Amanda Probst - Journal

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HELLO

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.

Entries from August 1, 2014 - August 31, 2014

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Promotion

Sunday, August 3, 2014 at 11:28AM

Friday night, Asher and Micah had a karate promotion. Asher earned his brown belt and Micah earned his high blue belt. Both were pretty stoked! Asher looks that way because he's exhausted, lol. In addition to all the promotion exhibition stuff (all the people promoting demonstrate their forms, grab defenses, combinations and (for the higher belts) sparring), Asher performed with the demo team throughout the night. (He also then had demo team practice afterward.)

So very proud of our karate boys! They've been at this for a little over four years now and are still going strong...with definite plans to continue through black belt.

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