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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

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Oct272013

Last Friday

Time for the annual karate portraits. ;) Given the cost, this year we opted to not purchase any photos but still took the boys in so that they can be included on the board the school hangs each year with photos of their members. Asher also had demo team portraits...which are hilarious, as the older members, in particular, enjoy hamming it up and striking a number of different poses. ;) 

Anyhow, I snapped a few pictures with my iPhone while they were in their full uniforms and this is what I ended up with:

(This was actually one of the tamer demo team poses, lol. I love how much fun they have together! For what it's worth, due to "size math," the boy on the top of the pyramid wasn't actually on top of Asher and the other boy (who's the same age and size as Asher).) 

Whew. I was worried that the boys would be upset at not getting the official portraits since they've enjoyed them so much before. (They like getting to pose with the cool weapons, lol.) After discussing it with them, though, they realize that I already have plenty of photos of them from karate throughout the year (at tournaments and promotions and performances) and were good with that. ;) 

By the way, here's their first karate portrait...three years ago:


Aren't they adorable? ;) 

Reader Comments (1)

Yes! They are adorable!

October 28, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterNan

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