Spring Outside Our 4th Home One Year Later

I made many mistakes naming our plants (which I planted) but you get the idea :)


Outside Home Spring 2010 from Musclecars & Meditation™ on Vimeo.

I'm loving this little bit of earth... Seriously, it is such a pleasure to have a bit of ground to plant and watch things grow. Our 2nd home in Sumita had gorgeous nature all around it... When we moved to Ofunato our first place had barely enough room to park our car... So, now I am kinda' into gardening. And composting...

First Snow 2008

Early Autumn Bike Ride Around Town

Went on a bike ride today. You can see a little of our town--nothin'special but we had fun.
Hope to make a summer memory video soon :)

Ofunato Fireworks Festival July 2008

We saw soooooo many of our wonderful students (together we both teach over 3,000 elementary and junior high school students). Then we watched over an hour of fireworks... here is short video with music from our local radio station:

Thanks to Steph for all the firework photos and videos:

Dancing, Drumming @ Our Festival Part One

Our Town's (Ofunato) summer festival Part One:
Dancing and Drumming...

Videos: Ofunato 5-Year Fest & Picnic

We had a really nice day today. Here are some videos of what we did.

Video of Ofunato 5-Year Festival Highlights (about 3 min.):


Video of the picnic we had afterwards:

Actually, this style of hand made sushi "Temaki-zushi (手巻き寿司)" was taught to us by our friends. It's a real casual way of eating sushi and our favorite because you can customize the flavor to suit your taste.

Finally, "It's a Snow Day"

Hi family and friends, Steph here....just wanted to show you some pics from our lovely snow day here in Ofunato! We woke up to a beautiful winter wonderland! It's a little late but better late than never! Now I just want to watch the movie Elf and drink hot cocoa! "First we'll make snow angels for two hours, then we'll go ice skating, then we'll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookiedough as fast as we can, and then we'll snuggle." (The perfect snowday as planned by Buddy the Elf) hehe!


My little sister Madelyn really wanted to make a snowman this year but they only had a few snowflakes and a lot of ice in SA, so this one's for you Maddie!

Frozen flower buds
Our house in Ofunato and our neighbor's car covered in snow
Snow cone anyone?

This one's for the Texan's! Thanks for the hat Bubba!

Christmas Eve Morning Service & Santa

Hey Y'all, Gabe here,.. here are some pics & vids form the last month. LOVE YOU ALL!

12-24-06
Christmas Eve morning at our church in Ofunato (the city where we live now). You can see Sachi lighting the last Christ candle of the Advent wreath. Sachi is the daughter and eldest child of our dear friends the Ozawa's.



After worship we had a big pot-luck:


This video is "The Doxology/Glory Be" in Japanese:


Steph's Sunday School Sings at the Christmas Eve Lunch Party
AWESOME KIDS!


Sunday School's Nativity: The kids learned The Christmas Story and madethis Nativity.


**Stay Tuned** I have tried a few times to load the video of Steph singing at the Christmas Eve Candlelight service but YouTube has been really busy...So, I'll try to post later.

12-9-06
Tono Church Kindergarten Christmas Pagent





Tono Kindergaten Santa




Who's that Santa? Well, it ain't Steph... I was Santa two days in a row for two different cities. Afterwards, we both got really sick. Ho Ho NO!