Thanksgiving and address change

We hope you had a nice thanksgiving. This year we had some friends on our street come to our house. They have a little daughter that is close to Haven's age. The boys were excited because they brought their Wii over. Believe it or not we actually decorated our Christmas tree on Thanksgiving Day. Only in Guam! We got our tree once they arrived at the Navy Exchange because we wanted to get it while it was "fresh" and get it into water. Once it was up Cole was so excited to decorate it that we went ahead and got the ornaments out in the morning. This apparently confused Jack, who woke up the following morning thinking it was Christmas and wanted to rush downstairs to see the presents.

Here are some recent pictures of the kids. We are all doing great and looking forward to a three week stretch with Tom not on call. His partner has been off island and Tom carried the beeper for the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving. By the new year we're hoping to have a better idea as to our next duty station.

For those of you that don't have it, we have a new address. It's 23 Plumeria Street Santa Rita, Guam 96915. Happy Holidays!

Halloween 2008

Hello everyone. It's been a while since I last updated our blog. Unfortunately I dropped my camera on halloween night and haven't had any phone calls from the person that picked it up :( I'm still hoping someone will respond to my newspaper ad! I do have some recent pictures from Tom's camera that I am posting here. Though we have no photos of the kids in costume or from the underwater pumpking carving contest that Tom and I did we were fortunate that Tom ended up on the front page of the local newspaper. It was VERY difficult to get our pumpkin to the bottom (we carved at about 15 feet) and Tom had to find a cement block to put on his legs to keep him down. He says he'll never forget the moment when he got the top off the pumpkin and the bubbles rushed out of the pumpkin and rose to the surface. It was a once in a lifetime experience. Here is a photo of our finished product. While we dove, the kids participated in a pumpkin/orange hunt and had a great time.