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Monday, June 13, 2011
Hodge podge
Love holding our sweet little Marla, Loyd and Angela's baby.
Nate smiling
The toys are packed away. But no worries, the boys always are good at improvising.
Hanging out with some great people we met while living here.
Our awesome movers. This is installation number 1. These guys came in and packed up the house.
The final movers are here loading the containment with our stuff. I thought it would be an hour or so. I was wrong. They wrap up every piece they put in the container. They've been here for almost 5 hours and I'm guessing they still have another hour or so. Nicest guys. The house is looking pretty empty. We're paying bills and tying up loose ends. The carpet cleaners should be here tomorrow. Toki is at scout camp today and tomorrow.
The pictures in this post are not organized. Too tired to care. We were able to hang out with several friends before the big move. Love this park.
Hanging out with the Mitchells.
Installation number 2. Different packers who loaded up the container.
Where our stuff will be for a month or two. I hope it makes it to Tokyo!
Our movers were so awesome. Really.
Ice blocking at the park.
I'm really glad for this friend. She was often getting me out of the house. We ran and biked together. Our kids got along well so play dates at the park or church parking lot were always nice. I hope I find another friend like Jen and maybe even step it up and be one. I'm grateful for a good friend.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Some updates/thoughts
So we sold our washer, dryer, and lawn mower today. We sold the car yesterday and the van a couple of weeks ago. Loyd came and picked up the green couches and some furniture we didn't want. If you thought we were minimalists before, you should see us now.
Without a car this morning, Vy rode his bike to school (accompanied by Chris). Toki opted to hitch a ride with his friend. By the afternoon we had picked up our car rental to hold us over for the week. I'll probably be heading to the Laundromat or a friend's house to do laundry.
We've been busy. We've both been cramming in as many private Japanese lessons as we can. Chris has been working on the house non-stop. He's also been working out the logistics of the move. I've been selling our stuff, getting the house clean for the showings, buying stuff we need, and other odds and ends. We also did a road trip to Mesa last weekend....only took 24 hours round trip to go to a wedding. Yikes.
We've been busy but there has been a lot of downtime as well. And although there has been tons to do, things are moving along smoothly. We're down to less than a week...movers are coming to pack up the house on Friday, on Monday they'll put everything in a cargo to ship, carpet cleaners on Tuesday, board a plane on Wednesday.
I don't know what to think. I'm mostly excited. I'm trunky and ready to go. And then there's this worry that I'm going to let the radiation problem taint my experience. It certainly is there and it's not going to go away. It's in the water, in the air, on surfaces everywhere...I'm praying to be protected during our stay in Tokyo.
Why are we doing this now, after all that has happened? We've had this dream to live in Japan for soooo long now. A path was made and we followed it. Now we're just going to live our lives to the fullest. Life's short and I'm not one to get up day in and day out doing the same old, same old.
We're doing this by faith and praying and hoping for the best outcome.
Without a car this morning, Vy rode his bike to school (accompanied by Chris). Toki opted to hitch a ride with his friend. By the afternoon we had picked up our car rental to hold us over for the week. I'll probably be heading to the Laundromat or a friend's house to do laundry.
We've been busy. We've both been cramming in as many private Japanese lessons as we can. Chris has been working on the house non-stop. He's also been working out the logistics of the move. I've been selling our stuff, getting the house clean for the showings, buying stuff we need, and other odds and ends. We also did a road trip to Mesa last weekend....only took 24 hours round trip to go to a wedding. Yikes.
We've been busy but there has been a lot of downtime as well. And although there has been tons to do, things are moving along smoothly. We're down to less than a week...movers are coming to pack up the house on Friday, on Monday they'll put everything in a cargo to ship, carpet cleaners on Tuesday, board a plane on Wednesday.
I don't know what to think. I'm mostly excited. I'm trunky and ready to go. And then there's this worry that I'm going to let the radiation problem taint my experience. It certainly is there and it's not going to go away. It's in the water, in the air, on surfaces everywhere...I'm praying to be protected during our stay in Tokyo.
Why are we doing this now, after all that has happened? We've had this dream to live in Japan for soooo long now. A path was made and we followed it. Now we're just going to live our lives to the fullest. Life's short and I'm not one to get up day in and day out doing the same old, same old.
We're doing this by faith and praying and hoping for the best outcome.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
the Latest tidbits
The phone rang. It was Toki. "Mom, I threw up." Poor kid threw up at the computer lab. Remnants of his snack, before standardized testing, were all over his pant leg to prove it. Luckily the secretary had read an article about this girl in the Sunday paper. She immedietely knew what I was talking about when I said gastroparesis. I had read the article too. It made me teary.
We're hoping it was something he ate this past weekend. That would mean it's not as serious a case as Gentrie's in which they don't know what causes it. She just couldn't keep anything down before they finally put a pacemaker in her tummy to get her stomach to pump food down. Toki says, "my body doesn't like food" to describe what he's going through. Pretty much his stomach can't digest certain foods and it sits there fermenting and causing pain. Anything else trying to go down will come up unless gravity pulls whatever has been sitting in there down to make room for the new stuff.
We know for sure he has no ability to digest dairy. Hopefully, he ate something with dairy in it that's causing this episode.
..................................
He recently read the Dragon Rider and ranked it up there with the Fablehaven series he just finished.
So I picked up the Inkheart series and the Thief Lord by the same author. I threw in a couple more books to mix things up. The other two are Beehive award winners, so they should be good. Let's see if my bookworm can finish these in 3 weeks.
For Mother's Day weekend we had a yard sale.
We wrapped up some house work including putting up a new fence/gate, painting the boy's room and some furniture, and did lots of cleaning. We've been slaving away this past week. Poor Chris has been working through this with a sore lower back. He fell a few weeks ago and he hasn't had time to rest, so it hasn't gotten better.
We also got to hang out with our Provo friends. A big thanks to Ang and Tasha for organizing that!! It was so good to see everyone and all the kids. Thanks Jess for the slideshow. The pictures turned out great!
To think we were all newly weds with no kids when we first met!!! We've all been through a lot in the last decade and yet Life is good.
On Mother's day, I slept and slept and slept. I just could not wake up. I slept 8 hours the night before, woke up for a brief time and then I slept most of the day, and then I slept all night long. I was pretty much asleep on Mother's Day. Thanks to daddy and the boys for letting me catch up!
We're hoping it was something he ate this past weekend. That would mean it's not as serious a case as Gentrie's in which they don't know what causes it. She just couldn't keep anything down before they finally put a pacemaker in her tummy to get her stomach to pump food down. Toki says, "my body doesn't like food" to describe what he's going through. Pretty much his stomach can't digest certain foods and it sits there fermenting and causing pain. Anything else trying to go down will come up unless gravity pulls whatever has been sitting in there down to make room for the new stuff.
We know for sure he has no ability to digest dairy. Hopefully, he ate something with dairy in it that's causing this episode.
..................................
He recently read the Dragon Rider and ranked it up there with the Fablehaven series he just finished.
So I picked up the Inkheart series and the Thief Lord by the same author. I threw in a couple more books to mix things up. The other two are Beehive award winners, so they should be good. Let's see if my bookworm can finish these in 3 weeks.
For Mother's Day weekend we had a yard sale.
We wrapped up some house work including putting up a new fence/gate, painting the boy's room and some furniture, and did lots of cleaning. We've been slaving away this past week. Poor Chris has been working through this with a sore lower back. He fell a few weeks ago and he hasn't had time to rest, so it hasn't gotten better.
We also got to hang out with our Provo friends. A big thanks to Ang and Tasha for organizing that!! It was so good to see everyone and all the kids. Thanks Jess for the slideshow. The pictures turned out great!
To think we were all newly weds with no kids when we first met!!! We've all been through a lot in the last decade and yet Life is good.
On Mother's day, I slept and slept and slept. I just could not wake up. I slept 8 hours the night before, woke up for a brief time and then I slept most of the day, and then I slept all night long. I was pretty much asleep on Mother's Day. Thanks to daddy and the boys for letting me catch up!
Thursday, April 28, 2011
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