Earthquake

So if you know me at all or not I absolutely hate earthquakes.  We feel them quite often out here in Okinawa.  I felt my first ever earthquake in San Diego 9 years ago.  That was scary and it was located in Palm Springs.  Was a jolt, fast and very loud.  I was pregnant with Trystan and I thought I was going to go into labor I was so scared.  I mean really, the earth moving and shaking like that is strange!  I felt a few more in the months after.  Since we have been here, almost a year now, I have lost count of how many I have felt.  My first one was in January, when Douglas was deployed.  It was a 5.3 located about 59 miles offshore from here.  The second was HUGE!!  7.5 and was only a few days after the Haiti quake.  there was not much damage because I tell you the Japanese know how to construct!  We live in a tower on the top floor, 9th.  It was very scary!  We have nowhere to go but try to protect ourselves.  That's it!  This trigerred anxiety for me.  Yes, my husband was still deployed.  There have been many smaller ones since and one of which we just had about an hour ago.  It was a 4.9 located about 50 miles north off shore from us.  My kids and I were in the elevator about 5 flights up.  I pushed the button for the next floor and pounded on the open door button.  was a tid bit scary.  Needless to say, our Awesome Lord is watching over us!  We have had too many teases with natural disaster.  if you have never been in one, it's not fun and seriously its one of the few disasters that can not be predicted. 

Madalyn is on the GO!!

Madalyn is on the go! Mom and I were talking via Skype and no sooner than I mentioned that she needed to start crawling because Trystan was crawling at an earlier stage than she is, Madalyn just took off really fast crawling across the floor! Mom and I were so excited! I was so glad mom got to experience seeing her youngest grandchild meet yet another milestone! Especially with us being 14 hours ahead and half way around the world. Thank you SKYPE!!!! This video also shows that she knows the meaning of 'NO". For you parents out there, it can be learned from the get go. Baby proofing will be limited to baby gates, cord tacking, cleaning my floors constantly and of course outlet covers.

4th of July continued

Trystan and Madalyn had a blast playing with the windsocks we made, sword fighting with each other and of course watching fireworks!

The 4th of July was much fun. We started our day at the pool, which was Madalyn's first time and first time in her float. She LOVED it. Trystan had a blast jumping in and of course throwing peace signs!

Back on line

Well, I seriously started this blog with intentions on continuing to post, however between life, kids, facebook and skype I did not have the time to sit down and do it! Since my last post it has been almost a year! That means we have lived in Okinawa, Japan for 11 months now, Madalyn is almost 8 months, Trystan is 8 years old and I have been married for almost 9 years now. Oh there is a lot more but that's the short of it. Starting now I will TRY to make daily posts.