Last go around!

Our last soccer season in Okinawa!! I am hoping for warmer weather but Saturday's game was cold. We are in week 2 for soccer. Last week, both boys won their games while this week, both boys lost their games. Hunter scored 2 goals in week one and Brody scored one. Neither boy scored this weekend.



Hunter is playing in the competitive league for the first time. The field is bigger and let me tell you, he is NOT a distance runner! He is more of a sprinter! Thankfully, he plays a lot of forward so he doesn't have to run back on defense. Hunter is doing well in school. I just had a meeting with his teacher and they are going to screen him for the gifted program. As a mother, I believe both of my kids are gifted but we will see. If he is "accepted" into the gifted program, nothing much will be done due to the fact that we are moving. It will just give him a better opportunity to be in a gifted program back in the states.




Brody is playing half the time in goal and the other half as a mid fielder. What that boy lacks in height, he makes up for in heart. He runs everywhere on the field! He is going to be a distance runner. He loves soccer and is very aggressive. He still looks forward to the end of the game so he can have his snack. Both boys got on Shea and Eliot's (from football) team so at practice they have someone to play with. Of course, youth sports wasn't thinking when they assigned the times- Brody practices from 5-6 and Hunter goes from 6-7. On Mondays and Wednesdays we are at the fields for 2 hours!!




Joe has left. I don't exactly know where he is at right now but he is making his way to CA. They are expected to get to CA on Monday. At that point, he will start his 96 (96 hours off) then he will start his check in process. For those of you who didn't know, Joe made the All Marine Triathlon team. His race will be in CA on April 9th. He will fly back to Oki the next day. I was going to go and meet him in CA but the military had put a stop to all travel in and out of Tokyo after the earthquake,tsunami and nuclear reaction. That ban has since been lifted but Joe and I decided that I wouldn't go.



Just a quick update on the conditions here in Okinawa. We are over 1000 miles away from the nuclear site. We are NOT getting evacuated. The bases on the Mainland are under a voluntary evacuation. Our base was not affected by this event. Most of the Marines on this base have been deployed to Mainland to help out but other than that, it is business as usual.

He needs to grow taller
hunter playing QB again
Brody and Eliot
Almost had a TD on this one

Here is what my Saturday:
8:15 leave the house for Brody's 9am game. Go directly to the party after at the bowling alley. 12:00- feed Brody and Eliot (Hunter was with Eliot's mom) at Kadena- not my base. 1:30- Hunter's game then his party after. 6:30- Finally leaving Kadena and got home at 7:00!! It was a long day but the boys had a blast! It is onto soccer season for both boys and Eliot and Shea are on their team again.

On Friday, I went on a field trip with Hunter's class. Trina and I decided to follow the bus. We thougth we knew where we were going but I guess we didn't. We ended up exploring the southern part of Okinawa but were able to find our way to the place. We had no map and no one spoke English! I don't know how we did it but we did and had a good laugh while doing it! The field trip was to Okinawa World. We went in the cave then walked through the village. The highlight of the day was visiting the snake museum (for the kids not the adults). The snake picture is the only one that Hunter was smiling in.
Part of the PTO board and thier kid holding a boa constrictor. L to R: Trina & Catherine Bourquin, Michelle & Jordan Smith, Me & Hunter. This is the imfamous Trina whom I always am with. And this is Jordan that stayed with me for 2 weeks.
CJ, Myron, Marcellous, and Hunter with the Python
Hunter and Myron
The boys in the cage

Update on Joe... Last I talked to him his return date has been moved. He will not be home until April 10/11th. The Marine Corps, more specifically his CO, have a messed up way of checking in. The check in process will take longer than it should because he has to take a mandatory 96. If anyone is in the CA area and wants to visit him- I'm sure he would like that. Seeing as how most of you live in MI it won't happen. Will update you when I get more news.