Megan and the camera

On our new computer, there is a camera built right in. We got the computer late last night and Megan has so far taken about 500 pictures of herself. Here are a couple.

First Meal out in Japan

We ventured out into Japan today, outside of the base! We rode the base bus up to the front gate and walked right on through, like we knew what we where doing. Our plan, to check out the local yokles and find a place to chow down. So we walked around, taking in the sites, it was a bit different, almost nothing was in English, it was all in Kanji (a type of writing). We saw a couple of places, only one ramen place (they have an orange lantern haning outside of the door). We finally saw a place we though we could go into and eat. Mc Donalds. Yep, we are total sell outs. But even that was a bit scary, again, no English, but there were pictures. Oh, and you don't hand the money to the person, you put it on a tray and they take it. So after out meal (the cashier carried our tray for us to the table) we walked our way back to the base. All in all, pretty good for our first time out I think!

Hopefully we'll be able to post pictures soon, we need to upload the software to our new computer, take care!

What goes well with bacon? BACON!

Probably last post for awhile

So our computer is being shipped over this Thursday and this will be the last post for awhile, at least a month. I'll leave you with some pictures.

Cricket found someone's Hershey Kiss, the big ones that come in a cardboard box.
She likes chocolate.
She ate right through the cardboard and foil to get to the kiss. She is totally my daughter.
And she turned 1 the other day.....I just can't believe it.
She's so awesome! I love you Cricket!

Caves

Both of my girls seem to enjoy caves. Here is Cricket in her cave, inside the house, in a cleared out cabinet. She loves the place and would eat in there if I let her. Please don't mind the huge mess on the counters... it's Paul's fault. Megan's cave is a bit more sophisticated. Paul built it from the butt ton of snow we've had this year...

Cute Picture

This girl will eat anything.

Thanksgiving pig out. I mean dinner. (but really, it was just a pig out)

Where's my food? Seriously mom, stop taking pictures and load up my plate, I'm starving over here!
Get away from my drumstick, I'll knock you upside the head with this thing if you don't back off.
THANKSGIVING TOTALLY ROCKS! A holiday where all you do all day is eat or think about eating....it's offical, I'm in heaven.
FeeDee, get the stuffing off your face. Next time use your spoon, not your fingers.

Thanksgiving prep

Notice Megan with the sharp object in her hand?
Notice Paul with the non-hazardous mass of cranberries?
Yummy!!!! Man, am I a great cook or what? Ok... so I didn't do all of it... Megan did the sweet potatoes and Paul did... well, he did everything else! I did help though... Notice the olives in the background? Well before I "helped", there were too many for the bowl and there was a threat of overflow. Ok... I basically drank wine and bugged the poop out of Paul. I know my strengths and I play to them. :)
Yippie! No more slave labor! Dad, can I leave the kitchen yet?

One Week

Here is Megan last week. Note the sleevesless shirt, capri pants, warm sunshine.

Here is Megan this week. Poor kid!

Cricket Walking

Here is a short video of Cricket walking (just for you mom!)

more pics

San Diego Trip

Here are some pictures from our trip to San Diego. We had a blast, went to Sea World, the Zoo and did lots of sightseeing. Megan and Gracie are now BFF! Maddie fell in love with Charlie, who was so sweet to her, giving her kisses and food!

WE'RE GOING TO CALIFORNIA!

Because I have such a great friend, Megan, Cricket and I are on our way to San Diego next weekend to visit Jess and her family. She just had a baby boy, Jude, and her husband is back from his (hopefully) last deployment.

This is the only pic I could find of her... from the wedding... I know there are more, but I just can't find the disc right now.

Anyway, we leave on the 10th and return on the 15th and we are going to have a blast! Paul is excited because he can be a bachelor for 5 days and eat burritos for dinner everyday... life is good and everyone is happy!

Grape Stomping

We took another trip up to Camden a couple of weekends ago and went to a harvest festival. Paul and Megan got to stomp grapes. Megan was up to her knees in grapes! It was a blast, she didn't want to get out. She and Paul also went up in a hot air balloon, it was tethered, but Megan loved it.

Megan went camping this weekend with a friend and had a blast. She came home exhausted though. It was a quite weekend. Paul took Cricket outside in her playpen and cleaned the yard up. She loves being outside and she was having fun "reading" her books and talking to Dad while he worked.

We're doing great, just getting everything ready to move to Japan. We're trying to decied what to bring with us and what to leave. Lucky for us, Paul's brother Lance and his family are stationed over there right now. Christy has been awesome answering all of our questions. They are leaving not too long after we get there though - we get there in February and they are leaving in May. Still enough time to hang out and have some fun.

Day trip with Megans friends.

We went to Ricker Hill Farm agian this year, this time we got brave and also took two of Megan's friends, Katie and Taylor. We had a great time, although we weren't up to actually going up to the apple orchards and picking apples! We just got the girls a pumpkin each and got apples from the store there!

Cricket had a blast as well, she loves being outside, just like her Dad and was happy to just hang out and enjoy the sunshine.