Race Night

We had another race night this past Friday.  Kayden's friend, Daniel was able to go with us and the two of them had fun.  Daniels eyes rarely left the race track and when they did he was riding his bike on the pump track with Kayden.

Kayden was recently talking about college and mentioned how he hopes him, Daniel and their friend, Isaac can all go to the same college.  I love that he is thinking about their long term friendship and really hope these boys stay friends.

Birch Bay

We took a rather impromptu trip to Birch Bay and Bellingham this weekend.  We invited one of Kayden's friends to go with us, and thankfully he was able to go.

We left Saturday morning and returned today.  Our first stop was at a Family Fun Center which had a small arcade, put put golf and go karts.

Then we grabbed lunch and then hit the beach at Birch Bay.  The boys found a lot of dead sea creatures and had a good time playing in the water.  It is one of the few beaches around here where the shallow water is somewhat warm.

The air was so grey and smoky from the Canadian wildfires, and occasionally you could catch a whiff of smoke, but overall it didn't hinder our trip too much.

We played until the tide was nearly at our feet and we couldn't scoot much more.  Then we headed to the hotel in Bellingham and ended up at the pool to finish the day off.

Got up this morning and headed to Everett and visited the "Flying Heritage and Combat Museum". The boys had a great time looking at all the war planes and tanks, as did Kyle and I.

It was a great weekend, it was some much needed family time.

Green Belt Leader in the House!

I feel safer at night...what can I say, we have a green belt leader in the house!  Whoop whoop.

Kayden had his belt ceremony for martial arts this week and he rocked it.  He was able to bring the Professor down to the ground and did it all while having a smile on his face.

We were in danger of him not getting past a green belt when he was promoted to the Advanced Junior class at his last ceremony, and he was refusing to go.  But we worked through it, did a bit of a rewards chart with the school, and are now mostly happy to go twice a week.  I do have to admit, its a bit of a struggle just because of the time of day it is, right in the middle of dinner time, so it can make for a long night, but we power through and Kayden really does enjoy it.  He is smiling through the whole 45 minute class and has learned so much over the almost three years he has been doing martial arts.  I really hope he can power through and earn his black belt, imagine how safe I would feel then!

I'm so proud of this little guy.

See that black stripe on his belt?  That is the identifying factor telling "leaders" from "non leaders".  This is his second leader belt, I believe his first one was a Blue Belt Leader.