Belt Testing!!!!

James and Tina are going for their 1st GUP belt. One more stripe on the brown belts. One more step closer to getting their Cho Dan Bo and eventually their Black Belt.

This year we went to Kalamazoo's Air Zoo and Chuck E Cheese. Kids had a great time at both places.

This year the kids all went up for a plane flight for Young Eagles. James got to handle the controls this time.

1st Dan in Hapkido

This weekend was awesome in every way. I was nervous in waiting for it to come about but after 4 hours of testing at World Martial Arts in Fenton Mi the 5 of us from Northern Martial Arts in Charlevoix passed our Black belt test. Richard and Rachel Christener, Spensor Bruce, Jake Waterman, and myself (Steve Sutton). The hardest part I think was trying not be be nervous. Now I can work on helping Lizzie with her requirements for black belt as she has just earned her Cho Dan Bo Rank. Boy this is getting real exciting. Soon We'll be a family of black belts. I can't wait until my children earn their black belts. I'm so proud of them for all the effort that they put into Hapkido.

FCP Rocks!

Just loving the awesomeness that it is Flaming Cabbage Productions

Online Video: Samurai | Veoh Video Network

Online Video: Samurai | Veoh Video Network
This is a great reference on Japanese and the Samurai.

Happy New Year

It's almost here. Another year has just about gone past. 2006, will it be the best year in your life, or the worst. Let's look back at all that our family has done so far this year.

James: Has made it through the first half of his 6th grade. He has brought up his grades and managed to get three A's. This year for christmas we got him a computer program that creates comic books. He might need to get a tablet for drawing as I haven't figured out the scanning ting all too well. He also made red belt in hapkido.

Lizzie: Has started playing in the band at Concord and choose to play the clarinet. She made it two brown belt in hapkido and is looking forward to getting her cho dan bo belt.

Tina: Is growing so fast she outgrowing her clothes and is becoming so talkative , like her sister. She made it to red belt this year, in hapkido.

Steve: Has made it to cho dan bo belt and improved his health by getting into shape. No if I don't eat too much for the holidays and blow it all, I should be fine.

Carol: Will be arranging it so on fridays that she has it off. This will be very nice. In fact she has the first week off of the year, and so do I. That will be very nice.