For family home evening, Monday night, we had a karaoke night. We haven't done that in a while and it was a ton of fun. We took turns picking songs and sang and danced the night away.
Sara chose Dark Places by JRJR for one of her picks, in honor of Tim. It's a favorite of his.
Sammy came home at the end of it. He is such a wonderful big brother, so loving.
He joined in with the singing.
Later that night, Josh, Leigh and Mikael came over to play Settlers of Catan. They are all a bit obsessed with it right now. Josh and Leigh left after one game, but Andrew, Daniel and Mikael played until almost midnight.
Laney did this beautiful oil pastel piece at school. She is quite a budding artist!
Wednesday, I had to take Susanna's sax to the repair shop by my mom's. We got to hang out for the afternoon. We went to Takamatsu for lunch to try some Korean food. It was pretty tasty. I got Kalbi Tang which came with all the little side dishes.
My mom got the beef Bul Go Ki lunch box special. It was especially good!
The sunsets are frequently incredible here. I love our huge sky! This one was particularly gorgeous with all the streaks of fiery orange. Of course my pictures do not do it justice, but I took this for Tim and any others who may be missing the sunsets of home.
Sam told us that evening that he now has a girlfriend, Landrie. She is lovely. We are just getting to know her. She took this cute picture last Sunday of their feet.
Thursday, Laney was exhausted and fell asleep like this in Jessi's car on the way home from choir. Jessi said, "At least she was buckled?"
Andrew caught us snuggling after a long day. There is nothing like being in the arms of your sweetheart!
Saturday, Sara gave Susanna a body wave perm. Susie's hair is extremely curl resistant and straight as a board, so she was excited to get a little extra body to her hair.
It is just barely wavy. We used a gentle strength perm so as to not damage her hair and big rollers so it wouldn't be poodle like, but it hardly curled it at all. We will probably do it again to make it a little more wavy. After this picture, when it dried, almost all the waves fell out.
Our dear friend, Howard Lyon, has painted Sara several times in the past. Tuesday, he painted this cool piece of Sara's eye. I knew whose eye it was the second I saw it. He is amazing!
You can see a timelapse video of him painting it here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BbXgf94BZ0Q/embed/?autoplay=1
And the BIG news...
Josh proposed to Leigh, and she accepted! We love Leigh and are so excited for them. They are thinking to get married March 24th, 2018.
They are ridiculously happy. It is so cute! I didn't notice until later, that Grandma and Grandpa Alger's wedding picture is in these shots. How perfect!
After they came home to tell us the news, Richard and I went to the Glendale amphitheater to see A Midsummer Night's Dream. He didn't know where we were going, it was a surprise! In our first year of marriage, he surprised me by taking me to the same place for the same show, so I thought it would be sentimental and romantic for me to surprise him this time. It was fun to be outside together and to snuggle up a little on the grass while we waited for the show to start.
The show was a little to modern for us and the acting was so so. We still had a great time together remembering the days gone by.
We left at intermission and went over to my parents. Josh and Leigh were there to share their news. Ben, Nan, Gavin and Cadie were all there as well. I had fun playing with little miss Daphne and baby Freia. They are adorable!!!
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