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Kylah’s 1st Piano Recital
In: The Family Blog| Videos
14 Dec 2009Kylah’s 1st Piano Recital from Matt Metten on Vimeo.
Kylah & Emma Skate in the 2009 Christmas Show
In: The Family Blog| Videos
13 Dec 2009Here’s Kylah’s Performance:
Here’s Emma’s Performance:
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Back from ‘The Woods’
In: The Family Blog
25 Jul 2009
Bruin Woods 2009
Bruin Woods, that is. We just got back from an amazing week up at the UCLA Conference Center at Lake Arrowhead. Every year they have a 10-week family camp known as Bruin Woods and each week is it’s own set group. It’s available to all Alumni of UCLA and you get in via a lottery system. Last year we got in as did my folks for our first year of Week 4. Once you get a certain week you get it for as long as you keep paying to come each year. This year Jenn & Benoni also got the same week so we had the entire Metten/Pantoja family together. It was a great time together!
Kylah’s Alpha Ice Skating Class Presentation
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25 Mar 2009At the end of each 12 week ice skating class session there’s a little presentation showing the skills they’ve been working on. Kylah is really growing in her ice skating skills!
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Alexa Update
In: The Family Blog
23 Jan 2009So she’ll be in it at night for a least 4 months…not sure how much
longer after that…but at this point we don’t really care as long as
she doesn’t need it during the day anymore…more than likely she’ll
need it at night till she’s 2 but we’ll see…She did learn how to walk
in her new brace completely…she walks great! She walks like a
cowgirl but she walks…so we are extremely grateful. Now she has to
get more stable walking without the brace, but she can still walk…we
are confident it won’t be long till she is just as stable without it as
she was with it…She is doing wonderful in every other area…she has
a fun, feisty, silly, little personality…so of course the next
milestone is when she is out of the brace completely…we’ll keep you
all posted.
We want to thank you all for your prayers and support and love over
this last year for Alexa and our family…God is so faithful and has
shown us such love and grace and continues to through this entire
experience. We are so inspired by the strength and courage of our
little Alexa to push through all the obstacles she has had in her short
little life…we’ll try and get some new video of her up soon.We love you all,
Matt & Brooke
2009
In: The Family Blog
11 Jan 2009Well, it has been an interesting year already!
The Christmas/New Year’s break was wonderful. I was able to take about 2 whole weeks off work which was very nice. It was so great to get that time with the girls. It was also cool to be able to hook up my garage and even host a poker night in the newly found space. The other thing I did was finished about 80 home videos! I have been working for a few years to import all our video footage to my computer and now I’m able to go throught and actually edit down some of the stuff and produce little event videos. Some day I’ll get them all online as well which will be fun, at least for me!
We also got our first dog! Lacey, a little white poodle, 2rs old, cute thing. The girls love her and we’re working right now, thanks to the Dog Whisperer, on training her better and geting her to live "within the pack".
One bit of sad news was we heard on Friday, Jan 2nd, that Brooke’s grandpa – Robert Parnett – had passed away. He was 81 and had definitely struggled with his health. The little time I had with him I will say he was a remarkable man, so joyful, so faithful. Brooke took off on Sunday of that week for Lake Placid, Florida, and was there through Wednesday. Definitely made me very grateful for what she is able to handle on a day to day basis watching our cute little girls and now a new dog! Needless to say we were all very grateful when she returned.
That’s about it. Things are sort of back to "normal" now, just trying to get some money flowing through the ol’ company so we can get some money flowing through our checking account, but so far things are looking good for the new year and I feel very hopeful about the future. One cool thing is I’ve lost about 15 lbs since December 1st of last year and on my way to having a much more healthy 2009. I’ve been working really hard to build up my immune system and metabolism so as to not have any recurrence of the kidney stones or melanoma as I had last year, but also so we don’t get any new surprises!
Happy New Year to you all, both of you who read this…
Alexa & Barney
In: Videos
10 Nov 2008Hanging on a Barney ride on her 1st birthday.
Alexa and Kylah on the Slide
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10 Nov 2008Hangin’ out at Chuck-E-Cheese
