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!

OOPS!

So, I was reading a forum I frequently visit, and read a friend's siggy that links to her blog. It made me realize I haven't posted on here in a WHILE. Sorry about that!

To make it all as short as I can, we've been really busy. Between all of our activities, I guess this just slipped through the cracks. SO. We had a good Thanksgiving. Actually, better than good, it was perfect for our little family. Tim had duty on Thanksgiving, so we celebrated a day late, but it was wonderful. On Thanksgiving, the girls and I celebrated with some old friends and some new ones. Everyone brought a dish, and we had a pretty good spread! The girls had a blast playing with the other kids, and I just had fun chatting with everyone. :) Then on BF, I DID hit up a few of the sales on base. Insane, I might add, so I won't be doing it again. However, from that, we got a nuwave oven, and that thing is just awesome. LOL Needless to say, we're pretty happy we got it.

Kadie is still in cheer, and has asked to do indoor cheer as well. She LOVES it. It's bringing her out of her shell, and you'll constantly hear her yelling out her cheers.

Molly is.. well.. Molly. LOL

Tim's ship is out of dry dock and is gearing up to be seaworthy again. We're happy that they are out of dry dock because it means we're that much closer to being out of 4 section duty, however, we're also pretty upset because it means he'll be gone again. Here's to hoping that his schedule stays the same - it's pretty good right now. :)

For me, I started going to zumba classes today. That's about it. LOL

Landmark Tower

Is really tall..

We went to Yokohama today, and had an absolute blast. I'm tired though, and will definitely be posting more pictures later. :) To make the long day short, we're pretty sure we saw President Obama being flown from Yokohama to Ikego. We went up an elevator that takes you up 69 floors so fast you're literally dizzy when you get off. We found build-a-bear. Ate at Hard Rock. Shopped (even found the Disney Store - yes Amanda, there's a Disney store not too far away)!!! Overall, we just had a GREAT day!

Blue Cheer

One is blue and one is excited to cheer...

Happy Halloween

Just wanted to add a couple of pictures from last night.






Without costumes, we had to make do with what we had. Luckily, a while back, I decided not to depend on our mail system here because I heard it slows down a lot right now. So I picked up a couple of faerie costumes for the girls. Now, Molly's was cute, but missing wings, and Kadie's was just plain ugly. LOL I altered Kadie's a bit (more like I only used bits and pieces of it and added a petti and tee), and added some butterfly wings to Molly's that we've had for a while.

Tim and I ended up being a politician and his wife. (and trust him, his shirt even said he was a politician. LOL). In that process, I also discovered I don't own much in terms of anything conservative. (oops).

Wind!

Last week, CFAY called TCCOR 4.. Shortly after, we were 3, then 2, then 1. We were supposed to be hit by Typhoon Chaba, and we were supposed to be hit dead on. (the eye should have passed over us). They totally freaked out anyone and everyone who was new to the base this year, and we were all expecting a big show. What did we get? No more rain than we're used to.

It ruined the Halloween carnival being held on base on Saturday - they canceled it. Mail was delayed thanks to it, so we had to wear back up costumes instead of the ones we'd planned on. It didn't even start raining again until last night.. And then it was POURING. When I say pouring - I've come to love the rain, it soothes me normally. It actually woke me up last night, and then, over the loudspeakers that are throughout the city (I'm guessing country, but I can only speak for what I know), they started warning the residents. I've heard it go off once or twice before, but it's ALWAYS in Japanese - last night, I heard it in English. (heard it again this morning too). Turns out, we had a severe thunderstorm hitting us last night. Not really bad - I was awake for another hour or two and didn't see any lightening (sad day), but it was raining sheets and sheets of HUGE drops.

Fast forward to tonight. The wind has been insane all day. I've actually come down with a little bug, and didn't feel well enough to realize there was a camera in the house until tonight. So there's a picture I took of a palm tree. Keep in mind that the shutter speed is quick enough for my hands to get an in focus picture, so seeing that much movement in the palm tree is pretty amazing! Now, all of this (crazy waves too, remember that it looks like a lake out there most of the time), while our only advisory (not even warning, just advisory), is Gale force winds.. LOL