Keeping it real

Okay, the challenge is keeping it real.

Take one picture of yourself right now, NO PRIMPING!!! Just do it and post it on your blog!!!


Here's my keeping it real. The breakfast table at 10:30 a.m.
First picture I took of myself. Not bad, I guess. I took like 20 after and they were hideous!

Alli playing wii in her jammies
Jason playing wii. He's always dressed and ready for the day. He's been wearing this orange bracelet for a couple weeks now. It says Nerf on it, I think it came in a Subway kids meal.
Both of Alli's top front teeth are very very very loose! One is so loose that she does this. She's so funny. This is her being real....ly silly.My desk being real... My orchid is dying. I always kill plants but I try so hard. I am usually successful at viney ones unless someone puts them outside in the direct sun. LOL
Now I must clean the house.

Did take the kids to Mona kids jungle again yesterday. NOthing new, no new pics. They enjoyed 3 hours of sweaty kids play.

Today we are going to go putt putt golf at the community center (it's free!), mail Easter cards which are going to be late, but they made me fill out customs forms for all of them. (yesterday...LOL). Gotta get groceries, which is NOT fun. I am hoping the movie store has Yes, Man with Jim Carrey as I need some laughs tonight!!!!

Tomorrow we are hoping to go to Botanical Gardens!!!!!!!! Never been there fut it sure sounds like fun!

Fabulous!

It’s been such a fabulous journey getting to know God. It’s amazing how much different everything looks through my new eyes.

When I started this journey to Okinawa, I can say that I was less than thrilled. In Missouri, I got to meet Christian women and really connected with them. Coming here I felt cut open by the fact that this would be my first base that I don’t know anyone, having to find my place among Christian women, and just finding Christian women, it was all so very intimidating.

I found PWOC through the website the night before the summer kick off in 2008. I fell in love. In love with God’s presence, in love with the idea of being with Christian women, and eventually in love with all the fabulous women!

I almost feel in shock. Before Christ I would meet someone who I thought would be great, I would give all the “me” I had and ALWAYS got hurt very badly. So I still find myself almost poking these fabulous women. Almost waiting for the “bubble” to burst. How could such greatness exist in a person, especially in women? It’s just not happening. There is no bursting bubble. These women are 100% real and in love with Jesus, just like me!

Don’t get me wrong, I do know that we all are sinners. But I can see Christ in them and through them. I’ve never felt this thing because it’s almost unexplainable.

So today after the PWOC board meeting, we all went to the little café called “Café Latte”. So cute, and they had pancakes for Jason AND HE ATE THEM!!! There were 6 ladies and Jason in a booth that was so comfortable and close. It was the best time I have had outside my family, since we’ve been on Okinawa! I never wanted it to end. It only seemed like 10 minutes but I know it was longer than that because when we left I had to run to the post office and pick Alli up from school.

I feel like we are all flowers. Some are different colors, some different shapes. Some don’t like too much water, some do. In the end we are all flowers who NEED God, our sun, to live and grow.

My day was fabulous. And I must admit that I am so very thankful that God has sent us to Okinawa, he’s so fabulous!

I would have cried like a baby!

So this is what Jeff does at work for fun. Well not for fun actually. Of course he didn't cry or whimper the slightest because it's not "manly" to let anyone else know that it hurt. I probably wouldn't have passed out.

Oh yeah and what happened, he was using a mallet of some sort and missed one time. He kept right on pounding away after that.

It's a guy thing.

Beach

It's been awhile since we've been to the beach so the kids and I went yesterday. It was low tide so we got to walk on the corral and see a few sea animals.

This is a GROSS sea cucumber. When we first got here and went to the beach for the first time, Jeff and I both stepped on one. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW I am not excited about low tide swimming.

A sea urchin (sp?)
Watching the sunset. Alli was cold because she had a fever. Jason was cold because he ran in the water and sat down.

aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

This is a huge cruise liner that I zoomed all the way to see.
My best sunset picture thus far. I'm sure I'll have more before we leave.

Good night Okinawa.

Baby Kimono

My dear friend Kenda recently had a baby girl whose name is Catherine. I thought I would make the babe a kimono since we are in Japan. I used flannel instead of silky fabric because it has to be comfy ya know?

Here are some pics and one of Alli being silly!

Dogs

Today the dogs finally got a pigeon! The pigeons are constantly eating their food and bathing in their water. We tried to get the dogs to use an attachment that goes on the spiket, but they don't seem to get it.

We also had to get Kelly a bigger bed. She's such a nerd.

Okinawan Honey

We have been sick just about the entire time we've been here. So I got some Okinawan honey to try. They even had blueberry honey which is very very good!