Catching Up From Last Month

One last snow
This kids on the honor roll!!!!

Jumping from Valentines Day to Presidents Day. One more Feb. Snow and a week-long "PRETEND SPRING". Life for us Boyles keeps plugging along. Feb. is always a strange month. It's about that time of the year I start saying okay the rain can stop now. I need the sunshine and warmth. Well lets get a little catching up on our lives here.


Tanner Tested for his blue belt and unfortunately with our camera being on it's last leg I didn't even bother to bring it for his test. It can barley take stills let alone action shots as you can see with those basketball photos. I am so proud of Tanner he's gotten quite good at sparring and I think we may put him in his 1st tournament next month. Typically in tournaments you can start as early as a white belt/black stripe, personally for some I think it's great experience, however I have two reasons for not doing them until now. 1, I wanted Tanner to learn the discipline not the competitive side early on and 2, I hate watching him Spar. It is so hard to watch him Spar ever. I get the sickest feeling in my stomach. I become a wreck.(he'll always be my baby) He is so good I shouldn't worry but he's my 1st born and he's a spitting image of me, so I know how sensitive he can be but he just doesn't want anyone to know it.



We just had our conferences last week before spring break. Tanner is still a 4.0 Yeah Tanner good job kid. Love you! Jake is just on the verge of reading and like his brother is excelling in math. His teacher Jani is so wonderful I keep telling her i want her to home school Jake forever. Jake is still my little Energiser Bunny. His new thing is to watch the painting show on OPB, then the cooking show then golf on channel 32. usually our window of home time is 12pm-3pm and those are the shows that are on(beside Springer, soap operas, and peoples court) just a FYI,we don't have cable we just don't want it. I feel the kids watch,play games enough as it is why tempt them more, grant it I'd love my court TV and ESPN and TLC. When he's watching these shows he actually writes things down on paper. It's neat to see because it's so unique of him and shows such great imagination. Even though he's non-stop when were out when were home he can be as quiet as can be and self reliant. He's such an awesome kid.










On a trip to Safari Sam's to see our good friends from Nevada (Hi Sherri) he thought it would be cute to come home with some mustaches he got as a prize and go around the house saying "My name is Earl" This picture just cracks me up....

With Spring Break finally here I asked both the boys to make a list of what they want to do for the week and we will get as many things done as possible. The list is as follows..
Go to Seaside, Go snow tubing/skiing, see a movie, hike, go rollerskating, Safari Sam's, Chuckie cheeses, Laser Tag, Go carts, Drive to Eugene and see his old friend Damon... It's a pretty big list i said. So lets make this list a to do list by summer. So far we got Safari Sam's out of the way.. Thanks Sherri. I almost believe she is the only one who reads this blog because everyone else has giving up on me keeping it updated..