M&M Bowling

For our youth combined activity this week we met down at the bowling alley and had some fun. I so wish I had a video camera! This wasn't your ordinary bowling game. We had bags of M&M's and before you bowled you had to choose a color. Each color had a different technique assigned to it, which goes as follows:

Blue: Backwards
Orange: Granny Style
Yellow: Eyes Closed (You could walk up to the line with them open, but had to close them before you threw the ball.)
Brown: Heaviest Ball (15 or 16 lbs)
Red: One leg
Green: Bowl with your opposite hand

Needless to say, most of the scores weren't very high. We only bowled the first 5 frames using the crazy styles, and the second 5 we bowled normally. It was fun though. The kids really got into it, and so did the branch president. What an entertaining night!

Little Past Due

I honestly don't know why I didn't write this sooner. I'm so excited I've pretty much told everyone, but Ben comes home in a week and a half!!!! Unfortunately it's just for a couple weeks, and not for good, but it's better than waiting until the end of June to see him. So here's what happened:

We were planning on going back to Idaho for leave the end of June because my brother was supposed to be getting married. Well that's no longer the case, so Ben and I talked about it and decided that he's just going to come back to Japan for his leave and we're going to try and go home around Christmas (hopefully we actually do). And this way with him coming back to Japan, he can see his puppies and we can have more one on one time. We haven't seen each other for over 6 months and if we were to go home we just really wouldn't have that quality time together that we need right now. I know this totally bums out everyone back home, and me too I was looking forward to going back to the states, but this is what we need right now. Anyway, so we were just going to leave R&R in June, but after talking about it I think I made it pretty clear that I wanted him to come home sooner than that if he could. So he checked into it and told me he wasn't going to be able to because his unit is full of a bunch of retards. That didn't really surprise me so I started checking into flights back home around my birthday. We talked about it, he said he'd consider it, and then started telling me no I couldn't go home. That's when the suspicions began. Then he began doing and saying other things that really got me wondering if he was coming home the end of the month. I was even telling one of my friends about it and how I thought he might be planning something. Well, that night sometime around 130 in the morning he calls me and wakes me up. He was like "Do you want me to make your day?" To which I replied "Whatever Dear." (I was still half asleep and not feeling very good) He said "Yes or No?" "Sure." "I'll be home the 25th." "Really?" Let me tell ya, I was awake after that. He was trying to keep it a secret and was just going to surprise me by showing up on the doorstep, but he couldn't wait any longer. So his leave request was approved, it's set in stone and he will be home in less than two weeks. I can't even tell you how excited I am! What a great birthday present! So sometime between the 23rd and the 26th, he will be home and I will be in his arms again. =)