Random Photos

Levi does love going on car rides.  I try to let him come for short trips to pick up kids.   

But this day was a trip to the vet.

He was a bit less excited about that. 

 Mt friend Amy introduced me to Family Mart Ice Cream Cones.  Oh my! So amazing!!

The girls were rather silly at the Exchange. They wanted to see how many has they could put on their heads before they fell off.  Little goobers.

We have been working on our french braiding around here.

I love finding pictures like this on my phone!

And we tried a sort of sideways french braid on Callie.  It came out nicely.

And then there was a birthday

Delaney had a birthday and it was lovely.  She was a bit indecisive about what day she wanted to celebrate and what food and cake she wanted, but I was able to do the dinner she requested, and she had a lemon cake. She was pleased with her loot and had a good evening.  Here's to my new for-reals Teenager!

Winter Formal or... Marian Goes to the Dance

 The other YW convinced Marian to go to the Winter Formal Dan with them.  She was excited to go. We had grand designs to do cool hair former until I realized her hair is so very long and so very thick and heavy and my skills were not up to the task.  Thankfully one of the other moms had all the girls over to her house to get ready.  Whew!

Lisa did Marians hair for her.

The finished front.

The complicated, braided back.  I know, it is hard to see!

 Only marginally better, but you can see the big braided bun.  Super cute!

Outside for the group shot. 

This was a fun and amazing group of girls.

 They did some fun poses.

And they were really good about taking tons of photos. 

Actually, they loved all the pictures! 

 Look hoe pretty they are!

Adventure to Ojima Island

 Our adventure this week was to go check out Ojima Island.  It is a little island that is barely an island- geographically it is small, and it is close enough to the main island of Okinawa that you could maybe walk over to it at low tide.

There was a fish market.  Bleh.  But we stopped to check it out because apparently lots of people DO like fish.  I thought this shiva set made of shells was the coolest thing there.

There were also lots of cats.  I guess they like fish.

Next we heard off to drive around the island and found this cool beach.

The rocky outcroppings were very cool.

 Somehow it was much prettier in real life.

We drove around to another beach and it was also very pretty.  I stole these photos from my friend Anna, who had a most excellent camera and she herself is a most excellent photographer.

She also has a cool drone to get pictures like this!  Can you see us down there?!!

 And from another angle.  Okinawa is a pretty lovely place sometimes.

 Then it was off to the famous tempura place for lunch.  It did look fun. You ordered by the piece and then you waited.

It was chilly out, so I availed myself of the vending machine and purchased some hot chocolate.  It wasn't bad! 

 Then I ate tempura. I liked the green beans, and the potato wasn't the kind of potato I was expecting, but it was okay.  And the shredded veggies was my favorite.  It was pretty good, but I wouldn't go out of my way for it.  But it was a really nice day with friends!

Smarty Pants

Yeah, yeah.  It is that time again.... quarterly award assembly time.  I got to so sit through one for Rylee and then another one for Delaney the next day. I am grateful to have kids that do well in school.