News from Japan

Ryan says that if I post today everyone will think that we're announcing the arrival of our new baby. This is not the case. No new baby yet, but we do have some fun pictures to share before the baby takes center stage.

Here are all of my favorite woodworkers with their protective eye wear on. I wonder if Ryan feels left out because his don't come in pink or purple tone.

Here is a picture from last month when it was warm at the park.

Is there anything as great as being a kindergartner? I ask again. You get to make crowns and your teacher lets you pick a prize from the treasure box if you are good all week. And I think that we can all agree that those sunglasses are treasures.

 Sometimes it's tough to be one, just ask Alice.

And sometimes it's the greatest thing ever to be one since you are old enough to put cherries in our favorite chocolate covered cherry cookies all by yourself.

Ryan is our Scout troop's Committee Chairman, and yesterday was the big International Scout Day on base when 600 scouts and leaders come from all over northern Japan to have a great time. Ryan was in charge of food, and he took his job seriously. Two weeks ago he made us practice cooking 60 hot dogs in our crock pot to see if it would work. It did, and we now have 55 hot dogs in our freezer that we can pull out at a moments notice.

This picture shows what cooking 600 hot dogs look like. Awesome! (Don't worry Emily, I sent him with our meat thermometer and he checked temps every 30 minutes. No danger zone infractions.).