it was our time and we needed to adopt again. He just wanted to make me wait in agony until Christmas, but he finally pulled off the best surprise for me!

Foster Care and Adoption is something we are very passionate about, I think we always knew we would grow our family again through foster care, probably just later rather than sooner. We strongly believe in the fact that there are children right here in our community that need a home and we have a home and plenty of love to give. We are more at peace with God's timing and our decision than we have been about anything ever before and we are not calm people!

We are currently knee deep in paperwork, child proofing and minimal standards. We are working on letting go of all of our volunteer obligations and thinning out our calendars to be at home more when our new babies come. We are going to stay on at CASA until our new children come into our home, simply because you are not allowed to be a CASA and a "foster parent" at the same time. We are cleaning out and making room for two more beautiful souls to fill our home. We will prayerfully be licensed and ready to go in March, at least that is our personal goal. We are adopting once again through foster care, although this time we will not be "fostering" we will be looking only at children who are ready to be adopted, or who cases are headed to adoption. When our Miss Tiny left us this time last year, we closed our foster home and we decided through conversation and prayer to reopen through another agency, A World For Children. We would like to adopt a sibling group of two children or two single children who are older in age. Of course, we are all praying for at least one girl to come into our family!!

We have spent the last few weeks, laughing about the small things in our lives...our van seats 8, coincidence, nope! Our kitchen table seats 8, coincidence, nope! God doesn't do coincidence!! (Texas law only allows 6 children under 18 in your home through foster care and adoption so we are about to be maxed out) We just went spent a week of revival at church and couldn't help but take away from it that 2018 was going to be our year.

Lis family Party of 8 coming soon!!

"When you have everything you need, build a longer table not a higher fence"

Makayla's 16th Birthday

2018-01-16T17:22:00.001-08:00

(oops, I forgot a candle, there will be a fancy one at the party)

I am not titling this blog Makayla's Sweet 16, because she did turn 16 last week and we had a great day celebrating her but on March 23rd we are throwing a true Sweet 16 party, that blog will come later. James and I have been hard at work on it!

Last Sunday we had her favorite cookie cake here at the house and she opened some gifts from us and some her grandmothers had sent her. We spent the day hanging out and repeating over and over "We can't believe you are 16!"

these books James Henry asked to go on line and buy for her, he picked them out himself all of his own idea

this sweet 16 statue is from meme

new LulaRoe from nonna

We had lunch that day of her choosing... Golden Corral!

Dawn and Roland joined us.

more books, her favorite

Vera Bradley swag

her daddy picked this hoodie out for her

She filled out her first job application that afternoon, something she has been waiting and excited to do! We are very proud of her.
It was a good day, now let's party!!!

Happy New Year

2018-01-15T14:02:00.000-08:00

We followed our New Years Eve tradition of appetizers and board games this year.
This year we played our new games Jumanji, Candyland and Shreveportopoly.

We made popcorn in the new maker meme gave us for Christmas.

David relaxed in his new recliner.

Even the dogs chilled out with us while we watched a movie.

Our tradition is to always count down with New York at 11pm with sparkling grape juice.

David asked me" Mom what is this cup? It's so glassy."

It was a fun night!!!!! I love our traditions!

We spent New Year's Day eating on Cajun Cabbage and the kids had hot dogs. John and Steph came down and made cookies with the kids while James and I hit the big New Years Day sales at Dillard's.

Christmas 2017

2018-01-15T12:26:00.000-08:00

This Christmas season may have been our best ever! We did so much.
We started visiting a new church that we have fallen in love with during their Christmas sermon series "Who is This Jesus?".

We went to Zoo lights one evening while Chris was volunteering.

We took our annual trip to The Botanical Gardens.

I had my first Christmas work party!!

My friend Lisa and I painted a nativity for her birthday!

We saw the lights in Town Square and ate funnel cakes.

We drove through Nights of Lights at Enchanted Acres...

David asked to see Santa and loved it, he asked him for candy for Christmas!

The kids had their school Christmas parties...

We started Christmas vacation by baking goodies with the kids.

We celebrated our own family Christmas a few days early this year so we could travel to Shreveport for the first time in 10 years to celebrate Christmas and meme's 75th birthday.

The kids opening their Christmas Eve box....

We had fajitas for Christmas Eve dinner!

Makayla found the pickle again this year so she opened the first gift.

I should say she walked out and saw her gift. She was sad earlier this year when we let our old swing set go, because she enjoyed swinging while she watched the dogs play in the yard. So James and I came up with this gift idea and she loved it. Her own porch swing!

David got a pirate ship!

Present time!

One of my gifts from James plus David Crowder tickets!

Chris playing his new Switch.

The stockings all ready.....

Christmas dinner with Roland and Dawn.......

We got an air fryer from Roland and Dawn. We love that thing!

We stayed the first 2 nights in Shreveport at my mom's house.

my brother James and his family

my brother Jacob and his family

my uncle Petey and his son Tyler

all the grandkids

Present chaos!!!!

While in Shreveport we took David down to the Boardwalk to Build A Bear Workshop.

We spent the last 3 nights in Shreveport with Dara and Jeremy.

The kids stayed 2 nights at Meme's and we spent all Christmas day there because on Christmas day she turned 75. What a blessing!!!!

James wrote meme a letter and a friend of ours inscribed it onto a plate.

Christmas at meme's....

Uncle Dave and his family

meme and James

On Christmas night we saw Jumanji with Dara, Jeremy and their friends.

Our final Christmas celebration was with John and Steph when we returned home!

This season was full of firsts, full of celebration, full of milestones and countless blessings. What a fantastic Christmas 2017 was!

Christmas pictures 2017

2017-12-13T08:23:00.000-08:00

We had some fun Christmas pictures made a few weeks ago after James Henry's birthday party by our friend Ranell Garner. It is never easy with 6 of us to get a good picture and I even tried to relax the environment by putting us all in pajamas but it was the same ol' shenanigans.

I told James these last 2 should have been on the Christmas card.....

These are what actually take place when we have pictures made and I won't name names but one of our children even ripped a big one during the shoot.

Our Christmas Card 2017....

and these went in the envelopes... I can't believe it!!!!

James Henry turns 9!

2017-12-07T11:04:00.000-08:00

Our James Henry celebrated his 9th birthday on Monday and last Saturday we had a superhero themed party at our church's arcade.

We served lots of donuts and juice for breakfast.

Everyone had a ton of fun!

James Henry was blessed with alot of great gifts.

There was more present opening at home....

On his actual birthday David and I bought him lunch and cupcakes to share with his class.

That night for dinner, He chose Texas Roadhouse and it was delicious.

He had a great birthday and we enjoyed celebrating him. We sure love our little freckled face comedian. He gives the best hugs and looks just like his Dad!

Thanksgiving 2017

2017-12-06T19:55:00.000-08:00

David and I had our first Thanksgiving feast at our school. Part of the feast is the baskets that are raffled off. Every class gathers a basket with different themes and the money collected goes back into our school.

We had a thankful tree that evening.

GG was our guest since Daddy was working.

Thanksgiving was so special this year. We hosted 16 people in our home. James' mom and John, his Meme and Pop, Sarah, my mom and our best friends Dara and Jeremy along with their beautiful girls.

There was no shortage of food and I sure loved the sights and sounds in my kitchen as we all gathered to prepare our meal that day.

James' 36th birthday was the day before Thanksgiving so we waited a day to celebrate all together.

traditional 4 generation picture

group picture

playing with James' birthday goodies

my mom, Dara and I had some Black Friday shopping fun!

On Friday evening us adults went to the piano bar, it was so fun!!! Meme and Stephanie took the kids to a movie.

On Saturday we played tourist, our first stop was Palo Duro Canyon.

Krystal, Sarah and my mom zip lined!!!

We had lunch at the Big Texan.

Our last stop for the day was Cadillac Ranch!

That night we played some good ole Rummikub!

It may have gotten a little crazy.....

On Sunday when everyone went home our house was so quiet and lonely. We really enjoyed our Thanksgiving.

Some very honorable mentions in November were also The Marine Corps Birthday....

and that day James cut off the tip of his thumb.....

and the phenomenally funny night we took the bigs to see Tim Hawkins!

Halloween 2017

2017-12-06T19:19:00.000-08:00

Can I tell you how much I love my job? The staff at the church gave us all little gifts for Halloween and I love my spider sign.

James and I took James Henry out on a date one evening before Halloween our first stop was the Discovery Center Halloween Bash and then Boo at the Zoo.

Our favorite volunteer was working at the zoo that night, he was the bear ;)

At David's school and my work we had a trick or treat on Halloween day. David was so cute.

He was all about getting candy!!

On Halloween evening we sat up our van at the church for Trunk or Treat and handed out candy.

This year we dressed as the Avengers!!!

Promotions( a lifetime commitment to martial arts)

2017-10-26T15:22:00.000-07:00

For those of you that follow me or Allison on Facebook you see the pictures I post of martial arts. What those pictures don't show are the hours I spend away from my Wife and kids training with my Extreme martial arts family. I have been doing martial arts since I was a little kid and continued to practice in some way shape or form since then. This winter I was asked my Sensei and Head instructor if i would test for my second degree black belt in EMA. EMA is a form of martial arts that combines all aspects of self defense and different martial arts. In a way its like MMA without all the continuous blows to head and cutting weight(lol). There are not very many people outside of the staff at Extreme martial arts who posses a 2nd degree black under professor Ty Garrett.

During the test i was asked to perform a series of self defense moves of which i was not aware until that day such as a gun take away and being grabbed by multiple attackers. It was an honor to perform and demonstrate the skills I have developed over a lifetime of martial arts training.

These two people are both amazing individuals and martial artist whom i look up to greatly. This year stepped away from martial arts for almost six months. I was angry and lost focus on what it means to be a true martial artist. I spoke with Professor Garrett for over an hour and he listened to me and talked with me not as my sensei but as a friend and after that talk and some soul searching I walked back on to the mat with a whole new outlook. when you see a martial arts instructor like Ty and Colin what you don't see are the times they spent talking to kids about their grades and about treating their siblings nicely. They care about all people who are under their roof which is a rare quality.

I have been doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu since 2007 and after several years I was awarded a Brown belt in Jiu Jitsu. For those of you that do not realize how long it takes to earn this belt and the time it takes making the skills of this form of martial arts sharp, I probably could be a doctor or a lawyer. Jiu Jitsu is my release and my therapy for PTSD. If I spend to much time away from the Mats I can tell in my mood and general outlook on life.It is an honor to be a brown belt in Jiu Jitsu and the weight of this belt is not lost on me. I fly the flag of my school and my instructor every where I go.

Martial Arts has made me a better person and continues to improve me Physically and mentally. There is a person right now who will not be named but is walking and talking fine because martial arts has given me the humility and patienence to deal people who pose no threat but like to run their mouth.

Family Fun

2017-10-23T12:05:00.000-07:00

We have been having alot of family fun outings lately!

We took the boys to Nitro Circus!!!

The 3 big kids and I took a road trip to Lubbock to see their favorite band, Skillet at the Air 1 concert. They even missed a day of school and we stayed overnight in a hotel.

We ate dinner at The Twister Root Burger Company, they don't call table numbers only celebrity names. We were the Backstreet Boys!

The concert was amazing!! I enjoyed the time with the kids.

The next morning we had breakfast at Krispy Kreme and bought David some home.

Last week, we saw the Harlem Globetrotters it was the first time for all of us and it was so much fun!

James Henry got his shirt signed after the game, the players were so nice.

We are very blessed to be able to do these things with our kids.