Before I start the updates I do want to say that thanks to a few wonderful gifts from some amazing people in our lives we were able to get the family a paddleboard for Christmas (thank you!)! So amazing and fun! Of course, I got the camera out at the beach to try to get pictures and it failed to work. I PROMISE I will get some soon! The kids are awesome at paddleboarding, but Adam and I using it is more like a circus clown routine in water........
Last I left you all in the updates I had made it through Thanksgiving. As I alluded to in that post, the annual USO/GNOSC Craft fair was coming up the following weekend. As most fundraisers go there were a few hiccups along the way and lessons learned for later, but overall it was a great event that raised a lot of money for both the USO and GNOSC's Charitable donations fund!
For the oldest girl's birthday I took the kids and one of her friends to Tarza Water Park. A few family friends joined us for the day and helped me watch all the kids as well. It was neat doing a winter birthday out in the sun at a water park, and everyone had a blast. It's a neat water park, not too large, and the best part is it's relatively quiet with short to no lines at everything! After a long day of Swimming and playing, we packed up, brought the friend home and went out for sushi for her birthday dinner. It was great, but next time I need to think carefully before timing out a water park trip the same day as a sushi dinner. After a full day at the park the kids were ravenous and as a result the dinner bill was rather pricey. :)!
A few days later I went to the GNOSC/AOSC annual Christmas party that was held at a wine bar downtown. It was a lovely evening with friends and a nice break for me from the kids.
Somewhere between all of that and the other various parties, get togethers and meetings the kids and I still managed to hit a few historic sights on the island (which I will do another post on, I promise), make and hang over 100 paper snowflakes, attend a few base Christmas events, make cookies, strufolli and over 8 dozen cannoli shells. It was busy, but a blast, made even better by the excitement of that Adam was finally coming home!
Oh, before I go, I bet you all want to know about Adam's homecoming. Until the last minute he didn't have tickets home, but back to HI. After some phone calls they bought him a plane ticket from HI to Guam. Based on the flight schedules this wasn't exactly the most direct route, but we were happy to finally have a date. A few days, and many phone calls later, just before he was set to leave Panama City, the Navy agreed to send him directly home to Guam. We chose to keep the kids out of the loop on the shift (the flight went from coming it at 7pm to coming in at midnight the previous day) and I got someone to come stay with the kids while I picked him up. It was a late night, made later by the baby deciding to wake up when we got home, that ended in me having my husband back. The kids got a huge surprise when Adam walked out the next morning with me. Made for an awesome and amazing day! :)!
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