Good bye old sweet friend...

Rest in peace Harley Bear.  We had to say good bye to our beloved Harley Bear today.  It was very painful.  He was Hunter's buddy and best friend.  He had been sick for a few months.  We found out that he had multiple masses on all three lobes of his liver.  We spent time with him before he died, and I could tell that he was ready.  He had been suffering a lot these last few weeks.  We just weren't ready for this, but then are you ever really ready to say good bye.
Harley we love you very much and are glad you are no longer in pain or suffering.  We are really going to miss you around here.

Finally got the tree decorated!!!

Our 2012 tree Happy Holidays!!

Hunter's first concert

Curtis and I are waiting for Hunter to call us so we can go pick him up from his first music concert.  He went to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers!  I know it was an awesome show but I really can't wait to hear it from Hunter. 
I hope it was a great time and that he made some memories with Tabitha, Gabby, Will and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

It's official it was an awesome concert.  Here they are after the show.

Hunter's new shoes

Hunter designed these for his birthday.  They were delivered today.  He is psyched!

3 on 3 at HPC

A little hockey fun on a Thursday night.  3 on 3, lots of skating.

Bowling in the afternoon

Went bowling on Tuesday afternoon.  It was a blast!  Here's Hunter after throwing a strike!

Trip to the Basilica

Ok so I forgot to post this on Tuesday.  I have been slacking this week.  We had a tour at the Cathedral Basilica.  It has the worlds second largest mosaic collection.  We were told there are 41.5 million little pieces of glass in that place that make up all those mosaics.  It is pretty impressive.  After the tour we went to a nice little candy shop, Oh Lolli Lolli over on Demun and the played in the park right next door.

Yummy birthday bars

So I made these amazing bars for Hunter today for his birthday.  They are awesome, you can find the recipe here:
Ultimate Pretzel Crusted Peanut Butter Cookie Candy Brownie Bars | Baby Gizmo Blogs
They have a pretzel, butter and sugar crust, then peanut butter cookie dough, then a layer of peanut butter cups and then brownie batter all baked to yumminess.
Hunter wanted me to wait and make them this weekend since he was so busy with card tournaments over his birthday weekend.  Now we just have to figure out when to go paintballing.

Bank picnic

I had to work on Hunter to get him to pose with the Easter Bunny at one of our neighborhood bank's picnic this afternoon.  The bunny was actually shorter than Hunter but it stood on a curb to make itself taller.  Hunter was mad that the curb didn't show in the picture I took, oh well.

Speech and volleyball

Today Hunter gave his speech about kids and video games and how much he likes them.  I didn't get to see him give his speech but I heard that he did a great job.  It was about how good video games can be for your brain for learning for multitasking and for attention spans.  He also talked about how video games don't make kids violent.  If kids grow up in a violent home or neighborhood that is more likely to be the reason for their violent tendencies. Then later we went and we played volleyball at the gym.  I'm pretty sure Hunter had a great time.  Not the best picture but it was a fun afternoon.

Awesome DNA

This is one piece of awesome DNA!  The sequence of nucleotides codes for AWESM amino acids.  It was a fun project we did in our biology class last week.  This is the keychain Hunter made.

Freedom!

We went to Forest Park this afternoon. It was lovely.  We hung out with our SLHN friends and talked about the challenges of homeschooling with a job.  I passed up a great opportunity to see if anyone might be interested in talking and learning more about starting a sudbury school.  Oh well maybe next time.

A little bit of sunshine

Hunter and I were cleaning sticks out of the yard to get it ready to mow and found these.

long time, no see....

Wow, it has been a long time since I posted here.  I think this was an experiment to see if I had blogging in me. I think the verdict is out on that one.  It is neat to see all the posts on here, I wish I could somehow take them with me, or put them somewhere else.  Not sure how to do that so I guess I just need to breath new life into this blog.
Hunter just turned 13 yesterday! whew, he is now a teenager, and I can hardly believe it.  This last year has had ups and downs.  Hunter went and toured and shadowed at a new charter school that is devoted to the arts.  He really enjoyed the day he spent there, but it was the kids he really connected with not the school.  He shadowed back in January and just last week he finally decided that he doesn't want to go to school.