The Minear Family - ajminear

2/21/2011 2:00:04 PM - 002051715108

9/10/2009 12:45:40 PM - 002087341678
I love this.. Thank you for send to us. You all look so Happy. As much as I know we miss you all, I hope you are enjoying this opportunity in life. Love you all lots, Aunt Neva

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Disney Monorail

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Thanksgiving dinner: Hawaiian hamburgers!

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View of DisneySea from our room.

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View of Mt Fuji from our room

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She was very overwhelmed, it took about 15 minutes for her to snap out of it!

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On the jungle cruise

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Annelise's favorite ride, the carousel

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Yee Haw!

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Like my new hat?

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At Minnie's house

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Lupicia tea store at Ikspiari

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Annelise with our popcorn bucket, strawberry was our favorite!

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DisneySea

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This carousel had TWO levels!

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It got cold by the time we left, but Annelise still snacked on her popcorn!

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Annelise playing in the snow outside John's office.

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She fell and I wouldn't help her up until after I got a pic.

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Then she didn't want to leave!

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Kendra's farewell.

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My handsome hubby.

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Awesome glass koi in Otaru, I couldn't find any for sale though.

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Free sample of Muscato in Otaru City, the beginning of our trip to the snow festival.

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A crockenbouche of macarons!!

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Made of sugar!

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Gorgeous blown and pulled sugar sculpture.

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Lots of snow in Otaru

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View from our hotel in Sapporo

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They provided us with yukata to sleep in.

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Annelise getting ready for an adventure.

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A sign with a giant crab on it, John apparently needed a pic.

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Teddy bear donuts at Mister Donut!

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Annelise loves Mister Donut almost as much as I do!!

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Checking out ice sculptures in Susukino, just a couple of blocks from our hotel.

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Seafood inside blocks of ice.

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Check out those super hot outfits!!

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Not sure what they were selling, but it was very steamy.

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Had to take a picture with the transformer for Trent and my little niece Optimus. I mean Mackenzie.

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Giant beer!!

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Underground mall that went from Susukino to Odori Park, the best way to get from our hotel to the snow sculptures and stay warm! Plus they had a Starbucks.

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Sapporo TV Tower.

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Our little snow bunny!!

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Going to the Sapporo Brewery, we didn't want our coats to smell like lamb so we left them in the bus.

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Mmmmm, beer.

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She's so cute!

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We had LOTS of food, it was so delicious!

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Winter wonderland.

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Not quite the family pic we were hoping for...

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Lion King!!

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Love it!

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So snuggly.

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Beer time.

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Me, Annelise, and Jenny on the subway to the chocolate factory.

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Choco!!

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Annelise thought these houses were there just for her. :)

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She was NOT excited about the ride, I thought it was hilarious.

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The clock tower put on a show every half an hour.

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Directions on how to use a western-style potty. Apparently these are necessary since Japanese toilets are glorified holes in the ground.

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We're so pretty.

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Toy Story!!

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The Claw!

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Made by people stationed in Misawa.

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We couldn't pass up Darth Vader.

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WHOOP!

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It's the year of the rabbit.

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John thought this was important.

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Ramen house!

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Annelise likes ramen too!

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More tunnel pictures. :)

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So cute in her Valentine's outfit from Babi and Grandaddy.

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I made a candle-lit dinner for John on Valentine's Day, those are daisies with the stems cut off and a tea light in the middle.

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Chicken kiev, mashed potatoes, and spinach salad.

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Instead of making dessert myself, I stopped by Le Monde for a blueberry tart, a piece of tiramisu, and a piece of camembert cheesecake. Yummy!

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Ka La!

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Our guesses for the Baby Cline gender reveal party. I guessed boy (and was right!), Annelise guessed girl, and John guessed that it's a white baby.

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Trying out chopsticks for the first time.

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Annelise bundled herself up to watch Dora.

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Talking to Grandma on Skype and showing her the bunny snacks she sent.

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Crayon moustache, just in time for Moustache March.

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Ready for the big game!

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So excited about the goodies Babi and Grandaddy sent.

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Playing on the slide with Daddy.

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Eating pretend food.

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My little pantless wonder!

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Cheese!

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At the Oirase Brewery, you cook your food on the little grill. You wear bibs because grease splatters everywhere, our table was the messiest!

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Perla and David, Annelise's Tia y Tio.

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Love this pic!

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Joe and Laura

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Dave and Christine

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Joe's happi coat, a gift from John's office.

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Annelise's tunnel, a gift from her Grandpa.

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There's also a tent that goes with it, but it takes up a lot of space so we're waiting until she's tired of the tunnel.

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My kokeshi collection, including the newest additions, the Misawa sisters!

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My teeny tiny kokeshis. :)

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Our beautiful Christmas tree!

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Nativity set and random decor

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Stockings

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She did this herself...

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Sharing a french fry with my little cheerleader. :)

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Check out those boots!

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She did NOT want to take a picture.

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Worst Christmas picture EVER! But look at the cute dress from Aunt Karen!

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Eating candy

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Christmas morning

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The slide from the Clines and Tobolas!

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Santa brought her a kitchen!

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Stroller from the Clines and Tobolas, this was a birthday present.

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Playing with Lotso, a gift from her Tia.

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At the playground

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The giant playground that I wouldn't let Annelise play on.

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Harry Potter 7, Part 1!

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Thanksgiving at Kim's, my friend's son Yushin.

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I made Annelise's birthday cake again this year!

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Junko, Yushin's mom.

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Annelise played with those gift bags until Christmas

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Playing with her baby, Kiki. Granny made the outfit.

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Annelise and Bella

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They love shoes!!

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Picking out a magazine, of course it has airplanes!

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Telling Aunt Kim about the airplanes flying around.

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Kim and Yushin

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Yushin's gorgeous Mommy, Junko

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Me and my sweet little Japanese nephew

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Annelise thinks Yuku is pretty cool!

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At the Nebuta Festival in Aomori.

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These girls were sweet enough to take a pic with Annelise

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Japanese people take pictures with the floats too!

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I think this guy used to be famous...

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With some of the haneto dancers.

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Flying squid!!

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View of Aomori from the ASPAM building

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The Big Buddha is off in the distance

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Nebuta parade

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She loved dancing and jingling the bells I bought her

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The girl we took a picture with earlier, she was so excited to see us!

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Amazing handmade floats

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Annelise loves parades!

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Only one cookie, Annelise!

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Annelise got jealous that I was holding Yushin

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Me and Kylie, my Japanese neice!

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Annelise with our neighbors at the Misawa City Festival

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Dressed up in costume

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Me and Perla at Shipwreck

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This is after I rescued Kim...

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At the post-Tug of War barbeque

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Annelise colored HERSELF instead of the paper...

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And she's so proud!

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Dressed up for the Tanabata Festival, check the July 09 album to see how much she's changed in a year!

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She looooves watermelon.

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At Station 5 of the Fujiyoshida trail, that's as far as we made it.

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At the train station with my random Aggie friend!

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Kawaguchiko Station, this is where we spent the night instead of climbing Mount Fuji.

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The hotel across the street from the station, too bad it was full...

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Mount Fuji is back there somewhere.

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Creepy elves guarding the information center.

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Random art

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Watching the clouds roll in, just a few minutes earlier you could see the hill back there. This is just across the street from the hotel in the earlier pic.

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The view from Camp Fuji.

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Annelise finally likes to cover up while she's asleep, we went through a year of her not wanting anything touching her while she slept.

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Becky and Baby Olivia!

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Annelise and Dianna getting Pedicures

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Drying her nails

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She didn't actually want her toes painted.

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Dancing with Daddy

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At the water park in Lafayette

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Great-grandma and baby Olivia

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She loves the water!

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At an Irish festival

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Columbian Park Zoo

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Indy Children's Museum

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4th of July parade with Claire

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Not happy with the hat.

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This would be a great picture if she wasn't picking her nose...

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She loves to 'drive'.

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Our adventurous child looooves rocks!

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Love this look!

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Reading the sign to us... it was in Japanese.

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Remember the hollow tree from our other visits to Hirosaki...

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Posing in our wigs for Brianna's bachelorette party.

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My attempt at Ikebana, a Japanese style of flower arranging.

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She loves talking on the phone!

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18 months old! Right after this pic she fed a carrot to Cookie Monster.

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The Statue of Liberty, Oirase, Japan.

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Daddy's home!!

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Climbing the steps up to the statue

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Family pic!

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Cherry Blossoms in Hirosaki

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Ducks and fish in the moat

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Auntie Kim teaching Annelise to put on lip gloss.

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My favorite blossoms, they're in the botanical gardens.

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Dyeing eggs with Lusa, Nanna, and Babi

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Eggs for the whole family

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John, Angela, Annelise, Misawa

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Her first Easter Egg hunt!

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Ranger wants to help

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Elmo egg!!

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That's a lot of loot!!

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Cooking demonstration with O'Misawa Wives

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Learning to make sushi

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Tempura veggies, yum!

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I helped make these! They're pckets of tofu stuffed with rice.

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Julia making mochi to put in the soup.

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Daiko and chrystanthemum

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Just one of the 5 plates of food we had!

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Valerie's speech

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Kristin with her sushi and root.

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Trying to get in the car on her own.

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Playing in the optical store while Mommy shopped for new glasses.

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Playing on Aunt Lusa's quilt

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Mmm, Chicken Express!

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The cake I made for Lusa's shower.

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Annelise and Quinn!!

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Let's get physical!! Exercising with Babi

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What up?

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Easter picture, in her flower girl dress at the FW Botanical Gardens.

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Annelise and her beth fren

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Tackling Aunt Nanna

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So proud of herself!!

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Dippin Dots for the first time

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Daddy, I wanna go night-night!

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At the park with Daddy!

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She was not a fan of the horsie.

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Look what the Easter Bunny brought!!

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Gorgeous Easter dress.

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Getting ready for school with Babi

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Cookie Monster needs some make-up too!

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Grandaddy wiping her nose with his snot rag.

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Snow in Texas? Isn't this why we left Japan?

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Czech princesses

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At the Sts Cyril and Methodius celebration

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Babi and Granny made her outfit

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Doing the chicken dance!!

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Helping Babi make cheese rolls for the Parma Aunts

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The fabled Parma Aunties, Aunt Doris and Aunt Janice

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Aunt Patsy and Aunt Carolyn

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Whiny baby

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Helping Grandma make cookies

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Because her shirt was covered in flour...

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These are the cookies she helped make...

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Molly's not actually biting her, it just looks that way.

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Icing the cookies to send to Daddy and Uncle Danny.

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She loves to shake the sprinkles!

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Guess which ones Annelise made...

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Gotta keep an eye on her, otherwise you end up with sprinkles all over the kitchen!

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Her first cookie!

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Too funny not to post.

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Annelise and her buddy, Zack.

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Annelise with Miss Shannon, her sitter.

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Us with a giant teapot in Morioka.

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IMG_0554.jpg 2010-01-22

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Vanessa and E weaving bamboo pen holders.

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A working industriously on his pen holder.

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Annelise in her mittens. The hat is too small but the mittens fit just right!

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Morioka horse.

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Annelise playing on the bus before everyone else got back.

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IMG_0562.jpg 2010-01-22

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Loves Mr Donut, just like Mommy!

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Mmmmm, cheerios!

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She tried to climb over the front of the elliptical and got stuck!

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Wearing one of Carsyn's hand-me-downs

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Playing in the snow for the first time

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She's so happy!

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I can't believe Santa left part of a cookie behind.

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What did Santa bring??

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Daddy showing Annelise how to make the glow worm play music

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Eating a yogurt crispy treat, it kept her busy for over half an hour!!

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Then woke up and moved to the floor.

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So tired she fell asleep against the couch...

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This is what happens if we leave any door open even a crack...

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St Nicholas arrived! And he left presents on the plates that I painted!

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Excited about her gifts.

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New cell phone!

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Opening her first piece of candy EVER!

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Chocolate, a very good thing.

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Napping with Daddy and Cookie Monster

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Making a Christmas card at the OG Children's Christmas party.

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Waiting for Santa to arrive.

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Forget the sleigh, Santa uses an F-16 where we live!

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Waiting to meet Santa.

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Opening the gift Santa brought Annelise, a new book!

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On her last day of swim class. The robe that Alisha gave her sure has come in handy!

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She woke up just long enough to sit up and then lean back over onto me.

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Wearing Daddy's boots!!

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On the beach in Destin

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Playing in the fort with Daddy

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Proof that we stopped in Texas!

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She falls asleep in the funniest places!

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Reading a book

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Napping with Babi

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Peekaboo with Grandaddy

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At Hirosaki

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Before swim lessons

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Pacific Ocean!!

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First picture on her first birthday

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Big girl car seat!

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Playing Sudoku, just like Babi

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I think it's love!

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Reading with Babi

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Grandaddy makes her smile. :)

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He's really good with chopsticks!

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Jellyfish invasion

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Annelise's cake, this was Plan C.

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Two peas in a pod! She's wearing the hat Aunt Sherry gave her at the baby shower.

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Wearing a super cute ONEsie and bow, plus her tutu and Japanese leggings

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Dig in!!

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Annelise turns a year old and is now reading up on the Middle East. She is her father's daughter!

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We put the middle part up first, oops!

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Loves her Cookie Monster!

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Putting the first ornament on the tree.

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New favorite food: Granny's dressing!

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Wearing the dress and boots from Mommy and Daddy.

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Grandad sent Cheerios for Annelise

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Pic with her Beth Fren!

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Giving Babi kisses

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Purse from Grandad

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Playing with Grandaddy's hat

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Best Godmommy Ever!

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Pebbles 'do

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Sticking out her tongue

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Annelise with the boys.

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Auntie Lusa and Uncle Tent

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Check out John in the background, posing for a pic his mom wanted to take...

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Giant booooot!

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Going after Grandaddy's pen.

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Cutest little witch ever!

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With one of our surprises, John's Aunt Karen!! She is the talented woman who made Annelise's costume/dress.

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Uncle Greg was our other surprise!

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Annelise beating Trent down

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She loves her Grandaddy!

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Riding Pirates of the Caribbean with Nanna and Kyew.

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Captain Morgan

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Captain Morgan and Momma Morgan

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Getting a dollar from Grandaddy, the tradition lives on!

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Not happy with the bow from Babi, but it was sooooo cute!

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They gave Annelise a balloon at the hotel, her first balloon ever! She LOVED it!

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Us in our costumes, I was Flora from Sleeping Beauty.

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Fuzzy picture, but I couldn't resist posting this big smile!

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Right after I first saw the castle, I'm so excited!!

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Trent and Kyle with an Indian, they round out our family so well!

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Buzz Lightyear ride, the overwhelming favorite since Space Mountain was closed.

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He must really love her to pose with her in front of the castle!

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Johnson Girls on the teacups.

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At Minnie's house, she tried to climb onto the arm of the chair when Babi and Mommy weren't paying close enough attentio

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Grandaddy and his girls.

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Riding in a honey pot with Grandaddy.

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Somehow Kyle and Trent ended up riding a lot of rides together.

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Kyle jumped into Melisa and Trent's picture...

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Then Trent jumped into Dianna and Kyle's pic...

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But they all knew better than to jump into our pic!!

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Riding Dumbo with Daddy and Grandma

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Dianna didn't ride the ride, she just posed for a picture. Big faker!

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Nugget Way!!! Right outside Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.

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Baaaad family picture

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Flora, Fauna, and Merriweather.

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At the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, pretending they're Blue Angels

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The plane said Texas on it, how could I resist?

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You can't really see it, but we bought her a teddy bear and she dropped it out of her stroller, it apparently did not have permission to bum a ride. Oh, and I named the bear Maverick, that was the obvious choice.

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So pretty in her denim skirt!!

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She takes up lots of space in the bed.

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First waffle fry from Chick-Fil-A!!!

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She loves it!

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Cheese!!

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Helping Daddy exercise

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Blue Angels practice

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Annelise and Nana Peggy, love the Bears cheerleading outfit!!

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Annelise with Blue Angel #2

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Daddy and Annelise in Florida

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Reading a book from Grandma

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Her first color page

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Thoughtful pose for the camera

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Tasting dungeoness crab

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We walked to the air show with our neighbors!

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Japanese Blue Impulse plane

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She fell asleep and Risa tattooed her.

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Tattoo! Go ju yen!

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More of the Blue Impulse performance

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Passed out... don't worry, there wasn't any beer in the cup.

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Check out the lady in the blue shorts, that's a typical Japanese outfit.

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Cute little girls!

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They already know to make the peace sign in photos!!

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I bought my tattoo from our squadron, we're the Wild Weasels.

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This little girl tried to take pictures all day, so cute!

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I told her to smile...

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Thunderbird, this is also proof of what a poor photographer I am.

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Blue Impulse jets lined up.

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Thunderbird jets lined up.

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Annelise with Slick and Thunderbird 3. We don't know him, he just wanted to be in the picture.

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Pretty flowers on the way home.

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I love this flower, I wish I had a green thumb instead of a black one!

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Reaching for fruit when we went to Sunday Brunch.

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Akiko and Yushin

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Kim and Yushin

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Angela-obasan and sweet baby Yushin, obasan means aunt!

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Akiko and Annelise

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Yushin with his mommy, Junko

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Lisa and Yazmin at the Air Force Ball

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We're so pretty!

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Lisa, Laura, Yazmin, and Angela

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John and David, doing their Napoleonic power pose.

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Trying on a witch's hat.

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Japanese swimsuit and pants, getting ready for water babies!

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Mmmm, craisins!

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She undid part of her diaper, this is what I get for letting her hang out without clothes on.

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Rice being harvested and hung to dry.

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Such a sweet girl.

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Ahhhhhhh

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Almost asleep

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Don't know what she's doing, but she does it all the time.

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Playing with Squirt?

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Taking a nap with Elmo

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Tired baby.

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Taiko drums at the Lake Towada Kunizakai festival.

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Line of drummers.

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This group did a really cool dance.

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Really cool hats.

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Cool fan dancers

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This little boy was with the fan dancers, he kinda did his own thing...

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Crazy hat guys doing their dance.

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Being upside down is her favorite!

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You can't tell, but she has a mouth full of paper here.

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Putting something else in her mouth...

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Her first hair clips! I didn't leave them in long, I was worried she'd eat them.

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Annelise's whiny face.

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Look at those chubby cheeks!

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Teething babies will chew on anything.

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The table of food after the tug-of-war tournament

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Grill provided, the guys had lots of fun cooking everything.

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Annelise playing with a sweet little boy.

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We figured out a way for her to play in the stroller without trying to escape!

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Cutie pie.

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Each team had a table of food, a grill, and a keg of Sapporo beer.

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Peeking out at us.

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Playing a weird game with exercise bands. Each person holds one end in his mouth...

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Then they walk further and further apart...

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Until one person lets go and it snaps against the other person's face.

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The person who let go has to drink from the beer bong. Japanese people are a little crazy once they start drinking...

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Mmmmm, black beans!

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Playing in the kitchen

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Helping Daddy. I love this pic!!

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Mmmm, sippy cup.

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Apparently it's more difficult than it looks...

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At Water Babies

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Singing The Itsy Bitsy Spider

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With our neighbors.

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A slug on our grill cover

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Wearing big girl jamas.

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Cheerios are yummy!

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Such a ham!

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Water bottle, haha!