A week of fun things

So I am a week late on doing my weekly week of fun little things. Oh well that seems to be my life the last two weeks. Jeb had to go for more "training" and to say the least I miss him terribly. You would think I am used to the lone parent routine but no it was actually pretty hard. Maybe I'm just extra emotional right now, that could be it too. Yet it seems life always goes on and lets you find little things to brighten your day.

So sometimes its just little things like looking at my kids while they eat their peanut butter sandwiches and I realize how cute and beautiful and smart and just all around what wonderful kids they are that my breath is taken away and I am so grateful to be their mom! I have to say my girls are great.

Then of course I enjoy watching my children have fun and develop friendships. They love some of their new friends, this is Cameron Pearson who they both enjoy doing things with immensely. A fun afternoon swimming was a great day to get out of the house. (and Niyah is not upset she is just sensitive to the chlorine)

Now these pictures are from an adventure that would take way to long to write about or tell about. But lets say that shortly after these happy pictures where taken, we drove across the bridge and preceded to be lost for the next three hours. And to be lost in Japan I learned is much much more frightening then being lost in a nice place like Utah. But we enjoyed the stop by the river beforehand anyway. Anyone who wants to wager what the picture with the screaming, running, little boy means, have a guess. We wonder too. Watch out there is a river down there maybe? We do enjoy the Japanese style of signs though they usually bring a smile.

Now this might seem strange but I wonder if you can tell the color of this egg? This is a Japanese egg and the first time we cracked one open we were taken back. The yolks are a really bright orange. Really Really orange. Not pale yellow or even dark yellow just bright orange and we wonder, since we know the typical American egg is from a chicken with dye in its food to make the yolk yellow, is this the normal color of eggs, or do the Japanese just use a different stronger dye for their chickens?? I don't know anything about the food laws and such in Japan but the eggs made us wonder. They tasted fine if you wanted to know, but they don't whip up near as fluffy as American eggs. Strange little things.

So enjoy a week of fun little things.

This weeks fun little things

So the first cute thing this week. I was doing my ritual cleaning of the girls ears. For those of you who don't know my girls have inherited this tendency to have lots of very very hard ear wax that can actually block their ear so they can't hear. So I have to put hydrogen peroxide into their ears and let it fizz and bubble and break up the hard balls of wax. Gross, yes but it works and I am glad. So I was doing Niyah's ears when I hear a snore. She is sound asleep! Jeb grabbed the camera.

This is actually from a couple weeks ago, but thought I would share, Jeb went on this really fun bike trek up the mountains here. He had a great time! Its really beautiful in the mountains and he has promised to take us up there

Here is the view out my kitchen window! I just thought I would take time to appreciate it, its really kind of pretty.

And look at my pretty Japanese flowers. I love them. We have now moved them outside though as we discovered little bugs like to live in them too.... aaah well they look cute on my front porch too.

This is my new cabinet we bought at a nearby Japanese recycling center. Its a second hand store but they don't call them that they call them recycling centers. This was about 4000 yen. Which is just under forty dollars. I thought it was a pretty good deal.

The current favorite game in our house loved by Harley is Junior Monopoly. She loves it and is just as competitive as her Dad. If you have played Monopoly with Jeb you know what I mean.

Here are the girls playing in a pool, on the neighbors tramp. They had so much fun! They love having neighbors who they can play with.

And thats our week of fun little things! I hope you enjoyed. I know I like looking back and appreciating the little things that are nice in our lives.

Independence Day!

So we had a pretty fun fourth of July. It was a little different .... but the base here puts on a pretty good time and the kids had a great day.

So We started the day with another bike ride session. Niyah was much happier this time, although before we started she asked me if she could just throw her bike away...... But with a little encouragement and some happy words, she decided to try it and did so without breaking into tears this time. I think she just thought it would come a lot easier then it did. Harley did great, she just has this strange magnet that takes her right into the trees!!

We then headed down to the "hanger" for the party. I was impressed there was a lot for the kids to do and tons of free things.

Didn't the girls look cute and festive! The shirts were from Granny Franny, and the flower lei's were being handed out.

A mini go-car track for the kids. Harley went a little crazy and was out in the middle of the track doing figure eights, much to the dismay of the Japanese workers, they however where quickly distracted when Niyah ran into them full speed ahead! She didn't understand stop in Japanese I guess. LOL

They had a little petting zoo for the kids.

and of course we had to go on the pony rides

They then painted on a mural

Did I mention it was really hot and humid? It was but we still had tons of fun!

They ended the day with some barbecue ribs! They were very happy to say the least!! But they were not quite as good as Grapas' and Mama's ribs!

All in all it was good day. No fireworks because of the rain but here is some videos of the entertainment we had. It was a good day to celebrate our nations birthday.

The funniest clowns, mostly because they yelled everything really loud in Japanese which nobody understood. Niyah dumped her snow cone on my foot towards the end.... thus the camera footage towards the end is a bit skewed.

Japanese band they were pretty good.

The girls having a good time.

Fun little things

So I have decided to do a weekly blog entry and just call it fun little things. Since all the little things are what life is really made of I think it should be shared so all you grandparents (who should really do your own blog!) can enjoy!! And everyone else too.

So this past week of fun little things

Here it is the first pic of baby number three! (not a great one I know but you get the idea) No we don't know what it is yet, but the doctor did see only one little baby, so Jebs hope of two boys in one shot doesn't look like its going to happen! The Doctor said it had a very strong heart beat looked good, and is due January 17th!

Here is Harley she worked for a very long time figuring out how to balance her barbies on this board and then balance them on her hand. She gave very detailed description of how they had to sit just right and every barbie had to sit a certain way... It was rather fun to listen to you would have thought it was a science fair project "how many barbies can balance on a board."

I thought it was brilliant.

Niyah loves putting on her Dads shoes and hat when she gets the chance and talks with a big gruff daddy voice. She usually puts it on takes on her daddy voice and says very deeply to Harley, "HARLEY, have you eaten your breakfast, don't make me tickle you.... " I laugh every time.

The girls in Tokyo on our way to a modeling audition.... We gave the whole modeling thing a try (everyone said we should do it while here) but frankly it just wore me out. Me and Jeb decided there must be other ways to get the girls college money. We might do a few more while here but not very many.

Some beautiful flowers. Its one of my favorite bushes that grows all over around here.

And Swimming, we had lots of fun. We completely surprised the girls they didn't see us load up the swimming bag and we drove to the pool and they where just wondering where we where what we were doing, when they realized Daddy was taking them swimming they were so excited!

AND thats our week of fun little things!!