Feeling Japanese....

Just a quick post from me from Japan.

I've been here for over a week for work. Its been a crazy and busy week with 15 hour work days and lots of customer meetings in the day and at night. Coming back with lots of stuff for the kids.

Here's a couple of my favorite pictures...

Sukiyaki - Thin "expensive" beef boiled with vegatables, soy sauce, etc... - tastes like candy!

Emperor's Palace - Couldn't get in!

Biking around the Emperor's Palace. Some fancy bikes and some goober bikes....

Shibuya - Just like you see on TV. One gazillion people coming together to cross the street. Pretty cool to see.

Hope you enjoyed the pix!

Easter Gone Wild

So if you are just looking at our blog now, you will get to the more traditional family poses of our get together in a bit. But these fun photos show a much truer picture of the how the event went.

Cousins getting silly!

My mom and me with matching tattoos! (temporary :))

My brother and I took a photo of ourselves, I love the fact that he has such long arms!

Grandma and Brooke laughing at the napkin game. If you don't know what that is--my brother puts a napkin on his face and blows it up in the air, then everyone joins in and chaos ensues.

This is my cousin, Lance, and his girlfriend, Tiffany. Cute couple!

Here is Tracie, giving my mom her tattoo. Tracie tricked her into it, she is so clever.

My aunt Mary and Tracie showing off their tattoos. Don't they look bbbaadddd!

Tracie and Cory doing some cousin bonding and listening to Metallica (is that how you spell it? )

Riley just had too show off his tatt too.

Easter Reunion

This year we had a family celebration for Easter. It had been too long since my cousins and aunt and uncles were together so my parents were nice enough to host the big event which took place the Saturday before Easter. There were 28 of us. We took some good family photos, ate and had many, many laughs!

Here is just a photo of the four of us. We started off the photo taking.

These are the four girl cousins in the family, we were all together! It starts with me on the left, and then Tracie (23), Amy (24) and Dawn (35). I am the oldest, of course. :)

Here are my aunts, mom and the daughters. Mary and Tracie, Lynn and Amy and my mom and me.

Here is Dawn's family. She has 5 kiddos! Sawyer (in the front in blue), Cordell, (front, yellow), Emma Jean (yellow dress), Colten (blue polo shirt) and baby Katie on Cordell's shoulders. And her husband, Jody. They are a fun bunch.

Here is my family. The four of us, my parents and Brad, Katie, Trent and Gavin.

It sure was great to see everybody!

Easter

Here are our Easter eggs for this year. We bought a glitter paint kit so it was different than dyeing but the kiddos still enjoyed it, especially sprinkling the glitter on. Nobody likes hard-boiled eggs but me so I have been enjoying egg salad sandwiches for lunch. Below shows the kids hard at work painting the eggs.

This was Easter morning at Grandma and Grandpa Vissers house. The kids each got a coloring book and a glow writer toy from the bunny, along with some candy and a chocolate bunny. They started working on their bunnies for dessert tonight. Each kid ate off the ears, Riley ate a little more than Brooke though. Happy Easter!