Tanaka Farms

Back in the beginning of April we went with the Slussers to Tanaka Farms to do so strawberry picking. We had heard so many good things about Tanaka Farms we were so excited to finally see it ourselves. Those who have never been here I highly recommend it! We had such a great time and the the weather was perfect! Thanks for so much fun guys!

Waiting to get on the tractor!







The tractor drove us around the farm and stopped at various places where they picked all kinds of different vegetables from the farm for us to eat. The carrots were mine and Tessa's favorite, Brady loved the snap peas, and crazy Abby loved the green onion!










Now this was the really fun part. We got to get out of the tractor and pick strawberries. We got to fill up a plastic container of berries to take home... but as we filled it up we were allowed to eat as many berries as we would like. They were so good! The kids couldn't get enough of them... I wonder where they got that from? :) Tessa and Auntie Jenny were on a mission to find all the perfect berries, while Cole and Abby just picked any red one they could find, and for Brady... let's just say they probably didn't have many berries in our row for a few weeks because he didn't care what color the berry was as long as it fit in his mouth!!!



















End of our tour shots! I can't leave without taking all of the "tourist" shots... Ha Ha!

The Rainy Season Has Arrived!

Unlike all of my recent posts, this post is up to date :)

The rainy season in Japan has arrived. It has rained everyday for the past week! It is a challenge entertaining ourselves in this little apartment all day... and to top it all off DJ has been gone the entire time! But even though we get bored we do try to escape outside from time to time!

The kids love wearing their rain coats and using their new umbrellas! Since it is not cold here when it rains we have lots of fun running around and playing in the puddles :) Silly Mommy forgot to pack Tessa's rain boots so the Crocs have been the "rain shoes". They were getting a little slippery so we finally found her a new pair of Minnie Mouse boots so I am sure they will get plenty of use in the next few weeks!











Brady still hasn't figured out that he needs to hold his umbrella up over his head... but he sure thinks its cool when his umbrella fills up with water!!!

Here are a few pics of us soaking wet. We went to go eat lunch at Hard Rock with our friends at the local outdoor mall. We parked in a garage and since it wasn't raining at the time we decided to leave our rain coats and umbrellas in the car (We have enough to carry). From what we remembered there was at least a little bit of shelter to walk under if it did start to rain. So go figure, as we finally started to head over to eat it starts POURING!!! And of course there is one section that has ZERO COVER! So we did what we had to do... make a made dash for the door :) It was hilarious! Imagine me carrying Brady and holding Tessa's hand, pulling her to go faster so we could get inside, with my 7 month prego friend running behind me carrying her 2 year old and her 4 year old son running around in the rain because he thought it was so cool! As we started to run, we ran through a huge puddle and Tessa lost her shoes. She stood there screaming (she hates being wet) and she thought her brand new shoes were gone forever. Those people had to be looking at us thinking "YOU CRAZY AMERICANS!!!" But hey it made us laugh... very hard :)

Here are my soaked children getting ready to eat!




Look at how curly Tessa's hair gets in this wet, humid weather!

Hanging Out in March

Here are some random pictures to sum up the month of March... I know I know I'm WAY behind!

Crazy Uncle Ryan took them out on a dark evening bike ride, so he put a headlight on Brady's head so he could lead the way and keep them safe :)




Lots of outdoor fun this month!