Happy New Year!

So I meant to come here a couple days ago and post a blog about all that's happened in 2010. It was an amazing year for our family - complete with amazing trips to Disneyland, moving, flights to Japan, and places around this amazing country. Saying tearful goodbyes and making new friends. It was an adventure to say the least, and 2010 treated us really well. We're hoping that 2011 is even better even though I'm not really sure how it could get any better than it's already been. :)

That being said, here's an update on us. Tim's on leave.. YAY!!! It's not long (actually, under a week..), but we're enjoying what we do have. Or well, I keep reminding myself WHY he took such a short leave. :P In the meantime, we had a great Christmas and a laid back New Year.

We started to try to venture into Kamakura today, but Kadie didn't have her passmo card with her, so we ended up coming back here. In the meantime, we had lunch at Johnathan's which is a chain here. It was OK - not my fave by far, but it wasn't bad either. The girls ate some new things, so that's ALWAYS good! Kadie's plate had some rolls on it - she actually ate one. I was pretty shocked. LOL Molly had some curry, but didn't eat much of it (not that shocking). I just had a ramen bowl and Tim had some beef with eggs and rice.

I hope everyone had a wonderful and safe holiday season this year. I realized this morning that it was going to be the first year EVER that we didn't watch the Rose Parade. Kind of weird right? LOL :) Oh well!!!! I'm honestly just happy that we are all healthy here. Tomorrow, we should be heading to the Enoshima aquarium (even though Kadie's supposed to be in school). I'm really excited to go as we've wanted to go there for a while, so I think it'll be a fun trip!

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