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.

Pictures from our plane flight

Young Eagles

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Michigan Adventure

We had lot of fun on our vacation. Even though we didn't have lots of money to really go out and do a whole lot but we did manage to go to Michigan Adventure. This time going I watched Tina and James and made sure that Carol got to go on lots of rides. Tina and James spent lots of time in the lazy river. and I got a nice sunburn to take home as a reminder of my good times. All in all everyone had a great time there.

Vacation Time!

I'm now on vacation. My family and I are all on vacation. The kids have the summer off as usual and Carol and I have a week together. Amiss all the hubbub of the modern society and the fast pace of things, we manage to get sometime together and try to slow down life for the few day we have of peace. We spent the afternoon yesterday out at the campsite. Carol had me cutting up some logs. My chainsaw isn't working correctly, the pull cord stuck and I had to take it apart. When I did I took out a adjustment screw that probably was a mistake and now I'm trying to readjust it again. The chainsaw blade is dull and that make cutting real difficult. Carol was laughing at me and said she knew someone who could help me with that. tonight looks like a good night to go camp all night. Enjoy the peace that be and never forget to stop once and a while and smell the roses.