So... here are the opening thoughts.... I challenge you to copy and paste them into your own blog post and fill them in yourselves.

Outside my window....

I am thinking....

I am thankful for…

As the homemaker..

I am wearing...

I am creating...

I am going...

I am reading…

I am hearing…

One of my favorite things...

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...

Here is picture thought I am sharing... (find a photo in your digital photo collection or a random one from the website)

I am thinking.... I should be going to bed, but instead I am doing this why?

I am thankful for..... having all my needs met and a full pantry. That is wonderful

As the homemaker.... I struggle with clutter in certain spots. You know that one spot (or several)that just seems to catch everything, every stray piece of paper, broken crayons just random stuff... it drives me crazy and yet Ican't seem to get a handle on my clutter spots.

I am wearing.... jeans (I bought two days ago) and a shirt. But I am thrilled with my jeans for two reason, one I actually found a style and size that fit me not an easy task here, trust me. And it is in a good size. A nice size and since I have struggled getting my size down since I had this baby it makes me smile to have my size back. Now if I could just tone it all up. I am just so soft and squishy.

I am creating... do I create???? I don't know, I suppose every day I try to create in my children a great education

I am going... To bed soon I hope, but we are thinking about trying to make a trip to Izu beach next month. Oh yeah

I am reading… I just finished the Count of Monte Cristo and it is now one of my all time favorites. I was just thinking about what to read next when I got on here. I have read all the books in my house to many times I need a new one

I am hearing…Low talking from my husband downstairs he is having a church meeting while I am upstairs, thus I am not in bed yet. :)

One of my favorite things.. The sound of wind in the trees, so soothing

.A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...Tommorow is Friday, yes! We are having a couple of Japanese kids come stay with us Friday night, we met them at the English school and they want to "experience" American homes. The girls are really excited

Here is picture thought I am sharing.. . Ok so this is not my pic. BUT I love it I came across this guys picture blog while looking for a camping place here and he has beautiful pics of Okutama which is where we ended up going. I love this bridge it is so pretty when you are there, the brillant red against the forest green. SO nice. oOu can check out his blogs and pics they are worth looking at.

http://cktravelblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/fog/

ALL caught up!

Can you believe I am finally caught up. So go ahead and scroll down there are lots of posts I put on during the course of today. I love to get comments by the way and thanks to all those who leave them. It always makes my day.

Genevieve's starting to eat solids. Sniff Sniff. Why is it with your first one you are so excited for them to reach every mile stone, but now I just wish they would slow down and not come so fast?

Pioneer Day celebration

Our Branch had a pioneer day breakfast. The kids had a lot of fun dressing up and playing pioneer games. Our branch is great.

To Fran

We also were lucky to have Jebs mom visit us. We had hoped she would be able to come with Jebs brother Sean but that didn't work out so well. But still Fran was an excellent guest. She was gracious and understanding an easy visitor. I am thankful my kids are blessed with Grandparents who love them! This is the day she headed back home.

Fourth of July

I don't have a lot of photos from the Fourth but we did enjoy ourselves. We did the same as last year and Went to the party here on base. It was as good as last year with tons of free food and games for the kids, but not as HOT! and the fireworks didn't get rained on YEAH

Little Edo - Kawagoe

We took Jebs mom to a little place not to far from here nicknamed Little Edo or Kawagoe. If you remember when we went to "Edo Wonderland" I told you Edo was a period of time in Japanese history. Well Kawagoe has all buildings from that time period, not re-makes, real buildings that have never been destroyed. Whereas most of Tokyo has at one time been burnt down this little village remained. So its fun to go see. We actually took two trips. So here are the pics!

Genevieve, looking so cool!
Fran found her Buddha

500 Buddha's each with a different emotion. The one that's warm is the most like you...

Candy Lane! So many good sweets. I am picking some up for those people I still packages to. See I haven't forgot. :) Wasabi candy anyone?????

I love walking down these little side roads.

We went to the museum that talked about the towns annual festival. It displayed the floats and the carvings on it were so intricate. Here is one example.

Scary guy in mask

The floats in glass cases

The girls loved this water pump.

The old buildings in the street.

The Bell Tower

Ana

I just wanted to dedicate on post to Ana. She is a dear friend of ours from Colombia and we were glad she came to stay. The girls adore her and she is always so sweet to them. This was us on the day she left. The girls were so sad. We are so glad to have Ana as a friend.




BYE Ana!

Slip and Slide fun

The have been really into their slip 'n slide since it has been getting HOT! Its good that they enjoy it because when its 90 degrees and 100% humidity it can be way to warm to fast. The slip and slide keep them nice and cool!


Here they are with good friends Amelia, and Chloe.

Yomiuriland

We went to Yomiriland Amusement Park in June also. I thought instead of uploading several different videos I would put them all together. I think it made it funner to watch and I enjoyed doing it. So let me know what you think.

Back in June we went to Kamakura to see the great Buddha and also went to the near by beach. We had wanted to go on the island but the traffic line for parking was just to long! So we just went to the regular beach instead and the kids loved it! The water was really surprisingly warm.

I love this picture with Harley leaping in the background!

Baby's first time in the ocean. She took it very seriously. Of course. :)

And we saw the great Buddha. It was still there and still a great big Buddha

Where did June Go?????

Holy cow June is gone. I am so behind. We have had a busy month. We had both our friend Ana and Jebs mom come to stay. Here are some highlights of June.

Baby is still growing. She laughs and smiles and rolls over (only if she feels like it) and loves to squeal.


Granny loved meeting Genevieve. And we are so glad to have her here.

Of course Harley turned 7 and a week later had a great party!

We took Fran and Ana out to eat at Tajima Hall. Ana now loves India food! Love that nan.....

We took Ana on a day trip to Tokyo, its always fun to ride the train....


Jeb pulling his happy face.

LOOK I've been to Tokyo Tower!

YoYoGi Park. It was hot, and we didn't want the baby to get sunburned.

Meji Shrine by YoYogi

Entering the shrine area

Harley received a special call from Pocahontas. I couldn't tell what she really thought of it.

We went bowling. Go ahead ask Jeb who won. HAHAHA

We took everyone swimming.

Well thats half of the month. I am out of time. I will try to finish updating tomorrow! So I can move on to July.....