Aiji-no-ie trip

Hinamatsuri Party the Doll's Festival at AIJI-NO-IE

Hunter was picked as one of the kids from Mendel Elementary to represent the school during this field trip. We were greeted by the children from the Orpahange and the adults. Then were had a guide that took us to the different stations, ours was a girl named Satomi. She didn't speak any English and that was a little hard for communication, but we made it work. Hunter's group got to participate in the tea ceremony, origami, souvenir picture wearing, fan throwing game, otedama, flower arrangement(ikibana) and calligraphy. Since the line for the pictures was long, we didn't have time to participate in everything. But they had a blast. Hunter had sushi, tamagoyaki, yakisoba, cake, and some Japanese sweets. I had the sukiyaki, banana, sushi and strawberries. The sukiyaki was pretty good. The picture is of the ladies making sukiyaki.

Quilt

Here is a picture of the quilt I have been working on since June. I finished it on Tuesday.

Tokyo Disney 2010

On Monday we went to Disney. It was freezing the whole day but the kids had a good time. We were a little dissapointed because the Pirates, Haunted Mansion, and Splash mountain rides were closed. But we got to ride the new Monster's Inc. ride. Here are some pictures from yesterday.

Hunter's camera

Hunter got a green camera for christmas and has been having fun taking pictures with it. Here are a few of the pictures he has taken and some Robbie took of Hunter with the camera.

Merry Christmas! HOHOHO

The boys had a nice Christmas. First Hunter wanted to research Santa's favorite cookies. We found on line that his favorite cookies were Chocolate chip. So we made some of those for Santa to eat. Then Avery and I made Avery's favorite Orange mini muffins. He ate almost all of them by himself. Hunter and I went and watched the Christmas Carol with a friend and her son. Hunter really enjoyed the movie. Christmas eve evening we watched two shows Hunter picked out, Charlie Brown Christmas and Garfields Christmas. Then we let them open up one present and Avery picked out the one from Gramma and Papa and Hunter picked out the one from Aunt Kami and her family. They both loved the gifts they received. Thank you everyone. Then Hunter set out cookies and milk with a letter asking for Santa's autograph. Then we looked on Norad and Hunter kept telling Avery it was time to go to sleep becuase santa was already in Japan. They woke up and open their gifts and now are putting lego's together and playing video games. Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!