This past week~+ Happy Thanksgiving~!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!
What are you most thankful for this Thanksgiving??? Hmm... I'd have to say firstly, God. He's awesome and always there for me even though I'm not always there for Him. Even so, He's helping me become a better person every day. So, hopefully I can be of more use to Him more and more each year! :)
Second, my family. They're always there ...because I live with them! Lol, jk jk. Seriously though, I'm definitely thoroughly blessed by my family. We may not always see eye-to-eye but in the end, God's growing us all.
Third my friends and especially my bros and sisters in Christ. Thank you to you all!!! Wow... doesn't this sound like an acceptance speech? Lol, I need to stop with the mushies and on to what I've been up to, huh? :P


It was my brother's birthday on the 17th. Our family has a tradition that the bday person gets to pick whatever they want to eat the entire day and then for dindin, we all eat dinner together at their restaurant of choice. Henry wanted Chili's so we went there. He ate a sirloin steak. Doesn't he look totally pleased with himself?


This is what I ate. It was Chicken Club Fajitas I think. They were okay, I guess.


This is the family (minus me... I'm taking the pic) singing happy bday. All the kids pick Baskin Robbin's ice cream cake for their bdays. Tasty~! Do you see what looks to be a Christmas present in the back? Yeah, that's his bday present. We just ran out (or never buy) Birthday wrapping paper, so we used Christmas wrapping paper instead. Are we the only ones who do this? hmmm....


Last Friday was the Jp Women's Thanksgiving edition Fellowship. On the way there there was a lamp post that cast a curious shadow in the shape of a cross. Thankfully I had my camera with me. You kinda have to wonder how many people would actually notice something like this? I think God blessed us with something cool on the way there because we were tired in order to encourage us! ^.^


I made the turkey for the Jp Women's Fellowship. I tried a new turkey marinade recipe the night before and it turned out to be AWESOME! The turkey was so juicy and succulent! I was really worried because I wanted everyone to enjoy the turkey. But, I think I'll be using this recipe for many Thanksgivings to come!


This is a pic of the Fellowship hall with all the peeps from the Jp Women's fellowship and the Girls' Bible Study.


Basically same thing, different angle. We had a glorious time the Jp Women's Fellowship~! Since we didn't have to worry about the parking, some of us stayed late and ended up leaving around 11. Good times~


That night Kiara spent the night and the following evening we went on base to skateboard. The first place we went wasn't ideal. It was on a huge incline so you'd go faster than you'd want to... very very quickly. We searched for another place and for about an hour couldn't find one. Then we "happened" upon a brand new, freshly paved parking lot with NO cars. It was funny because we were looking for Ryukyu Middle School, but for the life of me, I couldn't find it even though I drive past it almost every day. We were all in agreement that God blessed us with probably the best place to skate on base. Isn't He awesome?!? Anyways this is Kiara lookin' awesome while skating.


This is Anna looking awesome on her skateboard. I was having a lot of fun taking pics. Of course I played around on my longboard too. I'm getting a lot better. Ie: Not falling as much. :P


The next day Halleluyah came over to hang out for a bit. So we decided to go on base and skate again~. Of course, I brought my camera to take more pics. This is all of us and our Daigo (the celebrity grandson of ex-Prime Minister Daigo) ウイッシュ[uisshu] pose.


This is our "gangsta" pose. Yeah, we're all Japanese who grew up in Japan, so it's a little sad. I'm trying to rep LA and failing so miserably. I apologize to anyone from California in advance. (T_T)


This last skate pic is awesome in the fact that... well, look at Halleluyah!!! Man, I wish I had that kind of balance and upper body strength to do a handstand on a SKATEBOARD!!! ...Okay, so we took a few pics of ourselves. I'm pretty sure if someone was watching us (as creepy as that would be) they'd be SO amused at us.

OK. I think that's enough posting for now. I'm REALLY sleepy. I'll probably edit some of the videos and pics that I took on Thanksgiving... later today. Breaks always go so fast! Be safe out there on Black Friday's crazy shopping and for those of you in a different time zone from me, stay safe on Thanksgiving~! I'll now leave you with a daily verse from Christnotes.org! God bless~!

Whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith--the salvation of your souls.
1 Peter 1:8-9
New King James Version