Family and Pregnancy Pictures

Here are some of the great pictures my friend took for us. Being a little older has made us enjoy some additional things about being pregnant. Maybe we've just slowed down, or not taking it for granted. But they are beautiful!

Halloween

I can't begin to tell you how awesome I felt this Halloween. What a wonderful blessing God has given us to move here and our family finally be together like this. The girls enjoyed dressing up after weeks of asking to go trick or treating every night! HA! But the most important thing I'm so thankful for, is that it was a family outing. After years of missed birthday's, holidays, and events, Anthony and I have both been able to be so involved even in this together. We ran around the neighborhood with our good friends and neighbors and had a great time. Here are some of the pictures of the girls!

Family Game Night

So as young parents, Anthony and I will be the first to admit that we know virtually nothing about raising kids. It's the hardest job ever!!! Sorry mom and dad, because our children aren't the first to test their parents! HAHAHAH! The one thing we both have been blessed with is the drive to keep trying to be better parents. Brush bad days off, and get creative about how to create better days.


This has led us to a family function at the Fridley house, game night. It's not much, and can get pretty tedious and boring for the parents, but has already paid off. The girls got time with their parents full attention. Both of us at once, Wow! And they got to play with games they don't normally get to. They worked as teams and worked on good sportmanship.

The greatest thing was knowing that this small thing, one hour during our week, made a huge impact on the girls. The next morning after game night, Andi got up bright and early and asked daddy to play a game again before he went to work. I think through this the statement that "the family who plays together, stays together!" Why because it gives opportunity to create good memories to help balance out all the mistakes we make everyday as parents!

Here is a creepy picture of a spider we took here on Okinawa. It's just down the road from Andi's school. It's the largest spider in Japan, the Giant Wood Spider. Its known for the strength of the silk it spins. Enjoy! ;0

New Adventure!

So it's about time that we post on here that we are having a baby. Most of you know, but it's nice to get it on here. The due date is December 9th, and it's a boy!!! The girls are so excited, they think there are too many princesses in this family - we need a prince. They are so cute. Talking to my belly and getting to see the ultrasounds. We are naming him Hayden Ron, after Anthony's Poppie Ron. I know that when Hayden grows and learns of the man he's named after he will love his name. Thank you Poppie! Here are some of the ultrasound pictures.

Sierra

RCW Photography

Okinawa and the park

We got out of the house on a rare cool spring day with even daddy in tow. We made it to this park that has a three story roller slide the girls love. It also had a 5 story lookout tower to lookout across the island. So we got some great pictures of the girls enjoying time with their daddy and some great view pics of the island. There is another one I've added of a Japanese style toliet which you will see is a whole in the ground. They are seriously no fun! And....yes...it's the woman's toliet. :)

Praise God for great friends!

I have been so blessed with some really good friends on the island of Okinawa. Ones that even enjoy giving me breaks and hanging doing fun things with my girls. Here are so pics of the girls getting to go to an animal farm/zoo. The peacock is beautiful! And needless to say the girls love all the adventure and mommy loves the peace!