Oh Noooooo!

Tomoyuki sporting his new bed. No more back aches for me, he says.

Bethany and Juda sporting their new bedroom. Woooooo, been a long time coming.

Tom, Bethany and Tomoyuki. I find them like this often.

"First a bow then a dress, I know how Bethany operates, I've seen Juda during dress up time", so says Tomoyuki.

But, I still love her dearly, and she loves me, even tho I am just a toy to her.

Mia, Casey, Bethany, Juda and a new friend at a nearby park.

Tom, Bethany and Tomoyuki before I dropped the camera on Tomoyuki's head, they seem so happy.

Tomoyuki after I dropped the camera on his head, fortunately for him it is a small camera.

Michiko and her husband enjoying Tomoyuki. They were so sweet to visit Tomoyuki when he was in the hospital too.

Chihiro Katsuren and Bethany sharing homemade ice cream.

Well...................I've done it again, gotten so busy and have neglected posting. We have all been semi sick, you know when your not sick enough to spend time in bed, but not full functioning either and it seems to be lingering and starting the cycle over again, yukkkkk. Tomoyuki is much stronger this go round and is managing quite well. We did however make a trip to the ER the other night, and after a chest x-ray, we returned home much more confident that he was going to be fine.

Our friends the Katsuren's daughter went to Seattle this summer for a few weeks for a home stay. Upon her return we offered to prepare a meal for her of her favorite american dish she had while there. She requested Spaghetti and homemade ice cream for dessert. Well the spaghetti part was a given, but I don't have an ice cream freezer any longer. After a few phone calls we acquired one from none other than an American family friend. The evening was great fun. We were blessed with their entire family and our neighbors Candy and Cho to translate for us. Fun, Fun, Fun.

Last week was full with paperwork and meetings. Our Saturday morning started off with breakfast for our english class. We had plenty of waffles and such so Candy and Cho came down to join us after the boys ate their fill. During breakfast, one of the upstairs bedroom air conditioners was being replaced, well overdue, a month now with no air in that room therefore no one would stay in it, who would be so daring to sleep in a sauna. So in the afternoon, once the upstairs rooms cooled off we began the "Bedroom Shuffle". You see during the down time of the A/C, Ben moved in with Caleb and Juda moved in with us, (US, being me, Tom, Bethany and Tomoyuki) so yes, you counted right, 5 in one room. What would Extreme Makeover think of us, certainly they would build us a bigger house with American ratings of one person per room. Anyway, we moved Ben and Caleb into the bigger of the two non-master bedrooms, moved Bethany and Juda into the smaller of the non-master bedrooms and kept Tomoyuki in our bedroom, but assembled his new crib that someone from church so generously gave us recently. First time for a "Baby Crib" in 18 years. Yes, that is right, Juda nor Bethany ever used a "Baby Crib", we moved so often when they were little that they slept in "Porta Cribs", poor things. Tomoyuki had to be woken up on Sunday morning, he claimed that for the 4 months he's been here sleeping in the porta crib with a back ache, that he slept like a baby. Yeah right, we didn't believe him, because he always sleeps like a baby, all night long, that is why we are able to go so strong by day, because he gives us a great night sleep.

Yesterday was a big day for our church. We had our first service in our temporary location (probably 9 months). 4 of the 8 Japanese ladies who are in our Sunday school class came over for lunch then bible study, then we whisked off to the ground breaking ceremony for the building of our new church, completion date projected to be March/April/May time frame. It is so exciting to see God at work, answering many/many prayers regarding Koza Baptist Church. Today was the beginning of the demolition of the old Koza church, what a time we live in, how exciting.