Saturday, December 31, 2011

Cuties


I would like to share with you one of the things we do in Japan, especially the winter time.

They eat 'cuties' like crazy. ok. Cuties. Yes. you know those smaller oranges? We have a different kind of oranges than united states; I guess they are really close to clementines, but they are different in my opinion.

1. The peel is a lot thinner; so easy to peel that you can peel it all at once sometimes.

B. They are so sweet; there is NO sour/flavor-less one in this kind of orange. Every one is a good one.

These are the reasoning I can think of, and, well, I can only come up with two, but they are different and I miss eating it.

But you wouldn't believe how much they eat those though. They buy them in a case of course. and they are so cheap too.

{well, these are clementines, 'Cuties'.}



{and below is one of my 'cuties'}

She loves it. Kai loves eating it too. Dyson? not so much but he eats it. Kai and June are my herbivore, and Dyson is my carnivore.
みかんが恋しくなるこのごろです。こちらにも一応クレメンタインって種類のみかんのようなのうってますけど、とにかくみかんに比べて高いし、すっぱかったり味なしだったりするし、当たり外れがあるんです。今はどうかわかりませんが、わたしの記憶から言うと、っていっても子供の頃の記憶ですけど、みかん一箱1000円とか、特価。ま、とにかく大晦日にぐちってみました。

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

merry christmas








I hope you, yes YOU had a wonderful christmas. We had another great one. On eve we all went bowling as usual, and we went to Lafrontera after bowling as usual. I love this tradition. l.o.v.e. it. BUT I forgot to take my camera... so no pictures... What was I thinking??

and next morning, even though I had been telling the children that they are on the naughty list, Santa came to our house also. It was so hard when the christmas day falls on a Sunday though, specially when church starts at 9. but somehow we managed it ok.

みなさん、良いクリスマスを過ごされました??わたしたちもなんとか楽しくばたばた過ごしました。日曜日にクリスマスってのはたいへんでしたけどね。なんてったって、教会が9時からだったのでね。イヴは恒例のボウリング、メキシカン料理、孫たちのイエス様降誕劇、プレゼント交換といつものを行いました。




良いお年を。


b.day


Yup. He is 29.


He didn't even take a day off on his birthday, so we went to IHOP for breakfast before he goes to work.

Beagley Christmas Party

grandpa Beagley

We had Astill Christmas party Friday night, and we had Beagley Christmas party Saturday morning, and it was fun. Kids dressed their grandpas like Santa. F.U.N.


Grandpa Kelly

Grandpa Brad

Grandpa Mike

Grandpa Dave

Grandpa Steve

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Monday, December 12, 2011

Haha




I thought it was pretty funny;)

by megumi astill

Saturday, December 10, 2011

I tried...










I assumed that taking kids' pictures is hard. but I didn't realize that it was this hard. Maybe because they are my kids. It was just a mess with yelling and screaming, mostly me, ok 100 % me screaming and yelling, but I admire you, photographers out there!

Thursday, December 8, 2011

今日のごはん。




こればっかりはアメリカ人さんには嫌がられると思うので、日本語で書きますよね。

いくら。ん?筋子にちかかったかな、急にだんくんの職場のお友だちがアラスカにさけ釣りに行ったって言ってくれたそうです。あと、しんくうぱっくされたスモークサーモンもいただきやした。

ということで、わたしの夕食になりました。なんだか突然らっちーでした。

by megumi astill