School is back in Session

Well summer is over the house is empty during the days once again but we had a good summer. Lets see, couple of trips to Myrtle beach with the inlaws, girls had a blast both times, lots of just hanging out around the house. Fixed up the spare bedroom for Emma so now she has her own room. It was always there for her when she was ready. Martial arts all summer. Emma competed in the Karate for Christ world championships end of June and walked away with a third place in forms and actually won first in sparring. anyway Emma is now in 7th Grade, Sadie is at 4year old kindergarten sort of. She is at moms and my mother is working with her. Mom is a retired teacher so she will get more there than most 4yr old classes. Hmm Hurricane Irene was a pain. Lost power for 3 days, loads of limbs down in our yard still have to clean the backyard. Well that is a brief update to just touch base

Summer is Here!

Well I know, I have been very bad about posting and updating this blog. Honestly if you follow this and are that interested in keeping up with THE PEACOCKS, find me on facebook under Gene Peacock and shot me a friend request. That being said I will probably continue here every month or so for a friendly update.

Speaking of update,,,,,,, school is now out for the summer and the girls are both wide open. Emma has become a mini martial arts guru! She has participated in 4 tournaments this spring and has 11 first place trophies and one third. The third came in the team pairs form competition in the black belt division! Sadie has also progressed quite alot in her martial arts. She has come out of her shell so to speak and now thoroughly enjoys performing in public! I mean performing,,,, she has decided that in the house is just not enough and loves doing public demos with her martial arts teacher!

Sadie spent some time at Myrtle Beach with her grandparents down from Knoxville and we even headed down for a weekend. Now they both spend alot of time at a local pool with their aunt and cousins. Sadie in particular loves the water, Emma likes to float and take it easy. I will add pics one of these days but loads on FB so anyway,,, that's all for now!

Disney Pics!

feb. 2011

So been a very busy month for the peacock clan. Where to start,,,, well the highlight, we spent a week at Disney World! Yep, we were there from feb. 11-16 and had a blast. We stayed at Coronado Springs Resort which is part of WDW and visited each of the parks over the course of four days. The girls liked the Animal Kingdom and Magic kingdom. My self and Dee like Epcot and the Animal Kingdom and all of us though Hollywood Studios was ehhh. They got to meet all of the characters and princesses and rode rides ate loads of good food and in general had a grea time. I still have to download some pics and I will post a few here.

Other big news Emma and Sadie both tested in their martial arts. Sadie now has her yellow stripe belt(which is for little kids) and Emma has her high Yellow Belt just a step away from Green. Gotta say Emma has turned out to be a martial arts expert in a way. As she has learned more myself and her instructor have found out she already knew lots. Turns out she was also selected to go to a martial arts school in china at the age of 10 but she talked her foster mother out of it as she told us the uniforms were ugly. We are very amazed at what all she knows and it is almost frightening at times watching her. She routinely spars with higher belts(sometimes much higher) and gives them fits. She is participating in a tourney in two weeks and is very excited about that as well. Will post some more pics of the girls t practice as well.

Oh and Sadie is quite funny doing this at home. Our washer nd dryer will never be the same after becoming practice targets for a 4 year old!

Welcome 2011

Yes I know I am a little late on this put we have been s busy it is not funny. Christmas was great at the Peacock household. Emma and Sadie had a blast got lots of goodies, visited with family and friends and in general had a good time. Christmas Eve we went to a candlelight service at our church. We go to very small church out in the country(by choice of course) and loads of folks showed up. past members family etc. It ws great , we ended up getting home about 10pm and the girls proclaimed they were staying up. Well took no time for them to be out cold. They woe us up about 6am and into presents we went. Emma got cowgirl boots and hat as well as some Ugg type boots(not real Uggs with growing feet). She got and Itunes card , a Chinese Kids TV series that she loves and other stuff. Sadie got an Ipod shuffle plus princess stuff. All in all they were surprised and happy.

New Years Eve we had their grandparents from Tennessee in. we pretty much just hung out at the house and honesty we hit the sck early. I ued to have a grand old time New years Eve but now ehhh ,, no big deal anymore. We are now gearing up for Chinese New Year /Tet. Same basic festival but called two different things in China and Vietnam. We are going to have a nice family dinner with their cousins over and grandmother. We converted the tree to a Spring festival tree with red and green and little envelope all over it.

we are planning a big trip this spring, not gonna say when but we are hitting Disney World for week. The girls are over the moon they are so excited. Got a great deal, all four of us at Coronado Springs Disney resort, dining plan and park tickets for our stay for 1800$. That is $600 a person for hotel at a Disney resort for a week, food and entrance for 5 days into the parks. Pretty darn good deal.

Well more later as I get time. May even have to post some holiday pics. It snowed here Christmas (like it seemed to do almost everywhere). We ended up with about 11 inches and I am sick of winter now!