august 09!

hello! so august just ended and its kinda cool since im excited for lots of fun stuff in september. :)

the month started out with friendship day. it was a day where our US base welcomed the japanesse access on our base for the whole day. its a time where we try to connect and have some fun together. there were lots of fun activities including food and drink booths, game booths, kids bounce houses, a awesome car show, lots of different performances, a KISS tribute band, fireworks, ship tours and more. the crowds were HUGE! there were so many japanesse people, which was kinda cool. i love all the events the base has and were lucky we get them so often. they really go all out and i love how fun it is being outside with the community. the only downside this time was how hot it was! lol, so we took a long break in the afternoon. we also bought the kids new beds that day. :)

my hubby has a blog now and he posted the pictures. go here and check it out! --> http://hocker09.blogspot.com
im pretty sure thatll be the usual for us.. ill write about everything and he'll post all the cool pictures. :]

hubby and i had our date night and we tried the TGIFridays here on blue street. it was pretty good and a fun place. we checked out tsunamis since carpenter had always said he loved that place and it was pretty fun. they have habu sake (real dead snake inside the bottle) and i really want to try some one of these times we hang out there, but ill have to find a friend to come with and do it with me who actually would, since my hubby wont! haha.

we planned on going to summer sonic in tokyo, but with tickets being so expensive, the good bands being so late and all american rejects coming on base and performing for us for free, we decided not to. speaking of AAR, they were AMAZING. we were right up in front against the barrier. couldnt move, but it was worth it. in the beginning of the show after the 2nd or 3rd song, i picked up jayden and put him up on my shoulders. tyson, the lead singer started talking to jayden!! he was saying how awesome he was and telling him to rock out. :) then said he'd never seen a baby so close to a stage, haha. and that if he craps his pants, someone better crowd surf the pampers up to the front! lol. it was awesome. then there was a lost baby nathan incidint, but that was a whole nother story and a different kid. lol. it was an amazing concert though. (tons of pics on my myspace/facebook!)

barbie, her hubby, the kids and i checked out kamakura beach! it was a pretty nice beach. the nicest one ive been to here so far. i just love how it was more cali like with all the resturants and shops down the water, but its even better cuz they sell alcohol and chu-his :)
the weekend after that, barbie and i set up a double date with both of our hubbys! the plan was to go to kamakura beach, but we ended up walking to the wrong train station, lol, so we went to another beach. it was miura somethin. we had heard that it was a bigger, more popular beach so we were happy about it anyway, but when we got there everything was closed. :( we were pretty dissapointed. but luckily there was a jonathans and a 7-11 right by the beach, so we just ate there and bought alcohol and fireworks at 7-11. we relaxed on the beach and drank while the boys set off fireworks for us. :) it ended up being a pretty fun night. we headed back on the trains and went for a few more drinks at tsunamis<3, played some pool and darts, then went down to the pita shop. those pitas are sooo yummy!! i dont know if it was so good cuz i was really drunk or that they were just really good, but yumm! lol.

della had her birthday party and that was pretty fun. there were a lot of people and lots of food, rockband, jenga and taboo! i always loose track of time there though cuz we usually have lots of fun late at night, lol. we've been metting up at the park a lot and swapping babysitting with eachother too. :)

megan had her baby shower! it was actually a surprise which was really fun! :) her hubby kim did it for her which was really sweet. i bought her some cute warm clothes and a photo book so the baby can carry pics of his daddy while hes gone on the ship. i used to do that for my kids when justin was gone. they loved it<3 the cake was super yummy and the games were pretty fun.
i think shes pretty close to having him. i give it a week and a half more! lol.

on CFAYmoms we set up a meet up, but it kinda sucked since only 3 of us with our kids showed up. lots of people couldnt come at the last minute, but i got to meet 2 cool girls :) i think were gonna try to pull it off again and hope more people show. i love meeting new people so i hope we keep doing regular meet ups.

hubby, the kids and i went down to Odaiba to see Gundam the robot. its a 18 meter / 35 ton robot who really moves, lights up and smokes. he was awesome!! tayla was a bit scared, but she was fine. jayden just loved it! he kept saying wooooow and gasping the cute way he does! lol.
the only thing that sucked though was that they were taking gundam down 2 days after we went, so we had to go on that day because the next day (when we originally wanted to go) there was a tsunami coming. so we had to hurry and go the day before at like 4 pm. we hit traffic and it took awhile to get there. then once we finally got there and found parking it was pretty fine, until we were just about to leave, it started pouring. we got so soaked. it was worth it though. the robot was so sweet and that area is so pretty. the tokyo bay is right there with the rainbow bridge. i cant wait to go there alone with hubby one night. theres tours on the boats and a big mall. i love it there<3

the tsunami wasnt bad. it was supposed to hit us straight on, so there were lots of warnings and stuff, but it ended up not hitting us, it turned up north, so we just got lots of rain and wind. we hung out in the house most of the day and watch movies and stuff, but eventually got bored and went to a few stores, lol. yay tropical weather!

thats about it for august. jayden got contacted for a modeling job by a couple agencies which is really exciting. the auditions are in a couple weeks though. im so excited for him! i cant wait! ill update everyone on that next month!

love,
aprilbunny!