Jimmy is home!!!!! We are all so thrilled. Juli is warming back up to him. I guess in her eyes, he was really gone! We went and picked him up Tues night, he grabbed Juli to give her a hug and she cried and reached for me. It broke my heart. They were really close before he left. At the end of the night she ran into his arms, i know that made him feel better. The older kids of course didnt forget him and had 100 things to tell him.

I went to try and go to the gym this morning, upon dropping Juli off, i noticed what looked like small bug bites on her arm. Well by the time i dropped her off, they were down both arms, legs and 3 big ones on her face. So i took her to the Dr and they told me it looks like chicken pox. They cant rule it out so we need to treat it as such. I feel aweful for her, but this would totally explain her high fevers. We have to close our co op down tomorrow until we can get in there on Sat to bleach it. Luckily its my turn to help, so i dont feel as bad.
Thats about it here in a nut shell. I need to make sure i have everything ready for the fall festival tomorrow. Ive been dipping into my stash =/.

Jimmy wont be coming home tomorrow =(. Im so bummed. It seems someone forgot to book their tickets @@. This training was only planned back in July, Gee you think thats enough time? Guess not. He will be home Monday night, which isnt bad, but Sunday would have been better.

He is also going to look into us getting our extra extension taken off, the extra 3 months we extended so he could go to Afghanistan, since he isnt going, i dont see why it should be a problem. But im not getting my hopes up. Until i have those orders in my hand, i just will keep on with our late date.

The kids and I hung out today. I helped them clean their rooms, MY clean. It went well and now we can walk with out injury to our feet! Juli is something else. I now have all knives put up. Her first fascination was the steak knives, then it was the butter knives, wtf?? She is trying to be so big. She gets diapers and wipes out to "change" her baby, only she wipes the face of her baby lol.

Her nasty thing she does at the kids is she spits. I have no idea where she learned it. I cant wait for the 2's! I dug in my pics and found one of Juli from last year at this time, to compare to now

Cute and clean

My dirty dirty girl lol

Tacky Neighbors

I swear i hate when people don't keep up their yards. I live next to someone who has just let their yard go and it grosses me out. They leave their nasty trash out. Trash came twice this week and they missed it both times! The animals get into it and make a mess, i have to look at it and that is just nasty. Is it that hard to put it in the trash can? Goodness! How about keeping your yard nice? Mowing it so it looks decent and not like we are living in a trashy area. We have another neighbor who is new and lives on the corner, and i swear she is just white trash. Her outside of the house looks like it anyways. I don't judge, but i hate for my court to look like crap. People put trash out to the curb days before trash day and it just looks down right awful. There are rules for a reason and I'm tired of going around telling these grown ass adults to follow them. We are the "block rep". We were appointed @@, Do you think anyone follows the rules? Nope, housing doesn't in force them so who cares! Here is my next door neighbors house, we share a walk way/ porch @@ My house is the edge of the wall with the flowers. Isn't it nice to walk out your door and see that crap? The stupid inspector didn't end up giving them a ticket. He needs to be fired. I need to have his job. Vent over

Tug of War

We got news this week, the final news. Jimmy my husband, is not getting deployed! He re injured his back while training. Last year he had a herniated disc removed in his back, Well now he has 3 compressed vertebrates. He is looking at getting a lovely metal rod put in his back. He has still not quick training and finished it out to the end even though he isnt going!

Ive been really busy again this past week. I made up 2 baskets. One for our friend who retired this past Monday and the other for a donation to the kids school for their Fall Festival.

I think they are pretty cute.

We went to the Tug of War today down in Naha. It was a blast!!! Juli ended up being and getting sick which sucked but she hung in there, littlerly, in my mei tai lol. Both of the bigger kids did the tug of war. We went down with our Japanese friends from here and another family we are friends with. Taylor got dressed in a kimono. And i think she looked cute!

Our friend Tamaki was in the picture with her. Here are some more pics.

One guy balanced these huge poles. For every so long it stayed in the air and didnt fall, they set off fire crackers.

This was 1/2 the rope, long as crap!

Juli was pissed but the guy wanted to take a pic with her lmao

We got to cut the rope too, look how much we came home with! Its for good luck they say!!

This past week has been a busy one! I'm down right exhausted.

Miss J ended up just having a virus, that lasted 24 hrs. The dr's were thinking it was possible from all her mosquito bites she had, she gets horrible reactions from them, but there is no way to tell. She is fine now and working on getting bigger everyday. She has mastered climbing our baby gates, so there goes those! Her newest thing, which I'm in love with is, her baby. She found T's water baby in her room and brought it down stairs the other day, she rocks it saying shhh shhh and kissing it, with the kiss sounds and all! I gave her baby a blanket and she makes sure her baby is always covered. I will find her baby on the couch, on a pillow covered up ;). Today she found a purse in T's room and was so happy when she brought it down stairs. So when we went to the commissary, we took, baby, her purse and shopped lol.

I laid her down from nap today and she had swiped a dinosaur from A's room, she was having it "attack" me, then when that was done, she put it to sleep, on her daddy's pillow, covered it up and gave it tons of kisses. I love this girl.



J has been calling me everyday which is nice. He hurt his back and is going in for an MRI tomorrow. I'm praying for him, since this may drop him from the team. I know how badly he wants to go. He says there is a reason for everything, and if he gets dropped, that there was a bigger reason, he just wish he new. but no one knows Gods plans~ I will be happy to have him home, of course but i know that's not what he wants. Its so hard. I guess we will find out soon.



The older kids are keeping me busy as always, sports games and practice are kicking my butt. I got up at 5am, yes 5am to sign T up for cheer leading. My friend Claudia did it as well, she came and sat at the house so i could sign T up. There are only 30 slots and last year i was too late, so we went as soon as the gym opened, since the kids didn't have school either, we knew it would get busy early. Of course no one was there at 5 lmao. We were the first 2. The things we do for our kids.

Things are just more awesome around here @@ my freaking cat Tink i just got declawed a few weeks back, from the vet, so now we are combating this. It never ends here. No wonder im tired. There is no time for rest lol.

The kids have a fall festival at the end of the month for school and they were looking for home business to donate a basket with products. So i sent an email inquiring about it. My friend Claudia was telling me how i got a table at the festival. I was surprised lol since i never said i was donating yet. I freaked. I didn't want to make a bunch of tarts that i may get stuck with in the end if they didn't sell, so my friend is going to split the table with me. I'm excited cause now i can get my name out there even more. A lot of people know about me on island and that im on this base but I'm not sure they know how to get a hold of me =0)

The kids daddy dolls came in today, they are cute. I have to ask J tomorrow when we are giving them to the kids.

here are some pics

Yup, she's over

The daddy doll, it has a voice recorder so he can record something special for each of the kids. The backing of the dolls are each different. Green Digi for A, Pink Camo for T and American Flag for J