Cake!

The girls love to bake and they love to celebrate birthdays! Birthdays are way more fun when you have them to celebrate with you. Nate's birthday was in November and mine was in February, here are our cakes that they worked so hard on.

Halloween 2014

We had a blast on Halloween! The base opens up and allows Japanese nationals to come on base and trick or treat (Japanese people do not door to door trick or treat). With all the kids on base its basically a huge Halloween party! People go all out with decorations and costumes which made it so fun. My friend Kaycie and I did not plan matching costumes but it was so fun trick or treating as an Egyptian posse with the kids.  I didn't get any good action shots of the kids trick or treating, those girls were a blur running from door to door!

The girls met Ariel at TokyoDisney Sea and have been star struck ever since. The wig did not last very long but we had some fun with it!

We did one simple pumpkin so they could help and then Daddy surprised them with an Ariel pumpkin design!

Ready to get some candy!!!

The Egyptian Posse! Do you see Aaron and Reagan in the corner? That was the clearest picture of those two from the night!

We were asked several times by Japanese parents if they could take a picture of their kids with the Egyptian Posse!

This was a picture from a Halloween party we went to the weekend before. Our friends have a Karaoke machine and everyone had a blast singing in costume!

Nate and Jordan won the costume contest! Gift card to the NEX, score!

A Karaoke shot, Kaycie is an amazing singer and I like to be her backup.

I can't wait for Halloween in Japan next year!

Sumo

Last Friday we took the girls to see Sumo in Tokyo. It is an all day event, starting at 8am and ends at 6pm, but the best matches are towards the end of the day.  We picked up Aubs from school and made it to the sumo stadium around 3:00 to see our first match.  The girls actually got really into it and were cheering for their favorite color Sumo wrestler. Nate and I really enjoyed watching it and could have been there all day but 3 hours was the perfect amount of time for the girls to experience it and have fun! The matches in the last hour were very intense.  There were apparently some big upsets because a few times the fans sitting on tatami mats were flinging the cushions towards the ring! Sumo in Tokyo was an unforgettable, once in a lifetime experience!!

Summer in pictures

After we got back from Australia Uncle Ben came to visit for two weeks. We had a lot of fun spending time with him and showing him as much of Japan as we could. After that we had one week with Daddy before he left for sea. He is still gone but we are counting down the days until he gets home, its almost here! Below are pictures of some of the things we have been doing during this HOT summer and in between the chaos of travel, visitors, and daddy gone.

Showing Uncle Ben the Sushi Go Round!

Making our own Sushi at home. Ben climbed Mt. Fuji a few days before and didn't wear sunscreen!

Robot Restaurant in Tokyo. Yea its as crazy as it looks!

Only in Japan

Yokohama Baystars Baseball game! Such a fun game!

Aubrey and I took Ben to see Enoshima Island. 

Had a really fun 4th of July celebration in Yokosuka.

Princess sparklers

4th of July concert, the band was awesome!

A few days before Daddy left we went on a beautiful hike just around the corner from where we live.

Nate took the girls to see his room on the ship. They thought his bunk bed was so cool(its really not).

Parks in Japan are the coolest!

Sleeping sisters at the New Sanno

Summer Festival at Reagan's school

Reagan and Sensei Sato

Uraga Beach where you can find so many treasures!! 

We brought home buckets of sea glass, pottery, and shells.

Kamakura Lantern Festival

Mommy went Zip Lining with her super hero friends!

Night Zoo with the neighborhood

End of VBS Week!

Ready for our Pikachu hunt in Yokohama!

The mac daddy of all Pikachu's! Japan can get weird y'all but its so fun!

I came outside to find them under the playground, under an umbrella where they proclaimed "mommy look we are sun tanning!!" 

Pool day in Zushi

Swim lessons with Miss Trix!

Disney on Ice with Jordan & Aaron our favorite Texan-Japanese friends!

Dare to Dream was a really great show! Mostly in Japanese but still magical for us Americans.

Missing our Daddy is probably what we did most.