Brave Hearts

2008-11-17T19:29:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone!

Holland, Michigan

2008-09-25T17:01:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Sorry about how long it's been since my
last post...

When we were at the beach in Michigan, Jeff found some sand dunes that we
could jump off of. It was pretty fun!

Mom & Tom went back down to the beach to get these pics of the sunset. It looks amazing.

That night we got ice cream at a place called Coldstone Creamery. I got the biggest

one they had and I pretty much regretted that decision.

Ethan's buried in the sand here. We tried to have him put on the
snorkling gear to breath, but it didn't last long!

Ethan and I, enjoying some lake time. At one point Jeff & me went out to where it was at least 11 feet deep. It made me nervous trying to swim back because I already used all my strength on the way out...

Levi went around taking pics of everyone. ( notice me drinking out of the sippy cup)

More Levi...

Jose (a guy from my Dad's work) helped us clean up after another big tree fell.
This tree is our next victim!

This is a set I rebuilt that was my Dad's from before I was born. Can you see the Star Wars figures I threw in?

~Hey everyone! I'll try to post again sooner next time! Ethan, Mel, Levi, & I have been doing soccer for the past 3 weeks. E & me weren't going to play but our coach did't have enough players and somehow our break from this season isn't going to happen! On Tuesday us 3 boys spent the night at our uncle Tom's house. We watched the Three Stooges and the first X-men. In my next post I'll post about some other things that are going on with us. It just took all my strength to upload the pictures though! Thanks everyone!

Me-me

2008-08-18T11:40:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! ( I never thought of greeting people when I start )

My favorite movies: The Lord of the Rings trilogy, all of the Star Wars,
Batman The Dark Knight, and Braveheart.

Things I do: Help coach soccer ( This season I'm not playing to help coach Levi's team ),
play guitar , and draw the pictures in our superhero book.

My favorite foods: Donato's pizza, grilled cheese, fruit salad.

Things that scare me: Big spiders ( like the one that was on my mom's blog ),
a big dog that will chase and jump up on me, seeing sharks on an IMAX screen.

Places I've been: Montana, Canada, and Cape Cod, Massuchusetts.

Now you know a little bit more about me!

Thanks Everyone!

Will

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2008-08-15T10:22:00.000-07:00

Ethan was going so fast on this he almost bashed his head
on the front...

Melanie & me go karting at Rascal's Fun Zone!

On Wednesday night we went out and

after we were done here we went to eat at Joe's Crab Shack

with our friend Jeff who had just gotten home from Oregon...

Nora & Molly tearin up the swingset with my help!

Our newest lego creation... This is the queen's garden in
the castle.

These knights are seiging the castle!

When we're done with this we're going to combine

the armies for one big army!

I put the camera down in the castle for this one...
When I saw it I thought it was so awesome!

Lastnight we had our cousin Piper spend the night after we went to the park with them.
Tommorow Melanie has her first soccer practice... Afterwards our uncle Tom is taking us to
the Musuem of Art to see the Egyptian exhibit! I still have to finish Illinois part 2 and Luke
tagged me to do a me-me... Come back and I'll try to have done those.
Thanks everyone!

Will

Illinois : part 1

2008-08-05T11:21:00.000-07:00

Dad holding Molly while she eats Levi's shoe!
And me jumping on a tube in the background...

Me holding Molly on the stairs

and Mollys trying to squirm out and

fall on the piano.

On Sunday after church we went to Illinios to have a party for my Grandma's 60th birthday! We went to Monicals pizza and it was great! After we were done there we went back to their house and swam for a while and after we had cake & icecream... That night when we got home I was was dead tired at 10:30 p.m. I will post about this later, it's just blogger has been going very slowly... Thanks everyone!

Will

2008-07-29T07:31:00.000-07:00

This is me right before we went into the theatre
to see Batman The Dark Knight in Imax,
It was AWESOME!!!

This is a mini terracotta soldier Tom got for

me at the Getty museum in California,

Ethan got one too.

This is the locust tree in our yard that my Dad cut into,

the wind blew it down during a storm a week ago. E, Melanie, & me have been

cleaning it up after a guy came down and cut it up last week...

And here's our amazing pool! It's awesome to have after

we work outside and get sweaty...

The past couple weeks I've been coaching soccer camp at Mount Pleasent Church. Two weeks ago I did coaching for first grade through fifth, and last week I did 3 days of ages three through six... I'd say it was alot easier with 1st - 5th grade just because they understood what was going on better. I will definitly do it next year... The pool has been great to jump into after working outside. The tree that fell has been pretty tough work, so far I've hurt myself 5 times. I will post again later about whats been going on with us.

Thanks everyone!

Will

Our Weekend

2008-07-07T14:50:00.000-07:00

Here's a picture of our Lego version of
Robin Hood's forest. On the sides are the
outlaw's campsites and on the end is their forest village.
Ethan will be posting about this later also...

The top side is Robin Hood's group of men area,

and the other is Will o' the Green's hideout.

The yellow building is the little town church...

Mom was walking around taking pictures

of everyone at Molly's party!

On Friday morning Mom went to Edinburgh with Grandma, Aunt Becky, Nora, Mel, and Molly. So Levi and I
got up and watched PBS kids while I built the Lego place. That evening family came down for
Molly's 1st b-day party! Afterwards we went downtown to Starbucks and watched the fireworks
with our friends the Koch's. On Saturday we went to see Iron Man. It was pretty awesome!
Our uncle Tom, Mr. Russell and his son Collin came with us.That night we had the Bandy's over for dinner. Yesterday after church we came home and all 6 of us (Molly was sleeping) played in the pool, with the beach ball sent to us from our cousins Tory, Linda and David ! That was how we spent our 3 day weekend!
Thanks Everyone!
Will

Pictures from the start of May to now...

2008-06-25T21:19:00.000-07:00

Yikes!!! Mel took this picture of Jeff with Mom's new camera...

Tom, Dad, and E at Tom & Dad's birthday party this year.

This is a picture of our Roman city from above...

Here I am when we got home from our trip to Michigan,

We were checkin' out our damage from the weekend rain.

Lately we haven't been up to anything to exciting, except for science, legos, guitar,
and swimming in our refreshing pool. This morning I was sitting at my desk ,and I looked over and saw the lizard come out of her hut and then jump off her platform and land right next to the side, then she just stared at me. It was pretty weird. Then she started drinking her water with her tongue
like a dog. She is funny to watch. Today we have some work to do outside and I'm kind of dreading it because it's so humid, but at least we have the pool.:) I'm going to let Melanie post now , Thanks for coming back everyone!

Will

Prayer Day

2008-06-24T20:49:00.000-07:00

Today we had our prayer day and it was great! We all prayed as a family for 6hrs.!
We also prayed personally one on one with eachother. Ethan just posted right before
me so I don't have time for pictures. But tommorow I will post on some recent things that
have been happening here. Thanks for checkin' out my blog!
Goodnight!

Will

Check out Ethan's Blog

2008-06-22T16:51:00.000-07:00

Just to let everybody know, Ethan is starting his own blog!!!

I will put it on here so everybody can check it out...
After they have seen mine first though:)

It's called Ethan's Blog!!! http://easyeatyourservice.blogspot.com/

Thanks everyone, I will try to post again, if I get to with 4
of us posting...

Will

We can't think of a title

2008-06-20T07:29:00.000-07:00

Thanks for coming back to our blog...sorry for the delay!

This is Levi at his last game.

One of the fun spectacles from our trip to W. Lafayette was visiting the train station...it's neat to watch the trains speed by.

Ethan showing us how agile he is...that is me, Will, right behind him. I hope he doesn't toot.

This is most of our family that went to W. Lafayette on Memorial Day weekend. Our mom, Aunt Beck, Gma and Gpa, or Uncle Tom aren't in this picture. This fountain was right outside of our hotel.

crrrrraaaaaazzzzaaay Becky

Mom actually caught a picture of my sweet soccer moves. We couldn't find any pics of E. playing soccer so I guess that means our mom doesn't really like him... that much.

It has been a while since we last posted but here we are! It's been a busy month, with trips to Michigan, a trip to West Lafayette, IN, the ending of soccer, school and our science group starting up, swimming, etc.

Recently, we got our pool deck up and running. It's not fully done. I will try to put some pictures of it on here later. You can also check out my mom's blog and I know she has put some on there.

We are starting our third Super Dude book right now. It's called "Super Dude, the Third, Invasion on Earth"!!!!! You will have to read the first two though. We will try to post again soon.

Thank you for checking out our blog. See ya later or something like that. Yup.

Will & E

Soccer and Pool fun

2008-05-19T12:10:00.000-07:00

This is us and our cousin Piper in our freezing cold pool on Saturday.

Ethan is posing as a dramatic goalie, we call the picture "Rapid Fire".

This is a picture of me that my Uncle Tom took one Saturday after Mel`s game.

Here is Levi after his game a couple weeks ago.

On Saturday we went to Mel's game at 9:00, then Levi had his game at 9:45. Melanie's team

lost 1 to 0 but their team has definitely improved. When Levi plays we start to lose track of

the score, he has been getting faster but we are still going to have to work on ball control...

Last week we got our liner set up for the pool, but it is going to be while until we have

everything ready to go. On Saturday Ethan and I tied our game 2 to 2. I (Will) think I am

going to see a chiropractor for my back this week. Yesterday we worked on extending the

wall on the side of our house. Last night, me (Will) and Mel went to work with my Dad and Jeff until 12:00 a.m.

We will try to post again soon. Thanks for checkin' out our blog!

See ya, Will & E

Some pictures from the past but news from today.

2008-05-14T11:21:00.000-07:00

2002: weren't we cute li'l kids?

Christmas 2002

at the canal

a sweet picture of Ethan

here we are playing "Littlest Pet Shop" with our sister.

Lately we have been up to soccer, we would put pics of that but Mom hasn`t taken any of E`s and my games. Tonight we have practice, but I (Will) won`t be playing because I hurt my back at our last game and I sat out for the second half:( Right now I feel so useless... These pictures were all from 3-6 years ago, Mom chose that last one when we weren`t looking! We would have posted sooner but if you read my Mom`s blog you`ll already have heard about the computer problem.
Ok, well I guess that is it for today...I'll try to come up with some interesting things to blog about later. See ya!

Will & E

some pictures from the three years ago.

2008-05-01T20:30:00.000-07:00

The next three pictures are just a tiny bit from a play we did a few years ago...dont we look way young?
on Easter of 2005, Melanie, Will, Aunt Emilie and I put on a play
for our family...it was about Jesus' last week, from Palm Sunday to his Ascension...it was a lot of fun!

This is the part where Jesus is in the Garden praying and His disciples

couldn't even stay awake to pray with Him.

Here I am portraying Jesus on the Cross...

this picture was also three years ago but I wanted to show

you the mad playground skills that Will and I have. :)

This was also three years ago...way before Levi even thought of potty training...so he just wore his pot on his head. pretty funny, huh? he keeps us laughing.

We've been non-bloggers for a while. And here's why...we've been working with our dad on getting our upper porch finished. I would like to blog some of those pictures but it's late and mom said we can't upload anymore pics tonight. Our computer moves way too slowly...so we will try to get back on here in a day or two to blog those for you. You can see us in action!

Otherwise, lately, we've been busy with soccer, which we love. We have games all day on Saturday...I'm even playing as an extra on our coach's other team...so that is crazy busy. Levi plays now too, so that is four games a Saturday. We've also been busy with just the everyday life things like schooling, exercising, doing our chores around the house and running here and there with our mom. which makes us all crazy! :)

Well, that's it for now...check back soon. Good night!

Signing off, Ethan J. Y.

We're Here

2008-03-25T22:03:00.000-07:00

yes, we need haircuts badly...maybe now that dad is home, we can get some
E. thinks he looks serious here....he's funny

I know it's been a long time since we posted on our blog. We have lots of great pix that we want to put up on here but our mom's computer is moving really turtle-y slow these days.

This past Friday night, E. and I went on a youth activity with our church youth group. We went up to a place called Laser Flash and it was quite interesting! We were up all night and pretty tired all the next day! It was fun though and we are glad we went. Our youth pastor, Seth, is a cool guy! He arranges some fun activities for the teens!

We had a really nice Easter...Mel, E. and I helped out with an egg hunt for Piper and Levi...we made sure to hide some eggs for our own hunt as well. it was a lot of fun.

Today, I (Will) went to the orthodontist and found out that I need to wear rubber bands for a bit longer then I will be able to get my braces off in about 3 weeks. Then, I will have to wear retainers for pretty much the rest of my life. Maybe I will post some pictures of my lovely teeth and orthodontial experience!

Ok, time for bed. We will try to get back on here sooner this time.

Our trip

2008-03-14T11:27:00.000-07:00

In the first picture we were all swimming in our 1st hotel's pool. And in this picture I`m carrying Molly around the pool.
Keeping up with our workout program, even on the road
visit to the Bass Pro Shop/Outdoor World. When we were here Ethan and I bought a $25 bow and arrow!!! Dad paid for most of it though.
Here we are at the Fantastic Caverns... That`s my head in the middle

The picture right above here is one that I took on our way home yesterday...it is in St. Louis and it's the world famous Arch. The picture right above this one is of us in our second hotel...the first one we stayed in was nice, new and clean but it was kinda far from where Dad was working and the rooms were tiny. Dad found this older hotel closer to his job that had two levels in it...a loft up the stairs that had a bathroom and big bed...it had a kitchen, living room area and another sleeping/dining area with another bathroom. I think this is the only sane way for our family to travel in the future. It was really cool! And no one HAD to sleep on the floor.

So that is our trip to Springfield, Missouri. We had such a good time with our Dad. It was sad to leave him yesterday. But he's coming home tonight, for the weekend! Have a good weekend!

This 'n' That

2008-02-28T19:44:00.000-08:00

Molly's first time sitting up in the Target cart...that's me behind her with Levi.

Here's Melanie at the War Museum last year...the wax figures were kinda spooky.

Part of our Schleich animal collection...Mom got us our first ones for Christmas in 2005 and we've been adding to it since then...I already have my birthday list of new animals
planned out for this year and my birthday isn't till October.

a bit more of our collection...you have to see it in person...it's really neat!
This is Levi in his new bathrobe. cheesecake.
Here's fellow Brave Heart E cuddling with Molly. I'm not sure why the date on our camera says jan. 3, 2004 but it was yesterday.
This is a typical E. pose that makes all of us want to drop kick him.

I don't know what to write. This is the part of blogging that bugs me. Being wordy, because I'm not. That's E's job. He's the talker!

Yesterday we pretty much ran errands and spent the afternoon and evening at home. We all had teeth cleanings in the morning and I was the only one with a cavity...yikes. At home, we took care of our exercise, school work, guitar, bugging mom for MORE food and that's about it. Today is going to be more of the same stuff.

I know, this is a pretty exciting post...I will try to be more creative and come up with funny things we can blog about. Maybe I will put E. on the job...thanks for checking out our blog! Come back again really soon and have a great weekend.

Happy 30th Birthday, Aunt Becky!

2008-02-27T07:16:00.000-08:00

Hanging out with Will in a badly striped outfit
Becky with brand new Ethan
We love our Aunt Becky!

Today we are celebrating our Aunt Becky`s 30th Birthday! We had a surprise Birthday party

for her on Saturday night. We are thankful for having Becky in our lives!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BECKY!!!

Super Dude

2008-02-25T19:35:00.000-08:00

Here we are, the authors of Super Dude!!
This picture was graciously drawn by our cousin, Jason D. back in 2005. he is very talented.
This is one of our character pages, which we will show you more of them later.
This is one of the action pictures, where SD gets knocked into the sea during a fight.

Good evening!

Tonight we are going to tell you about our book. It's kinda like a comic book. We began the Super Dude idea about 6 years ago but officially began the actual book back in 2004. We've already finished our first edition and are now working on finishing our second edition. Ethan is the author of this book, dictating what to write, while Will does the illustrations and handwriting. (our mom is typing this since we had so much to say and she types faster...but we are sitting right here with her, telling her what to type, allright?) :)

We've included a few pictures from the past book and will eventually highlight each of our main characters here. But for tonight, this is just a taste of our book.

Just to update you on what's been going on...there are no pictures of the Wonderlab on here because our trip was cancelled due to weather. We ended up seeing the movie "Enchanted" though we really should not admit that, since it's a chick flick. We went with a group of our good friends! I didn't like it...too mushy (Ethan). I thought it was OK (Will).

Friday night, we had our youth pastor, Seth and his fiancee, Carrie, over! We had a good time with them. We had a Nerf gun fight (awesome), ate some grub and bonded with our lizard. I actually touched it (Will) after having the pet for over 3 years. Ethan is so brave and holds Liz every time she's out (he told me to type this, goof!) Seth chickened out on us and didn't hold the lizard...just kidding.

Mom's making us get off the computer now. Hope you enjoy reading this. Make sure to leave us a comment.

Random stuff

2008-02-20T20:46:00.000-08:00

Here is a drawing I (Will) did...it's my version of the Fellowship of the Ring movie cover. This is our family, taken December 2007.
The guys in our family...2006

Lately, we haven't really had much going on, that's worth mentioning anyway (unless you count my siblings and I squabbling and making our mom want to "beat" us).

Did you see the Lunar Eclipse tonight? We tried to take a picture of it but it didn't work and my mom was spooking herself out on our porch...

Um, this past Saturday, E. and I had our last indoor soccer game. We won, 3-2...I even got to score the first goal for our game...next month, we start our outdoor soccer league and we always enjoy that!!

This Friday night, we are having our youth pastor, Seth, and his fiancee, Carrie (I'm pretty sure that is her name????)...we are really excited about that!

Tomorrow, a few homeschool friends and our family are heading down to the Wonderlab, which is in a town south of us...It's a museum of science and stuff. I'm sure we will have pictures to put on here tomorrow. So we will be back with that.

Gotta go...thanks for stopping by.

I need to go brush my teeth.

signing out, Dog Breath!!!!

About us...

2008-02-19T17:01:00.000-08:00

This is me...I'm narrating today... This is E...he will do the posting later...

Here are a few tidbits about E. and I. These are the things that make us tick. and make our mom ticked. ha ha.

We inherited our dad's love for Legos. Here was last year's Gladiator ring. We have updated it so we will have to get a few pictures to put on here.

This is our lizard. She goes by different names, according to who is referring to her...Mom calls her Liz, we call her Kermit. We have had her for over 3 years! Sorry, but you won't get any pictures of us letting her kiss us. :) In fact, I (Will) have never even touched her. I leave that to my dad and siblings.

This picture of us in our funny clothes is from our homeschool play last March. E. and I played Orville and Wilbur Wright. I was Wilbur, which made sense. It was lots of fun. We were the only boys in our scene.
Thanks for stopping by our blog. We hope you will come back and visit very soon!

Here we go

2008-02-19T16:22:00.000-08:00

this is our first official post.
I'm Will and I'm 13.
Ethan, my 12 year old brother, and I will be sharing this blog.

We're really quite obnoxious. Everyone says we are sooooooo nice but we aren't. (My mom is typing this cuz she's mad at us for bugging continuously for this blog all day). :) {I still love them though}

I'm done for now...we want to see if this will go through so we can get started.

Goodbye!