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'Save More... on our Picnic Specials! In America picnicking has become an integral part of our culture due to the fun.' A cute diaper bag that esty and I found while out on a short shopping trip!! I wish picnicking was an integral part of my culture! What fun that would be!!

Treats!

Sometimes it's hard to get through a shopping trip without a 'treat'.
Eating an Ice cream with Daddy after a looonggg day at Ikea. (I got myself a treat too!)
Eating Ice cream (Again:) with Aunt essy outside the super market. Is it bad to use so many 'rewards' while out and about?? What do you do?

Japanese tastebuds

Japanese Baby food!! I couldn't find any baby food in the normal supermarket, but had to go to the drugstore to find it!! It is always nice to have some jarred baby food handy.
Hudson is about to try some 'Rice porridge with fish and seaweed'.
See all the seaweed in there?!
What do you think Huddy?
YUMMY!! I think Hudson will have the most Japanesy tatsebuds in our family. He gobbled up all his 'rice porridge with fish and seaweed'. MMMMmmmmmmm..... 'おいしい！！’

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" Amour. Everything in flower and fruit looks fresh on the tableland."
Hudson sure thought it was funny!!

Just in case...

you thought we had it all together! It's easy, especially on a blog, to show only the good pictures where everyone and everything looks perfect and happy. So here are some of our not so perfect moments...
Notice the MESS!! On a side note we are finally starting to feel a little more settled, unpacked and organized!

I spend a lot of my days making sure that Hudson is not smothered by his brother's affection for him!! Don't worry, I went to save Hudson as soon as I had taken these photos :)

A Live Nativity

A couple of weeks before Christmas Matthew and I had the honor of being Joseph and Mary for the Live Nativity that CCSI puts on every year!! Every night there were many people who came to watch and hear the Christmas story for the very first time. While we acted silently, there was a narrative running in Japanese, beautifully and articulately telling the story of Jesus, and God's plan of Salvation. We hope and pray that they would, even now, realize the true miracle of Christmas.
Please continue to pray that Christ would be worshiped in this country. I better get going, as we are off to church now, to do just that!!

A Christmas Party

On Christmas eve we had the privilege of being apart of a neighborhood christmas party, with lots of kids, games, fun and a Christmas cheer. We had a great time sharing Jesus birth with these precious kids. I got to read the Christmas story to them, and Nagata-san, the host and pastor of the local church shared a message about why Jesus was born as a baby!! It was special to be apart of these children hearing Christ for the first time!! . . . They also wanted Matthew to dress up as santa, and give out presents! He made a jolly old man and the children were delighted.

Liam on the other hand.... didn't know quite what to think?!? He was very confused and after watching 'santa' for the longest time, looks up to me and asked 'mommy, where daddy go?'. Of course he eventually figured out that daddy was santa, and now whenever he see's santa in a book or whatever, he points and says, 'daddy!! daddy santa!'. It's pretty cute :)

The faces on the kids say it all! Hudson also couldn't stop starring at his daddy.

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'The inside of the world which a dream spreads out in...'
HAPPY NEW YEAR to you, may all your dreams spread out in front of you! Praying God's richest blessings!!