It's Summer Time

Chis and Amber started the months activities by attending their first "Daddy Daughter" Dance.  Big Red delivered them in style to our friends church where they had an absolutely marvelous time.  It's nice that all our closest friends attend this church.  Chris frustrated Amanda too by guessing the number of Hershey Kisses within one of the actual number, therefore winning the jar.  The girls were all such fun, Amber had the time of her life.

Lance played baseball.  So far he's hit a triple and followed it with a homerun the next game.

Jared started teaching a Lego Class at Yong-In summer camp but first he needed to get Legos.  Thanks to a generous person on Nextdoor he got all these for free.

Titus joined Swim Team, 

mastered making Euclairs and rediscovered his love of Tennis in a week long camp with friends.

All the boys (Titus included this time) Attended the Starlight Ball.  The whole family was voluntold into helping decorate and take down.  Though Amber couldn't attend the actual dance she had a blast helping Miss K decorate and was thrilled to see everyone dressed up at the end of the night when we came to help clean-up.  Later in the month Lance and Jared were off to Swing Dancing as well.

Amber changed instructors and met a number of new horses (this is Rose).

We gave the chicks full range in the backyard, since they don't seem to be diggers. This new arrangement has really worked out well.  They eat the bugs and weeds (nibble on a few plants but not too many) and we get to watch them wander through out as we do school work in the Florida room.  There have been a few face-offs between squirrels and chickens at the feeder but for the most part everyone happily co-exist. 

 

June 10th was Jared's Piano Recital for 2023.  He played absolutely beautifully.  You can follow these links to listen to him play The Ludlow's Legend of the Fall and Can you Feel the Love Tonight.  We wanted the day to be festive, so for a treat we took the kids out to dinner before time.  It was a great family night.

We finished out the month at the Family Fun Day for the 13th Anniversary of Yong-In Martial Arts.  I was the un-official photographer of the day.  What a day it was, full of fun events like a waterslide, dunk tank, face painting and 

and performances.

Titus performed with Demo team half way through the day.  

Jared performed with the instructors and worked as MC throughout the day.  Finally, we must not forget how Otto and Company epically won the tug-o-war contest.

On an aside, (thanks to Miss Kathy gifting us a vintage game) Battleship has been all the rage in our house; it seems someone is always playing it somewhere whenever their is time.

Jared is a Graduate

Officially Jared graduated from the Theodore P. Roofus Academy on May 12, 2023, the last day of our Spring vacation (just like Lance the year before).  However, unlike Lance, Jared wanted a big party.  Due to life and logistics we were unable to have the party till today.

Prior to today, Jared did celebrate graduating with his friend Lili and her family, who took them both out to lunch earlier in May.  If you want to go back even further, Jared has been graduated for a while.  This year all Jared really needed to complete was a course in Applied Life Mathematics and some reading.  I had already taught him all I could.  Frankly, the boy could teach most subjects (especially history) better than many college professors.  He's a sponge when it comes to learning and retaining what he's learned.

Back to today..... we set him up really well.  We had his party at the M-Family property.  We hid food and games at the Mary & Franks then picked them up on the way.  Jared and Lance stayed behind, for some cooked up reason so they could pick up the pizzas for the M-Family on their way over.  Lance said they were so surprised that there for so many pizzas to pick up (20 to be exact).  The K-Family brought all the decorations and helped make everything festive, so that when Jared came around the tree lined drive he knew he'd been bamboozled.  

Most everyone made it, at least for a little bit, the kids played wiffle ball (Jared's favorite sport), talked and ate.  We adults huddled in the shade eating, talking and playing some corn hole.  The day was everything Jared wanted and therefore a huge success.

Now Jared has the next four years to find his way in life.  Most people spend those years in college but for Jared it will be spent on his entrepreneurial projects:  his current channel J-Rod Studios Brickfilms (and maybe more channels), his brick model store (he hopes to release this fall) and what ever else his incredible imagination drives him to do.  To finance these endeavors for now he'll continue working as an instructor at the dojang which is a night job leaving his days open to work on all his dreams, till someday they all come true.