Merry Christmas Everyone

I know we're a little late, but I wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas. We had a wonderful Christmas here, but we still miss everyone at home. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Have fun playing with your new toys!!!

Merry Christmas from the Haworth's!

Yokohama

So last month we went to Yokohama.. It's taken getting sick and finally having a full day at home to post pictures from that day. There are a LOT more pictures on facebook, but here are a couple of my faves..

Guy helping us out to buy Kadie's card.. You hit the help button, and this is what you get..

Kadie's first train ride!

heading to Landmark Tower

Molly and her new pup pup

looking at the view..

Christmas Party

About to head down to the party!

So last night was Tim's command's Christmas party. It was at the New Sanno Hotel in Tokyo. Tim and I had an awesome friend watch the girls so we could actually have a night alone, so we stayed down there. Finding the hotel was fun (we got off the train at the wrong station). LOL But we finally made it, got ready, got downstairs only to find that they did not have enough tables and seats. We ended up eating in the restaurant next door to the ballroom, and then ended up back and forth all night. The party was WAY too crowded, but even with that, it was a great evening. Tim and I got time alone -we got to talk without worrying about little ears listening in.. We got to talk without having someone cry or complain about something else. It was great. :) Thank you SO much to Amanda for watching the girls for me, I know they can be a handful. I can't even begin to express how great the night was JUST because we got time to ourselves!!!

At Shinagawa Station waiting for our connection to head home.

All I Want For Christmas..

.. is my two front teeth.. Kadie lost that second front tooth last night. That was really quick! The first one took MONTHS to loosen up enough to pull, this one took 3 days! Crazy!!

Good Morning!

Yup. It's as cold as it looks...

Weekend

Molly being silly at Kadie's game

Tim went out to sea this past weekend. First time since they got back from their last deployment - they've been in drydock this whole time! While it was nice to have him home for so long, it made just a few days apart really hard. Molly has had a hard time falling asleep, and I just have a hard time sleeping when he's gone.

In the days that he was gone, Kadie had a game, we went to the Festival of Trees, and oh, we had an earthquake. No worries, it was a baby one 4.4 at the epicenter, and it felt like a 2 here. :) Anyhoot, that was our weekend. Exciting stuff huh?

Kadie at the Festival of Trees

Others..

The girls in new PJs

Molly enjoying dessert on Thanksgiving

Molly getting a kiss.. hehee

Getting ready to go to Kadie's Thanksgiving celebration at school.

Festival of Trees

Tim Adding stars

The almost finished tree in the dark.

This weekend is the festival of trees on base. Basically, groups from all over the base decorate a tree provided by MWR. There's a contest, the CO of the base a reception tonight, and then tomorrow the trees will be on display for everyone to see.

Last night, we decorated there trees. A few people from the FRG and myself have been working for a little over a week (but seems endless) on folding and cutting 635 stars. There is one for each Sailor on the Blue Ridge, and each star has a name of a Sailor on board.. Our little group of volunteers really got the tree going, and it took a LOT shorter of a time than I thought it would. About 4 hours includes getting there, setting up our stuff, taping hooks onto ALL of the stars, decorating, and even eating a dinner that MWR provided!

Just so you can see.. This is only a partial view of one side of the hall.

We had a lot of fun getting all those stars on the tree, and I think it was a great night! We had some issues with our babysitters at the end, but considering how bad the rest of the day was, the night was just awesome. :)

Tim and I at the end of the night in front of the almost finished tree!