BYE BYE PACIE

Today we went to the near by park to visit the pond. It was a very enjoyable evening! We had fun spending time as a family.

The gate entering the pond.

The pond...and the wildlife inside the pond.

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Mommy and Clayton watching the fish.

Daddy and Clayton hanging out and checking out the fish.

Cameron had Tia and Clayton go and pose on top of the bridge. While up there Clayton's pacie fell into the pond. It seems that Clayton thought the fish needed it more then him. So we watched it float away...

Some nice random Japanese couple insisted that we took some bread to feed to the fish with Clayton. Clayton enjoyed watching the fish gobble it up.

We had a wonderful day at the pond!

Also, here is a random picture we thought we would share...Clayton sitting up all on his own.

BECOMING INVOLVED

We are finally getting involved in things here on Okinawa more. YAY! Things are finally seeming more normal. We have started to make some new friends and we are getting out of the house more often.

This Sunday we both received callings at church. Cameron was called to be a Ward Missionary and Tia was called to serve in the Primary as Secretary. We are both excited to begin our new callings and we trust that the Lord will guide us.

Cameron is doing good at work. This month he has been working a crazy shift. He is working Midnight to Noon on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. He is the shift supervisor and he has been enjoying it. He does good working funny shifts. Clayton and I however can't wait until it is over because it makes keeping the car for church difficult. The reason for this is that by the time we leave to take Cameron to work Clayton has already been in bed for awhile and by the time we get home from dropping Cameron off (about midnight) Clayton decides he is done with sleep. Then we can only stay for sacrament meeting so that we can pick Cameron up from work. So it makes for a LONG Sunday. But ultimately what matters is that we make it to church.

This past weekend Cameron bought himself some fishing gear! He has been wanting to fish for such a long time and so we figured why not! We spent the weekend going fishing! Clayton even had the chance to help Cameron out. For the most part Tia just entertained Clayton and relaxed outside. It was a lot of fun!

The view...beautiful!

Our little set up. We wanted to try to give Clayton shade the whole time. We did not need a burnt little boy!

Mother and son...

Father and son...

On Thursday Tia had her friend Amanda over for lunch. Tia made homemade pesto and a salad. They then just enjoyed each others company and played some games. It was a lot of fun and Tia is excited that she is making friends quickly!

Tia signed up for school this past week as well. She signed up at the University Of Maryland University Collage. She is excited to be starting classes in August. For this terms first session she will be taking Beginner Japanese I and she is hoping that the next session she will be able to handle even more courses. As she learns Japanese she will be teaching Cameron what she learns. We are both excited to learn more about the culture here as well as the language.

Clayton is growing way to fast. He rolls around all over the floor and does an army crawl type thing. If we put him on the floor he does not stay where we put him for long. He enjoys his freedom to explore! He is also getting closer to crawling. He will be up on his hands and knees and he will start to begin moving and then fall to his belly. It will be happening soon enough! He also does push ups.

He talks our ears off and he LOVES food! He is such a joy to us!

Just hanging out in the kitchen while mom cooks...

More belly time...

Sleeping peacefully...

Cruising around...

For those that want to know we are now on Facebook. We were finally talked into it.

So far we LOVE the island! It is such a beautiful place and the people are absolutely amazing! We are excited for the opportunity to be over here and we will embrace our short time here!

P.S. What do you think of our new header?

SHOPPING IN NAHA

Last weekend we went to checkout the international street in Naha. It is a big shopping area. It was a lot of fun! While out we bought a neat shell night light, an item to turn into a Christmas tree ornament and Cameron also bought Tia 2 necklaces (Since she collects necklaces from Cameron). Whats different to us is that while shopping (or anytime really) random strangers will come up to you and take over holding your baby. To us it is strange but it is the norm here. But maybe we will get used to it in the next 4 years. We will see.

AQUARIUM

On one of Cameron's weekends we drove to the aquarium. Going to the aquarium is a WHOLE day trip because of how far away it is. But it is definitely worth the drive. Here on Okinawa we drive on the right side of the car and on the left side of the road. Which is actually not too bad. We feel as if we have been doing it our whole lives.

Clayton is ready to explore the aquarium (and happy to be out of his car seat).

The walkway to the aquarium and dolphin shows.

Outside the aquarium there are tons of animals made out of plants. They were really neat. Tia even got to kiss a frog.

We had a blast inside the aquarium and Cameron had fun taking all sorts of pictures.

Clayton would stare into the tanks for a long time. We think that he enjoyed it.

By the end of the day we were all ready to go home. Especially Clayton. He was exhausted.