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AESA Retreat

I just realized that July is almost over. Didn't it just start?? It makes me sad to think I have not been able to really enjoy summer yet. At the same time I love everything that is keeping me busy. So I guess that evens it out... A little. I do miss taking the dogs to the beach almost every day though :/ I know they miss it as well! And by beaches I mean white sandy ones!

Since July is almost over I figured I should share pictures from The New Sanno. At the beginning of the month AESA held a retreat to The New Sanno (A hotel in Tokyo for service members, so we get better rates then other hotels) for those who had qualified with enough volunteer points. 

Initially I had qualified points wise, but two days before the retreat I had been voted in as the new Treaserer so I was able to go as a board member instead. I would have gone regardless.. It was just fun being as to say that ha. 

Our big thing for the retreat was that AESA paid for us to attend the Esscoffier dinner. It is a 7 course delisious meal. 

This was down the road from the hotel.. Has nothing to do with dinner ha.

Live music!

6 glasses! Water, champagne and 4 different wines.

There was two meat courses, but since I don't eat meat I didn't take any pictures of them.

Hung out in the bar for all of 5 minutes before going back to my room to email with Frank all night :)

I also got to finally experience their brunch! Too bad the food from the night before was still upsetting my stomach. I wasn't able to enjoy this as much as I would like. I'm hoping to in a few weeks though :)

Instead I loaded up on fruit.. Much better!

Mom and dad with their third child haha.

Fun, free weekend! 

House tour

When we moved in 7 months ago I promised a house tour once we started getting more furniture. Well I feel now is better than ever. For those who know us or have been reading the blog for a while might remember how we sold most of our furniture while we paid off debt. We pretty much only kept our bed, computer desk/laptop, couch. During that time we added a table and got rid of our laptop that was on it's dying days and bought a desk top. Fast forward to last summer when we were doing our pack out to come to Japan and we got rid of whatever else we had that was old and falling apart. I think the only large items we got rid of were our desk and computer chair.

 

Our apartment was pretty bare when we moved in last December! Since we were buying everything with cash rather then credit it obviously has gone much slower ;] However, we have gotten quite a bit of stuff so I figure might as well do a house tour now.  You can go HERE and check out the pictures. For those new to the blog this would be lovely outdated military housing in Japan! Pale pink is not a color we would choose on our own ;]

 



Without further ado... 

 

Standing at the front door. These curtains are my favorite!

The clock above the TV doesn't work.. I always look at it for the time though ha.

Whoops, got the wrong length for the curtains! They were the last ones that I finally bought so I really didn't care to take them back.

How about another shot of the living room!??

That clock looks so lonely on the wall haha. What is that I see sitting on the counter?? Melanie and CJ's wedding invitation! :] Too bad we can't make it though.

Yup had to show off my juicer again since I had it on the counter ha.

These curtains are not exactly what I wanted but for 799 yen I figure they would do for now.

I hate that the table is not centered with the light, but it makes no sense because it leaves so much space by the window and takes up quite a bit of walking space where it's needed.

The spare bedroom. Don't let the bedding fool you.. it sucks! I will be changing it out once again before my mom gets here.

Turn around and you are in the office! ha

Bathroom.. nothing special. We do have a large tub that I LOVE!

I had originally planned to hang that mirror above the dresser but I loved it in the corner like that.

Our one lonely picture on the dresser ha.

Ellie wanted to say hello!

 

Well that is our home as of now. I still need to hang up pictures, buy a Tansu (I want one like the stairs), get two more rugs.. I have actually drawn out what I want to do to each room and the area outside our front door. Hopefully I will have more to update soon on our progress! Right now I am loving making my yard look nice. I've turned into my parents! ha



Welcome to our family!

After years of ogling over slow juicers I can finally say I own one of my own!!

Introducing the newest member to our family.. Hurom!

I'm in love :)

I love how little clean up there is. That was a huge factor in why I wanted a slow juicer (besides getting the most out of my produce). I hated how messy it would be to make a juice. Annoying!

I use this around 3 times a day and love how much eaiser juicing has become. I can't wait until I can make Frank a juice with this bad boy ;) 

5th of July

As I mentioned in my last post our fireworks here on base were pushed back until Friday the 5th due to rain (not sure who made that call since it stopped raining in the afternoon!). My 3 day weekend ended on Thursday so I got to watch from work. Which isn't so bad considering they let them off in the field next to the gym so we have to close early. Now that is something to celebrate ;]

I wasn't able to see the fireworks as they exploded overheard but I did get an angle I have never seen before. ((I started this post last week.. got a little busy!))

 

 

Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July everyone! 

Unfortunately our fireworks were pushed till tomorrow due to rain (although it stopped raining by mid-afternoon), so I will be watching them from somewhere near the gym. I had the pleasure of getting my first 3 day weekend for a holiday! Yet now I will be working during the fireworks ha. They shut down the gym since the fireworks are set off right next to it.. So who knows where we'll end up watching them from. 

Part of the festivities was a family glow run/walk. And 4 legged friends were aloud to join! 

Ms Lisa all glowed up :)

The girls and I before we started. They were completely overwhelmed with everything going on yet they did amazing! Molly snapped once at a dog which happened to be one of my big bosses dogs.. Who he was walking. Thankfully he doesn't see me often (and never in civilian clothes) so I don't think he even recongnized me! 

Frank also left last week for deployment, I asked him if they had anything planned for them on the boat for the 4th but I haven't heard back from him yet. I'll post pictures from the boats Facebook page if they did do something. 

Hope everyone has a happy, safe Independence Day!