Halloween traditions

I know it's November but I didn't want to forget to post some pics of our regular halloween traditions that we did. Carving pumpkins and creating our Haunted gingerbread house. This year Eli did not want anything to do with cleaning out the pumpkin. He thought it was too gross. He would not stick his arm in there but he thought it was hillarious to stick his foot in the pumpkin! I totally forgot to take a pictureof our finished product. Oh well...


The kids really look forword to doing these gingerbread houses around every holiday. They make for a very messy but fun family night.

November 5th 2005.......

4 years ago yesterday Kenta and I got hitched! We were married at Ravenwood castle in Hocking Hills Ohio. We had just moved to Ohio 2 months before this so we didn't know anyone from here. We had such a small wedding outside and the weather could not have been better that day! We had kentas family minus his sister. My family minus a brother and sister. Lindsey who was one of my best friends from Utah flew out with her son ,and of course our son Noah was there. (yes, for those of you who didn't know we did things a little out of order). We also had two of our friends that we had just met at church Katie and Shawn, and our bishop who married us. That was everyone. I really do wish we that we could have had some more family and friends there but it all happened pretty fast. I think it was about 1 month from the time we got engaged to the time we were married. So it was really short notice and I obviously didn't expect everyone to fly across the country last minute to watch us get married. Later on we did have an open house in Utah. (like 9 months later!) So are wedding was very small but very beautiful and one of the best days in my life! It feels so much longer ago than 4 years. I guess because we have been together for nearly 7 years and so much has happened since we were married. I am so thankful I met Kenta. He truly is the love of my life. Happy anniversary to us, I love you Kenta!

Tennessee

This post is so late but it is something I didn't want to forget.

In August we took a short trip to Tennessee to visit kentas family. His sister Tomoko flew in from Japan to visit their parents so we decided to take go to Tennessee while she was there.
We had a really nice trip and the kids were really good in the car for the 7 1/2 hour drive.
While we were there we went to a nearby lake for the afternoon and had a picnic in Japanese style! =) It was the yummiest picnic ever. His mom prepared a lot of great food and made some delicious sushi rolls. It is such a beautiful area that they live in! It is so green and trees everywhere an there are lots of hills everywhere which is the closest thing we get to mountains out here. The kids had a lot of fun playing in the lake. Although Noah was scared to go in the water once he discovered that there were little tiny fish swimming around in there. He would not go in unless he was on kentas back. It was pretty funny watching Noah freak out a little bit. He acts like such a girl (like myself) when it comes to bugs,reptiles,fish, all those kind of things..I hope he grows out of this because I dont think this is normal for boys to act this way!
Anyway...
We all had fun trip , especially Noah and Eli who had so much fun with kentas parents and sister.
If you have not been to Tennesse, I highly recommend going sometime in your lifetime. There are a lot of fun things to do there ,a lot of great vacation areas and it is just so beautiful there!
Thank You to Kenta's family for the great trip!

Cruising the 7.5 hours to Morristown Tennesse

This is Noah attempting once again to use chopsticks.

This was at our picnic by the lake

10 months old

I was a bit of a slacker getting Kai to his 9 month pediatrician checkup. He didn't actually make it until he was almost 10 months. The only shot he had to get this time was the flu shot. He weighed almost 18 lbs and was 28 inches long. He has been my smallest baby so far. He is in the 10th percentile for weight and 20th percentile for height. He is very vocal and is making sounds that sometimes sound like words. His hair is growing like crazy and it's almost time for his first haircut. He is such a good little sleeper! Still sleeping 12 hours a night and taking 2 naps during the day. That makes me a very happy and rested momma! =)

Kai is crawling all over the place. He stands on his own but has not taken any steps yet. He still is such a calm, happy, very chill baby. Poor little guy has the swine flu right now. Yuck! =( We have all been sick for the past week and a half. He is the last one in our family to get it. So he is not his happy old self right now.


Here he is showing off his new standing skills!
Bath time is Kai's favorite part of the day. Such a little FISH!Kai has really been starting to play and interact so much with Noah and Eli. It's been so cute watching him try and keep up with those two crazy boys.Kai puts up with a lot from his brothers. So we were playing with our Halloween face paints and Eli painted his own face and then insisted on painting Kai's face. Kai sat there very patiently while Eli used Kai's face as his canvas.(remember this is my child who colors on everything!)
I can't believe this little guy is almost 1! We all love you so much Kai =)

Happy Halloween!

Yay Visitors!

Last week we had my grandparents and aunt Diane flew all the way to Ohio to visit us. I am so happy they came. We never have any visitors come out to see us! We had a nice relaxing time with them.

While my grandparents were here Chance and Jessica came down from Toleda for a few days. And they introduced us to the newest member of their family. This cute little lab puppy they named Pablo. They made up this hillarious song that chance sang while Jessica walked in hold Pablo like on the Lion king. It was So funny!

We went to Devine Farms while everyone was here. This is the fun pumpkin place we go to every year.

There was a pretty competitive monolopy game that went on for about 3 hours. Grandma and jessica ended up calling a tie between them.While we played monolopy my mom made some delicious homemade doughnuts..yummy!
Thanks for coming to visit guys!