Merry Christmas!!!

Well, I have been under the weather this year and Jason is not feeling great, but we managed to have a special Christmas morning anyway thanks to all our wonderful family who loves us enough to ship us gifts all the way to Guam!! Thank you SO much for everything..... we love it all as you can see in these pictures!!! We are so very blessed to have such a loving family!!!

Santa was good to us this year too.... Kelsey got the iPOD that we convinced her that she was NOT going to get and I think I captured the suprprise on her face in the picture below. Adysen and Allie were excited about their new DS's too.

The Rota Walk

Last night we did the most festive thing we have found to do on Guam this time of the year. It's called the "Rota walk" because Rota is the name of the street where all the Officers live on the base. They go all out decorating and the entire base turns up for this deal. There are people passing out candy and cookies and lemonade and they had a couple of Sants's this year. The girls' favorite thing from last year was a little plane that "flies" over and dumps candy out on the kid's heads! One house has a "snow machine" that spits out a bunch of bubbles which are about as close as we can get to snow around here!!! Kelsey disappeared with a friend and we didn't find her until the end, so that is why she is only in a couple of the pictures. Anyway, here are some pictures of Christmas in Guam!!!!

Christmas programs

What can be sweeter than 1st and 2nd grade Christmas programs?? I just love to see the girls up on stage performing, but it reminds me how fast they are growing up and how fast these sweet times will be over. We are enjoying them for now, though!!

"Where the Wild Things Are"

The title of this children's book has taken on a whole new meaning for us this week.........We have a flowerbed beside our house that has these huge "Elephant Ear" plants. They grow fast and tend to get big and we have to pull them up sometimes. Yesterday, I left for work and saw the biggest bundle of them on the ground and the flowerbed was all torn up. I was surprised, but thought maybe Jason had done a little trimming and gotten carried away! When I asked him about it, he said he didn't do it and said that our neighbors had the SAME thing happen to them and they had come over and asked him if he'd dug their plant up! Come to find out, it was a WILD HOG that likes to eat the roots of those plants!! We knew those were a problem on the edges of the base, but I am amazed that one would get to our house as we are almost in the middle and our area is very populated. He must have been one strong hog to have dug up that huge plant along with the roots!!

We found "Santa"!!

Well, here is our annual Santa picture. Adysen was VERY suspicious of this Santa. She sat in his lap and talked to him and as we were waiting for the picture, she was studying him. Finally, she put her hand on her hip and announced "I don't think THAT'S the real Santa!" We asked why she would think that and she said "Because he has on tennis shoes and Santa doesn't wear tennis shoes!" We looked and sure enough... black Sketchers with those cheesy boot cover things over them!! Jason's take on him was "He doesn't look like he's been drinking...... much!" :) Oh well, he was good enough to serve our purpose of the yearly Santa picture!!

New School Pictures

Adysen - 2nd grade




Kelsey - 10th grade






Allie - 1st grade