Since Christmas....

Ok, I was in a hurry and uploaded these backwards
as far as time sequence, so you'll have to forgive me ;)

(2/2/10) This is a picture of the boys out in our BIG snow!
I think it was almost 2 whole inches and that was before
it had started melting.

These pictures are us at park just a couple weeks
ago (1/23/10)

Eli waiting in line for the big slide.

Tony waiting for Eli at the bottom.

Climbing down the mountain.

Dad and Mom had fun too!

I thought this was kind of neat - I think the sign
is for stations throughout the park but I liked it
because Eli is 5 headed to being 6 :)

This is where the sequence would have been
cool if it were correct. This is Tony bumming,
because his moment of peace is over....

Eli had an idea what Tony can do!

Com'on Dad

Eli ending Tony's moment of peace (there's a pic

below of him enjoying that moment..)

Poor Dakota....

Where'd everybody go???

Here we are!

Tony enjoying some peace..

Say CHEESE

Oh...here...let me help.... LOL!

King of the Mountain or Fatherly Love????

My cute boys :)

All my handsome men!
(I love you guys!)

He's not my little boy anymore...well...he is, but
he's just getting taller, oh yeah, and facial hair!

Caught in a spider's web

Always in character (and always playing a game)

Santa ate the (red cake) cupcakes we left for him
(I liked the candle burning so the Santa plate had to
take a "backseat".

Our Christmas tree.
In 1997, Mom and Dad came out to
N.D. to visit us. Mom and Dakota made
a reindeer ornament by tracing their
hands on brown felt. Every year we put it
on the tree - well you can clearly see it in
the middle of our tree and it was hilarous
because I could not figure out why the tree
could not get focused until I downloaded the pics
and saw that the camera had that reindeer ornament
in complete focus!!! Pretty cool....

Beatlemania (10/16/09)

We attended 'Beatlemania' in Tokyo at a hotel contracted out to the American government.
The boys came with us so we could spend the night, swim, and just enjoy being downtown.
Each of the tables were decorated with black and/or white plastic hats, reflective sunglasses with the peace symbol on them, neon bracelets/necklaces, balloons and plastic records with a Beatle hit on it. There was a full buffet line with soups, bread, cheeses, salads, seafood, prime rib, various potatoes, rices, and veggies and of course, desserts. We sat with our friends from base and a couple that they knew.
There's a video so you can here the band. We were told that we were lucky this year b/c this band spoke English beyond the words of the songs and would talk in between some of the songs. Last year, the band spoke no English beyond knowing how to sing the songs.
(The video upload is really bad, but you'll get the idea.)
Oh, and the hotel we stayed at each of the suites have a state's name. The OHIO one was across the hall from us and we could not resist taking the picture. (yes, it would have been really cool if that had been suite but it was the first time we had seen so it was still fun).

The next day before we headed home we went and checked out the park by the hotel.

Our Homeschool Field Trip

We were fortunate enough to get to see one of the helicopters as a field trip.