January 21, 2012
For the Martin Luther King, Jr. long week-end we headed to Massanutten. I love that Troy is getting old enough to take good pictures of David and I. Here we are at a beautiful look-out. 
Here Troy is learning how to surf. Even David tried it!
David and Troy sled on tubes for two hours. It was in the low 30′s and COLD!
August 26, 2009
So today was the big day, Troy headed back to school. I took this picture of “my boys”.
I was surprised that out of three new outfits for school, Troy chose “snazzy” over “cool”. I had a sleeveless superman outfit and two nice shirts with the khaki shorts. He even wanted his hair spiked. He is looking really good.
July 30, 2009
Troy was given a free 20 minute private lesson for his birthday from his karate school. Here he is with his favorite sensei.
I am going to use this to help him learn his fighting form before his testing next month.
This movie is actually from three separate sections. The first part is learning a difficult turn. It quickly transitions to Troy going through the fighting form one time, then it transitions to him going through it again. I think I may have put the two times through backwards, but you get the idea. 
There are a couple areas where I clipped out a small bit because he was going over a move trying to get it right so if it seems to blur that is what happened.
July 12, 2009
Just thought you might be interested in seeing what we were up to this morning.
I’m still learning this flip video and using iMovie. This video is several clips together.
Enjoy!
Melissa
May 17, 2009
Troy ran his first race today. It was the Mayfest Mile run. It was for ages 16 and younger. Troy was in the 6 and younger bracket. I have three videos I took from before the race, the start and the finish. Here they are in that order.
Waiting for the start:
The Start: (watch the far left for Troy.)
The Finish:
He was really upset during and right after the race. We didn’t prepare him for the older children running by him so he was crushed that he wasn’t going to come in first for the race. He didn’t understand that the participants were broke down into age brackets for competition. After 5 to 10 minutes after he finished and I was able to calm him down and explain how it worked was he was able to understand that he was racing against HIS best (which was a 9:30 minute mile earlier in the week) and not all the other children. (We had been telling him that we were proud of him whether he won the race or not, so long as he did his very best.)
He ran a bit over an 8 minute mile today!! Woo-hoo! How awesome is that? So after a bit of race tallying they announce the winners for Troy’s age bracket. Third place was named and Troy’s face fell since they didn’t call him. Second place was named and I knew he was near melting and would melt if he didn’t make it. Then first place was named . . . . . (I know, I’m so mean. . . . .) and . . . .
He won first place in his very first race! Yes, we are so very proud of him!
Here is a shot with him with the rest of the children. Good thing he is short and gets to stand up front!
