Tokyo!

What's going on, my friends? We are still getting the house put together, but I wanted to share a recent trip we took in the meantime! We finally made the trip to Tokyo! 

The first place we ventured to was the Tokyo Dome. It's a giant baseball stadium/arena in Tokyo, that has a large complex of shopping and entertainment surrounding it! Our friends invited us along since there was a big festival going on where food vendors from across Japan come! Here are some pics!

My first time on the train. I hate driving, so I loooove public trans!

Arriving at Tokyo Dome City for the giant food festival!

Ready to go inside. Happy girl :)

So much going on inside the doors!

It was SO crowded. Witten did NOT like that, haha.

Heidi didn't know what to think of this guy!

Lunch time! Yum yum!

Watching one of the drum shows. 

Too much excitement ;)

After the food festival, we spent a little bit of time checking out the city. As you could see from a previous photo, there is a little amusement park around the dome! I felt brave and rode this ride call the "Sky Flower." You stand in a cage and it raises you up about 200 feet, then it lets you fall back to the ground! It was fun, but slightly scary for me since I'm petrified of heights. But hey, you only live once! 

Getting on!

During our ride. Ahhhh!

We will definitely go back this summer some time! They had lots of free things for toddlers, and I think Heidi will love it!

The next place we went to was Shibuya! It's basically the Times Square of Tokyo... what they usually show during movies. Lots of people, lots of energy. I LOVED it!

Shibuya during the day.

Part of my fabulous dinner. Smoked salmon with seared mozzarella. YUM.

A 5-story Forever XXI store. It took a lot for me not to spend all our money!

Annnnd Shibuya at night! We're such tourists :)

That about sums up our trip! Hopefully, once I get our house together I will have more time for blogging. Lots of love!

The past few weeks

Ahhh I'm a bad blogger! It's been a few weeks since I've updated.  I have found it difficult to document the happenings of our lives since I don't have a camera. But I will remedy this and do better.

We've had a busy couple of weeks! Let me recap:

We moved into our new home. It took another few weeks for our stuff to get here, but it's here! It's taken much longer for us to get things unpacked compared to Little Rock... of course, we had much less stuff AND no baby to watch/care for/chase around..

We celebrated the new year at our friends' house. They made Japanese-style ramen. Yum! Witten and I brought a bottle of champagne. Funny enough, though, the boys put it in the freezer to chill it, and apparently they forgot about it. About 5 minutes before midnight they realized that the whole thing was frozen! Haha. 

We joined a Bible study! It's for married couples here at Yokota. Unfortunately, Witten is on swing shift for the next few months and won't be able to attend with me until his shift rotates, but he will definitely still be involved. 

We saw our first snow here! The snowflakes were huge and wet. Heidi hasn't seen snow since she was a newborn, so it was fun to really introduce her to it.

Heidi got her first busted lip. She's still trying to learn to walk, and ended up biting her top lip with her bottom teeth. 

Speaking of which, her third tooth has finally popped! She now has two on the bottom and one on the top. She's definitely starting to look more like a toddler and less like a baby. 

Here are some pictures to make up for my lack of posts! 

On solids full-time now. This baby LOVES to eat!

Gloves from the mall. About 1050 yen, but we were glad to get them!

SNOW! 

Daddy and Heidi's game

Tearing up a cassette tape is lots of fun. Silly baby!

Wearing Daddy's hat! Her busted lip is starting to heal up.