A must Share for Sweet Kate

This brought so many tears to my eyes reading her story. Please stop by her amazing website if you can .

Pray For Kate

Her parents have started a wonderful Toy Drive


To bless the kids on the oncology floor of the pediatric hospital (Phoenix Children's Hospital) who are in the
hospital during the Christmas Season with fun gifts & toys!
Such a wonderful idea! Click here to find out more.

Please share with your family and friends, so we can help make this effort a successful one!

Cheeseburgers in Paradise

Hows that for a CHEESEY title???


(Sesoko Island Bridge)

Well the weather has been beautiful here in Okinawa for the past few days , didn't last long though , the rain is back.
We enjoyed the nice temps over the weekend by having a BBQ with our neighbors. The babies had a blast hanging out after dark and especially liked the music and the Tiki torches..

We decided to head up north a bit since it was so nice out. I had read about a hamburger place called CAPTAIN KANGAROOS and wanted to give it a try . So glad we did! It was the best burger we have had since we landed on this rock!

It was not very BABY friendly , we sat on couches and ate at coffee tables , So it was a task to hold on to him , next time we go we will be bringing his little chair for sure. Ja says we have to go up that way and grab a burger at least once a month ..haha

few random pics from inside






One of the burgers

Austins Chicken and fries

When done there we headed over to Sesoko Island one of our favorite spots on Island.
There is not much there it is just smaller island off of the main one. The beaches are always less crowded and the water is beautiful , shells are usually abundant . So it was a fun afternoon walking on the beach for us. Preston seemed to love it this time now that he is older. I even put his feet in the sand :)
He loves when Daddy lifts him up in the air!

I <3 <3 this pic !!!

The kids are out for the rest of the week here and I am sure we will be busy. Lots of Cub Scout activities this week including a Vetrans Day Flag ceremony.
Hope everyone has a awesome week where ever you are !

My Monkey and Mummy Mohawk boys

Thankfully I took these few pics a couple of days before Halloween. Otherwise I wouldn't have any, due to terrible weather! In Austins 9 years of Trick or Treating it had never rained..oh yea BECAUSE we lived in Arizona and not on a dern tropical island! We didn't keep the boys out very long because we were all getting soaked and Preston was fit to be tied having to be in his stroller with the top down , when he could here all the commotion around him! I did get to take him to a few doors and he was all smiles . Austin had his buddy Tyler with us and they were more concerned with going to the SLAUGHTER HOUSE afterwards. Needless to say we paid 25 bucks and only Tyler and I made it through ... it was pretty scary!!!







Well just a quick share of my little tricksters ..off to try and watch some of the SAINTS game . My dad's family lives there and they are all HUGE fans! Weird to be watching MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL on a Tuesday morning! Wish I was there at my dads with the rest of them:(

Have a great week everyone!

End of Oct. , REALLY?

I can not believe we are nearing the end of October all ready! Where did this month go? All the cute ghosts and monkeys will be out soon :)
It rained cats and dogs here this weekend. Kind of a nice change though we got to bundle up in coats and all ..when we went out. You know mid 70's to us on this island is FREEZING ..haha

We had a busy weekend with lots of birthday parties . 2 of my good friends both had little guys turning 1. Preston had tons of fun and partied it up till about 11 pm that night. No crying or anything I was super impressed!Here he is with his Pretty Princess girlfriend Zoey at Roberts party. This is his new KISSY FACE he constantly makes, we think its just too cute!

Before the rain we had a nice weekend with lower temps and we decided to take the boys to the Okinawa Children's Zoo. We hadn't been there yet . It was a fun a morning. Not a zoo like we are used to back home but it worked. I was laughing at the fact that there were roosters and peacocks in glass cages , don't those usually run around free at zoos?



Austin liked the alligators and the hippos we got pretty close to both of those .



Oh and I wanted to show you these. Okinawan Fruit bats. They are everywhere here , we have them in our trees in our front and backyards , they are more common here than birds!


And this , well the Japanese have some seriously funny signs all over the place here but this one takes the cake! Posted out in front of the Tigers cage!



Preston got his first ride on a Choo Choo train and loved it





My babies

And somewhere in the middle of the busy weekend I managed to watch this movie twice!!! So dern funny!



Looks like it will be another busy weekend ahead , with Halloween coming up(hoping we get to a haunted house with Austin ) and I am having a Scentsy Party. Gotta get planning the food for this one.

Before I go I took these when he turned 8 months!










Hope your weekend was good one!

I want my wisdom teeth BACK!

Oh what the heck was I thinking! I have had my wisdom teeth that were not causing me any PAIN for years now. I go to the dentist here and he says Oh those bad boys should have come out LONG AGO and was all dramatic about it. So they schedule me to have all 4 removed. No worries , right? Everyone I talk to said piece O CAKE!

WRONG WRONG WRONG

I have to be the exception to the norm , ya know? I have been in excruciating pain for a week and high as a kite on percocet. I pretty much slept for a week ! Still have no idea what is causing the pain it is not the holes left in my mouth at all , its my upper right and lower right jaw, it kills. Pounding pain all the way into my ear and down my neck , then my jaw gets so freaking tight, that I can hardly open my mouth. Ja took me in last thursday and they were closed for TRAINING! But I did get to see the DOC on call , lucky me! He starts out by telling me he is a pediatric dentist and doesn't have much experience with adult extractions! OH MY WORD ..at this point I wanted to shoot someone. So he treated me as if I were going to get a dry socket and stuffed it full of that grotesque smelly crap and then proceeded to give me a shot that made me cry! Neither did a DERN THING!!! I went home and took 2 more percocets and a motrin and knocked out. I continued that through the weekend...
Here we are on Tuesday and I am still hurting all though not near as bad ..just praying it goes away all together so I can function again! Poor Preston , has barley seen me in a week!

Speaking of my SWEET P
Hard to believe he is approaching 8 months (20th)




He got his first tooth 2 days before I got all mine yanked out..kinda funny..
He is working on a second one now.
He is pulling up on everything in site
He is FINALLY crawling
He is still waking up at least once a night
He is such a joy to us!

Austin has been keeping busy with school and doing well ! He got 2 A's and the rest B's on his first report card. He really likes his teacher Mrs. Haynes and seems to be enjoying the 4th grade.
Here he is with his ROBOT he had to create for a BOOK REPORT this weekend. They had to make a life size paper doll on their main character...his turned out pretty cool!






That was about all the crafting that has taken place in this house .. I still need to finish my houses , hope to start feeling better soon ..SO that maybe before HALLOWEEN they will be done haha!
For now they still lay on the table looking like this


Hey I did manage to get a new banner up on this blog , did ya notice?
Hope every ones week is off to a great start!

Making changes....

Please excuse my NON MATCHING blog at the moment, I am in the process of redoing it for fall , but ran out of time ! Hopefully I can get it and my Halloween houses done and posted here soon!

Unbelievable!

Ok so everyone fears something and anyone who knows me well knows I am terrified of Lizards! I can handle spiders, roaches, most other types of creepy crawlies but LIZARDS , GECKOS what ever the heck you call them I am running the other direction and my heart is beating out of my chest!

So living on this tropical island has turned into a bit of a challenge for me , I am constantly looking for them in my house , after having lived here for a year and maybe seeing one..now all of a sudden I have seen 3 in a month!They have been in our bathrooms , so I assume they are coming in the drains or vents , which is so not making me happy! They don't usually stand a chance against my BROOM! I know that sounds horrid ...BUT when you are THAT AFRAID you just want the suckers dead!!!

So onto my UNBELIEVABLE STORY

Katie a friend of mine and our babies are out shopping on base. We are in the baby section of course , because we all know our babies dont have enough clothes ..lol.
I am looking at a rack of new Carters Jammies they got in , nice snuggly fleece Jammies. When I let go of a pair on the rack I feel something hit me on my chest , It was as if someone across the room FLUNG some rubbery thing at me , I stopped a second because as far as I know it was just me and Katie back here... well I feel something move and look down and its a damn LIZARD a BIG LIZARD , Fat and brown and OH MY GAWD , I am soon screaming and yelling and jumping around with my arms in the air ..he falls off and runs somewhere I run the opposite direction, Towards the COACH purses OF COURSE! Leaving my poor little angel in his car seat , he was scared half to death by my screaming and was crying big crocodile tears , thankfully Katie rescued him since mommy was no wear to be found!

Needless to say I will be shopping online for a while!
Oh what day that was.....