Happy Birthday to Aunt Erin! Happy Veteran’s Day, with a big thank you to all of our loved ones who have served.

We have a holiday-mashup post today. We have been a little too busy and we never got around to carving pumpkins for Halloween. We waited until Veteran’s Day to carve our Halloween pumpkin to look like a turkey for Thanksgiving.

Trevor drew his own Jack-o-Lantern face

We made the best turkey we could 🙂

The boys painted it in pretty fall colors

Today, Trevor had his first belt/rank test. The dojo was super full!

Trevor is waiting his turn

Demonstrating his kata as he went through each test station

The face. I watched this video 20 times. He was so super excited!

He got to take home that very first board that he broke and he is still amazed that he did it.

He got his yellow/white belt! We are all proud of him. He spent 30 minutes practicing with me the night before, and I could tell he was really nervous.