Birthdays

Callie and I both had birthdays.  Dan was out of town, so celebrations were minimal, which was fine.  Cake and Loot were all that was required, and those happened.  And Callie did NOT want any kind of big deal.  And she refused to let me take photos. Rest assured though, she had a beautiful and delicious ice cream cake and lots of gifts that made her happy.

She was grumpy about the photo, not the new back pack.

And this is all she sould give me the rest of the evening.  No face pictures.  Such a pickle!

My darling friend April bright me this cake on my birthday and I felt special.

And this is the selfie I sent my friend Lynnette (She wet to Hong Kong with me, remember?) because she sent me this gorgeous plate that arrived on my birthday.

And this was a few days later when Steph took me out to Hatsukaichi for lunch (with some other ladies) and the restaurant brought me this. Adorbs!

High School Award Ceremony

I had the pleasure of sitting through a 2 hour award ceremony for the Jr HS and HS kids.  You would think with 256 students in the entire school that it wouldn't take so long.  But you would be wrong.  Apparently 90 % of the school received at least one recognition and many received multiple ones.

Josh was recognized for his good grades.

Marian also had excellent grades this year.

She's so cute.  I love her.

Josh also got something for being an awesome Japanese student.

He does like Jsoanese class, and I expect she enjoyed him because he worked hrd and took it seriously.

One Happy Dog

Life Update

My phone and computer don't want to talk to each other.  So while I figure out how I am going to get my pictures uploaded, I'll let you know what's happening.


Crazy is happening!  School ended this week and I am trying to sort and purge and clean and the kids just want to take everything out and play with it.  It is like having toddlers again.   The house is a disaster because everyone knows the big mess must precede the organization, right?!

I am running out of time though.  The movers come on Monday.  Between now and then I have to  decide what I am going to need for the next 2 months and I need to pack that in suitcases.  And I can't bring too much because I have to haul suitcases around all summer.

We will spend a few days at the hotel here.  On Friday June 23 we will leave and fly to Okinawa.  We will stay there till Thursday June 29, when we will fly to the USA.  We will get to see family at our big-big Reunion the first week of July and that is as far as I have planned. We will hang out with my folks and hopefully with my siblings until August 15, when the kids and I will fly back to Okinawa.

Dan is going to sit on the housing list and hope something comes available on base.  If not, then when we get there, we will find something off base.  My most amazing neighbor Anne, is taking care of Levi all summer till we can come back and get him.  She does love him more than us....

Rylee's AFN Tour

The first graders got to go on a tour of the AFN building.  AFN is the Armed Forces Network- the only broadcasting military station, and the folks who bring us US television here in Japan.  They also make some pretty sweet commercials, since we don't get real commercials like you have to sit through in the States.

Anyway, I agreed to chaperone and I walked 2 blocks with Rylee to get to the building.  

Having 50 7 year olds crowded in a room touching stuff was an experience!

All the kids got to look through the camera and practice focusing it.

They even let them in the Radio room, with the $200,000 equipment.  Thankfully no one broke anything!

I thought it was very interesting, but Rylee said it was boring.