Still Going Like Crazy!

I don't think things are ever going to slow down! I fear I have entered that stage in my life where my kids are getting a little bit older, so they have lots of activities going on, then adding that on top of just getting settled into a new place, and being in an amazing place where there are trips to be had every spare weekend, and I don't think we will slow down at all while we are here! I really love my down time and not going 100 miles an hour every day, but I have enjoyed all we've been doing here.

There is a drum festival they have here in Okinawa that is really pretty cool. There were soooo many people there, so it made me a bit nervous but we had fun. Charity's highlight of the evening was when we were waiting in line for the restroom and a Japanese girl behind us, probably in her early 20's, gave Charity all of her glowing/flashing things (2 swords, a star necklace, cat ear headband and even an inflatable guitar). I wish I had gotten a picture of it! And to end the whole night they do a huge firework show.

Lucy's reaction to the very LOUD fireworks.

Samuel started soccer with daddy for his coach! They had an awesome first practice, and Charity loved climbing the fun tree right next to the field and posing for pictures. :)

Samuel and Daddy leading the stretches

One of Hyrum's favorite things here is bookoo. It's Okinawa's version of craigslist, and Hyrum is on it a little too much. :) So the other day he saw on there an outdoor inflatable projection screen. So guess what we got. Yep, he bought that screen. We then invited a bunch of neighbors and friends from church to come enjoy an outdoor movie night. It was a blast! We played How to Train Your Dragon and had probably 50-60 people show up. The weather held out for us and was perfect. The second the movie was over, it started to rain, so cleanup happened really fast!

We had a bit of an incident the other day. Celeste was in our bathroom, and suddenly I hear this crash, then a huge gush of water. I run in to find brown toilet water spewing into the bathroom like it was a fire hydrant. I yelled for Hyrum to help me, and he came running. I frantically grabbed towels to keep the gross water from invading our entire house while Hyrum tried to find something to cover where the gushing water was coming out of the wall. This is where a tender mercy from Heavenly Father comes in. Remember the neighborhood movie night? The day before, we made flyers and personally delivered them to all the houses around us. As we handed them out we talked to our neighbors and got to know them a little bit. One of these neighbors, who didn't even come to the movie since they don't have any kids, told us he is a plumber. At the time we just thought, okay, that's cool. But that fateful Saturday morning, two days later, we were thanking our Heavenly Father for letting us meet our plumber neighbor. So I ran over to his house to recruit him for help. He was able to turn the water off, plug the broken pipe, and get us set up so we don't have water gushing into our house until housing can come fix it. So it turns out Celeste had knocked the lid to the tank off, which crashed into the hose going into the wall and completely broke it off. It sure made for an interesting Saturday!

Charity started first grade this week! Her teacher is a young looking lady named Ms. Cosper. Yesterday was Charity's first day, and she really seemed to like it. I can't believe she is already in first grade! Ahhhh!

Her awesome hairdo inspired by my cousin.