{Update}

We have been up to a bit since my last post.

Jaydon turned THREE years old.

I turned 31 Years old! yikes!

Tanner graduated preschool.

Grandma and Grandpa Jenks came to Okinawa and stayed with us for almost 2 weeks.

And below are some more pics of things we have been up to.

This picture is at the airport just after saying goodbye to Grandma and Grandpa. Tanner and Gavin were sad. Tanner was crying.

 Here we are at the Museum at Peace Prayer Park. Right behind us are the suicide cliffs where MANY many citizens jumped from during the war. At the bottom of the cliffs is the ocean. This is the very south tip of the island.  This picture is just after we finished going through the museum. It was a really good museum and i really enjoyed walking through it. I love learning the history here. We took Shane's parents here with us.  Gavin isn't in this picture because he was at school.

 We took Shane's parents snorkeling...

 Here we are at a special beach. At low tide it has very large tidal pools big enough to swim in. It's a perfect spot. We found some interesting sea creatures in there. Here is one of the starfish we found.

 Gavin had speech night at school a few days before school was out. He memorized Shel Silversteins "Stone Telling". He did a really good job. We were proud of him.

 I have some more pictures of our events the past few weeks on my camera.  I will post those when i get the chance.

Other events....
1. We had a category 4 typhoon headed right for us. Just before it reached us it died to a category 3 and moved more to the east than expected. There is now another typhoon developing and heading our way, but as of right now it's not a big one.
2. Shane and I were FINALLY going to make it to the Kerama Islands with our friends for a day trip of snorkeling. Unfortunately the sea conditions were dangerous so it was cancelled. :( boo. I was sad about that. BUT we rescheduled for July 5th and hope that works out. :)
3. We finally have a new system for chores that's working great. They each have their own paper with a list of their daily chores for the week. They mark them off daily, and at the end of the day they earn a ticket if all their chores got done. We give bonus tickets when we notice something extra they did in the day that we didn't ask of them.  We pull the treasure box out everyday.  There are a variety of toys and candies, and even money that cost a certain amount of tickets.  They can either save their tickets up to get a bigger prize or they can use their ticket at the end of each day for a small prize. It's up to them. It's fun watching them decide what to buy with their tickets. Gavin decided NOT to get a prize at the end of the days, and is saving his tickets for a big prize that he will be able to get tomorrow night as long as he earns his tickets. It's fun for them and nice for mommy. :)
4. Gavin is finally out of school. Right now i don't have my daily activities scheduled. I think they are just enjoying waking up without having to hurry and get ready for school, and just playing with each other. I know that will get boring for them soon and they will want a set plan of things to do this summer. I am excited to take them to the beach and pool often.