BEST Game Night at the Tipton's

  Last night we went to the BEST game night at the Tipton's house in Raymond. I find it quite funny that as soon as we move to Fresno they have an event in the area we used to live in..... but anyway. We got there around 5:30 and listened to the worship & had a devotional. After that we ate......& ate some more...... Then we hung out played some music, played  board, card & video games in addition to playing air soft.
Billy :D

Riverpark Bowling Night

   This week the Riverpark high-school group had a "Thursday night special". That just basically means doing something other than the regularly scheduled program for Thursday nights. We went bowling at the Fresno State bowling alley. We rented out the entire bowling alley..... yes we have a large youth group! I personally did really bad, but there were some people who did pretty good. I used to do a whole lot better. What happened to me!
Billy :D

THINGS I HAVE DONE THIS MONTH

This month I have had the pleasure of doing many things such as going to the glow in the dark indoor miniature golf place with our homeschool group(Maximum Putput).
I went out jogging with a friend. It's nice to live close byu so many people. We can just pick up the phone a say hey lets go jogging.
 I got to make a brochure and present it to my boy scout troupe as my way of representing the town I choose to research for my citizenship badge. My troupe said I did great with my people skills, you know speaking to a crowd, eye contact, reading well out load etc.. So I passed that part. I need to work on getting more information written down though.
Last but not least I got to go to the 80th birthday of one of the Grandmasters in Chi tu do!  He is our Yoda or Mr. Miyagi!  He has been teaching fore 65 years and is the first Filipino in the world hall of fame for Martial Arts.  It is so cool to know somebody like that!!! We were able to give him a special presentation to show him the things we have learned because of him. We also ate lots of Filipino food.


                                                                                                                          ricky vincent =)

BEST YEARBOOK

This year I am part of my home school groups yearbook team. We get to take pics of people and make pages out of them. We will eventually  put them all together in the year book. We like to be nice to people and not put bad pictures in, we try real hard to find good shots of everyone. Oh and we also get to make up cover design. Tt is a lot of fun!!!

                                                                                                                                             R.V.

Movie Night at My house

  I was finally able to find a time to invite peoples to my house! I invited a bunch of my peoples to a movie night. We watched "Hoodwinked", played twister,Uno, Blink and Speed Stack. And we ate. I asked people to bring a potluckish dish, we ended up with lots of food...plus CJ's BOX of candy.

     Most of the people I invited were church friends, but I also invited some other home-school  friends. One of these friends was C.J who I have known since I was 3 years old!
  C.J (who keeps trying to change his name to Chad) spent the night after the party because he lives in Lemoore. Besides his family was coming to visit the next day anyway.
  So he, of course, went to church with us the next day. Our youth pastor gave CJ the 20 questions, you know what's your name? What grade are you in? Where do you live? CJ should have just said Lemoore. For some reason he said Hanford...and then the teasing began. Like...You don't really drink that water do you? and on and on.....
After church and lunch we finally finished a Risk game ( we've been trying for years), & played some brawl on the wii. My mom & Jenny ( his mom) went on a walk, drive thing while we were zoning out on those games.
Billy :D

WOW

Well I was just looking at our blog and I realized that in January alone we have almost a third of the number of articles that we wrote last year! Thats a lot of growth for our blog =)
Billy :D

Chefa Yearbook

   So I'm in the CHEFA yearbook team this year. We meet once a month & work on different pages & ideas. We also discuss what pages should be where & that type of craziness. Thiis month we worked on the order of the pages..... & pricing. We also worked a little on the pages.
Billy :D

Josh's B-day party

   A week or so ago I went to my friend Josh's B-day party. We met up at a BEST event called maximum putt putt. It was a glow in the dark mini-golf course. After that finished we left to go bowling. The first bowling game we played I failed........ miserably.... but the second game I did a lot better! After we finished our three games we went back to Josh's house & played wii. I finally beat Cameron on brawl! Around 3:00 or 4:00 we went to sleep. We woke up at 8:00, & had chocolate pancakes & sausage! After breakfast we played a game of 3 on three football with Josh, Cameron, Justin, Tyler, Mr Babcock, Me. We stopped that a little after 12:00 & walked back to Josh's house. After we got there Josh, Cameron & Tyler played a little wii. While me & Justin worked on the treadmill. Then the parents started showing up......
Billy :D

CHITUDO & PE

This month we went to Chitudo three times...instead of just once like we've been doing since we moved here.  That is because we went to a special Black Belt Test night, we went to dinner at Alfonso's afterward, yeah I know. The black belts all had a push-up contest, my Dad and I tied. Go ahead bask in the glow of my awesomeness. We also went to a huge belt promotion/test night. We had dinner at a celebration they had afterward. My brother and Dad broke through bricks with their hands. You can check them  out on Facebook and You Tube. Next time hopefully I will.
Since we moved to Fresno and can't go to class every week it's cool that we live with one of the instructors. Dad teaches us at home so we can stay current with our strength and skill. We also have been doing the Billy Banks Ultimate Boot Camp DVD workout video, which is pretty intense. Dad is ordering us a program for our P.E. called insanity. I think its like 10 DVD workouts. It's supposed to be ummm well insane!

Ricky V.

NERF WARS

Riverpark Jr High Guys Night Out was all about Nerf Wars this month. We had a fun time with this activity. We got to shoot each other with Nerf guns. Pastor Joey, our Jr High Pastor, went all out and got a nerf machine gun! We all had a good time eating snacks and pizza. Then we set up a barricade for the next round. It was fun to be with friends. Everyone said they would like to do air soft next time.


Ricky V.

Night Games & Waffles

   Last Sunday I went to the freshman/sophomore night games. It was awesome, we had waffles & we played murder in the dark! The games consisted of turning off or covering all possible light sources, & then hiding hoping that the murderer wouldn't find you. Then the "detectives" had to figure out who the murderer was.
Billy :D

Jogging w/ my dogs!

   Finally! yes, finally. My dogs are finally "city-fied" enough to jog with! I have been jogging with them almost every day, which is awesome. I was jogging alone & the dog helps me to keep my speed steadily increasing.
Billy :D

Poetry!

    O.k so I was dreading the approaching start of the poetry class....... It is now here, but I found out that it isn't that hard! It's actually pretty fun, So far we have studied Hebrew, Chinese, & Japanese Poetry.
Billy :D

Stuff with my grandparents

   Earlier this month we had them over for a movie/pizza night. We watched the new Star Trek on blue ray, and had Round Table (our Moms favorite pizza). When we need to do our yearbook pages we go to their house because our Grandmother has a few photo programs on her computer we like to use. So anyway we just went over there to do our pages for that and a project my brother had.
Billy :D

Avatar

Last month we went to see Avatar with our cousins Chloe & Jacob, this was our Christmas gift to them. It was a really good movie. The plot was new agey, but it was still fun to watch. The CG was outstanding, being that  most of the movie was CG, it's good they did it really well. After the movie we went to Me & Eds to pick up some pizza that we took back to our house. After dinner we played a little wii & then our dad took them home.
   If you are looking for a movie to see I  recommend seeing Avatar. It is highly entertaining! it's even more fun when you go with cousins!
Billy :D

Project 100

    I played my first Sunday with Project 100 this week! I've been wanting to join for months, but I've been too busy. When I turned in the form I was invited to the monthly meeting, held at the Sees house. We played family   (or empire), ate (an Italian themed potluck), & practiced some songs! I'm going to be a more regular player in the worship group, &  I am looking forward to playing on Sunday mornings & Thursday evnings as well!
Billy :D

Fine Arts Fair etc.

This year for the Fine Arts Fair, the one in Southern California & for my schools open house I am making a .....

•  metal sword 
• wooden stilts
• mosaic bird feeder
• bird bath 
• beeswax candles 
• stained glass piece 
•  wooden box 
•  wooden frame & calligraphy words 
• wood burning plaque 
• wood carving project 
  

 I don't normally do this much, but we are studying Art this year. So my mom is making us do it. But they all look fun. So there you go.
      
                                                                  Davey wonder =)         

cooking

This year I have made many dishes and served them to my family. We have all enjoyed them. Here are a few of them.

• Meatball subs and Green Salad 
• Cheese Raviolis w/ Browned Butter, fresh Sage and Parmesan Cheese and Green Salad 
• Spaghetti Noodles w/a Spiced Sauce and Biggo Meatballs, Garlic Bread and Green Salad
• Chocolate Chip Waffles w/ Whipped Cream  and fruit slices
  

                                       
                                                                                                                        rickydave

Christmas melee

We have an extremely busy Christmas season, as do many people we know. This year we celebrated Christmas with several different groups of people. including BEST, CHEFA, Riverpark. & my family! It gets a little hectic.... o.k it gets very hectic!
The BEST Christmas party consisted of walking candy cane lane & doing a gift exchange. The CHEFA party was the classic Laser Quest thing. With Riverpark we played boardgames & gave money to a fund for less fortunate families. With my Moms parents we opened stockings & showed our grandpa how to use blogger. With my Dads parents we had a traditional Christmas day, but we had some Armenian delicacy's with our normal dinner! We had another dinner with Uncle Ron. The rest of his part of the family was out of the country. Most everything changed this year, so it was nice that Dad's parents didin't so much.

  Oh and the sugar, yeah we had it, still have it.  We had our cousins Bryanna, Andrew, Nicole and Sarah over to build and decorate Gingerbread Houses. We also baked and decorated sugar cookies. Don't even begin to think this was the only sweets around, yep Mom baked tons of stuff. When I came home from drivers ed one day the whole house smelled awesome. I love holiday baking days!
Yeah it's crazy but it's clearly worth it.
Billy :D

Contenders of the Faith

Contenders is a program Kinda like Boyscouts. The major difference, at least for us, is that we do it at home with your family. Another difference is we get to pick the badges we earn, well our parents pick some too. They usually pick ones for things we need to work on, like spelling. I have been doing it for 5 years, this is my 6th year. I have earned a lot of badges. It is fun to do. This year I am going to earn a number of badges, here they are.

• cooking 
• guitar
  
• piano
• visual arts
  
• wood works
  
• fishing
• outdoor adventurers
• entomology
• landscaping
  
• firearms
• spelling
  
• penmanship/ typing

Davey wonder ;)

A really different Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve Eve the Shugert's spent the night at our house. They got here pretty late so it was pretty much just visiting for a while that night. In the morning they had our traditional cinnamon roll breakfast with us. Then our Dad drive them to the airport.

When Dad came home we had our time of opening gifts, which was awesome. But then Dad had to go to work. Mom, Billy & I had a quite day. We got a new Blue Ray Player and an HD TV, so that was awesome. That evening we watch a new movie and had pizza after Dad got home. We tried to go to the snow the weekend after Christmas (because we usually go on Christmas Eve) but that didn't work out either.
Eric

Movie & Dinner

We went to go see The Blind Side with our homeschool group it was a good movie. After the movie we all walked over to Panda Express for dinner. We ended up staying at the resturant for a really long time just hanging out. I enjoyed it very much.
Dave

Code 3!!!

During Christmas break I took a drivers ed class with code 3 driving school. I went to the class form 9:00 to 4:00 for an entire week! I had fun learning the different laws & regulations of the road. We took several tests a day & at the end the teacher compiled our scores to get our final grade, almost everyone passed the class. I hope to take the permit test asap!
Billy:D

Boy Scout Chrsitmas Campout & a visit from the grandparents

About two weeks ago I went on a campout with my troop. Some of the guys and I gather wood for a fire. Then we had a hot dog dinner and ate snacks. We also had a gift exchange, played games and watched a movie. For breakfast we ended up with pink eggs, something to do with the cleanser used to clean out the cooler. weird. I just stuck with the oatmeal. Then we played more games and ate candy and snacks that we forgot about the night before while we waited to get picked up.

I got home, took a shower and then Meme and Papa came over to our house. They brought us our Christmas stockings that they had hid money inside of. They aslo brought us a gift from Aunt Melissa and Uncle Paul. We taught them about blogging because our Grandpa is starting one of his own. Its called Jimmy three thumbs.

After they left we went to get our hair cut and to lense crafter to get my glasses fixed.

I was really tired after all that

Eric

Jr High Christmas Party

This year our church hosted a western themed Christmas party for the jr high group. We had a wild west themed dinner, a costume contest, played dorky western games and read the bible. It was awesome!

David

p.s
They wrapped this hung box over and over with several layers of plastic wrap. When we finally got the bottom layer..in a tiny box..there was a gift card for each of us from our youth pastors.

Ice Skating

We went Ice skating at the Tenaya Lodge which is a hotel just below Yosemite. We have been ice skating lots, but this was the first time in an outdoor rink. We picked Bowen up on the way there. After we were done skating we had climbed a hill and had a snowball fight with Dad. Then we went back to the 4-runner where Mom had hot cocoa with candy canes and marshmallows. We also eat some chess pies that Granny had made.

Dave

Friends Christmas Parties

The Montgomery's hosted a potluck with lots of sweets and warm drinks. They also had pumpkin soup and chicken matza ball soup. We played games and hung out. Then we all went caroling through the neighborhood. We rang the door bells and then started singing. People came out and we wished them a Merry Christmas. It was great to be with the Ranchos Gang.

The Lims just moved into their new house. So at this Christmas party we also got a walk through of the place. Austin had drinks & games set up in his bedroom. Austin always tells ghost stories too. The teens all hung out in Austin and Aubreys rooms most of the night. We only ventured out to fuel up on more great food. The Lims had all kinds of awesome things to eat. Every year they have these sour santa candies that no one can find around Fresno. Mrs. Lim sent away for them. We see the other kids only once a year at this party but we all get along well anyways. The other day went Billy & I were sitting outside of Starbucks we saw one of the guys..we said hey for a few minutes before he had to leave.

Eric David Vincent

Plays

Our friend Jillian was in the play Peter Pan at the Fresno Children's Theater Works. So we went to go support her and watch the play. She did a really good job. She was Wendy. Watching plays is more fun when you know whose in the play. This play suprised us because our friend Stephen was in it too. We didn't know until we were looking through the program before the play started. We got to say hey to him after the show though.

Our friends/cousins CJ, Elizabeth & Trisitea were in a play called "The Camel Lot" with their 4-h group. It was funny, they all did a good job. After the play we rode with them in a tour bus to the post-play cast party. We grabbed some snacks at the party. Then we drove out to their house to see their new puppies. I love puppies. We usually get to see them a few times a year between different people we know who breed dogs. Anyway we got to play with them while they were little & before they went off to there new homes.

Ricky