Couldn't resist posting this one and to give ya'll the latest. Sylvin was home and gone already. It was SO nice having him home and I know he's hating life now that he's left. He's such a good daddy and husband. We're all very lucky girls. He's definitely got two daddy's girls. He's their hero, and I doubt you'll ever convince them otherwise. As it should be! We had a good rest of the week. He went diving with us on Tuesday and then we grilled out at the beach that night while watching the girls play on the sand and watched the sunset. Spectacular day! We just hung out and did a whole lot of nothing. Sylvin let me sleep in late and gave the girls their baths everynight. We spent Saturday afternoon at the beach. That's when the video was taken.
We celebrated six years of marital bliss while he was home. He brought me an authentic Japanese tea/saki set home. It's beautiful and all hand painted. Now I've got to do some reading on how they serve tea and saki traditionally, I guess there's a step by step process of doing it. Who knew? I thought you dump it into cup, add sugar and try not to burn your lips sipping too loudly.
Love and miss you all.
(Check out the toddler tummies! I doubt they'll be around for much longer, everything on them is morphing into looking like a little girl and loosing all the baby look stuff. Sy's still got an outie, poor baby...looks like she's done :)

Day at the beach

Our trip to Underwater World

Sugarlips is home for a visit!

Papi's home for a little while, not super long, but we'll take what we can get! They flew him home on the CG's dime, so that was a very nice suprise. We went to Underwater World in Tumon on Sunday. Eve was scared to death at first and didn't want to leave the safety of her stroller or Papi's embrace (when he finally caved and got her out of the stroller!) but she finally settled down once we were about done with the place. The aquarium was cool to see. I posted a short video of it above.

Tuesday was my annual dive day and Sylvin brought his card with him, so we were able to go rent him scuba gear and he came with Mehan and I Tuesday morning. It was a beautiful morning, sunshine and the visibility was about 50 ft. I would guess. We did see a sea turtle, Sylvin spotted it. Yeah! Saw lots of cool fish and got to hold a sea cucumber (with gloves on of course) We all had a blast. Sylvin's all stoked about going again when he gets to come home and stay a while longer. He's already looking for new fins. He looks pretty handsome in his scuba gear I have to admit, but then of course I have extremely good taste! Tuesday evening, we grabbed some chicken I had marinated and I made some macarroni salad, we packed a cooler and headed for the beach. The girls had a blast playing in the sand with their toys and even got brave enough to get in at the water's edge by themselves. They're getting big and used to the beach finally. Still a little leary of stuff that floats to close to them, or if a crab up and run without them knowing about it beforehand, but getting more and more comfortable being there. I had to drag them away from the water kickin and screaming to get them hosed off and changed so we could eat. We all ate at a picnic table right there at the beach and grilled as we watched the sun set. Beautiful sunset on a most spectacular day. So far the rest of the week has been grocery shopping and running errands, so not as glorious but tomorrow is date night. We're celebrating our 6th year anniverssary. So we'll see how the week ends. I'm sure it'll be fantastic, just as the rest of the week has been. Always good to have him home no matter what we're doing.

Love you all and miss you much.

Sylvin, Dani, Sy and Eve

American Tanker Pilothouse

I didn't take these, I pirated them off the internet, but we did dive this site today. It was amazing! That's why I had to post some pictures at least. It was a rough start this morning. Supposed to have started at 0900 and of course that didn't happen. Mehan and Joe were late, however in her defense, she called to tell me but I must have been in the shower shaving my legs when the phone rang! Oh well...45 mins later we found the keys into the marina, then keys to the boat. (sidenote; Mehan works at the marina on base and has access to the boats the days the marina is closed! bonus for working there cause it didn't cost us anything.) Well, all our gear was in the boat, we were in the boat and Mehan was coming down to get in, she went and handed me her keys to get in and I safely grabbed,....one set...second set and.....t//hi...r..d...plop!!!! Third set wasn't so lucky! For some reason she handed them all to me at once, over the water before getting in and I didn't drop the marina keys or the boat key, it was her house and car keys! I felt like such a backside. Thank God we had scuba gear! It took a while, but Mehan finally recovered her keys from the murky no visibility depths by sheer luck and alot of prayer alone. So now we're off almost 2 hours behind schedule, but we went and got out there. We were down about a half hour and it was amazing.
This is one of the many ladders leading down to the depths of the unknown.

This wreck is actually of a 100m long concrete barge that was sunk by the Americans at the end of WW2 in Apra Harbour to help build a breakwater. During the war, a number of these barges were loaded with suppies and towed from Honolulu to Guam.

A view from inside the pilothouse looking out. Everything was very well preserved over all these years!
a photo of the bottom of a boston whaler. Same view we had coming up today from the tanker. Life is SWEET! hope you all had as good a Monday as I did. Love and miss you all.

Come spend 3 minutes with us today!

(Ya might wan to mute the playlist player down bottom left, music on the video is pretty loud)

Well, their not the fire dancers that were supposed to be there. Everyime I go somewhere where the illusive 'firedancers' are supposed to be they never show up. WTH? I dunno if it's me or what but the girls got everyone out onto the dance floor anyway! They were so cute dancing with Kelsey. Kelsey is Mehan's daughter and the girls adore her. Truth be told, I think it's recipricated by Kelsey as well.
Sy was cutting a rug and wasn't even shy toward the little boy at the end. Eve however took a while to warm up to all the excitement. Once they were both comfortable it was hell trying to get them to transition to leave. We all ate junk food down there and stayed up way too late, but it was fun. My little girls are growing up. In case you can't figure it out, Sy's in the orange and Eve's in the blue.