New Year's Day 2009!

Today we woke up and wanted to go ice skating with our friends Erik and Maki. We went to the ice skating and rink, and they were CLOSED!!! So, no ice skating for us!

So, we went to Baskin Robbins and got some ice cream! Yum!

Then we came home and played with my new camera that Josh got me for Christmas.
We got some beginning of the year family photos!

New Year's Eve 2008!

My friend Ophelia(a.k.a. Standard) gave me an amazing Christmas gift, some king crabs from Hokkaido, Japan. Josh and I decided we were going to eat them for dinner on New Year's Eve, and they were delicious. Thanks Standard!

This year we did not go to any elaborate party or hang out with a bunch of friends, we stayed at home and had one of Josh's friends over and just made a little New Year's Eve 2008 tradition of our own.
It was nice, and I still drank a glass of wine, to bring in the New Year. Hoosier got tipsy off of his drink of choice too, Brandy. :) And Josh, well Josh, did want he does best, played PS3....but hey, who said New Year's Eve always has to be about partying because this year I spent it with my two favorite boys, Josh and Hoosier. :)

Happy New Year!

Christmas Day 2008

Christmas Day was one like any other, a day to spend with our family, Josh, Hoosier, and I. We woke up super early and started opening presents. We separated our gifts. This was Josh's pile. This was my pile, and although it looked bigger, Josh got a lot of gift cards and money so please don't be fooled. Hoosier got a lot of cool stuff, to include a tug o war toy and a squeak toy that looked like a bottle of Brandy(that I just HAD to buy him...or wait, Santa, just had to buy him).

For those who remember, we usually go snowboarding on Christmas day, well this year, I was not feeling well, so I did not go, but I convinced Josh to go, although he insisted on staying with us. He had a great time though, going to a new resort he had never been to. I decided to go get my hair highlighted (Japan does not celebrate Christmas the way we do, so they were open on this day), and boy did my hair not turn out the way I wanted....it had a orange tint as seen below. But no worries, I got it fixed a few days later, so it is all better now and you will see the new pics in later posts for New Years. So, even though our traditions changed, and my hair changed(but is fixed now), our Christmas was still great and I would not change these memories I continue to make for anything in the world. I hope everyone had a great Christmas!

Josh's brilliant Idea!

So, as I mentioned before, my parents always send Hoosier a card for every holiday and inside they put $1 bill. So, Josh decided it would be smart to get Hoosier a piggy bank to start putting his dollars in and when he had enough saved up, we would buy him something with it. So here is his piggy(a.k.a. "doggy") bank we got him. I say it's for his college fund! :)

Josh and I on our 5th Anniversary!

On 21 December 2008, Josh and I reached our 5th Wedding Anniversary. We celebrated this huge milestone(well, milestone so far for us) by spending a day the spa and having a nice dinner at our Favorite restaurant in Japan, called Yoshinos. What an amazing Anniversary we had and many more to come! ;)

Snow on our Anniversary!

We have been a little deprived of the snow these days. We had a lot the first day, but since then, none really, until our Anniversary, 21 December, it snowed all day, night, and the next morning, and this is what we woke up to.

We have the best video of Hoosier, the snow was so high, at least 12 inches, that it was up to his chest, and he could not walk, so he had to jump like a gazelle. It was hilarious!

The next night, this was the pile of snow in front of the house after we shoveled the driveway. So, New Orleans, think you can compare????? :) I'm just picking on my friends and family from Louisiana, you know I love ya'll, but wished ya'll could have been here to help shovel, as you can tell, this was NO FUN and I bet the snow ya'll got probably did not compare!! :)

Hoosier's Christmas Card...

So, for Every Single Holiday, my mom and dad, Hoosier's GRAMMY and GRANDPA, send him a greeting card in the mail and places a $1 bill in the card(just like my grandparents used to do). So, for Christmas this year, my mom and dad sent Hoosier a card with a little stocking in his card with the $1 bill in it and here are pictures of Hoosier with his new toy the "stocking". He could care less about the $1 bill, he just wanted the "stocking".