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Japanese New Year Feast

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018

More important than the food… … and boy, was there a LOT of food… … is the family you get to spend time with on New Year’s Day. Even if the littlest one could barely stay still for the picture. And just because everyone else who was in the next picture was also at New […]



Happy New Year 2018!!!

Monday, January 1st, 2018

We rang out the old year in style. Then we went outside (made the boys change out of costume first, and bundle up) and lit off a few sparklers once it was 9 pm (midnight on the East Coast). Not exactly a wild and crazy party, but hey, the kids had fun!



Do You Wanna Build A Christmas Snowman?

Friday, December 29th, 2017

When Tad said it was snowing on Christmas Eve, none of us (we were at Grandma and Gichan’s house for our annual Christmas Eve dinner of pizza, so when I say “us,” there were a lot of “us”) believed him until we looked out the window. And then the freakout began, because it was actually […]



Christmas Family Photo 2017

Tuesday, December 26th, 2017

Here we all were on Christmas morning! The kids just won’t stop getting bigger! It was a very full day, and IT SNOWED.  Can you believe it?  We had a white Christmas, much to Tad’s delight. The Christmas recap will begin sometime this week, but tomorrow is Ane’s birthday, so we’re all going to have […]