To my dear family,
MERRY CHRISTMAS! I wish I was there with you all to celebrate this Christmas and to unwrap presents and eat a delicious Christmas dinner with you. I could really use a family reunion!
We, Josh and I, woke up early today to eat a very special Christmas breakfast which really was a FEAST! The whole home came and so we all sat in the dining room fellowshiping, talking, laughing, and listening to Christmas songs and stories. Aiki and Mary got me decaf coffee, which I've been desperately wanting! ha! I was able to eat all those goodies while drinking my hot new "pregnancy coffee"! Ha!
We then went to Sam and Leika's building and opened up presents with just the Tanaka family. :) (Home presents will be opened on the 27th, when our Christmas Dinner will happen.) Josh got me a iPod nano with a touch screen. AWESOME! I'm sure this will come in handy! Sam and Leika got us matching red and blue towels with matching face towels. Just what was needed in our room-NEW towels.
Our day has just begin and I'm not sure what the next thing we'll do is...(Josh and Isamu are watching Toy Story 3) but once they finish that we may go out to eat some ice-cream and relax. Then we'll have a Tanaka family Christmas dinner together. Looking forward to Leika's cooking! :)
I miss you, my dear Family (meaning the Kovachs and the Pritchards)! Hope to see you soon!
Love, Jan
December 25, 2010
December 20, 2010
Sharing Christmas Cheer!
Yay, here are some photos of me doing good deeds at an oldfolks home. :) This year I did most of the organizing of the shows. Hurrah for me!!
Going to these oldfolks homes has always been a real pleasure for me. The people there are soo sweet and every year when I go there with the kids the oldfolks always say such sweet things about the kids and they always have such touching comments. I had several elderly people come up to me to share how much we make them happy and that even though they're sick or they sometimes feel that it's not worth living anymore, when they think of us and the kids they decide to stick it out and "last till Christmas" so they can see our faces and watch our show. Isn't that sweet??
Here's part of our group standing in line ready to say MERRY CHRISTMAS!! and start our show.
This is the little kids group singing "We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year". They did a simple, cute performance as well.
Here's my group of three that performed to a song with much vigor, action, and excitement! So much fun! They did well concidering the amount of time we had to practice.
Theo (of Aki & Mari) and I with a elderly woman who won this little pink balloon.
Ryo (of Sam & Leika), and I with another "winning lady". She could have been a hottie in her day. Who knows! Ha!
And...Ryo and I again passing out Christmas posters, shaking hands, and wishing them a Merry Christmas.
Here's a funny story of what happened on this day. As Ryo and I passed out the Christmas posters, we got to this one old man and Ryo looked down and started snickering.
Jan: "Ryo, give him a poster and shake his hand."
Ryo: "Hee hee hee...but he looks like a monkey!"
Looking at the man I did agree that he looked a little different than the rest. Ryo shook the man's hand with a huge grin and said, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!!" with much more passion and excitement than he had before. The old man smiled real large and complimented Ryo on his smile, how cute he was, and what a good little boy he was. Ha!! Thank God he didn't know what was going on in the little boy's mind.
Later when retelling the story to someone else, we had to agree that there were definitely some great benefits to having our kids speak English as their first language! haha!!
Anyway,
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! I wish Christmas Joy and Cheer on all of you!
Going to these oldfolks homes has always been a real pleasure for me. The people there are soo sweet and every year when I go there with the kids the oldfolks always say such sweet things about the kids and they always have such touching comments. I had several elderly people come up to me to share how much we make them happy and that even though they're sick or they sometimes feel that it's not worth living anymore, when they think of us and the kids they decide to stick it out and "last till Christmas" so they can see our faces and watch our show. Isn't that sweet??
Here's part of our group standing in line ready to say MERRY CHRISTMAS!! and start our show.
This is the little kids group singing "We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year". They did a simple, cute performance as well.
Here's my group of three that performed to a song with much vigor, action, and excitement! So much fun! They did well concidering the amount of time we had to practice.
Theo (of Aki & Mari) and I with a elderly woman who won this little pink balloon.
Ryo (of Sam & Leika), and I with another "winning lady". She could have been a hottie in her day. Who knows! Ha!
And...Ryo and I again passing out Christmas posters, shaking hands, and wishing them a Merry Christmas.Here's a funny story of what happened on this day. As Ryo and I passed out the Christmas posters, we got to this one old man and Ryo looked down and started snickering.
Jan: "Ryo, give him a poster and shake his hand."
Ryo: "Hee hee hee...but he looks like a monkey!"
Looking at the man I did agree that he looked a little different than the rest. Ryo shook the man's hand with a huge grin and said, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!!" with much more passion and excitement than he had before. The old man smiled real large and complimented Ryo on his smile, how cute he was, and what a good little boy he was. Ha!! Thank God he didn't know what was going on in the little boy's mind.
Later when retelling the story to someone else, we had to agree that there were definitely some great benefits to having our kids speak English as their first language! haha!!
Anyway,
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! I wish Christmas Joy and Cheer on all of you!
December 15, 2010
December 9th Show
December 9th was the day of the first Christmas show this year.
There was singing, dancing, magic tricks, ballooning, and more. I was involved with it all! These last few weeks I've been teaching and practicing with the kids and preteens in our Home and getting them prepared for their Christmas performance.
I'll send more photos later once I get them off of other people's cameras. Sorry, I'm not always in the photos as I'm in the background working the music or preparing for the next bit of the performance. :) I didn't bring my camera on any of these shows as I've just been too busy coordinating the shows so I leave the photo shooting to others. I'll find some though! :)
Here's a photo of Josh and I on the second show of the day. He came to play guitar and eat the free hotel food. Ha! He's normally not in any shows, but I got him to come to this one as it's very close by and a delicious dinner was involved.
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you are all enjoying your Christmas Season! I love you!!!
There was singing, dancing, magic tricks, ballooning, and more. I was involved with it all! These last few weeks I've been teaching and practicing with the kids and preteens in our Home and getting them prepared for their Christmas performance.
I'll send more photos later once I get them off of other people's cameras. Sorry, I'm not always in the photos as I'm in the background working the music or preparing for the next bit of the performance. :) I didn't bring my camera on any of these shows as I've just been too busy coordinating the shows so I leave the photo shooting to others. I'll find some though! :)
Here's a photo of Josh and I on the second show of the day. He came to play guitar and eat the free hotel food. Ha! He's normally not in any shows, but I got him to come to this one as it's very close by and a delicious dinner was involved.
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you are all enjoying your Christmas Season! I love you!!!
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