Is the Week Almost Over Yet?

Its been one of those weeks, although Monday night was nice...Jeff and I went out to dinner, alone....Yes I said ALONE! :c) It was so nice to sit and talk w/out children interrupting or trying to keep the baby entertained. But other than that, its been one of those weeks and I'm asking, "Is the week almost over!? Is it Saturday yet?" I've had a lot of laundry to do, messes to clean up, kids to discipline, diapers to change (Tara has been eating solid foods, so you moms out there know what that means!), and laundry...clean laundry to rewash and refold. Today at lunch Gaber spilled his juice, a full cup of juice, across the table and all over my freshly washed and folded laundry. He thought he could hold the cup with one hand, when daddy and I have told him many times, "Use two hands!" Well, maybe he learned this time that he's not ready to do it one handed. Its just been one of those weeks where I'm super tired, getting headaches and not very patient. I pray for help every morning and I know I'm only making it threw each day because of God's help!
On a different note...Tara is getting close to crawling on her hands and knees. She's been mobile for a while now, she does an inch worm crawl which is very cute, but I can't wait for her to crawl "normally" so that she's not scooting on her belly so much. She spits up a lot still and I think all the scooting on the belly isn't helping. I get nice little piles of spit up all over the floor.
Josiah and Gaber have been doing a great job on their chores. Every morning they have to get dressed, make their beds and brush their teeth. Josiah also has to bring down their hamper for me whenever it gets full and Gaber has to empty the bathroom trashcans. At the end of every night they have to clean their room together and its been looking nice. Jeff and I are so proud of them!
Our trip to Hawaii is almost all planned out which is SO exciting! I never thought I would take a vacation to Hawaii! Our tickets and hotel room are reserved! I can't wait to get there and enjoy some fun family time!
Only 4 more months until we PCS!!!

Happy Father's Day

To my wonderful husband, you are a wonderful dad to our children, I love you honey! (I actually forgot this morning that it was father's day, I was going to get up early and make Jeff a breakfast burrito...I forgot, instead Jeff got up and took care of all the kiddos so I could get ready for church! See, isn't he a great dad and husband!)



To my dad and Jeff's dad, you are both great dads...we love you both and miss you so much! Can't wait to see you all in October!

Random Facts

Here are some more random facts from this week, I did it last week and I think I may try to do this every week, so here it goes...

1. It has rained about 95% of the week
2. The kids and I have been cooped up in this house for about 90% of this week
3. Tara is getting around a little faster!
4. Josiah and Gaber have been fighting a lot more...probably b/c of #2
5. I have lost Tara twice this week (only for about 5 seconds, but still!)
6. Tara, Gaber and I have a cold
7. I just had to get Tara out of Chloe's water dish
8. my life is getting harder b/c of a certain crawler I won't name :c)
9. We ate at Chili's for our anniversary on Tuesday
10.I made pancakes for supper on Wednesday night and for lunch today (left over batter)
11.I am watching Tara as she crawls back towards Chloe's water dish
12.said good bye to some friends who are moving back to the states
13.will say goodbye to more friends this Sunday as they move back to the states
14.wished I could have left before all my friends so we are not the ones left behind
15.made pedicure appointments for Saturday...YaY!
16.talked to my mom on skype twice
17.have now gotten Tara out of the dog's water dish twice
18.had good services at church on Wednesday
19.went to a baby shower and brought a baby girl gift when the mommy to be is having a boy!
20.wiped Tara's nose too many times and had to use the nose sucker on her too many times!
21.have enjoyed the boys brushing their own teeth in the morning and picking out their own clothes...
22.teaching the boys how to match their clothes so when they do #21 they look nice :c)
23.laughed at how they make their beds, they line their animals up just so-so!
24.wondered when my 7 year old will stop crying and act older! yes really!
25.and now I have gotten Tara out of the water for the 3rd time...yiy yiy yiy!

Ok, I think that's it. I need to lay down a certain baby who likes our dog's water for a nap.
:c)

8th Anniversary!

Wow, I can't believe it has been 8 years since we said, "I do". Where did the time go? How in the world do we have 3 kids!!! How did we get to where we are!? Here is a quick recap of the past 8 years...
Got married, moved into our first home together in Oklahoma City, got prego with #1, Jeff joined the Air Force, Jeff leaves for boot camp, I have Josiah, we move to Fairchild AFB in Washington, Jeff goes threw SERE, he gets hurt, move to Keesler AFB in Mississippi, Josiah turns 1, move to Lajes Air Base in the Azores, get prego with #2, move to a new house when 9 mo prego, have Gabriel, Jeff deploys for 5-6 mo, move to Okinawa Japan, get prego with #3, have Tara...and here we are! whew! What a crazy 8 years it has been!

I was thinking last night, what were we doing 8 years ago today? Well, 8 years ago today, right now...I was done getting my hair do, Cindee and I had gone threw McD's to grab some food, I needed some french fries! We were at the church getting our dresses on and doing make-up. I think Jeff and the guys were with the photographer getting their shots done before the ceremony. Here in about an hour I was about ready to walk down the isle and say I do. I seriously can't believe it's already been 8 years. I'm happy that we've made it this long and sad to know that the first years of our marriage are already over.
8 years ago today I didn't know that in 8 years I would be spending my day, my anniversary, with 3 beautiful children, making corn dogs for lunch :c) and listening to the boys argue about Mario Kart. Tonight we will go out to dinner with the kids, we will probably have Chili's. (Our wedding night we ate out at Applebee's). I didn't know that I would be living in Japan or that we would be in the Air Force. I didn't know that I would already have a 7 yr old, a 4 yr old and a 6 mo old. I didn't know that I would be separated from my family for so long and become so dependent on Jeff. As a 19 year old girl I didn't know about how hard marriage would be but how wonderful it is! I've learned so much about marriage, I've learned a lot about Jeff and myself. I know we have both grown a lot and have most definitely grown closer together.
One last thing, I do this every year with Jeff, I like to name off what we've done every year for our anniversary...so here I go...

1st - in Washington, rode over the waterfalls in Spokane
2nd - in Mississippi, went to LA to Six Flags and stayed the night there, some friends of ours watched Josiah for us.
3rd - in Azores, went out to eat at a Italian rest. on the island
4th - in the States, not sure if we were in Florida for Nicole's wedding yet or in Fulton...I can't remember how we celebrated! yikes!
5th - in Azores again, Jeff just back from deployment, ate out somewhere? yikes!
6th - Jeff deployed, not together...celebrated early, went to Garlic house in Okinawa then to Macaroni Grill for desert mmm!
7th- in Okinawa, we were at Okuma with our boys and Jeff's parents
8th - in Okinawa, going to Chili's tonight. :c)

I think the most fun thing we did to celebrate was going to Louisianna by our selves. Maybe next year we can drop the kids off in Fulton and take off somewhere by ourselves again! That would be nice!
I can't wait to see where the next 8 years takes us! I love you Jeff!!!

#15

Yes! #15 was answered!
We had beautiful weather this weekend and so we took advantage of it and did a whole lot of stuff!

Saturday we drove down to the southern part of the island to find a park that I picked out of our Okinawan park book. Well, we could not find that particular park but found another one that was so much fun for all of us. Jeff and the boys had fun going down a huge roller slide that went over some water, Josiah played with some Okinawan kids on a boat that they could ride on from the end of the roller slide to the land on the other side, Gaber did a little of everything and I sat in the shade with Tara watching them all run around. In this park there is a man built stream like thing with a waterfall for the kids to play in to cool off with. So all of us took off our shoes and got in. Tara even seemed to enjoy the cool water, it was hot that day! We took a lot of pictures and videos of our fun day. But........sadly.......our camera was left sitting on the rocks by the stream......*sniff*......and so do all of our memories of our blessed day! We are guessing that is where we left it, that is the last place we remember having it. I can't believe we left it just sitting there. I'm sure someone that day got themselves a nice free camera loaded with pictures and videos of an Amercian family!

Well, moving on...

Sunday we had a great day at church and then right after morning church we took of to a beach that was near Torii beach. Jeff's coworkers had a weight loss competition and the loser of it had to host a bbq, and so that's where it was hosted.
The boys had fun playing in the ocean and at a nearby park, I took Tara down to the water for her first time and Jeff had fun jumping off the seawall with his coworkers. I heard this was a pretty high wall too and they were jumping where the boats come in! I guess one guy got in the way of an oncoming boat and got honked out...pretty smart, huh? This wall was pretty high and so I think most of them are hurting today from hitting the water so hard! Fun times! ha ha
Gaber and I also went seashell hunting and while out we saw this Okinawan guy cutting open sea urchins and getting the meat out from the inside. He would use some kind of weird tool to pull it out and then pull the dark stuff off...I'm trying not to be gross, but it was its guts or something?... of the meat and then put it in his container. It was quite interesting to watch! While standing there watching him, an eel swam by Gaber, but I didn't let him know...I didn't want to scare him! It was a fun day...I was smart and wore sunblock, Jeff on the other hand didn't...my husband who doesn't burn and so doesn't need sunblock, DID burn but is handling it well! :c)

Thought I would share our blessing of #15 being answered....if you are confused, look back at my previous post. :c)
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend as well!
Oh, and obviously no pictures of Tara were taken on her first time at the beach b/c some lucky new owner is probably using it as I type! *I will not get frustrated* I keep saying this to myself, hopefully saying it will help it to come true...I'll let ya know.

Random Facts from this Week

So I don't have a lot to blog about right now, so I thought I would do some random facts from this week. I got this idea from Cindee's blog, she did this a while back.

1. I did 10 loads of laundry
2. We started a chore chart for the boys
3. The boys are excited about the chore chart...for now at least :c)
4. While checking out at the commissary I had to make the boys sit down on the isle floor for fighting
5. After sitting them down I had to separate them for fighting while sitting down
6. I nursed Tara about 25 times :c)
7. I started feeding Tara baby cereal at lunch and supper this week
8. I told Gaber he needs to learn how to wipe his own bottom, at least before school starts!
9. While at the bx I fought the urge to look at baby girl clothes (lol)
10. Told myself I would stop using "lol" so much
11. Didn't blow dry and straighten my hair the other day and now I'm regretting it, my hair looks awful.
12. Watched a little old japanese lady weed eat, I love the hats they wear when they work outside.
13. Wondered if my old navy order will get here soon
14. Took one nap this week, which was interrupted twice by Tara
15. Prayed for nice weather for this weekend, I really want to get out!
16. Went to a baby shower and had to much sugar! I had a headache afterward!
17. Missed my family in the states
18. Played the Wii with the boys
19. Vacuumed and wondered how so much dog hair could come off Chloe
20. Watched Tara try to crawl

Ok, I'm really having to dig for these so I think I will stop now. I think its sad that I really can't remember much of the events from this week! I think that's a mommy brain! *sigh* I need to work on my brain age I think! :c)
The skies are blue right now, maybe #15 will be answered!

Almost Arrested

Well, not really. :c) Just had the police called on Jeff, a missionary and some other guys from our church! Wondering what crime they committed? On Sunday Jeff was at the church acting in a commercial being made for the teen church camp. I'm not sure all they are doing in this commercial, but I know that Jeff is dressing up like he is in S.W.A.T. and they get to use guns...not real guns, but they do look real! So I guess they did some of the scenes in front of our church when some young Okinawan kids walked by and were frightened by what they saw so they ran to a near by neighbor, who I've heard has called the cops on our church before, and so she called the police! Jeff had already came home before anyone knew the cops were called and so when we arrived at church last night we were told that the japanese police came down to see what was going on. I guess they watched the video and just laughed. Thank God! Jeff didn't want his flack jacket (not sure that is what its called or if that's how it is spelled) confiscated nor did they want to be arrested! ha ha So we all got a good laugh out of all of this last night! Who knew making a commercial for our church camp would cause such panic!