A Wonderful Weekend!

We did so much this weekend! After talking with some friends and seeing some neat marine life, I am super excited to try snorkling (when the water and weather warms up).
Our first excursion was a trip on a glass bottom boat. Some people would call this lame compared to snorkling or scuba diving, but as I have done neither I thought it was awesome. Just another reason for me to consider taking a scuba diving class.
















Too bad Dallin and Hannah were complaining of seasickness. They enjoyed as much it as they could.

Next we went down into an underwater observatory.





















We saw lots of neat fish! I won't bore you with the lousy pictures. It was cool that's all.

The next day was even better! We love to go to the beach at low tide to do some coral walking and discover new things.

This time we decided to go up to Maeda Point. Ed started out on his bike to get a ride in and I followed later. We were to meet up and begin our hike. I nearly didn't find the place and got lost only once. I'm glad that we DID find this place because it was so awesome!!
It's a great place to go snorkling and diving apparently. There was a lot of that going on. Anyways...

Here are the fabulous pictures for you to enjoy!






















Someone made "Happy Birthday" out of coral. The kids thought it was neat. I did too.













































Dallin and Hannah could not stop talking about this picture. It showed where there sharks were spotted and warned divers about them. I knew he would love a picture of it.

New Ottoman?

We have an old ottoman. It was given to us over 11 years ago before we got married. It was from the Dalby's. Remember them? It was stained but really bouncy and comfy. I'm so glad that I found these directions from Dummies.com on how to make a slip cover. Yes apparently they needed to dumb it down for us pess than lerfect people.

Okay here is before:



















The pinning:












The cutting:













and the final product:

















I think it turned out great! Now on to pillows...

Veterans day and the longest rollerslide yet!

Our plans for Veterans day kinda fizzled for our trip on the glass bottom boat. The sea conditions were red today meaning no activity on the water. But we went to the seawall anyway and it was amazing to see such large waves!



















Then we went to the fitness center to get some practice in for Jacob's 100m run at the Kadena Special Olympics this Saturday. We think he'll do well.


















Later in the day we discovered this awesome park with an incredible rollerslide. We've uploaded a hilarious video of Ed sliding down behind the boys.



















Finally here is a picture of the view from atop the tower.

Halloween

My kids are obsessed with Mario and Luigi. Jacob is always the one to play Mario, Dallin is either Luigi or Koopa. Hannah is of course Princess Peach and I have been dubbed Rosalina. I love their imaginations!





















For Halloween they were their favorite characters. Hannah went for Erika from Princess and the Pauper. Even though it wasnt the exact colors she thought her costume was just right. I love that she is so easy to please in that respect. She's not so much in other ways. We had a great time!

Roller Slide

I have never seen a slide like this before. It's a bunch of little rollers on a long slide that roll you all the way down. Can you tell Jacob loves it?





















Click on our YouTube video on the right to see it in action!

Happy Birthday to me!

I'm 31 today.
It's so crazy! Seriously I just turned 30 a couple of months ago!

Yea I voted on that drizzly gray day.
















We went to IHOP.
















Obama won the election.



I ate Pumpkin Pie.
























What happened to the last year?

Our Place:)

This is our place. It is 3 minutes outside base in a place called Chibana.
What sold us is the HUGE garage. We desperately needed a place to put all of our bikes and accessories.























Oh and here’s a picture including our van. It’s a Nissan Bassara. The boy with the blue shirt is Jacob. Ha ha ha.























The street in front of our house dead-ends just past the last house. It’s the closest we are going to get to a cul-de-sac here in Japan. The houses are so close together! Even more than what we were seeing in DC! If an earthquake hits us the whole neighborhood is going down!