Training

Molly working with him.

Well... Tim loves his dog.. He runs around with him, and he spends a good chunk of his time these days working on training him.. Here's the thing though - he's not the only one, Molly LOVES it too..

Puppy Hugs!!

Ok.. Daddy can help get Buster to shake!

On the bright side..

No matter what age.. chocolate is always good.

-Sarah (who can't figure out why it says Tim posted this).

Summer Nights

Four kids and their own pizza. Super kawaii!!!!! (and I didn't tell them to do that).

Just a quick post as I only have a minute in between movies. I love Summer nights. I love nights where the kids get to have friends sleep over.. (and their parents get a night to themselves).. I love watching kids in a BIG pizza party, and love that they're now having a movie night!

All ready for a sleepover!

ER Trip

A lot of you already know (you know, the two 12 people who read this blog.. lol), but last night, our Summer took a little bit of an unexpected turn. The girls were already laying down, Tim and I were both feeling a bit under the weather, so we headed to bed too. We were in our room when we heard a blood curdling "DADDY!!!!!!" coming from Molly. Tim ran out there, and by time I got out there, there was blood all over Molly's feet. Kadie was standing next to her door, crying and saying she didn't mean too. Tim took a look at her foot and told Kadie to get dressed, and then told me she needed to get to the ER. Thank GOD we live on base BTW. :)

We took her in, and Molly is fine. She was SUCH a trooper in there last night. Hysterical for about the first hour, but what do you expect? She was in a LOT of pain. About the time where she started to calm down from the pain and being scared of being in the hospital, she actually SAW her foot, and it started all over again. She had 3 x-rays of her toe taken, and she did fabulous during x-rays, not moving her foot so she wouldn't have to have more pictures taken. You could tell how afraid of the equipment she was, but she continued to just push through all of it.

We got back from the x-rays, and the doctors came to see her. They determined before the x-rays even came back that her toe didn't look broken. (Tim and I both thought it was - it was REALLY curved inward.. I learned something new about my daughter last night - the same toe on each foot curves in like that). They did wait for the x-rays to be absolutely certain though. After that, they said they were going to send the corpsman back in to clean up her feet.  They COULD give her some injections to numb up the toe while they did that, but the injections would be more painful (and traumatizing) than just making her grin and bear it. So that's what we did, she didn't get pain meds while they cleaned up her foot. Talk about a trooper, she sat there and while she did cry and whimper, she just took it. We had our ipad with us, and she played with that. Tim said it was obvious that she was in a lot of pain while they were doing it, but she did her best to keep herself distracted. By the end of the night, we found out that her toe has a big laceration (it looks like about half the nail was ripped off), and is very bruised. They dressed it and then wrapped her whole foot up in an ace bandage that has to stay there for a few days. I told the doctor there was NO way she'd keep it on, and he said to try, but if it came off, considering her age, it came off. No harm, no fowl. Just to make sure to keep that foot clean. (so no backyard playing for her.. lol). Shockingly, while she HATED the dressing at first, she was distracted by the ipad, and has kept the dressing on. Last night, we called it a boo-boo sock and told her not to take it off because it's keeping her big boo boo from getting more boo boos, and she's been alright with it on ever since. 

relaxing with Daddy this morning.

This morning, she's still kind of out of it. She's slowly coming out of her shell, but she's still baby'ing the foot. It'll probably be a day or so before she wants to put weight down on it, and honestly, I don't blame her one bit! I'm so proud of how she did in there - she was scared, but just kept on chugging through last night!

chilling out and playing Ipad!!

Buster

So most of you know, we adopted a dog last week - a jack russell terrier named Buster. He's a ball full of energy, and we absolutely love him!

In other news, Kadie is sleeping over at a friend's house tonight. She was SO excited to get asked (after they sat together at the theater to see Cars 2) that she started jumping up and down. In the meantime, we totally broke Molly's heart, and she cried for both Kadie AND Ashlynn the whole ride home. She's happy now though, so we're hoping she doesn't notice when they come to pick up Kadie's stuff for the night. :P

Tim may or may not be leaving tomorrow. That's really up in the air, and I'm REALLY annoyed to not know the answer to the question. BUT, that's Navy life, there's not much you can do about it. In the meantime, I'm enjoying whatever time they let me have my husband home with me. :) Right now? My first Chicago style deep dish in the oven.. I'll tell you later if it turns out. 

Monday Blues

One of our last pictures before Tim left and we moved. :)

So this is me trying to get back into the swing of things. (hey look, two days in a row.. woot woot). Not too much happened around here today.. Mostly more unpacking.. Yay.. LOL We saw a friend this morning for some coffee, and that's about the most exciting part of the day! Today was kind of a boring one, but I did get a lot done.. It's a Monday blues kind of day, but you know, it's the last Monday of school! No pictures from today, but since I've haven't been around, I have loads to post. :)

Ok, so this is a chicken noodle salad thing that my friend gets from 7-11 here. Yeah, we eat 7-11 food - it's pretty tasty. Ha! Anyhoot, she brought two containers of it over here last week, I stole the second one, and I am now obsessed with this stuff. It's YUMMY!!!!

Living on base already has it's advantages. This was about a week or so ago, but I was watching a friend's daughter for her while she went to roller derby practice with the Yokosuka Sushi Rollers! The girls were playing outside, and decided to come in for popsicles, they weren't the only ones though, another friend of theirs followed in suit! Pretty soon, I had a house full of girls giggling along to whatever it was they were watching!

-Sarah

Well Then...

Well, who knew.. I was so determined to keep up with this, and I've totally fallen behind. We have had a lot going on in the past few months. After we got back from the States, Tim got word that HE was going back to San Diego for a school. The girls and I had planned on going with him, but due to circumstances, we were unable to go. Instead, the girls and I said goodbye to our little Japanese house, and moved on base!

That's pretty much where we are. Tim is in San Diego attending a school back there. He's had a chance to hang out with some friends and see both of our families. I really hope he gets to see more, but honestly, I'm a little jealous of everyone who's gotten to spend time with him. I miss my husband, and I just want him back home.


The girls and I are just getting everything settled in at our new house on base. We are in a townhouse, and I'm SO happy we chose to move back here. Everything is SO much more convenient - plus, we're saving SO much in just gas and tolls! LOL We are enjoying our location and our neighbors - I just need a little more time to unpack! :)

Molly enjoying her OWN room!

Last week, Kadie and I went out to Jogashima Island. Thank goodness for my amazing friends - one of them watched Molly all day for me while I went with Kadie. We basically took a nice little hike to some tidepools. The kids saw fish, crabs, and sea anemones - they were happy. Kadie was content with picking up shells to take home. LOL She was really happy that her best friend's class was there too, so she hung out with us all day. Overall, while it was hot, it ended up being a pretty awesome day.

Kadie and I on our way back to the bus.

That's it for now. I've got so much more to say, but considering I just got a carload full of more boxes to unpack, I have way too much to do already! Hopefully, I'll start keeping up with this again!

-Sarah