The Muffin Man

These pictures were taken by a professional photographer on base when Chase was 13 months that was doing sepia photos with a 1940's look. I had to just take a photo of the photos cause we couldn't get them on a disk so that is why they are not the best image.

Swan Park

Observation Tower overlooking Swan Park

Chase caught on really fast how fun it is to throw rocks into the water. He was having a blast. We went to Swan Park on Halloween morning, but the swans were not there. So we will have to catch them in the spring. Later that night we took Chase out for his first trick or treating in the Lemur costume to several homes on base. He had so much fun and Cole and I had so much fun watching him. And his Lemur costume was a big hit and people sang "I like to move it, move it" as he walked by.

My Little Lemur at the Med Group Halloween Party

Chase is the cutest little lemur that I have ever seen. The med group on base does a trick or treating party every year for the med families(doctors and dentists). Chase had fun showing off his costume, and was quickly learning how the trick or treating process works. His favorite candy are the lollipops. Don't even try to take it back from him.

5 Little Pumpkins

Chase wants to thank his grandmas for his fun halloween packages he received this week. This Halloween shirt from Grandma Dawn was a so cute. And Chase has always loved all his bookies.

Chop, Chop, Chop

Cole(#6) playing quarterback for the med group team. He actually threw a touchdown on this play. I will have to get some more photos next time, Chase wanted to be on the field with his dad so I only got one shot. Cole hasn't been able to be there for all the games, but they usually win when he plays. The team is currently 6-2.
My future footballer. He loves his little mini football.
Chase and Kaitlin, his friend from shrimp class. They were doing some aerobics. Chase loves to go into my workout room and turn the tv on and off to my step tape.
It was hard to catch on camera but they were both running on the treadmill at the same time(the treadmill was stationary of course), it was too funny. Chase does this running in place move all the time which his dad says chop, chop, chop (like in football) or I call it stomping the buggies.

Chase Dancing & Goldfish Clip

Misawa Air Show -Go Thunderbirds

Chase and me in front of a cool chopper.

Chase liked the planes except when the thunderbirds went right over top of us and put on their burners then he cuddled in. It was loud. Almost needed the ear plugs, but I was tough.

Thunderbirds taking off for the show. It was really cool and amazing to watch them do all their tricks. It reminded me of Top Gun. "I feel the need, the need for speed."
The thunderbird planes lined up before take off.
Check out those guns. Wouldn't want to be caught in that crossfire.
Here I am in front of an A-10 Warthog. And there is a C-17 in the background doing a flyby. Cole gave Chase and I a lesson on the different air force planes.
Chase and Cole in front of an F-16. You can't tell from all the pictures but there were a ton of people at the airshow. They were expecting 100,00 people on base. Apparently, the Japanese love to come to the airshow, and not only see the planes, but get a taste of American food. Next year we will take a picture of the pizza line, it is nuts. But it turned out to be a beautiful day for an airshow, and Cole only had to work the morning shift in case of mass casualties, and then got the afternoon off.

Cole's Deep Sea Fishing Trip in Japan

Here is Brad getting ready for the expedition by bringing his Little Mermaid backpack.















This was the smallest fish of the day. Doug threw this back into the ocean and one of the sea gulls ate it whole in one gulp.















Here is the group after a day of fishing. Captain on the far right and first mate on the far left.















Safety first















Brad and I had to google how to scale, gut, clean, and prepare whole fish. For our first try, I would say things turned out very well!
















Here is the finished product. At the top is the "Greeley", at least that's what the captain called it. At the bottom is a rock fish, which looked like a sea bass of sorts. Delicious! The cheek meat, as advertised, was definitely the best part.

Chase this Week

Chase was not feeling good all week. He had a low grade temperature, bad cough, runny nose, and was super crabby. You feel so bad when they are sick, and you get so worn out too. So I gave him a popsicle to make him happy that I never got back from him, but he really enjoyed it.
Chase ready for a walk in Bob. It is such a sweet stroller, it was a great b-day present from my hubby.

Just waking up from a nap. So sweet, he is holding his blankey.

Couple pictures of Chase at the Weasels Den here on Base. It is catered toward a little older kids since there are a ton of jungle gyms and slides, but Chase thinks he is big stuff and just runs around.

Photos around Misawa

Picture of our Branch building. We attend an American branch and the Japanese branch meets after us. They don't combine the branches since we can't speak Japanese and they can't speak English.

A couple photos of Japanese style homes. They love to garden around here which is really cool and really pretty to see all their flowers and sculpted trees and bushes.

Another Shrine

Rice Fields

Entrance to a Pig Farm (Smells wonderful), but these are my favorite flowers that I see around Japan in all different colors.