Saturday, December 20, 2008



Joel graduated from the Police Academy last night. He won four awards- Top Gun (marksmanship), Honor Award (honor and integrity), Scholastic Achievement (highest GPA), and the Praetorian Award (defensive tactics). Everyone was amazed, and talked about how they couldn't remember one person winning so many awards before. He won four out of the five that they give out. I'm so proud of him! William made it through the whole ceremony, too. Though he did cry momentarily during the National Anthem (the lady that sang it hit some pretty high notes, I was scared too). He also decided to babble for a while toward the end. A little "bababababababa..." But overall he did great!












Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Tuesday, December 2, 2008


We were with my family (the Kolbers) for Thanksgiving and an early celebration of Christmas. We had a great time! I took this video of William because he was so fascinated with this brown paper bag that Grandpa gave him. He played with it longer than any of the toys he got!