A day at the Beach........

Hunter saving Gpa from drowning
Searching for our next meal
Hays find: star fish
Hunter's find: a large sea cucumber

LOW Tide!!

Today we spent the day at TORII Beach, we started the day off with rain and knew if we did not go Hay would be heartbroken. We went and it turned out to be a beautiful day we even had a breeze! I hope you will enjoy the pics!!

Sun Sea to China Pete's then Kurashiki Dam..........

Thanks for the memories!!!


Glamorous!


Wonder what the discussion is about?


Beauty


Decisions Decisions


Our dinner on ice


Our choice for dinner


Hayleigh Ingals Wilder


Sweet Hat Hunter


Darrin and Bruce in the FISHING Dept of Sun Sea




We started our day out at SunSea for Bruce to find him a great find, just ended up browsing around for a while (it was probably alot like him going into his shed).... after that we headed to Naval Kadena to do a little browsing also, then to China Pete's for some serious browsing!!! It always scares me to take our youngest in that store in fear of having to buy anything that hits the floor from her touching it even the lady working there kept a close eye on her and her hands.... after hours of decision they found what they were looking!!! It has been so nice to have company as I have told them that all flights from Naha have been cancelled until further notice but Bruce just laughs! We have been really pretty lazy in the mornings just watching the OLY's and then doing something in the afternoons and tonight we took a little ride out to the DAM it was nice and cool and fun to take a dip in the water!!

Love to you all

A visit to the Pineapple Park.........

Yesterday we went to the Pineapple gardens, we went for the tour on little pineapple cars and then we went into the store and sampled pineapple wine, pineapple cakes, pineapple pies, pineapple cookies, pineapple chocolate. And as we were leaving we had to have a pineapple icecream! It was really good but not like a certain TANGY!

Relay for Life Morgan / OKI..................

PEACE!!!



The relay for life is one of the things that I am really sad that I am missing. Hay and I decided that we could still participate so we got up early and went for our walk. I hope that you all in Morgan have a good time and I can't wait till next year I will be back no matter what!!

Love to you all!!

YEH they have arrived......................

Having a bite to eat at MCD's!!!



Another eventful night driving to NAHA airport, as we make the last turn I hear Hay in the back say guess what I have got butterflies!! I am pretty sure we all did! But our visitors have arrived and had a goodnight sleep and just starting to wake up! We have no plans of were we are going or what we are going to do we are just going by the seat of our pants on this one!! We are so glad that they are here and to be able to spend time with them!! Hope you enjoy the pics!!

Love to all

OMG............................

Not sure if anyone knows what it is like to go almost 11 months without one of your favorite treats but today we had an amazing box come in the mail that was full of CHOCOLATE TWIZZLERS, well one package was devoured on the way home from the post office and I am going to hide 2 packages where only I know where it is!!

The next best package would be to to have Steph's show up in a package full of cheeseburgers and tangy!!!

Thanks for the amazing treats!! See ya in 2 days!!

Luv to all

Ryukyu Soccer Sunday

And one crazy girl!!

And some just crazy American fans!!

They even have crazy face painted American fans!!

This post is for TJ......................

We went to a Ryukyu Soccer game this afternoon, thought about you the entire game they pretty much compare to RSL we had a good time and came home as though we had all just stepped out of the shower!!! I found the jersey that you wanted but did not have 13000 yen on me! If you still would like one I would be more than happy to go back and get you one but it will have to be when I get back to work!! I hope you will like the video and the pics!! And let me know about the jersey it is a really nice looking jersey! Anyhow Love Ya! Your sis

PS: they do the same chants as at home only in Japanese so of course Hay cheered them on.

Last night....

Hayleigh came home a little upset, the neighbor girl had gotten this really cool bike out of the bulk trash and man she wished that she had seen it first....... so tonight we get a ring at the door it was the little girls saying that Hay wanted us to take some pics of her on this cool beach cruiser so she is determined that she is going to save her $$$ so that she can get one before she leaves......... I hope you all get a good giggle cuz each time I see it that is all I can do!!! So glad that I have a girl after my own heart that all it takes is a someone elses junk to make her happy!!!

Check out the bottom of the Blog!!!!

Just wanted you to check at the bottom of the blog a couple of items that I have added and kind of stole from a sister blogger......... I hope it is ok,(SL) any ways the flowers are my favorite shot to take and they are so beautiful here. I hope you will enjoy them!

Love to you all!!!

Birthday pics and stuff .............

Birthday pics and stuff .............

I thought that you might like to see some pics from Hunter's day, it started off to an early phone call from her twin and then the phone didnt stop from there! She wants to tell everyone thank you for the calls, cards and gifts, it was really a different day without all of the family but we made it through!! Hay made her breakfast.... and egg sandwich and pineapple juice! Darrin had a Dr. appt at Lester so we dropped him off and went to the beach to take a few pics and a quick dip in the ocean after that headed to OBBLIGATOS.... this is the closest think to Bajios we have until we get back and it is also Hunters favorite!!

Hope you enjoy the pics!!

Love to you all.....

* * * July 29 a day full of Bdays!! * * *

The Twins........... Who is the oldest here??



Uncle Layne, Uncle Rog, Uncle Kelly..... Who is the oldest??



Wow today was/is a busy day lots of mom's gave life on this day and many years apart!!

I just wanted to let everyone that is celebrating a BDAY today to celebrate and have a Happy day all day!!

I would really like to tell Hunter, to have a great bday, I know it isn't going to be the same as at home but we will celebrate really big next year with family and friends!!
Thank you Hunter for all of your help and helping me through this journey sticking with us!! I am proud of you as a daughter and all of your accomplishments in your life I wouldn't trade you for the world!! I love you forever!

And to her twin, we will have some catching up to do when we get back but we think of you all the time! we love you also!!

Uncle Rog and Uncle Kelly.... Happy Day to the both of you! We hope you both celebrate and have special times with your families!!

Love to you all!!

How we celebrated Utah's Bday................

Today the girls decided to try another day of ceramics, they will be pro's at them by the time we get home and don't be surprised if you all receive them as Christmas presents from now until forever!!! When Darrin got home from work we decided to try and catch a sunset at Araha Beach and a quick bite to eat......... well we were a little late for the sunset but did get a bite to eat right next to the beach they have a few little hole in the wall places we were a little sceptical of the food as we always are the first time we eat somewhere new, we had chicken sandwiches, hamburgers and it all turned out really good we will definitely be going back!!! On the way home stopped at American Village to take a few pics of the ferris wheel in the dark! Hope you all enjoy the pics and enjoy your day off if you are a lucky one!!

Love to you all!


At American Village




Waiting for dinner



Our girls



The SUN in hiding




Hunter painting her "SHORT BUS"


Hay painting her DOG

TO THE GREATEST STATE...........................

I hope that all of the STATE workers will have a great day off, take in a parade, eat a piece of watermelon and maybe go to the rodeo!! and......... update your blogs!!! Have a Happy Holiday!!!

*~*~*~ CULTURE CLASS ~*~*~*

*~*~*~ CULTURE CLASS ~*~*~*

Preparing the potatoes for the CURRY! YUM And DAD!! We even got the "hermit" out of the house to join in the party!! Thanks sister Ms Tiara and Hayleigh another one of her teachers. Ms Higa and Hayleigh, one of her teachers.


The last two weeks Hay has been taking a culture class, she has been really busy with oragami, learning songs and words as well as creating her own Shishi dog, today she ended her class with a recital of the Taiko drums and Curry and rice!! You all need to get up to date on your Japanese, because that is all she has been using lately, we dont understand a thing she says so if anyone wants to communicate with her you better get to the library!! Push the stop button on "Our tunes" so you can hear the Taiko Drummers! Hope you enjoy the pics and the show!

~~~~~ DO YOU ~~~~~

Do most of you know where you were 15 years ago today?? (family and friends)(July16 1993) remember we are a day ahead of you all!
Well you probably were spending the day with us!! As we were saying our "I DO's" can you believe that it has been that long?

As I look back on all of the years and all of the stages we (Darrin and I) have gone through together some I laugh, some I cry, but either way I am glad that we made it through all of them together!

And I am supposing that in another 15 years, I will probably be doing the same thing and looking back on this Journey and saying that was one of the best things as a family we ever did and that we were able to share them with our parents and siblings!

I just want Darrin to know that I am very grateful that he has been able to put up with me for all of these years and I know it has not been easy, and then to add 2 more girls into his life would even be more of a challenge, but he is a great husband, father, son and friend! And looking forward to many many many more years!

And yes I did pull another picture out of the archive so I hope you all get a good giggle out of it!!

Love to you all!

.........EARTH SHAKE.............

We just walked in from the Torii pool and the neighbor kids were telling us that we just missed it............ came in the house and Darrins eyes were as big as silver dollars! Yes that is right this will be the third here on the island since we've been here! I think that GWBush is in Japan somewhere this week!! Is that the reason of the movement of the earth?

All is well!

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