Saturday Night at the Movies

 

I'm a little late with this post, my bad :(

 

Movie: Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

Rating: ***(out of 5)

Comments:   This movie was not the movie to watch after only having Thanksgiving a couple days prior.  That being said, it was a pretty good movie.  A man decides to take a 60 day fast from food and only drink juice for his "meals", he then travels the country to talk about his experience and others about their health and food.  Morgan and I have always talking about going on a juice fast to cleanse our bodies and this movie was definitely motivation!  The transformations are incredible and really inspiring.  I was a little disappointed with the information given,  I wish they would have provided more.  After watching this I know that we need to do this.  I think we will start after the holiday season.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wow, Thanksgiving is over, Black Friday is over, and Cyber Monday is over.  Holiday season is seriously in full swing.

Our Thanksgiving was pretty mellow this year.  Well all the prep for Thanksgiving at our house was madness.  Since we live in a 1000 square foot apartment in Japan, you can only imagine how small our kitchen is!!!  Luckily we actually have an oven, most people that live off-base don't have that luxury.  This is our 3rd Thanksgiving on Okinawa and every year we have more and more guest and we manage just fine.  We just have to get creative with where we prep and store our food.  Man, do I miss the big fridges, deep freezers, double ovens, and kitchen islands!!  Haha I'm terrible! 

Anyways this year we had 5 of Morgan's Junior sailors over for dinner.  We've had his junior sailors over for the holidays every year since it's really expensive to fly home most don't and we don't want them spending their holidays in the barracks.  It was quite mellow, Morgan made the full spread this year and I took care of a couple things.  I'm so glad I'm married to someone that knows their way around the kitchen.  Not only does he know his way around the kitchen, he can cook the sh*t out of anything!  Me on the other hand, don't really have a feeling for the kitchen, I just like making desserts.  So we ate, and literally right after we were all done eating his jr sailors were practically all passed out on the couch! haha That tryptophan got to them quick!  I'll admit I was a little tired too, especially since we were up super late with the prep and cleaning up.

All in all a really good Thanksgiving.  I'm thankful for my lil family and our wonderful new addition this year.  I'm thankful my husband has a job and able to support our family.  I'm thankful to have great family and friends here and in the states.  I'm hoping that next year we'll be able to spend the holiday season with our families.  Now, on to Christmas!  I've actually got a lot of my Christmas shopping done!  Usually the day after Thanksgiving we decorate the tree and the house for Christmas, we didn't get to that this year.  So we plan on doing it this weekend, can't wait!  It's the MOST wonderful time of the year!

Amelia's School Thanksgiving!

Dinner is served

Sailors of 3rd Marine Division

Getting sleepy

Amelia Asleep

My butterball sleeping

My Famous Pumpkin Cheesecake, eat your heart out Cheesecake Factory!

Bios on the Hill

Welp with our last year in Okinawa coming up I'm determined to see all this island has to offer before we leave.  Plus getting out of the house and breathing in some fresh air every once in awhile doesn't hurt.  Oki is small, but beautiful and has so much to do.  So this weekend Bios on the Hill was on the agenda.

I wasn't sure what this place was.  When we first got here back in 2010, I collected a bunch of pamphlets of things to do and this was one of them.

This place was SUPER pretty!  Only 20 min from our house.  This place is famous for their orchids and it smelled so nice!  Just walking in the entrance the aroma was intense. In a good way!  It was kind of like a really pretty park.  We paid to get in and paid for the boat ride.  Unfortunately the boat ride was in Japanese and we couldn't understand anything.  Mills had a good time and it put Nono to sleep so I was happy with it.  Then we played with the animals there.  There were goats and pigs.  You could actually feed the goats and walk them.  Mills had a great time feeding them.  We tried to talk them, but they were a lil too strong for her.  She was just happy to feed them carrots!  There was also an awesome playground with these huge swings.  Mills and her dad explored while Nono and I enjoyed a nice bench and he ate his afternoon lunch.  All in all a really pretty place.  We'll be back in the summer when the lilies are in bloom and we'll pack a lunch for a picnic!

On the boat tour

Water Buffalo

Ended the day with some ice cream!

On a side note>>>

{I'm in disbelief that it's already Thanksgiving next week!!!!!!!!}

{I need to make our Christmas cards ASAP}

{I need to buy the kid Christmas outfits}

Flashback Friday

Morgan and I circa 2004

Whoa!!!!  I know, we look like a couple of kids!  Well..... we were.  This is Morgan and I in Portland May 2004 for his 21st Birthday, we were visiting from Virgina.  Yup, I had blonde hair...so tragic. haha.  We have really come a long way.  This was a great trip.  Morgan's mom had like 8 parties for his 21st Birthday, ok maybe not 8...but it seemed like a lot!  There was a bash at her house, then there was a get together at the bar his family goes to, then there was a big dinner when we left. Turning 21, ohh to be so young. :p

Opps I did it again!

I'm the worst at updating this blog!  Things have just been so nuts lately!  October was the busiest moth and it got me all types of discombobulated! So here is my rundown of October!

My brother and sister came to visit us in Okinawa!!!!  They came for a week to chill!  The day after they arrived in Oki we got another typhoon.  I briefed them about typhoons, just stay inside, have an adult beverage (or 2), watch some movies, eat some junk food, watch the rain, listen to the wind, and it will all be over in a day.  Boy was I WRONG!  The typhoon that hit us was the strongest one this season, we even lost power a couple times and that never happens.  People all over the island hat lots of damage and went without power for days.  Luckily we just were a lil spooked and had some cabin fever, we were stuck in the house for 2 days.  I felt horrible that their vacay started off so terrible.  Well then we went to Okuma for a couple days. It was very pretty there, but it wasn't that hot and the water was really rough.  But we had a good time hanging and eating.  We showed them a few things on the island and then it was already time for them to go.  It was a short trip, but I'm thankful they got to come out and visit.  Visitors always stress me out, but I love having them over.

My sister and I at Okuma

My Brother and I at Okuma

Then mid-October Morgan went to Hawaii for a week.  It was just me and the kids.  We were kind of winding down from our recent visit and getting ready for out trip to Thailand!  It was a very very long week.

Late October we went to Thailand for a week!  It was the first time we all went on a vacay together!  It was our first official trip, it was the longest we ever took and the most exotic place.  WE HAD A BLAST!!!  We went to Phuket and Bangkok.  Lots of people seemed weary about us going to Thailand with Nono since he was only 4 months, but I always said that having kids wasn't going to slow us down, anyways he did AWESOME!  Maybe I just have great kids, but traveling doesn't worry me and we plan on taking many more trip!  I will write a better post of our trip to Thailand later.

at the Airport in Bangkok

Lastly when we got back from Thailand it was Halloween!  Amelia was Bat Girl (her request) and Nolan was Robin (we thought it would be cute).  Morgan got in the spirit too and wore a Batman shirt.  Unfortunately it  was rainy here, but we got with some friends and were able to trick or treat in the towers!

The clan

Trick or Treat

Batman & Robin

That's my October round up, hopefully I'll do better with the rest of the year. 

On a side note>>>

{Holiday season is in full swing, Thanksgiving is next week!  I haven't even gone to the grocery store yet!!!}

{We are already done Christmas shopping for the kids!  Got it done in October! Go US}

{I'm annoyed of all the people on FB posting their political views!}