Love at Home

Newest member in our family!

2011-03-03T10:43:00.000-07:00

Blake is born 2/19/11. He was 7lb1oz(3220g), 20inch(50.8cm).
He is mostly happy, healthy and bring us smiles.
Its been little while to have a baby in our household. I kinda feel like starting over again cause Kota is 5y-old now and we didn't have to do diaper change, feeding, giving a bath, wake up every 2-3hours and so on stuff like that. But I have a Bryan and plus three other big helpers(Daniel, Emily and Kota)!! They love to take care of Blake, so that sometime they fight over about it though.

Anyway, we are so happy to have blake in our family!

Emily's Dance performance

2010-12-17T11:35:00.000-07:00

Emily had her dance performance last Saturday and she did great job on her performance!
Right now her dream is to become dance teacher when she's grow up.

Kota's 5th birthday!

2010-12-07T14:05:00.000-07:00

Kota turned 5 this Monday. He had a best birthday ever.

Our favorite Aunt Jennifer and Rachel came from Vegas and celebrate his b-day with us.

They prepared a huge Chocolate-Strawberry Ice cream cake for him. He doesn't want regular sponge cake anymore. It's not only Kota but Daniel and Emily also will ask me same thing for their b-day.

This was his strawberry-chocolate ice cream cake!! It sure was soooo good!!!!

Kota is such a funny boy. He loves dancing(hip hop), riding scooter, gardening(he's growing snow peas right now), play wii, swimming, collecting sticks and rocks, play rough house with dad and so on. He is such a blessings to our family and we love him so much.

Halloween

2010-11-10T09:58:00.000-07:00

It is kinda late but we had fun Halloween this year.
Daniel was little sick that day but he was so excited to go to trick or treat, so we let him participate since he didn't have a fever. He is into Harry Potter and reading such a big book.(he already finished reading book2&3! amazing to me) Well, Daniel was Dementor from Harry Potter. Emily was a Japanese Princess. Kota was in Pokemon Japanese summer festival traditional cloth.
They got to go with their friends and had lots of fun and candies!
Here is some pictures to share with you.

Daniel's Baptism

2010-10-11T22:16:00.000-07:00

Daniel got baptized last Saturday. He was little nervous but very excited.
Since my parents and Bryan's Dad live so faraway they were unable to participate his Baptism.
It was kinda sad but Grandma, Great Grandma, Uncle and his family, cousins, best friend and his primary teacher and other church member came for him.
We're so happy that he made a decision to be baptized and continue to walk the path to our father in heaven.
We love this young man so much.

Daniel 8th B-day

2010-10-04T14:10:00.000-07:00

Daniel became 8y-old. We had birthday dinner with family and friends for him.
He wanted have a icecream cake but I didn't have enough time to try to make one so insted of that we just had regular icecream packs and lots of kind of toppings for it.
I think it was just fine as icecream cake. Cause we all could pick and create whatever we want. It was fun.

Unfortunately I couldn't take pics a lot cause our camera didn't work for us.

There is a lot to talk about Daniel but i just wanna say 3things.
1, He is bossy sometimes but also good brother as a oldest child in our family.(try to be good example)
2, His reading skills are great! He reads more than I did when i was his age.
3, He try new things. He have learned how to play piano, play baseball, play soccer, swimming and so on.
I'm glad that he never hesitate to learn and try new things. He has a dream of becoming a inventor when he grow up.I'm looking forward to it.
We love Daniel so much! Happy b-day son!!

Paradise in Japan

2010-09-14T08:39:00.000-07:00

Finally I'm posting our summer vacation in Japan.
This vacation was for me I think because I was so longing to go see my family in Japan. It was 4years ago last time I visited my family in Japan.

It was rainy season and then muggy most of the time there but kids didn't care. They were having fun in the rain and we went to beach a lot. The green was beautiful and also the rivers.
Daniel and Emily were attending at Japanese regular elementary school there. Both of them liked P.E.,music,art and recess. They learned to speak Japanese from friedns in their class a lot.

Kota didn't go to school but he got to play with his cousin Aoi-chan. Aoi-chan is 2y-old. She is such a funny girl. She talks lots and lots, so I think kota learned a lot from her.

We stayed there for 2 month! I'm glad Bryan let us do that.
I was so happy to see family and friends there. I love them all!

Easter

2010-04-05T22:02:00.000-07:00

Our kids had lots of fun for Easter.
Grandpa Simmons cameto visit us from Colorado and we had breakfast with him!
Kids were so happy to see him and he brought them tons of easter egg surprises.
We did egg hunting with our cute cousins who live just next door. Grandpa got to watch them egg hunting also. Kids were all happy with candies and chocolates and money which were in the eggs and spent time with everybody who was there.

I'm afraid that Easter=Candies in the kids mind.......so I asked them what is true Easter means.
Kota said eggs and candies.......oh well, but Emily and Daniel said Jesus' resurrection!(What a relief)

We had lunch with Grandma. She cooked ham, beans, and potato salad for us. She is such a good cook! (It was very good.) Kids are always happy to see her and her dog Piper.

We are thankful for our family and friends and especially our savior Jesus Christ. We can't be happier without him.

Happy Easter to all of you.

Little League

2010-03-30T22:28:00.000-07:00

Daniel started to play baseball. Daniel and his best friend are on the same team(Dodgers)!

They have games twice a week. Daniel is in the coach pitch so it is a good start for him.

At the game they don't score anything(there is no win or loose), just no matter what everybody hits and run the base.

Daniel likes his coach. He always says that "Coach Art is very good at teaching how to play baseball."

He might not be the best player on the team but I'm proud of him that he is trying his best and never gives up. (well...sometimes his mind goes somewhere else even during the game though.)

He is getting better everytime when he plays in the game.

Go Dodgers!

Emily's first loose tooth

2010-03-29T21:42:00.000-07:00

It was a loose tooth for while but then it didn't come off at all so the adult tooth was coming in behind her baby tooth. We were thinking to take her to the dentist, but tonight, finally it came out!! Horay for Emily!

Bryan helped her tooth to come out. He tied dental floss around her loose tooth and then pulled and pulled, wiggled and wiggled. Emily was just fine with it because she was having a popsicle while daddy was helping her tooth to come out.

Emily was sooo happy to see her baby tooth. She ran to me and showed me with big smile and bloody mouth when her baby tooth came out. I was happy for her that she didn't even cry and being so happy.

We cannot forget about tooth fairy to come to under her pillow tonight.

Rappelling

2010-03-28T19:24:00.005-07:00

We went rappelling yesterday.
It was little windy but also nice weather. Our kids were fearless to try rappelling. They didn't try from top of the cliff but they tried from about middle of the cliff. It was their first time but they did great job!
I tried it from top of the cliff. It was very high to me and kind of scared but since my 7 year-old and 6 year-old tried it so I just had to try it to know what it's like.
Bryan was next to me and explain how to go down. It scared me a lot when I stood very top of the edge of cliff. I was telling myself that "kids did it, so I can do this, I can do this too..." and then I did it!!! (Hooray for me !)
It was scared but also felt pretty good and fun but today my body is sore from rappelling though.

Here is some pictures and videos.

Daniel having fun with rope.
Emily tried rapelling.

Bryan had most fun at rappelling.

Kota had fun with zipline.

Daniel's rappelling video

Emily's rappelling video.

Lehi Days

2010-03-06T17:19:00.003-07:00

It was like our stake cowboy/farmer event. They do this every year, but we haven't been there before so we went there to see how fun it is.

It was crowded, but the kids got to ride a pony. It was their first time to ride a pony and they had blast!

They wanted to ride it again but it was long line to ride a pony so I didn't let them. (sorry kids)

We had a chance to see and pet a kid, calf, and ducklings.

They were having a rodeo for the bigger kids and some other races also.

I think that we'll plan to go to Lehi Days next year with Daddy. (He couldn't go with us today)

Field Trip (遠足)

2010-02-27T22:48:00.004-07:00

We went to the Phoenix Zoo for Emily's Kindergarten Field Trip this Thursday.
It was unfortunate that Daddy couldn't go with us but we had a great time at Zoo.

Emily was so happy that her brother Kota and friend M and second cousins K & L got to go together.
They spent half of the time to looked around animals and then they played at playground another half.

Emily and her friend M

second cousin "K"

Emily and cutie "L"

Anniversary

2010-01-22T21:38:00.002-07:00

We celebrated our 8th anniversary on January 1st.
Our friend Meg babysat our kids overnight!!
Kids had a fun sleep over and Bryan and I were able to spend time together without the kiddos.

We ate at Cheese Cake Factory. It was my first time to eat there and it was pretty good.
We watched Avatar 3D.

It was nothing big but it was very nice because this anniversary date night reminds me of our dates we used to have before we got married. (brought us a sweet memories)

Honestly, I didn't realize how difficult an international marriage is until we moved to America. You can't imagine until you have experienced it....I guess.
Difficult part is......Different culture,language and food, drive a car opposite side from I used to drove, expensive travel to go see my family and can not see them so often......and on and on.
But there is great part also.
Great part is.........you can challenge yourself in new culture, food and language. You can say I don't understand or I can't speak, if you don't want to talk to people who are annoying or sales calls.(ha ha ha)(but sometimes I really don't understand though)
I found so many other things I like it in here also.

Well......
One most important thing I know is marriage made me grow up as a woman, wife, mom and daughter which means my wonderful Bryan helping me, lead me, guide me, love me,understand me and always there for me to be better.

What we did in December 09

2009-12-30T23:11:00.001-07:00

We did a lot in December but I was being lazy.....so here is our picture that you can see what we did this month.
It was Kota's 4th Birthday on beginning of month.
Daniel and Emily had a school winter sing. They sang cute christmas songs and did very good job! I really love to hear kids singing songs. (makes me smile a lot)
We went to Bryan's grandma's for Christmas Eve as always. It was nice to see all our family there. Kids were happy to see grandpa, grandma, and aunts, uncle, cousins.
Our car navigator brokedown near the Grandma's house on Christmas Eve.....thanks to our family's help to get us home that night.
We spent time with Bryan's mom on Christmas day.
I got a Wii Fit from Bryan. I'm so excited to do this! I don't know this will be good work out for me or not but I know this is gonna be entertainmet to our family.

Happy Halloween

2009-11-01T19:53:00.001-07:00

Kindly our neighbor gave us 5 pumpkins.
We were able to carve our family pumpkins this year. It was fun!
Daniel carved one all by himself. Accidentaly he cut his finger also, but it was just like a scratch.

On the 31st, we participated in our ward Halloween dinner as usual.
We had cornbread and chili then we started trick or treating when the sun went down.
Kids walked hard and they got buckets full of candies!
Happyly ever after....I also had some candies from their bucket.(hahaha)
Happy Halloween!
FYI-Bryan was not really dressed up he was Dr House. Yes he had a bottle of Vicadin in his pocket too!

2009-11-01T19:52:00.000-07:00

Kota Bear

2009-10-20T14:50:00.005-07:00

Halloween is coming up soon.
Kids are so excited to go to "Trick or Treating".
Since September they were telling me what they wanted to be for Halloween this year.

Daniel wanted to be a Robot in first place then he changed his mind to be a ghost until we went to search for costumes at DI. His final choice was a Vampire! He is going to be the Count Daniel.

Emily wanted to be a dolphin but she changed her mind to a witch.
She is going to be "KiKi" the cute girl witch from the movie "Kiki's Delivery service". If you know Studio Ghibli, it is one of their series.

Kota wanted to scare all his friends and especially his brother and sister so he kept telling me that he was going to be a skeleton.
But, he totally changed his mind at DI when he saw the Bear costume!
Kota loves his costume and he just wears it all the time, anywhere, everywhere since he got his costume.

He is such a cutie.
(Bryan's comment- It looks like the bear is eating Kota's head)

もうすぐハロウィーンがやってきます。

子供たちは今年も仮装して近所の家を回ってお菓子やキャンディーをもらうのを楽しみにしています。

9月からずっと子供たちはそれぞれ自分は”あれになりたい、これになりたい”と言っていました。

そして先週ついに古着屋さんに行ってコスチュームを買いました。

ダニエルは１、ロボットになる・・・そして２、お化けになる・・・に変わり、結局なるのはドラキュラ！

えみりは最初イルカになりたい！と言っていたのがやっぱり魔女になる！と言うことで、魔女の宅急便の"キキ"に決定。

こうたは友達と、特にダニエルとえみりを怖がらせたいから骸骨になりたいんだ！！とずーっと言い続けていたのが古着屋さんにあったクマの着ぐるみのようなコスチュームを見た瞬間から、僕はこれにする！！で即決定。

クマのコスチュームを買って以来ほとんどいつでもどんなに暑くても一日中着ています。今日も着たまま昼ねしていたので記念に写真をとってあげました。こうた、かわいいぞっ！！（親バカです）

Bad day

2009-10-09T21:29:00.003-07:00

I popped my car's tire the other day.
I was going to my mother in law's to drop the kids off at her house so that I could go get Bryan who was at the hospital.
I needed someone's help to put the spare tire on but I had no idea how to do it. So I called Bryan and as I was talking to him the missionaries came by and offered to help me change the tire. They really are God's servants.

On the day before Bryan's birthday he had an unsuspected surgery. He was lucky enough to spend the night in the hospital too. What an unlucky birthday...he was waited on hand and foot and had all his meals brought to him. Unfortunately he did not get to spend it with the kids because they were not allowed in the hospital because of the Swine flu scare. He is getting better and unless you want to lose your appetite don't ask what happened. Suffice it to say, he spent a week on Extra Strength Vicadin(yes there is such a thing) and layed down 24/7 for a week.

Birthday

2009-10-09T21:03:00.002-07:00

Daniel turned 7.
We usually celebrate his Birthday as a Family, but we decided to invite his friends.
Daniel was so lucky that lots of friends came over for his birthday!
The party went well and we could make good memories for Daniel's Birthday especially himself.

Sewing Machine

2009-09-16T20:42:00.005-07:00

This is my new and first sewing machine since I got married.

I did not have a good experience with sewing when I was in Junior High.

I sewed my first PJs at the class but it was too hard for me to sew curves and collar.

Anyway, I finished sewing my PJ but I never wore it because I didn't like it.

I thought I needed to improve my talent and skills so I decided to sew again.(especially since I'm a mom now...)

My mom sewed dresses and skirts for me and my sister.

I still remember my favorite shirt and skirt which my mom made for me. It was white cloth with black polka dot. I thought it was the cutiest outfit I've ever had!!

The memory from my mom gave me courage to sew my princess Emily's skirts.

I went to Walmart and grab some material to make her a skirt.

I sewed a pink skirt and a flower print skirt!!

It was so much fun to sew more than I thought.

Now, I wanna try some other things to sew sometime soon.

結婚して以来ようやく自分のミシンを購入しました！

中学校のときの家庭科の時間にパジャマを縫う課題があり、あまりいい経験にはならなかったのでミシンを使うことからできるだけ遠ざかってきた私です。

出来上がったパジャマも結局一度も着なかった気がする。（出来栄えが悪かったのです・・・気に入ってなかったしなー）

私も3人の子供の母親になり、何度も”ミシンがあればいいのにー”という事もあり、ミシンを使う腕も磨いた方がいいと言うことで購入しました。

私が子供のときに母が私と妹のために服を作ってくれていました。

母が作ってくれたシャツとスカートのセットのことを思い出します。

白い布地に黒の水玉模様で、”このシャツとスカートのセットはなんてかわいいんだろう！これを着ている自分はかわいく見える！！”と信じていたいたくらいお気に入りでした。

この思い出がえみりのスカートを作ろう！という勇気をくれました。

ウォルマートに行って生地を買い、さっそくピンクと花柄のスカート2種類を作ってみました。

初めてにしてはなかなかのできかな？？と自己満足中です。

ミシンを使うのも、思った以上に楽しくできたのでまた近いうちになにか作ってみようと思います。

Coon Bluff

2009-09-09T19:21:00.003-07:00

We went to play at Coon Bluff with our friends,this labor day.

Bryan and the kids played in the river. They found lots of shells and they learned to walk side ways in the river.

The kids got to drive a cute little Jeep and had fun with a zip line.

We were planning to do rappelling also but it rained a lot so we couldn't do it.(bummer)

Kota had so much fun that on the way home he fell asleep in the car and he drueled all over his shirt.

Back to School

2009-08-25T08:58:00.008-07:00

Daniel is in 1st grade. Emily is in Kindergarten this year.
I asked them how was their 1st day of school when they got home.
Daniel: "It was lots of fun, more than Kindergarten! I like it in 1st grade!!"
Emily: "It was fun, but it was too easy."

It's been almost 2weeks since school has started and both of them have made new friends in class.

The picture below is a group of kids at same bus stop to go to school.

From left Daniel, Jayne, Emily and Rachel.

Trip to Yuma/San Diego

2009-08-06T19:44:00.010-07:00

We visited our friends in Yuma last weekend.

Their kids and our kids are same ages so we had loads of fun!

Emily enjoyed playing with Kylie. Emily was crying when we have to go home, because she still wanted to play with Kylie. (I guess she needs a sister like Kylie)

We drove down to San Diego to play at the beach.

It was bit a cold at the Cabrillo beach last time we went but this time in San Diego's beach was just right.

Daniel enjoyed riding a body board a lot and jumping over the waves. He had fun swimming in the ocean more than digging in the sand.

Kota had a great time with digging in the sand and carrying sea water. He liked San Diego beach because his most favorite TV show is "Go Diego go". The word "Diego" is very special for him I guess. His name is Kota of course but sometimes it does change into "Diego". If you say"Come here Diego " then he'll come to you. He is a funny boy.

It was great trip. Our kids want to go visit their friends in Yuma again.

Thank you for having us Daniel and Kimmy. You guys are great!

Daniel's Bodyboard riding. He did pretty good!

Bryan rode a bodyboard also.

Reward

2009-07-29T09:45:00.008-07:00

Daniel made a goal which was to read 300 books during this summer vacation.
We didn't force him to read 300 books.
I have never read 300 books in my whole life.
I thought it was a really big number for him to read, but he is the one that decided, so we let him do it.
We decided to give him a prize, if he read 300 books.
We told him that we will take him to "Chuck E Cheeses" if you complete your goal during this summer vacation.
He was so excited and he tried his best for a month and half to finish reading 300 books.
We are so proud of him to achieved his goal!!
We had lots of fun at Chuck E Cheeses last Saturday.

アメリカでは特に夏休みの宿題がないので、ダニエルに何か課題をあげようと思い彼自身に何がしたいか決めさせました。ダニエルが決めたことは、夏休みの間に300冊の本を読むことでした。

私は子供の時、300冊の本を読んだことなんて一度もないぞっ。（今でもない・・・）

目標が大きすぎると思ったけど、本人が決めたことなのでそのままやらせることにしました。

ブライアンと話し合って、もしダニエルが300冊読めたらチャッキー・チィーズィーズに連れて行くというご褒美をあげることにしました。

そこは子供専用のゲームセンターで、ピザなど食事もできる子供にとって楽しい所です。

ダニエルはチャッキー・チィーズィーズに連れて行ってもらえると聞いて、頑張って約一ヶ月半かけて300冊の本読みを達成しました！
何よりもダニエルが目標を達成してくれたことが親として一番嬉しいことです。

先週の土曜日は家族みんなで楽しんできました。

2009-07-21T20:29:00.000-07:00

Vacation

2009-07-21T14:35:00.003-07:00

July 11-13, we went to camping at Lakeside AZ. It was our friend's property and they made a tire swing, long zip line, hammock, playhouse and huge Ramada. Our kids had lots of fun with their friends. Emily had a chance to ride and drive her size of quad. Daniel was able to ride his size of motorcycle with his friend. It was heaven for the kids because there were trees, sticks, rocks and dirt, and a campfire with smore's. They played with flashlights as long as they wanted and also they had a chance to watch a deer !!
We are glad that our kids love to go to camping.

July 14-17 we went to Los Angeles, California. This picture above is Cabrillo Beach. The water was still cold but it was pretty beautiful. It was nice to go to the beach. We went to the beach more often when we lived in Japan. I was so happy that our kids had some great experience with beach this time. Daniel was brave enough to swim in the ocean. Emily was kind a afraid to swim in the ocean but she went into the water with Daddy. Kota had fun with digging sand. He made holes and mountains, and he carried water from the ocean.
We enjoyed to visiting little Tokyo, China town and fashion district in LA.
My favorite part of this trip was the food and we enjoyed tons of Japanese food!!

2009-06-30T16:36:00.000-07:00

Swimming Lesson

2009-06-30T13:35:00.010-07:00

Daniel, Emily and Kota are taking swim lessons this summer and they love it!!

Kota is in Sea Sprite class, Emily and Daniel are in Sea Star class.

They are building more confidence in their swimming skills through these classes.

Kota and Daniel got their hair cut last night. They chose to get their head shaved because they think they will swim faster.

この夏、子供たちは水泳教室に通っています。アリゾナは今とても暑く、公園の遊具は太陽の強い陽射しのせいで焼けてとても熱く遊ぶことができません。（遊具に直接肌で触れると焼けどするぐらいです）　
この時期にできることと言えば、我が家はやっぱりスイミングです。水泳教室は月～木で1回30分のクラスです。我が家の子供たちは力のあるかぎりいつまででもプールで泳いだり、遊んだりし続けます。おかげで私も子供たちに負けず、もうすでに真っ黒に日焼けしてます。私が夫のブライアンの横にいると、私たちが白と黒のオセロのコマのように思えてきます。

こうたとダニエルは昨日ダディーに髪を刈ってもらい、お坊さんスタイルで本人たちは大満足！（えみり同様髪が短いと早く泳げると思っているらしい・・・）

これからも子供たちの成長と水泳のスキルアップを楽しみにしながらアリゾナの夏を満喫するぞー！！　　　　　　　　　

Emily's Hair cut

2009-06-04T13:37:00.005-07:00

This picture from our camping trip in end of May but the topic is Emily's hair.

I want you to look Emily's hair.

Her hair was nice and long but since I got my hair cut about 2 or 3 month ago, Emily wanted to cut her hair also.

I thought I was going to take her to a barber or something but I changed my mind and I cut her hair.

The good thing is, she still doesn't care if mommy cuts her hair, and she was so happy to see her new hair style.

Oh, one more funny thing is she loves swimming and when she grows up she wants to be a mermaid. Now she thinks that she can swim faster than before because her hair is short!

Kota and Penny

2009-04-02T21:16:00.002-07:00

We go outside and play almost everyday.
Today, Kota was riding tricycle and somehow he found a penny.
The other day, we went to park and he found a penny on the sand.
Again, other day we were at park and he found a dime.
He finds coins almost every time we go outside and now he started saying this when we are outside..... "Mommy, where is my penny? I'm looking for my penny"

If he can't find penny then he starts drive me crazy like this

Kota "I can't find my penny,Mommy!!"
Mom "........."
Kota "Where is it Mommy !?"
Mom "It is very special so if you can find it then you are very lucky"
Kota "No! I want to find it now! Find it for me, Mommy"

We look for the"Penny" for a while then...

Kota "Did you find it?"
Mom "No" " I'm sorry we couldn't find it today but maybe next time if we are lucky then we'll find a penny. okay?"
Kota "No, no, no!"

He starts to cry and have the same conversation with me over and over until we leave that place.

Bicycle

2009-03-14T20:39:00.002-07:00

Emily started practice to ride a bicycle this week. She've been practicing so hard and she never gave up even she fall off her bike a lot. She still need some help to ride her bike but finally she rode it all by herself! Good job Emily !!

今週えみりが自転車に乗る練習を”自分からしたい！”と言って始めました。何回も転んで、泣いて、怪我もあちこちしたけどあきらめることもなく頑張って続けて練習しています。まだ乗り始めのときに手伝いが必要だけど自分で乗れるようになりました！
よく頑張ったね、えみり！！

Mary had a litle lamb in Japanese

2009-03-08T19:31:00.002-07:00

The kids sang "Mary had a little lamb" in Japanese for us tonight.
Daniel started taking keyboard class and recently he was practicing "Mary had a little lamb".
Emily is interested in playing the keyboard also but she is not old enough to go to keyboard class yet so she is learning how to play keyboard from Daniel.
Both of them love to play "Mary had a little lamb" right now. I taught them how to sing "Mary had a little lamb" in Japanese since they love the song so much.
It's fun to hear my kids sing or speak in Japanese.

今晩子供たちが「メリーさんのひつじ」を歌ってくれました。
ダニエルはキーボードクラスに通い始め、最近「メリーさんのひつじ」を練習していました。
えみりもキーボードに興味があるのですが、まだそのクラスに通える年齢ではないので、家でダニエルが練習するのを見たり、ダニエルからどうやって弾くかを教えてもらっています。
「メリーさんのひつじ」は二人の中で大ヒット曲で毎日のように弾いているのでついでに日本語の歌詞を教えてあげました。歌うときにメリーさんの”ひつじ”ではなく、”ひちゅじ”と歌うところがどうしようもなく可愛く思えて特に直さずにそのままにしてあります。そのうち正しい発音を教え直すけど、結局私も阿波弁（徳島の方言）をしゃべるのであんまり意味がないかな・・・。
子供たちが日本語をしゃべったり、日本語で歌っているのを聞くととても嬉しくなります。

Please enjoy their song in Japanese!!

Field Trip Album

2009-03-04T21:21:00.001-07:00

Field Trip

2009-03-04T20:48:00.002-07:00

Daniel's kindergarten went on the field trip to the zoo.
The children split up with their parents and walked around instead of staying as a group.
It was part of cloudy and temperature was 83degree today. It wasn't too bad but it was hot in the sun.
Kota fell from the log at the playground and got scratches on his knee and ankle.
He tried to cry so hard and he couldn't breath. (poor baby)
We enjoyed our first field trip except Kota's sad part.
ダニエルの幼稚園の遠足があり、家族みんなで行ってきました。
幼稚園のクラス毎で行動するかと思っていたけど、そうでもなく子供たちはそれぞれの親や責任者と一緒になりすべて自由行動でした。
今日は28度で少し曇り気味だったけど、少しでも太陽が出てくると・・・肌がじりじりするのがわかる天気でした。（私のように黒い髪の毛は5分も帽子をかぶっていないと頭がとても熱くなって耐えられなくなる、ブライアンには決して分からない熱さです）
こうたが動物園の中にある公園の丸太で遊んでいて落ちて足に怪我をして大泣きしすぎで呼吸ができない状態で泣いていました。かすり傷よりも少し深めの傷でそれほどたいしたことはなかったけど彼にとっては痛くて痛くてしょうがなかったみたい。
こうたの怪我以外は楽しい遠足でした。

Japanese Festival Album

2009-02-23T22:44:00.001-07:00

Matsuri in Phoenix

2009-02-23T21:46:00.003-07:00

We went to a "Japanse Festival" last Saturday.
It was in Central Phoenix so we took the light rail to get there.
The kids had fun riding it.
There was a lot of Japanese stuff, some food, and we saw lots of "Cosplay"people(people were in japanese animation character costumes). It was fun to watch them.

This picture is "Omikoshi"(a portable miniature shrine) with us.
In Japan, usually men/boys are carry this on their shoulders and walk around the town on the festival days.

This picture is "ame-zaiku"(candy sculpting). This guy made this dragon candy.

It was amazing I don't know how he did it but he did great job.
This is Taiko(Japanese Drum) with "Tengu"(long-nosed goblin) which is japanese monster.

I love Taiko sound because it reminds me of my home town and japan.

Emily Birthday Album 2009

2009-01-23T22:34:00.001-07:00

Birthday Princess

2009-01-22T21:32:00.005-07:00

It was Emily's 5th birthday today.
She was born in Japan and it was snowing outside.
Her older brother Daniel who was 15month old had a running nose and cough at that time.
Then....She was hospitalized about a week when she was only one week baby because she got a pneumonia.
I was very scared and worried about her so much.
I couldn't do anything special for her but I only could do was a stayed with her side and watch her to recovering from her sickness.(It made me tired both physically and mentally.)
I'm so lucky to have her and she is one of my special one.
Happy birthday Emily. 今日は娘のえみりの5歳の誕生日でした。
えみりは日本で生まれました。生まれた日、外では雪が降る寒い日でした。
兄であるダニエルはこのとき15ヶ月で、風をひいて鼻水と咳がでていました。
そして・・・えみりは生後1週間の若さで肺炎になり、1週間ほど入院しました。
母親として、小さい赤ちゃんに肺炎を患わせてしまった・・・という申し訳なさや自分ではどうにも治してあげられない力のなさに落ち込んでどうしようもない気持ちの中でただできることは、そばにいて見守ってあげていることでした。
そのえみりも無事5歳になりとても嬉しく思っています。
えみり、誕生日おめでとう。

Anniversary

2009-01-17T21:07:00.002-07:00

January 4th was our 7th anniversary but we couldn't do anything special, because we were sick.
So,we celebrated our anniversary yesterday.
Bryan and I went to US Airways-center to watch Sun's game (great seats too!). Sun's lost their game but it was great. If we have a chance, we definitely wanna go there again.
I feel that 7 years are short but we did and had lots of things include good and not so good.
Anyway,I just want to say....
I'm thankful for my dearest husband Bryan who loves me so much and everything he does for me and the children.
I'm thankful for that we have three special children Daniel,Emily and Kota.
I'm thankful for that we were married in the Temple and our family can be together forever.
1月4日は7回目の結婚記念日だったけど、家族みんなが風邪をひいて体調を崩していたので特に何もできませんでした。
それで、昨日結婚記念日のお祝いをしました。
ブライアント私はNBAのフィニックスサンズのゲームを見に行きました。サンズはこの日負けてしまったけど、すぐ近くでプロのゲームが見れてとても面白かった！機会があればまた見に行きたいです。
7年はすごく短かかったなーと感じるけど、いい事も、あまりそうじゃない事も含めていろんな事があったし、いろんな事をしました。
でも、今一番言いたいことは・・・
私と子供たちのために夫のブライアンがしてくれるすべての事と、私のことを変わらずに愛してくれていることに感謝しています。
そして、ダニエル、えみり、煌大という特別な3人の子供たちを授かっていることに感謝しています。
また、福音を知っていることそして、私たちが神殿で結婚したことと、私たちが家族として永遠に一緒にいられることに感謝しています。

I got Green Belt!

2009-01-14T14:28:00.004-07:00

Daniel completed and passed his test for Karate class on Monday.
He got a green belt!! (Well done, Daniel!!)
He is sooo happy! and we are proud of him.
He wants to continue to go to Karate-class next semester.
We are glad that he loves karate and has such a positive attitude.

月曜日、ダニエルは無事に最初の空手クラスのテストに合格して緑色のベルトをもらいました。
週に1回のクラスで、今学期一度も休まずに出席しました。
ベルトをもらったダニエルは大喜びです。何かを達成できたということでは親の私たちもとても嬉しく思っています。
次のクラスも絶対、参加したいと本人は言っています。
自分からやりたい！ということを見つけたダニエルはいつも輝いた目をしています。

This picture is Daniel and Sensei-Jeff.

P90X !!

2009-01-12T11:46:00.005-07:00

Bryan started to do P90X work out!!

We've been married 7years and he gained some weight.(me too though...)

I'm looking forward to see 90days passing.

Keep going, hon!!

ブライアンがP90Xというエクササイズをやり始めました。（去年もちょっとやっていたけど、途中で体調を崩してからいつの間にかしなくなっていたんです）

結婚して7年の間に彼もなんだか体重が増えました・・・。（私も人のことは言えない）

90日後のブライアンを見るのが楽しみです。

頑張れ、ブライアン！！

Happy New Year and Wii Party!

2009-01-03T19:27:00.003-07:00

We stayed up until midnight on New Years Eve.
Emily was sick and had a fever so she was just laying on the sofa. (poor Emily)
Bryan was kind of sick too, so he was just laying on the sofa sometime or playing with his laptop.
Kota, Daniel and I had fun with Wii !! We played Wii Sports.
Daniel and Kota had blast playing Wii boxing. Daniel sweat a lot!!
I was helping Kota but we couldn't beat Daniel. He was good at boxing.....and bowl.
We did bowl 3 or 4 times but I couldn't beat Daniel at all.
It was fun.

Daniel and Kota playing Baseball game.

They were playing Mario kart. Daniel was crying after this picture because I helped Kota and we beat Daniel.

She was very sick and her fever(mostly 101 but highest was 104) didn't go down for 3days. Friday Morning she was crying and cryaing because her arm pit hurt so I took her to the Doctor on Friday and got antibiotics. Then she was feeling better in the evening. It was terrible for her to get sick but the good thing is ....she is better now.

大晦日は夜中まで起きていました。１２時になった時、除夜の鐘の代わりに家の外でパンパーンという花火の音を聞きました。子供たちは先に寝てしまうだろうと思っていたらゲームをしたりビデオを見たりしながら結局１２時近くまで起きていました。

ちなみに普段は8時がベッドタイムです。

えみりは風邪でしんどそーにしながらベッドは嫌だと言うので、ソファーの上で過ごしました。

ブライアンも風邪気味で、ソファーで横になったり、ラップトップで遊んだりしていました。

こうた、ダニエルと私はWiiで遊びました。二人は特にボクシングのゲームで盛り上がり、ダニエルは汗びしょびしょになっていました。

私とダニエルでボーリングの対決をしたら・・・なんと３，４回して全勝負ダニエルが勝ちました。（楽しかったけど、1回もダニエルに勝てなくてちょとくやしかった。）

えみりは薬を飲んでいてもほとんど熱が下がらず、38.8℃とか、最高で41℃の高熱が続き、金曜日の朝は脇が痛い！といってずっと泣くので病院に連れて行き、抗生物質をもらいました。夕方にはあっという間に熱も下がってご飯もたくさん食べられるようになりました。今ではだいぶ元気です、よかった。

Christmas 2008

2008-12-27T14:47:00.006-07:00

Christmas Eve, we went to Bryan's Grandma's and had dinner and white Elephant with family.
Christmas Morning, Bryan's Mother and his Sister Came over to our place and spent time together as a family.

Before we opened up presents, Daddy(Bryan) talked about Birth of Jesus Christ.

We had "Sukiyaki"for lunch!! It is Japanese food and it was sooooo good.

Aunt Jennifer bought some puzzles and we enjoyed it.

Emily,Daniel,Kota did 100 pieces of puzzles.

Bryan, Jennifer and I did 500 pieces. (this 500 pieces puzzles was tough and it took long time to finish)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!!

クリスマスイブは毎年恒例で、ブライアンのおばあちゃんの家に他の家族も集まってきて一緒に夕食をし、それからホワイトエレファントというプレゼント交換をしました。

クリスマスの朝はブライアンの母と妹のジェニファーが我が家に来て一緒に家族の時間をすごしました。プレゼントを開ける前にブライアンがイエスキリストの誕生について話してくれました。（子供たちは一応、聞いていた）

お昼ご飯は”すき焼き”をしました！！とっても久しぶりに食べてすーごっくおいしかった。（自己満足）

ジェニファーがいくつかパズルを買って持ってきてくれたのでみんなでしました。

子供たちは１００ピースのパズルをし、大人は５００ピースのをしました。

５００ピースのは完成するまでに結構時間がかかりました。

平凡な、でも幸せな家族のひと時を過ごせたクリスマスでした。

メリークリスマス！そしてよいお年をおむかえください。

Winter Sing 2008

2008-12-16T22:53:00.005-07:00

Daniel's school held a Christmas chorus.
kindergarten students sang 4songs.
1)Feliz Navidad
2)Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
3)Santa Clause is Coming to Town
4)I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
They did really good job for singing and performance.

Here is a video from chorus. Please enjoy their song.

I'm Three !!

2008-12-06T20:19:00.003-07:00

It was a Kota's birthday today and he tuned three. We celebrated his birthday as a family.

今日はこうたの誕生日で、3歳になりました。今回は家族だけでお祝いをしました。

I messed up the order of pictures, but here is kota's birthday pictures.写真の順番がめちゃくちゃになったけど、こうたの誕生日の写真です。

I got an excavator! This is cool!!　かっこいいショベルカーをもらったよ！！

This is from Jiji and Baba. What is this?.........I see a picture of trucks!

これはじーじとばーばからのプレゼント、何かな？・・・トラックの絵がついてるぞ！

It's a new book!! Thank you grandma!

新しい本だ！おばあちゃんありがとう！

I love frosting!! Look at my face, isn't it great?

My favorite Diego is on the cupcakes!! (kota loves Go Diego Go! from TV show)

僕の大好きなディエゴがカップケーキにのってるよ！！（こうたはゴー、ディエゴ、ゴーという番組が大好きです）

Kota made a birthday wish.

opening his present

Crazy Dance

2008-12-01T16:51:00.004-07:00

Kids gave us a Dance show night.(they planned everything about dance show all by them self)

Daniel played keyboard and sang his original song.

Emily and Kota danced with music.

It was pretty fun and funny. We are glad to have such a fun kids.

Video from their dance.

Thanksgiving

2008-11-30T20:51:00.003-07:00

Thursday, we had a dinner with family at Bryan's Grandma's house.
Bryan's Dad was there with his family.
Our kids had fun with Grandpa and Grandma and especially their cousin Deandre.
Deandre is same age as Daniel, so we invite Deandre to spent the night with them.
They had a party that night.
It was way too much fun.......they went to sleep after 10:30pm.
They played v-smile. Vスマイルというテレビゲームで遊んでいるところ。

We went to the park next morning.　次の日の午前中公園に行って遊びました。

木曜日は感謝祭で家族や親戚が集まってみんなで一緒に食事をしました。コロラドからおじいちゃん、おばあちゃんの家族もやってきてにぎやかでした。

子供たちはいとこのディアンドレーと久しぶりに会えて大喜び。夜、ディアンドレーを我が家に招待して一晩一緒にすごしました。

Grandma let them ride a carousel to have fun!!

Thank you Grandma!!

Wonderful night

2008-11-05T21:39:00.002-07:00

We had a wonderful night with Brother and sister Totten.
They just came home from their 3rd mission and they are traveling around to see their family and friends.
All of us worked in Tokyo South mission as a missionary about 9yers ago.
Luckily they choose to came to visit us!!
We love them so much because they are such a good example to us and they have such a great friendship.
They took us to the dinner.(It was great)
Bryan and I always talking about our future and we want to be like them when we grow up.
I hope that they will continue to have a wonderful trip.
Thank you for coming to see us.

トッテンご夫婦と素敵な夜を過ごしました。

彼らは教会の宣教師として3度目の伝道から帰ってきたばかりです。伝道中しばらく会えなかった家族や友達に会う旅をしているところだそうです。

彼らと私たちは9年ぐらい前に東京（東京南伝道部）で同じ時期に宣教師としてともに奉仕していました。

幸運にも彼らは私たち家族の所にも会いにきてくれました！！

そして、夕食に連れて行ってくれました。（やさしい）

トッテン夫婦は私たちにとってすばらしい模範であり、友情の厚い人たちであり、私たちの大好きな尊敬する人たちです。

私たちも歳をとったら彼らのようになりたいねーといつも話しています。

今後もしばらく旅を続けるそうなので、気をつけて安全であるように願っています。

ほんとに、我が家に来てくださってありがとうございました。とても嬉しかったし楽しかったです。

Surprise from Daniel

2008-11-05T21:12:00.003-07:00

November 3rd was my Birthday.

Daniel gave me a present which was surprised me a lot.

He danced for me.

It was great! So, I want to share with you.

Please enjoy his dance.

11月3日は私の誕生日でした。（歳とったなぁ・・・）

ダニエルがサプライズで誕生日プレゼントをくれました。（ダンスをしてくれたのです。）

ちょっとおかしかったけど、とても上手に踊ってくれたので、皆さんにもお披露目したいと思います。

楽しんで見てください。

Happy Halloween!!

2008-10-31T22:45:00.002-07:00

It's Halloween again!!
Daniel was a racoon, Emily was sleeping beauty, Kota was Spiderman.
We participated our Ward Halloween dinner and then we did trick or treating around our neighbors.
Kids had loads of fun and candies!!!

今年もハロウィーンがやってきました。

ダニエルは狸、えみりはスリーピングビューティーのプリンセス、こうたはスパイダーマンでした。

今回も去年と同じくワードのハロウィーンディナーに参加してから近所の家を順番にまわってキャンディーをたくさん集めました。

子供たちは大満足！でした。みんな頑張ってたくさん歩いたね。

Trick or Treat !!

2008-10-31T22:37:00.001-07:00

Jackolantern

2008-10-29T15:18:00.001-07:00

Emily and Zoo

2008-10-24T21:50:00.002-07:00

Our friend invited us to go to the Phoenix Zoo.
We were so excited to go there with them.
But then.....things were happened that I got call from Daniel's school because Daniel got sick and throw up at his classroom. I had to go pick him up and stay home with him.
So, kindly our friend took Emily to go to the zoo.
She packed up her lunch and said "I'll go and have fun with my friends!!"
Kota couldn't go without me, so he stayed with us at home.

Emily had a chance to touch sting ray.

She had loads of fun!! and then she asked me to take her to the zoo again and again...

Well, I'm glad that she had so much fun.

近所に住む友達が一緒にフィニックス動物園に行こうと誘ってくれました。

とても楽しみにしていたのですが、その日の朝ダニエルの学校から電話があり、教室で嘔吐をしたとのことでダニエルを迎えに行き、一日家でいることになってしまいました。

それでも、親切なことに友達がえみりを一緒に連れて行ってくれました。

煌大はママから離れらず結局家でいることに・・・。

えみりはバックにお弁当などを詰めて嬉しそうにはりきって「楽しんでくるよー！」と元気に出かけていきました。

友達と一緒でよほど楽しかったらしく動物園から帰ってくると、またすぐに動物園に行こー！連れて行って、いつ行く？ってな感じでしつこくせがまれてます・・・。

I'm Cool !!

2008-10-15T18:20:00.002-07:00

The other day Daniel told me that some boys in his class wore a sunglasses to school and he thought it was such a cool thing.
この間ダニエルが学校から帰ってくると、同じクラスの他の男の子が学校にサングラスをかけてきていて、とてもかっこよく見えたので自分も同じようにしたいと言いだしました。
So, he asked my permission to wear a sunglasses to go to school next day.
I said okay and he was so excited!!
何度も頼まれ、オーケーを出してあげました。もちろんダニエルは大喜びでした。
Next morning, his teacher(Mr.Abrams) saw Daniel and asked him that Are you a "Rock star?".
Daniel said "Yes!!" ( He was sooooooooo happy.)
次の朝担任の先生はダニエルを見て、「ロックスターですか？」と聞いたそうです。
ダニエルは嬉しく得意げに「そうです！」と言ったらしい。（さすがダニエル）

This picture was October 7th.（この写真は10月7日）
His next cool looking thing was a ware a jacket and cap and sunglasses to go to school......
ダニエルの次のかっこよくオシャレにの段階はジャケットを着て、帽子をかぶり、サングラスをかけて学校に行くこと・・・・
and it came to pass His dream has come true on October 14th!!!
そして・・・・10月14日ダニエルの夢が叶う！
It was little bit chilly in the morning.

He thought he was coolest boy in his class.....

自分がクラスの中で一番かっこいい！と思っていたに違いない・・・
Happily ever after .....

Daddy and Daniel's Birthday 2008

2008-10-04T23:29:00.001-07:00

Birthday Boys

2008-10-04T21:41:00.003-07:00

Bryan turned 30! on October 2nd.
We had a birthday dinner with his mom.

Daniel turned 6 years old on October 3rd.
He was so happy to have his birthday presents.

Emily's original song for Daddy.(She did good job.)

Saturday afternoon's Happenings

2008-09-28T20:16:00.006-07:00

Our precious Princess, Emily went into the kids room and sat on Kota's bed where she cut her bangs very short.
She thought it was fashionable.....
えみりが密かに子供部屋に工作用のはさみを持ち込み、こうたのベッドの上で前髪をチョキッ！と切ってしまいました・・・。彼女自身はそれが可愛いと思ってしたことらしいのですが・・・・・・。

I evened her bangs but she didn't like it so she cried a little bit.
えみりの前髪をそろえてあげたのですが、彼女はどうも気に入らなかったらしく、泣いてしまいました。不二家のペコちゃんみたいで「可愛いよ」と言ってあげると、ペコちゃんが何かも知らないのにちょっとにっこりしてくれました。でも、”ペコちゃん”に似てるでしょ？？

Emily's fairy tale with twist.
She can make up her own stories very well and she was telling one of her make up story with stuffed animal and cardboard house. But Kota wanted to join her story, so he was interrupting her.
えみりは自分でお話を考えるのが大好きで、この日もウサギのぬいぐるみと段ボール箱の家を使ってお話をしていました。こうたもこの時えみりのお話しに参加したかったらしく横から邪魔をし始めてしまいました。

Ground Breaking Ceremony

2008-09-27T10:48:00.004-07:00

We had a "Ground breaking ceremony" for our stake center building.
It has been about a year since our church building was destroyed by a fire.
私たちの教会堂をこれから建設するに当たって「鍬入れ式」が行われました。
今から約１年ぐらい前に私たちが毎週集っていた教会堂は火事になり、燃えつくされてしまいました。
なので、それ以来べつのステークの教会堂を借りて集会をしています。

Picture what the church will look like. 教会堂の完成予想図

There was a pancake breakfast for all people who participated in ceremony. Kota ate at least 4 big pancakes.....which is surprised me a lot.

式に参加したすべての人に、パンケーキの朝ごはんが用意されていました。（アメリカでは朝ごはんにベーコンと卵とパン又はパンケーキやワッフル、といったものが一般的かな、あとはシリアルとか）　コウタはパンケーキを４枚はペロリと食べてしまいました。私はあんまり食べないだろうなぁと思っていたのでちょとびっくりでした。

Pizza Show

2008-09-23T16:09:00.001-07:00

Three little Monkeys love to Dance!!

2008-09-21T21:35:00.004-07:00

We were practicing a song for Primary Program this evening.

When we finshed practice a song then Daddy turned the keyboard on and played fun music for kids.

They like to dance to music very much, so they started dancing.

They dance like a monkeys in the Jungle.....I think it's cute but it was noisy.

Anyway, It was a fun sunday night.

１０月にあるプライマリーの聖餐会での発表にそなえて歌の練習をしました。

そして、歌の練習が終わるとダディーが子供たちのためにキーボードで楽しい音楽を流してくれました。

我が家の子供たちは音楽に合わせて踊るのが大好きで、音楽が流れ出すと自然と踊りだしました。

子供たちはジャングルの”おサルさん”のように踊っていました・・・それはそれで可愛いんだけど、結構うるさかったなぁ。

まぁ、なんだか楽しい日曜の夜でした。

Planting

2008-09-19T16:06:00.002-07:00

We helped our neighbor to plant a flowers this afternoon.
Emily loved it .......until she gets hot and tired.
Emily's friend found worms and they tried to show it to Emily, but she was scared to get close to it.
Emily VS. Worm..................Worm won!!
We had a good time today.
Emily and her Friend planting together.
友達と一緒に花を植えているえみり。

近所の友達が花を植えるということで、えみりも一緒にしませんか？というお誘いがありお手伝いさせてもらうことにしました。
えみりはとても喜んでやっていたのですが、だんだん暑くなり疲れてきたらしく途中でやめてしまいました・・・。
えみりの友達がミミズを見つけたので、手に乗せたミミズをえみりの近くに持ってきて見せようとしてくれていたのに、えみりは恐がって「ぃやー！」という様子でした。
えみり対ミミズ・・・・・・・・・・ミミズの勝ちー！
いい経験をさせてもらえてよかったなぁー今日は。

Car Wash!

2008-09-15T12:43:00.008-07:00

We washed our car on Saturday.
Kids had fun inside the car.
土曜日に家のすぐ近くにあるガソリンスタンドに車を洗いに行きました。
子供たちは車の中で大喜びでした。

Award !!

2008-09-12T18:57:00.005-07:00

On Wednesday, Daniel recited a poem "Hickory, Dickory, Dock" at school in his class and he got a No.1 award.On the way home from school, Daniel told me a story that how he got an award and his eyes were shining with joy.

Daddy and I told him "Congratulations! I'm so proud of you !"

Daniel was happiest boy in the world that day.

水曜日にダニエルが幼稚園で’ヒッコリー、ディッコリー、ドック’という詩の暗唱をしました。

そして、なんとクラスで１番の賞をもらって帰ってきたのです！！

学校からの帰り道、ダニエルがアブラムズ先生からどうやって賞をもらったかなど、目をキラキラ輝かせながら話してくれました。

それでダディーと私は、「おめでとう！誇りに思ってるよ！」と伝えてあげると・・・・ダニエルはその日、世界一幸せ者の様子でした。

I asked Daniel to recite the poem "Hickory,Dickory,Dock" once again.

ダニエルに「ヒッコリ－、ディッコリ－、ドック」の詩の暗唱をしてもらいました。楽しんで聞いてやってくださいね。

Karate Kid

2008-09-09T13:50:00.003-07:00

Daniel joined the Karate(空手) class, yesterday.
He has interest in Karate for while, so that we took him to karate class.
His face looked bright with happiness during the class.
There were 30 children in the class and Sensei Jeff is his Karate teacher.
Daniel, showed great enterprise in doing karate.
We are very glad that he loves karate class.

昨日から、ダニエルが空手を習いはじめました。
ダニエルがずっと前から空手やカンフーに興味があるのを知っていたので、初めての習い事として空手のクラスに行かせることにしました。
ダニエルの目はこんなにも輝くんだ！！と、こちらが驚くほどに空手教室での時間を楽しんでいました。
（あんなに活き活きした顔を見てしまうと親のほうも嬉しくて仕方がない）
約３０人ぐらいの子供たちが集まって練習しました。空手を教えてくれるのは「ジェフ先生」です。
帰り道、来週も絶対に行く！！と本人はやる気満々です。
これがずっーと続くといいけど・・・。

Artist

2008-08-20T19:11:00.005-07:00

Emily, who is 4 years old, painted this afternoon while Kota was took a nap.

She painted about an hour or so, she just loves it!!

She painted 7pictures.

こうたがお昼ねしている間にえみりは絵の具で絵を描きました。

約１時間ぐらい楽しそうにやっていました。全部で７枚の絵を描きました。

Smile with Elephant ! 「ゾウさん」上手でしょ！？

I love banana!! How about you?　おいしそうなバナナでしょっ！

These are her other paintings. 下の写真は他の５枚の絵

top left: "apple and orange" tree.　左：りんごとみかんのなる木

top middle: family with picnic. tallest one is daddy. big round one is me(mommy). next to daddy is daniel. pink one is emily. red one is kota.　上真ん中：家族でピクニック。背が高いのがダディー、太ってるのがマミー、ダディーの横にいるのがダニエル、ピンクがえみり、赤いのがこうた。

top right: House 上左：家

down left: apple trees and blue sky 　下左：青い空とりんごの木

down right: Emily said "It's about dinosaur" 　下右：「恐竜」がテーマらしい・・・

Swimming

2008-08-14T21:07:00.008-07:00

We went to swimming while Daniel was in school.

ダニエルが学校に行っている間にプールへ行きました。
Emily love to swim without floaties. She is trying to be like a mermaid.

えみりは泳ぐのが大好きで、フローティー（腕につける浮き輪？）もつけずに泳げるようになってきました。彼女は人魚姫になったつもりらしいです。
Kota love to swim also. He is trying to swim by himself and actually he is doing well with water.

こうたもえみりに負けずプール好きです。こうたも浮き輪なしで一人で泳ごうとするので心配なのですが、結構こちらが心配するよりも上手に泳いでいます。

Emily's princess way? to swim in the water. It is looks silly and funny.

お姫様ポーズ？で泳ぐえみり・・・本人はとっても可愛くきめているらしいけど、よこから見ているとすごくおかしい泳ぎでした。

Kota's canonball !! He is such a silly boy.

こうたの飛び込み！！恐れなし！

Kindergarten

2008-08-13T22:46:00.003-07:00

Daniel started to go to kindergarten since this Monday!!

This picture was this Monday afternoon when he got off from school bus.

He said that he like to go to school which made me happy.

長男のダニエルが遂に幼稚園に行き始めました！！

上の写真は、スクールバスから降りてくるところです。ダニエルは家からスクールバスのバス停まで歩いてスクールバスに乗って行き帰りしています。

バス停までは私とえみり、こうたも送迎しています。

今のところ学校に行くのは楽しいようで、母としては喜んでいます。

July flew by.....

2008-08-01T22:33:00.011-07:00

I'm too lazy to do this blog recently......

These are few pictures of our new place and our kids.
最近すっかりブログ投稿するのをなまけているワタシ・・。

今住んでる所と最近の子供たちのことなどの写真を載せます。

entrance(玄関)Dining(ダイニング) Living room(リビング)

Kids room(子供部屋)

Kota dressed up himself........."am I cute enough?"(こうたが自分で着飾ってみました、どう?)

It was a dinner for kids. looks cute, so they loved it!! (ある日の晩御飯、みんな嬉しく食べてくれたよ!!)
Video from dinner

Moving

2008-07-23T13:48:00.005-07:00

We moved again.....(It is our neighbor hood though)

It was hot and made us tiered but finally our new place is getting settled.
I guess we like to move every year.......

By the way, we got a package from my parents in Japan last week and some fun things was in the box for kids and me.

I'm okay with American food but I need to eat Japanese food also. So, my parents put some japanese food in the package.

Kids love to playing with new transformer toy from jiji(Grandpa)&baba(Grandma).

また引越ししました。すぐ近くに引っ越したけど、外はとても暑くて結構疲れてしまいましたが、ようやく新しい場所も落ち着いてきました。
どうやら我が家は引越しが好き？のようです。

ところで、先週日本の両親から小包が届きました。子供にはオモチャ、他には日本食やダニエルの幼稚園のお弁当箱も入っていました。
私はアメリカの食べ物でも大丈夫だけど、やっぱり日本食は手放せません。
いつも荷物を送ってくれる両親に感謝感謝です。

Visitor

2008-06-17T18:12:00.003-07:00

We had a visitor yesterday. We(Bryan,Me and Julina) served as a missionary in Tokyo Japan and we were in same zone and district.

She had a Family reunion here in AZ so she stopped by at our place.

It was nice to see her.

We had "Okinawa Tacos" for dinner and then played Wii for a little bit.

She had to go to other place so she couldn't stay long but we had very good time with sister Lambson.

昨日は我が家に訪問者が来ました。ブライアンと私、ジュリーは教会の宣教師として東京の同じ地域で伝道していました。

ジュリーはアリゾナで彼女の家族の集まり（同窓会みたいなもの）があり、そのついでに我が家にも寄ってきてくれました。

夕食に「沖縄タコス」を食べて、その後ウィーで少し一緒に遊びました。

彼女は他にも行く所があったので長い時間いることはできなかったけど、良い時間を過ごせました。

来てくれてありがとう、ラムソン姉妹。

Harvest

2008-06-09T11:32:00.009-07:00

We planted corns in the garden about 3month ago.　It was fun to watch and help them to grow as a corn. My kids were usually helped me water the garden. (I was lucky because they were willing to help me.)

Those corns were grew pretty well which is makes me sooooo happy.

I cooked some corns right after gathered them up. It was delicious!!

3ヶ月ほど前にコーンの種を蒔きました。日々、コーンの成長を見守り、育てるのはけっこう楽しいものでした。子供たちも大抵は水やりを手伝ってくれていました。（ラッキーな事に子供たちは自ら喜んで手伝ってくれるのです。）

コーンは思った以上によく育ってくれ、私はとっても嬉しく幸せです。

コーンを収穫してすぐに料理してみました。取れたてはやっぱりすごくおいしかった！！

Yoshi went back to Japan

2008-06-09T11:10:00.004-07:00

My brother Yoshi went back to Japan about a week ago.

We were glad to had him as our family.

I hope that we will see him again sometime soon...

May 26, 2008 Quad Riding@Desert

2008-05-28T19:08:00.001-07:00

Once Again...

2008-05-28T18:48:00.006-07:00

Once again We went to Quad riding this Monday.

My brother Yoshi went with us this time!!

Yoshi said that it was pretty fun but also he was little scared of riding a quad.

I think that he did pretty good job with quad as a first time.

Bryan told me that Yoshi was almost killed himself when he almost fell off a cliff.

Luckly in front of his tree and Bryan saved him.

I just ride a twice this day......(that was good enough for me).

Yoshi and Daniel Riding a Quad.

今週の月曜日また、クワドに乗りに行ってきました。今回はよしも一緒でした！！

よしは「楽しかったけどちょっと怖かった」と言っていました。

初めてにしてはよしは上手くできたかな?と思います。

よしとブライアンの二人で乗りに行ったときに、よしが後もうちょっとで崖から落ちて死ぬか大怪我をするところだったらしいです・・・。木とブライアンに助けられたそうで・・・生きててよかったな、よし！！

私はこの日、２回だけ乗りました。

Yoshi was stuck in the mud and he could'nt get out of there so that Bryan back a quad up for Yoshi.

Quad Riding

2008-05-22T17:48:00.009-07:00

We went to Quad riding on Tuesday. It was hot but also we had a good time.

Bryan was most excited about to ride a guad.

Emily and Daniel had fun riding quad with daddy. Kota was okay to ride it but he was having more fun playing with sand and rocks.

I think that this is my 2nd time to ride a quad and I still got little afraid to drive.

We saw a Gila Monster. It was pretty big and crossing a desert slowly.

Yoshi couldn't go with us because he had a test on that day at his school.

「クワド」って言えばいいのかな？と言う乗り物に乗って遊びました。クワドは砂漠の道でも簡単に走り抜けてくれます。

私はこれで２回目ぐらいだけど、まだちょっと運転するの怖かった。えみりとダニエルはダディーと一緒に乗るのを楽しんでいました。こうたは乗るのは特に怖がることもなく大丈夫だったけど、クワドよりも砂と石で遊ぶことの方がもっと楽しかったみたい。

クワドに乗っている途中、ヒラモンスターというわりと大きなトカゲ（かな？）を見る機会もありました。ブライアン曰く、ヒラモンスターはすごい毒をもっているらしい。

よしは学校でテストがあったので学校を休めず、一緒に行くことはできませんでした。残念・・・。

Silly Dance Show

2008-05-15T08:01:00.003-07:00

Daniel and Emily and Kota held a dance show the other day.
Daniel loves hip hop.
Emily loves ballet.
Kota loves just jumping around a people.
There was only me as a audience.
It was pretty funny show and all of my children had a good time.
I think that this was a good practice for them to something share their talents with someone someday.

ダニエル、えみり、こうた、がダンスショーを開きました。

ダニエルが好きなのはヒップホップ系のダンス。

えみりが好きなのはバレエ系のダンス。

こうたが好きなのは人の周りでジャンプすること。

観客は母である私一人だけでした・・・。（観客兼カメラマン）

結構おもしろおかしく、子供たちも楽しんでいました。

今回のショーは、いつか子供たちが誰かと才能を分かち合うよい練習になったかな？と思っています。

Hair Cut

2008-05-08T20:57:00.004-07:00

Last night, Bryan cut Daniel and Kota's hair without my permission!!
Both of them are looks like monk.........so that I didn't like it first but now I think they are so cute.

昨夜、ブライアンが私の許可なく勝手にいつの間にか、ダニエルとこうたの髪の毛をバリカンで坊主にしてくれました。二人ともお坊さんのようで最初は気に入らないなーこの髪型と思っていたけど、今日一日見ているとなんて可愛いんだろぅ！と思えてきました。

Family Camp May 2008

2008-05-05T21:11:00.010-07:00

We had a Family camp at Bear Canyon Lake in AZ. We had a very nice vacation with Bryan's uncle and his family and Bryan's Aunt.

It was chilly during the night and some of the part of shade had a snow.

Our kids were so excited to have camping with family and friends. They loved everything about camping because Mommy doesn't say anything even they got dirt all over their face or pants.

And their most favorite part was a making roasted marshmallows around fire.Daniel was a roasted marshmallow king!! He had tons of marshmallows.........

Daddy gave Daniel a lesson how to use hatchet.

5月2－4日、アリゾナのベアーキャニオンレイクでキャンプをしました。ブライアンのおじさんと彼の家族、ブライアンのおばさんたちと楽しい休暇を過ごすことができました。夜はとても寒かった・・・昼間でも陰の部分では所々に雪が残っていました。

子供たちは家族や友達と一緒のキャンプをとーっても楽しんでいました。いくら服や顔を汚してもマミーに何も言われないので更に楽しかったんだろう・・・。

子供たちの一番の楽しみはキャンプファイヤーでマシュマロをあぶって食べること！！！（これがなければキャンプではないっ！と言う感じかな？）
ダニエルはマシュマロキングに輝いた！と言えるでしょう。”食べすぎ”ぐらい食べたよ彼は・・・。

Bryan and Yoshi and Ruben threw a stone into the Lake.

Camping Album May 2008

2008-05-05T21:07:00.001-07:00

Swimming !

2008-04-30T22:55:00.007-07:00

It is time to go to swimming!!......that's what I thought but water was'nt heated which means it was little bit coooooold.

Daniel and Emily were even swimming about having fun with water which was still not warm enough. (They just doesn't care) Kota got into water but it was too cold for him so that he enjoyed playing around side of the pool.

プールに行く時がやってきた！！と思って、友達の所にあるプールに行かせてもらって一緒に泳ぎました・・・でも、プールの水はヒーティングされていなかったので思った以上にまだ冷たかった・・・。
それでも、ダニエルとえみりには関係なし！多少震えながらも二人とも大はしゃぎで思う存分遊びました。煌大には冷たすぎだったらしくプールにはほんの少しだけ入り、後はプール際で水遊びを楽しみました。

Kota and Emily were fall into sleep on the stroller when we were on the way home.

こうたとえみりは帰り道にベビーカーの上で眠ってしまいました。こうた君途中で落ちなくてよかった・・・。

lose tooth

2008-04-29T06:40:00.008-07:00

Daniel had a first lose tooth on Sunday morning.

He was bleeding a little bit but it stopped pretty quick.

Daniel says it wasn't hurt at all.

Next morning tooth fairy bring him really nice present!!

日曜日の朝、ダニエルにとって初めての抜け歯を経験しました。ちょっと血が出たけどそれもすぐに止まり、本人いわく「全然痛く無かったよ！」とご機嫌。

次の日の朝、トゥースフェアリー（歯の妖精）がダニエルに素敵なプレゼントを持ってきてくれました。

Guitar Concert

2008-04-23T09:05:00.007-07:00

Yoshi had a Guitar concert at his High school last night.

He is taking a guitar class and he is in intermediate Guitar class.

It was nice to see what and how he is doing in a school.

I thought my parents really wants to know how he is doing in school more than I do.

so, I took some video and picture for them.

It was a cute concert. Yoshi was looked like little shy & nervous on the stage but he did good job.

昨夜、よしの高校で彼の取っているギタークラスのコンサートがあり、家族みんなで見に行ってきました。　よしが学校でどんな風にしているのか見れる良い機会でした。

わたしの両親の方がきっと私よりもよしが学校でどうしているのか、とても知りたい！見たい!と思っていることだと思い、写真とビデオを取ったのでブログにのせます。

学芸会のような感じのかわいいコンサートでした。よしはちょっと緊張しているみたいだったけど、上手に弾けていたよ。

I can ride a bike!!

2008-04-23T07:59:00.004-07:00

Daniel started to ride a bicycle without a training wheels.
Actually he doesn't have his own bike but his friend Shawon let him borrow his bike.
Daniel felt frustrated by practice of bike riding a lot......but now he can ride a bike!!
"hooray for Daniel !"
ダニエルは補助輪なしで自転車に乗れるようになりました！！
実のところダニエルは自分の自転車を持っていないのですが、友達のショーン君がかしてくれたので、彼の自転車でたくさん練習させてもらいました。
こけて何回もくじけそうになったけど、頑張って練習して・・・ついに自分一人で自転車に乗れるようになりました！！
おめでとう、ダニエル！！

Chu Chu Train

2008-04-16T07:03:00.005-07:00

They made a train with tricycle and dump truck.

Emily was driver and Daniel being an attachment between tricycle and dump truck.

Kota was having most easy and fun part of this train.

Kota loved to wear Emily's pink helmet and her jacket this day.

三輪車とダンプトラックで汽車を作って遊んでいました。

えみりは運転手（車掌）でダニエルは三輪車とトラックのつなぎ目になっていました。

こうたは一番ラクで楽しいところを占拠していました。また、えみりのピンクのヘルメットとジャケットを喜んで着用していました。

　

Mommy's good helper!!

2008-04-12T15:33:00.004-07:00

Daniel and Emily did dishes for me.

I asked them why are you doing this for me?

They said "Because we are good helpers!!" and "If you don't have any helpers you'll get tired."

I was very happy!!! (even I had to clean up the floor after they finished dishes though....)

ダニエルとえみりが皿洗いをしてくれました。

どうして皿洗いをしてくれるのか？と尋ねると、「手伝いがじょうずだから！」「マミーのこと手伝う人がいなかったらマミーが疲れるから」ということでした。

なんだかとても嬉しかったなー。（皿洗いの後の床の上は水でビショビショだったけど・・・）

Pictures from Vacation

2008-03-24T14:36:00.001-07:00

Vacation

2008-03-21T21:43:00.007-07:00

It is already close to end of month.....oh well
Bryan took a week vacation from work, so that we did few things as a family this week!!

1. We went to Phoenix Zoo.
2. We did cultivate our garden
3. Daddy and kids had a backyard camp night
4. We went to drive in theater
5. We did egg hunting with friends

All these things were fun and children had fun spent time with daddy.

I'm very happy about garden. Because, It is become more big and better soil for next plants.
Bryan and Yoshi tilled the ground with tiller this time. They worked really hard....thank you!!

Oh, I almost forgot about our most funniest happenings this week in my family.
It was about my husband.
He and my brother Yoshi made potato shooting machine and then Bryan got little burn on his forehead and he burnt his hair and his right side of eyebrow while he was tesiting the machine. It's not funny but he was okay so I would say "funniest happenings this week".

気づけば、もう３月も後半・・・。今週、ブライアンは一週間の有給休暇をとったので家族みんなでいろいろと楽しみました。

１、フェニックス動物園に行ってきました

２、菜園をさらに耕して広くしました

３、ダディーと子供たちは裏庭で夜だけのキャンプをしました

４、ドライブインシアターに行きました（車の中から映画を見る）

５、イースター（復活祭）の行事を友達と一緒にしました

どれも楽しかったし、特に子供たちはダディーと一緒に過ごせる時間がとても嬉しかった様子。

私は菜園がさらに大きく耕されて、大満足！！今回は耕すために機会を借りてきてブライアンとよしが一生懸命がんばってくれました。ありがとう！！

今週の一番最高の出来事はブライアンが髪の毛と右の眉毛を少し焼いてしまったこと。ジャガイモを銃の弾にしたパイプ銃を作り、そのテスト作業中に発火しておでこの軽いやけどと髪の縮れを作ったブライアン。かわいそうだけど、結果的にはちょっと笑える。（遊びでそうなったんだからね・・・）

The Garden

2008-03-03T16:56:00.007-07:00

I saw the garden with "Daikon"(Japanese radish) in end of last November.

This is my first time to make a garden but it went pretty well, I think.

It was smaller than average Daikon but I'm so happy about that I didn't kill my Daikon.

I was good at killing my plants or flowers before.......
You see......If you know about Daikon, this is really tiny, but taste pretty good.
Kids were had fun with pull Daikons.

昨年の11月末に植えた大根が大きくなり、子どもたちと一緒に初の収穫をしました。普通の大根に比べるとすっーごく小さいけど、味はちゃんと大根です。

多分、土がやせている割に肥料が少なかったのが原因かな？？と思います。子供たちは大根抜きを楽しんでくれました。

私は、アメリカにいても日本の野菜がちゃんと作れるんだ！と独りで喜んでいます。

Salt Lake City

2008-02-26T20:55:00.004-07:00

タバナクルのパイプオルガン

約30分の演奏を子どもたちと一緒に聞きました。

3人ともダディーがいなくてもけっこう静かに座って聞いていました。

ユタ州ソルトレーク市に行ってきました。ブライアンの仕事の集会があり、一人で運転させていくのもかわいそうかな？と心配もあって私と交替しながらの方が楽かな？ということで家族総出で行きました。

ソルトレークは道端に雪かきされた後の雪があちこちに残っていて、子どもは大喜び！！

「寒い～！」と言いつつ何回も雪遊びしてた。

ユタにいる間に車の故障もあってちょっと困ったけど、たまにはアリゾナから出られていい旅でした。

We went to Salt Lake City UT on last weekend.

Bryan had a zrii's convention. Driving up there was cheaper than Flying, so we decided to go as a family.

Kids and I visited templesquare.

It was very good experience. Daniel,Emily and Kota loved it.

They also enjoyed playing with snow.

Bryan had a very wonderful time at the convention.

One unhappy thing was our car had broken but luckly it fixed pretty quick.

Pink suit

2008-02-15T19:56:00.002-07:00

No fear!
Bryan was dressed in special pink suit for valentines's day at work.
He bought it when he was in high school.
Good thing is he still can wear it...and He did'nt get rebuked by his boss.
Sometimes he does outrageous things.....that's why I love him because I can't do things like him.

Marching Band!!

2008-02-13T20:09:00.008-07:00

These are my cute little marching band.

They started marching while I was cooking in the kitchen.

I was so happy about that they are so close together as a best friends.

カワイイ子どもたちのマーチングバンドです。

夕飯の支度をしている間に3人が団結して始めました。

ケンカもしょっちゅうだけど、３人がそれぞれにとってベストフレンドでいてくれることに母はとても嬉しいです！！

Fam

2008-01-29T22:25:00.001-07:00

Photobucket Album

Disney On Ice Princess Show

2008-01-29T11:59:00.000-07:00

Aunt Jennifer took us to the Ice Princess show last saturday.

It was fantastic!!

Not only Emily but also Daniel and Kota were much impressed by this show.

　Emily's most favorite part was a cinderella dancing with prince.

Daniel's most favorite scene was a sleeping beauty's prince fought the Dragon. And big fire!!

Kota loved Mickey Mouse.

先週の土曜日にジェニファーがディズニー・プリンセスのアイススケーティングショーに連れて行ってくれました。

すごいショーだったよ！

えみりだけでなくダニエルもこうたもこのショーに大感激でした。

えみりの一番好きだったところはシンデレラが王子様とダンスするところ。

ダニエルの一番好きだったところはスリーピングビューティーの王子様がドラゴンと戦うところと、大きな火が出てきたところ。

こうたはミッキーマウスがだーい、だーい好きでした。

Emily's Birthday!!

2008-01-23T09:27:00.001-07:00

Our princess Emily turned 4 in January 22nd.

We had her birthday party on January 21st. We went to McCormick-Stillman RailRoad Park.

Our best friend Potts Family went with us also.

Emily and other children had lots of fun at this park.

They road a train and carousel.

I had to go with Kota to him to ride a carousel and I got dizzy.

I don't think I want to ride carousel again........

Anyway It was very fun and here is a park web site.

http://www.therailroadpark.com/index1.html

In the evening we had a bithday cake and emily got some presents.

She was a "Happiest little Girl in the whole wide world!!"

1月22日はえみりの誕生日で彼女も4歳に！！

21日がちょうどブライアンも仕事が休みだったからこの日に誕生会をすることに。

一番仲の良いポッツ家族を誘って公園に行ってきました。

汽車とメリーゴーランドのある公園で子どもたちは大喜び！？

こうたは保護者同伴でないと乗り物に乗れなかったのでメリーゴーランドに付き添うことに・・・。

私：目が回って気分が悪くなる・・・・・次はダディーに付き添ってもらうぞ。

こうた：半分楽しみ、半分こわがる・・・。

えみりはプリンセスになった気分だったらしく大満足！

夕方、家でバースデーケーキを食べて誕生日プレゼントをもらったえみりは「世界一幸せ！」な女の子でした。

The leaves

2008-01-12T21:11:00.000-07:00

We have trees in our backyard. One of the trees' leaves fell all over the yard.

It seems like that there is no end to clean up those leaves.....

But, our kids loved to play in the pile of leaves.

They were happy to rake the leaves together and jump into the pile!!

It was so much fun for them they didn't want to dump the leaves in a trash can.

我が家の裏庭には3種類の木があって、そのうちの一つが紅葉しました。

そして今、裏庭は落ち葉だらけ・・・

掃除をしてもまた次の日には新たな落ち葉が・・・

きりがない・・・

でも、子供たちは落ち葉に大喜び！！　喜んで落ち葉をかき集めてきて落ち葉の山を作ってる。

そして・・・ちょっと助走をつけてから落ち葉の山に飛び込みっ！！ていうかんじで遊んでいる。

子どもは落ち葉をゴミに出すのをすごく嫌がっていたけど・・・

私たち父と母は「遊べてよかったねー」とお構いなしにゴミ袋へ・・・

Happy New Year!!

2008-01-01T20:35:00.000-07:00

"Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu" which means "Happy New Year" in Japanese.

We had a chance to visit Grandpa Simmons Family who lives in Colorado last week.

It was a very long trip to get there with three little children.

It took 17hours to get there but coming back was only 13hours.

There was a lot of snow in Colorado.

Daniel was very excited to play in the snow and play with his cousin Deandre.

Emily loved to play with snow but 5-8min later she started crying because it was too cold for her.

Kota enjyoed playing in the snow untill he froze his hands.

Grandpa and Grandma took us to an aquarium in Denver. Deandere, Aunt Vanessa and Erica went with us also.

It was a first time for our kids to go to aquarium. They had a wonderful experience there.

　Next day we visited Kumiko's friend. It was very nice to see them.

Next time, I would like to visit them in summer or fall.

Our kids were sick in New Years Eve. They were throwing up and Daniel and Kota had a fever.

It was'nt so much fun.

They got better today but they were laying down most of the day.

I went to Jennifer's house (she is my sister in law). She taught me how to make original clock.

She is very good at scrapbooking and crafts, decorations and so on. She is my "Sensei".

It was fun day for me.

”明けましておめでとうございます。”

我が家は先週コロラドに住むブライアンの父の家族の所に遊びに行ってきました。行きは17時間ぐらい、帰りは13時間ぐらいの道のりでした。小さな子どもを連れて車での旅は結構大変・・・。飛行機に乗って日本に帰るのとそんなに変わらないかも？？

アリゾナの冬は秋と同じ、それに慣れすぎたのか、コロラドの雪は・・・すーっごい寒かった・・・。

ダニエルはいとこのディアンドレーと雪遊びを楽しみまくっていた・・・なんとうらやましい奴。

えみりは最初の5-8分は雪遊びを楽しむが・・・その後、寒さのせいで「I want to go home!」と言って泣きだしてしまう・・・。

こうたは手が凍えるまではずーっとマイペースで遊び続けてたなぁ。

おじぃちゃん、おばぁちゃんがデンバーにある水族館へ連れて行ってくれる！！　ブライアンの妹のバネッサとエリカ、そしてディアンドレーもいっしょに水族館へ。

我が家の子供たちは水族館へ行くのは初めてで、とても楽しんでいた。

くみこはコロラドに住む友人宅を訪問し、久しぶりに友達に会えて大満足！！

でも、今度コロラドに行く時は夏か秋にしたいなー。

大晦日は子どもたちが風邪をひき、ダニエルとこうたは熱も出て嘔吐もありちょっと大変だった・・・。

年が明けた今日、子供たちはだいぶ良くなったけどほとんど一日横になっていることが多かったかな。

私は義理の妹のジェニファーの家に行き、クラフトを楽しんでやってきちゃった。（その間ブライアンが子どもたちを見てくれてた）

ジェニファーは手先が器用で、スクラップブックやデコレーション、クラフトがすごく上手！！彼女はわたしの師匠と言える存在。

ちょっとだけと思って行ったけど結局4時間半ぐらいずっと彼女のところにいてしまった・・・。

今日は自分のやりたいことをしてすごした一日でした。

Christmas 2007

2007-12-25T14:23:00.000-07:00

December 24th, we went to Grandma Simmons house to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
(It is a tradition of the Simmons family to gather on 12/24)

Most of Bryan's relatives who live close to Grandma were there.

We had a wonderful Christmas dinner.

After a dinner Uncle Dwayne read a christmas story for us

and then we had a White Elephant(Gift exchange!!).

It's a most exciting things for our kids.

Daniel got a sea monkey stuff.

Emily got a Tamagocchi.

Kota got a cool car.

Yoshi got a noisy horn.

It was very nice to celebrate Birth of Jesus Christ as a family.

December 25th, We had Christmas at our house with Bryan's Sister Jennifer and his Mom.

The Kids did'nt wake up until we woke them up.

They were so happy to see that Santa brought them presents under the Christmas Tree.

Bryan read a Christmas Story from the New Testament and then we did stockings.

Our kids were so excited to open the presents.

Especially Emily was so happy because she got very beautiful princess dress shoes from secret Santa. She was jumping and clapped her hands and had a biggest smile when she saw her new princess dress shoes.

Daniel loves his walkie talkie and his own digital camera!! Aunt Jennifer got it for all our kids and she taught and help them how to use it.

Daniel, Emily, Kota always love Jennifer.

Kota enjoyed eating candies and snacks from Christmas stocking.

They got nice books from Grandma Wicks. Kota especially loves Dog thePiper book which grandma made.

We had a wonderful Christmas and we are thankful for our savior Jesus Christ.

Merry Christmas to all!!

Christmas Lights

2007-12-24T00:01:00.000-07:00

We went to see a Christmas Lights at Mesa Temple. It was pretty crowded there but Daniel and Emily and Kota was so excited to see those beautiful lights.

We stayed there about Hour and half. Kota talked a lot......but we could understand what he trying to say was a little bit, but It's okay we know that he was very happy to see those lights and Christmas display.

I think this was Yoshi's first time to go see the Mesa Temple and Christmas Lights.

He was impresed.

Yoshi was holding Kota when Kota got tired of walking. Yoshi was being a nice uncle.

Daniel wanted to go see the big statue of Jesus, so we went to the visitor center.
Daniel said "Wow"
Emily said "look"
Kota was smiling big and point his finger to the statue and he said "It's Jesus"

Our childeren was soooo happy to see Jesus.

It was very nice visit to see Temple and Christmas Lights as a family.

メサ神殿のクリスマスのライトアップを見に行ってきました。結構たくさんの人で混雑していたけど、ダニエルもえみりも煌大もきれいにライトアップされた神殿とクリスマスライトが見えてとても喜んでいました。

1時間半ぐらいそこにいて、ライトを見て周りました。煌大は嬉しかったのかとてもよくおしゃべりをしてくれたけど・・・親の方は彼が何を言っているのかほとんどわからず・・・と言う感じでしたが、とりあえずクリスマスライトやクリスマスの展示物が見れて彼がとても幸せだと言うことはよく分かりました。

よしにとって今回がメサ神殿とクリスマスのライトアップを近くで見る初めての日となりました。物静かなよしですが、結構気に入っていた様子・・・と言うことにしておこう。
煌大が歩きつかれた時は彼を抱っこして歩いてくれて、とても良いおじさん役をしてくれました。（よくやった、よし！！）

ダニエルは神殿のすぐ横にあるビジターセンターに行って大きいイエス･キリストの像が見たい！と言うので行ってきました。キリストの像の前で
ダニエル：「おおーっ！」
えみり：「見てーっ！」
こうた：大きな笑顔で像の方を指さして「ジーザス！！」

子どもたち３人とも大感激！！！でした。

寒かったけどみんなこんなに感激してくれて行って良かったなーと思っています。

Family Home Evening

2007-12-18T12:53:00.001-07:00

We have Family Home Evening every Monday(sometimes we do that on Sunday).
My brother Yoshi is good at playing the guitar so that during the FHE he played some music for us and Daniel, Emily, Kota loved it.

This time Emily did lesson. She talked about what she learned in her nursery class. Yoshi and Kota choose opening and practice music. Daniel was in charge of the articles of faith. Mommy was in charge of refreshment and Daddy did activity.

It doesn't takes long time to do FHE but It is always fun to do.