Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Key Thang

MicroChanga is very smart, and tenacious when trying to figure something out....she just won't give up! Lately, she's just not giving up on locks and keys.

If the key doesn't fit the desk, maybe....



.....it'll fit this door....wait....no lock here.


Can't reach the lock to get the key in....hmmm...maybe if I just turn this thingy...




....or, maybe it might work in this lock.



HA! I found Grandma's big giant key ring and I'm gonna figure this thing out for sure!





Monday, December 01, 2008

MicroChanga At The Kettle

MicroChanga is visiting us again and joined us for her very first Kettle Season!


Grandma was really good at customizing an adult sized apron to fit a Munchkin.

All ready! Where's my bell?


Hey...why doesn't this bell ring?


She especially liked giving out candy to other kids.



Even Ebeneezer Scrooge would drop money into this cutie's kettle!





Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Corps Outing To Managaha Island

We recently had another of our many outings. This time, we visited the beautiful Managaha Island, which lies in close proximity to Saipan.


A view of Managaha from the boat.



Maggie, Lena, Kayla and Jerome on the boat.




Quinton, Joveta and Mikey on the landing, just after getting off the boat.




Lunch!



This baby Black-Tip shark crashed the party!



















Monday, September 22, 2008

The Big 01

A big happy birthday wish to a gal who hit the big 01 last week. Happy birthday, Anisha!

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Microchanga Visits!

Microchanga, the youngest of our Chimichangas (Granddaughters) visited recently.
Such progress she's making! She can wink correctly (I've never seen a baby who could do so at her age), blow kisses, show where her nose and eyes are and a whole lot things that make us proud.
I could go on and on but will reign in my dotery (is that a word?).

We have a large toybox for her but this big honkin' pantry was too good for her to pass up.

It has big doors. Grandmas can sneak up behind these and play peek-a-boo.

She wanted to play with a carton of milk and laid the charm on me to get her way. She's knows she can con Grandpa into anything.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Family Day!

We recently had another family day. This time, we went camping at Obyan (pronounced "ob-zun") beach. We had fishing tournaments, great food, fellowship, a worship service and rain.

The first order of business for the kids was to scope out all the tents. From the left: Devan, Trinnie, Libby and Tysha.

When this new tent was taken from the box, we discovered that it came with a latern with a remote control. That's just wrong!


We had an EE tournament for the kids (EE are baby Skipjacks that run inside the reef this time of year). It took Jerome less than ten minutes to win, with six!


Jerome landing another EE and winning the kid's tournament by landing all the fish caught.

More Family Day Photos

Camp Chef Jack grilled up ribs and teriyaki chicken for dinner. The teriyaki sauce was the very best in this galaxy (because I made it, lol).

Happy campers, pictured from the left rear: Esther, Tina, Mia, Merlyn, Trinnie.


Santiago rigging up in preparation for the Mafuti (pronounced "muh-foo-tee") tournament for the adults. Julie won with the largest of only 2 fish caught. Tina came in second place. It was a night tournamant and we failed to get photos of their fish the next morning....d'oh!


It started raining during the night and we had to have our Church service in the rain. I was pushing up part of the tarp, to angle the water away from the folks at its edges.

Graduation!

Kayla recently graduated from elementary school. She carried the flag of Japan when she marched in with her class. Note her beautiful leis.

Random Happenings

Kareoke is very popular in this part of the world and we solved our lack-of-musicians problem by getting a kareoke system. We found a type that uses chips. We got a chip with a lot of gospel songs and the congregation loves it! Here, Kayla and Trinnie lead us in a song.

Joshua is from Nepal and recently taught our Women's Ministry ladies how to make puri (pronounced "poo-lee") bread.


Puli is made with flour and water, rolled out, then fried in oil. Joshua says that it can also be cooked on a stone. It puffs up a little, when fried.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Easter Happenings

Aiyumi, our Japanese exchange student, pitched in and helped decorate Easter eggs.

Alice and her Granddaughter Tihani. Tihani was really excited with her egg finds.


Our Granddaughter Kaydence visited us for the Easter holiday. She can't yet walk on her own but she loves to take assisted hikes like this one. She wanted to stick her feet in all the cups of egg dye and it was a tussle to keep her out of it.


Pesky papparazi kept getting in the way and the MicroChanga was none too happy about it. (Granddaughters are Chimichangas; the smallest one is therefore the MicroChanga).


Upon the advice of her Agents and P.R. people, MicroChanga made nice-nice with the papparazi, offering them a foody kiss.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Another Pool Fellowship

We recently had another pool fellowship. This time, we were at the beautiful World Resort. We have a very strict schedule for pool fellowships and are careful to schedule them precisely every now and then.


Kayla and Mikey floating around on some infaltable thingy.

Cheryl, Abigail and R. J. taking a breather.


More infaltable thingies! World Resort has a large water park and this is the Lazy River section.


Naiomi working on getting brain freeze.

Saturday, April 05, 2008

Making CNMI History

Majors Dave and Sharron Hudson recently visited and helped to make history by enrolling the very first Senior Soldier in the CNMI. Congratulations, sister Annie!


We also enrolled four Adherents. Congratulations to Connie, Tina, Johson and Julie!


The Hudsons also officiated a baby dedication. Major Hudson warned that babies always cry when he holds them during dedications but Shanna did not get the memo. She found him quite comfy.


Naiomi was recently inducted into the National Honor Society. Here she is with May and Kayla at dinner, following the induction ceremony. She wanted ribs, so we went to Tony Roma's for slabs of baby backs.