Day 5

Day 5 –
Now that it is almost time to leave, we are adjusting a little more to the 3 hour time difference between here and Guam. We finally slept a little later this morning – 7:00 was better than 5:30!  We enjoyed our last day of breakfast at the hotel buffet, then went to the pool for one last swim. The pool was very cold, but Adysen and Allie enjoyed themselves anyway. After baths and packing, we walked to Starbucks and enjoyed one last coffee! Then, it was time to go. We were sad to see our vacation end, but we have lots of wonderful memories that we will keep forever!!

We're going to Thailand!!!!

I am SO excited!! We starting planning this trip many times over the last few months, but stopped as we were unsure if we wanted to spend the money right now. Anywhere we go from here is SO expensive as flights fromm an island in the middle of nowhere for 5 people are costly! Last week we decided that we will be greatly disappointed if we don't get to go to Thailand while we are here, so we scrambled around to get it planned at the last minute. It all fell into place today and we will head out to Bangkok early next Thursday morning for 4 days!!! I think it will be a trip we will all remember - I'm sure plenty of pictures will show up on the blog soon! :)

Thank you Veterans!

Living on a military base has definitely given us a new view on people who serve in the military. The sacrifices that they and their families make for our country is just amazing! Adysen had an assignment last week to make some signs honoring some Veterans in our family and I wanted to share them. She chose her Great Grandpa Bill and her Great Uncle Bubba. The signs are now hanging on the "wall of honor" in our school. We don't take enough time to honor and thank the people who have fought for the freedoms of our country. THANK YOU!!!!!

Trick or Treat

This Halloween we had Alice in Wonderland, Sharpay(from High School Musical) and a pretty princess. Here they are....

A busy day

Well the camera stayed busy today...... First, Adysen dressed up as her favorite storybook character. She chose Piper the Mouse. The 2nd grade students read the book with their character in it to the younger kids. Adysen was the cutest Piper ever!!






Then, this afternoon Allie won a prize for her entry into the Red Ribbon week poster contest. Her picture was chosen from many entries in K-2nd grades. She was SO excited to win!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Of course we'll have more pictures after the actual day tomorrow, but I wanted to share the fun we've had getting ready for the big day. Here is the yearly pumpkin carving ritual and a few of the girls in their Halloween shirts just because they are cute!

More changes for Allie....

Allie failed her vision screening during a check up a few weeks ago. She went to the eye doctor yesterday and we learned that she would indeed need glasses. The bad news is that she has an astigmatism, but the good news is that it does have the potentinal to improve over time as her eyes grow and change. Her prescription isn't too strong at this point,so we are thankful for that. We had to pay WAY more than what we pay for Adsyen's glasses in the states, so we hope that this prescription works for her and that this pair lasts until we get back to the 2 for $99 deal at Eyemasters this summer!! Anyway, here she is...........

No Teeth!!

Here are a couple of other pictures that I got today that capture the toothless grin even better! :)

Snaggle toothed girl!

After a LOT of hysterical tears and MAJOR drama, Allie has lost her front 2 teeth and has the toothless grin that I always LOVE!!! :) You would have thought she was dying with the way she screamed when we pulled them, but those pesky teeth are out now! I'm excited because she was supposed to have her school pictures taken today, but they postponed them until Friday, so now we will have that toothless grin captured in her first grade photos!! I love it! :)

What a pretty girl!!

Kelsey went to a dinner with the youth group on Thursday night and I thought she looked SO pretty, so I had to share these pictures!!

Another proud girl!!

Thank goodness Allie got her vest and book tonight! I was worried because she SO wants to keep up with Adysen and she was ready with her memory work, but one of the requirement is to attend 2 meetings in a row and she didn't do that since she was sick last week. Thankfully, they didn't count that against her, so here she is with her new Awana getup!! :)

SO proud!

Adysen and Allie have started a program at the base chapel called Awanas. It's a program that is sort of similar to girl scouts, but the focus is on memorization of biblical concepts - mostly scripture. Last year, they started but got frustrated quickly by the memorization they had to do in the beginning. In order to pass the first "step" and get their vests and books, they had to learn the Awana motto, Awana plege, US pledge, Awana song and John 3:16. They had to know these word for word with no help and the leaders were really strict, allowing no help at all. They tried it for a few weeks and then lost interest. This year, they wanted to try again and Adysen caome home tonight with the biggest smile on her face because she made it the first week this time!!! Allie knew hers also, but she faked a sickness today and came home from school, so she didn't get to go tonight. I hope she passes next week.

Fall Festival

Well, it sure doesn't FEEL like Fall around here, we had a Fall Festival at school this weekend. I didn't get to take my camera, but did get a shot of the lovely face painted girls afterward! Allie also got purple hair, but Adysen decided colored hair was not her thing! :)Allie's class made a rainbow Fish cake that won first place in the contest and she was SO excited. Kelsey opted to miss the excitement of the festival and go to the High School football game instead!

Oh No!

Well, we awoke to a very unwelcome sight this morning. It was raining like crazy and apparently our canopy that covers our back porch just couldn't handle it. It had streteched out a bit and had a weak spot in it and apparently the water pooled in there, pulling down the canopy until the frame gave way. We are so sad because we spend SO much time on our porch and this canopy set up was not cheap - nothing in Guam is cheap!!







This is how it looked before:

What we've been up to.....

Well, we have been adjusting to school starting and getting back in the routine and all that goes along with that. We did find time to have some fun on the beach during Labor Day weekend, though....






Adysen and Allie started a new season of soccer and I got some good pictures of their game yesterday. The pictures look similar to the ones from last season as they have the same uniforms, but I like to have pictures of each season to see how they grow!