Birthdays and Bowling and Balloons.. OH MY!!!

So on to top off our way too quickly moving week, Kadie not only turned seven on Friday, but she also had a real birthday party. If you know her, you know that she goes to Disneyland and has lunch at Ariel's Grotto every year for her birthday. Last year, we were lucky enough to have her best friend and some cousins come along for the party too. This year though, we aren't in CA, and she said she didn't want to go to Tokyo Disney.. She wanted a bowling party. And since my mouse appears to have gone out, there will be more posts and pictures tomorrow. LOL

Catching Up

Sooo... I still have stitches in my hand.. If you want to see a picture click on the link.. I won't post the actual picture in lieu of some I KNOW don't want to see it.. LOL

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It's a big owie... But it's all good because I'm back to being

able to type without my hand getting completely swollen after! Yippee!! So now I get to play catch up.

Last week literally flew by. I was in a daze for most of it, and honestly, I was shocked when I realized on Thursday night that the next day was Friday. Where did my week go? Oh right. On the couch or in bed.. Probably sleeping for a good chunk of that week. Thank GO

ODNESS Tim's Chief let him go Tuesday, Wednesday, and then even early enough to pick Kadie up from school on Friday.

Since I don't remember a good chunk of the week.. Here's a recap of what I do remember..

Somewhere in the week.. Kadie decided she was going to workout with Tim.. She even picked up some weights and went at it. It was VERY cute.. I can't really remember, but I'm about 90% certain that this was Monday night BEFORE the "incident" occurred. I have more pictures, but I have a teeny tiny feeling that Tim wouldn't be very happy with me if I posted them.. :P I mean.. What do you think???

After the "incident," we realized that Wednesday morning was going to be really rough for me. Not only was I (according to my doctor) going to be in excruciating pain (it wasn't THAT bad), but I also couldn't really clean and couldn't pi

ck up Molly. This meant I couldn't get her out of her crib. Tim had a solution for that. On Tuesday afternoon, Tim took the side off of Molly's crib, so she's now in a toddler bed!!! She fell out several times the first few days, but now

she seems to have it down. If only we could get her to stay in her bed until she falls asleep.. Now THAT would be something right?

Overall, she loves the bed. It's nice to not have to pull her out anymore. :) Hopefully soon, we'll have them in bunk beds so we can add some much neede

d space to their room!!!

For one more picture (at least with this post)... I looked outside one day to see a bunch of birds just sitting on one of the cables coming from our house. (this particular one is our internet). I see them sitting on the rails too. There are several more (I'd say about 5-10 more) that sit out there with these ones, but they flew away the second I opened the curtains. These were the brave suckers.

Count them.. 10.

10 stitches. That's what I have in my right hand. To quickly state what happened, I was cleaning a drinking glass, and it shattered on my hand. So we ended up spending a good deal of our night in the ER. Thanks to a wonderful friend, our girls weren't subjected to it all.. (hey, I almost threw up from what they were doing). They got to stay comfy and warm instead. :) I'll be slow posting here (or anywhere) until I'm comfy with one hand or both hands again. :)

In the meantime, I'm hopped up on narcotics, and not in too much pain!!

Make a Wish

There's not really anything to post pictures of. It rained today. A lot. That's about it. LOL I decorated for Halloween (or well, I started decorating for Halloween). The stuff that usually goes outdoors is now staying inside as we don't have any power outlets outside (bummer), so that's interesting.. hehehe

This is yet another picture from Saturday (sorry, Tim was on duty yesterday so we didn't do anything then either). Kadie had picked a dandelion, and then blew it. Molly wanted it afterward, and I thought I was taking a picture of just her holding it up, turns out, I caught Tim pretending to make a wish on it too. :)

Just The Two of Us...

To be kind to my best friend, I'm trying to make an effort to remember to post on here regularly. To do this, I've GOT to post on here daily. SO.. I'm going to try and post at least one picture per day. We all know I take enough pictures to do this, so this is me trying.

One thing I've been awful about for the past 8 years is getting myself into pictures. I tend to stay behind the camera and not in front of it. It's something I'm trying to correct. So everywhere we go, I now try to get at least one pic of myself or a picture of Tim and I. :) So here's just a picture from yesterday..

There's really not a lot to post about today. I'm on here procrastinating. I need to clean so I can put up some Fall/Halloween decorations, but for some reason, I'm avoiding it. Instead, I'm on here and Facebook, making plans to go to a 100 yen store tomorrow to look for more decorations. Which leads me back to needing to get out what I have so I know what I could use...

Geocaching

Well, for starters, Malakas didn't really hit us hard. It did cause some things to happen, but not much. For us here on the other side of the peninsula, it was just hard rain (not even much wind). I've seen videos and talked to friends who live on base or closer to it, and they got hit a lot harder. It did, however, provide for some pretty big surf today, which brought out all the surfers. It was also VERY clear today, and it ended up being beautiful.

Nice and clear.. You can see Fuji and all the surfers.. The water is even prettier than the view though today. I love all the colors in it.

Since it was so gorgeous out, and we had nothing to do, Tim suggested that we go geocaching. If you don't know what it is, go here. Basically, you are looking for a small thing (object, box, etc) that someone's left for you to find by the GPS coordinates. They have them all over the world, and we actually found out about it shortly after we got to Yokosuka. We've wanted to do it for a while, but something's always come up or it's been too hot/cold to go outside for prolonged periods of time. Today was perfect - it was warm, but not hot, and it certainly wasn't cold. We tried to find about 4 today and only found one, but hey, one is better than none! The girls were VERY excited when we finally found one. We got to trade a small thing for another thing in the cache, and we were all happy (and exhausted). Better than finding the cache though, was going searching for them. We saw places in our immediate area (we didn't go farther than a little over a mile radius from the house) that we didn't even know existed. Beautiful shrines, great views, restaurants, shops, etc. It was a great day.. We walked over to an Italian restaurant about a mile from us and had lunch there. It was pizza all around, and both girls were even happier when we walked about another quarter mile down to the familymart. They got juices and candy there, and that kept them going for the walk (and cache find) on the way back. We really got to see Akiya a lot better, and also got a LOT of views of the BIG surf going on today. Some of it was crazy, and we had at least 20 surfers out there until it got dark tonight. Actually, it's still incredibly loud right now - to the point that it's hard to hear anything other than the surf. We look outside, and in the blackness, you can actually see the white of the surf. :) So yeah, big surf still going on. There will be surfers out tomorrow!

I'm not going to post a lot of the pictures on here because, well, there's a lot. Most of them are on my facebook though, so since I think all of you who read this are on there, check them out!

Or not...

Well, you know as well as I do if I can see Fuji, it's fairly clear outside.. From what I can see now, we won't get hit by Malakas - it's turned away from the Japanese Islands. Good for us, but I'm kind of bummed - we dragged everything in and it's all sitting in my room for nothing! You mean to tell me I risked spiders in my BEDROOM for nada?!?! Oh well!!!! Gorgeous view.. I wish I could describe how clear it is outside right now! Oh wait, I don't need to do that, I can show you pictures from of the rest of our view.. :P


See the land mass alllll the way to the right? That's Endoshima Island (ok, I'm totally guessing, but it's the Island in this bay).. We see that even less often than we see Fuji (ok, we see Fuji a lot). THAT'S when you know it's clear!