oh wow, my life!

It has been over a month since my last blog. ALOT of things have happened since then. On Monday, March 2nd. I took a pregnancy test and it came out positive. Oh my gosh...talk about excited! I went for my Dr's appointment on the 9th and they had me take the test there and it was positive too, so I set up my prenatal labs. Went and had that done on the 11th. During the afternoon I had a few spots and for some reason it really freaked me out. Brian and I went to the ER. It went from a little bleeding to full blown menstral cycle bleeding.

The Dr came in and spoke with us and told us that it looks like we had a miscarriage. II slept the whole day of Thursday and was like a zombie. I feel bad and sad. I feel like there are or were things that I could have done to prevent this, but then I also think that it was God letting us know that it wasn't our time.

Please keep Brian and I in your prayers.

Sakusaku Panda

With all of my wonderful trips to Family Mart, I have found a new cookie, that I love, love, LOVE!! These cookies are cute little panda bears. I picked them up to give to my friend Michelle's son for while we were at Cocok's. He really liked those cookies, so I thought that I would stop by family mart on my way home and pick up a bag for myself.

I finally opened the package a few minutes ago and I have to say. I totally see why Bubba loved those cookies so much. Again, they are such cute little cookies they have 4 chocolate panda faces and when you turn them over they look just like a little panda.

Oh the wonderful things that you find at Family Mart.

Brian on his 36th Birthday.

I think for the past 3 years, there has always been something to keep us from celebrating Brian's birthday.  I felt like I really needed to do something nice for him since last year, he spent the whole day getting all of my paperwork done for me to fly back to Florida for Aunt Myrt's funeral. I purchased a couple of Corpsman shirts a couple of days ago and I have been purchasing different DVD's offline for him.  He was really happy and that was what I really wanted.  We also went to Marino's for dinner and as usual it was Fantastic!!!!   All in all, I think that he had a great birthday.

Miffy is a Slut Bunny!!

Really Miffy?????  What the heck?  So, this evening we went to Coco's and had an awesome dinner with Denise and the boys.  We decide that after dinner that we would go to the 100¥ shop aka Daiso shop.  We laugh at all of the amazing and wonderful things that they have in the store.  Then Denise points out the cups and plates have Melamine warning on them or something about Melamine,  isn't this the crap that we are suppose to be staying away from?     So then we head down the toy aisle 

and we see the Hello Kitty items that 

they have in this particular Daiso shop

then Brian points out this little bag for

a small little girl and it shows this little

girl bunny on roller skates and there is

a boy bunny standing behind her and it

just does not look right.  It really

makes Miffy look like she is a Slut

Bunny. I mean  tell me what you think of

this picture?

Andie loves to beat the drum

Yes......I love to beat the drum. Our first Christmas here in Okinawa, Brian and I spent the day at the Jusco playing video games. In all of the video arcades here in Okinawa and I am guessing on mainland Japan have the game Taiko no Tatsujin It is a game that has 2 drums and you are hitting the drum for each little drum that comes across the screen. This game is so cool and I enjoy playing it. The other day Brian and I were at the Yamada store and we were looking at all of the wii games that they have. I was totally shocked to see that they had a wii version of Taiko no Tatsujin. I picked it up and was about to go to the counter with it and I remembered that Japanese wii games are not supported on the American wii. So, there it went back to the shelf. I am now on a mission to find someone to mod my wii to support Region 2 games. So, that I do not have to go out and buy a Japanese wii, just for this game. I have been tempted to do this if I can not find someone to mod it for me.

Oh what a night!

I was so tired last night, there was no way that I would be able to write this. So last night we went to Toneau Bistro and had a wonderful dinner. We have had dinner there a couple of times before, but our friends Aimee and Paul had never been. So, we get in and get our table. They bring us our appetizers. The usual appetizer is a piece of fried fish, a plum and a hot pickle, tempura veggies or the wonderful dish of squid that we had last night. Well when they brought the appetizers out they hand Paul, Denise, Brian and myself a small plate with the squid on it. We look at each other and wonder why they didn't bring another one for Aimee. Well...the server comes back with 5 trays. He hands one to each of the 3 boys, one to Mackenzie and one to Aimee..yep......They thought that Aimee was child! It was so funny!!

So, the meal continues...we enjoy our wonderful food and make fun of the drinks that they have given us, because the ice in the glasses are 2 huge balls. I wanted to see if I could fit one into my mouth. Anywho....the meal continued and all of a sudden the waiter comes out with 2 plates that had these cake like items on it. He said it was a present.... I have to say that I was thinking at first what the heck are they bringing us bread with chocolate syrup? But once you cut into it, that thing was so warm and so good.

I have to say that it is always so wonderful to go out to dinner and have a great time with such great company.

Photography here a go go

For a while, I had been going back and forth with should Brian and I do a photography shoot with a photographer here in Okinawa. I kept putting it off, and I don't know why. So, we finally did it. There are so many people here in Okinawa that do photography. The person that I wanted to use was the HM1 that worked with Brian. I knew that he did awesome work, because the command would have him doing all of the pictures for command events. Well.....he PCS'ed in December so using him was out of the question. I turned to Japan Update to see if I could find a photographer, all of the photographers that I saw on there did awesome work, but they were a little pricey. Then I turned to the new site here in Okinawa, which was Okinawa Yard Sales and I found a photographer named Deena with Makana Photography and I have to say that I was impressed with the work that was shown on her site and I am extremely pleased with the pictures that she did for us. I love, Love, LOVE the pictures. She did an awesome job.