Girl Scouts.

At the end of the year, the girl scouts have a bridging ceremony, where they...you guessed it, cross a bridge! They literally did, but really it means you're moving up to the next rank of girl scout. Here's Kate!

Suzy is also moving up to be the Cadets leader (she was a Brownie leader last time, but Faith is also moving up).

Speaking of Faith...

And here is the whole shebang. 

Here's Suzy teaching the Brownies how to do something girl scoutee. 

Here she's trying to educate Louisa on how to properly point at someone. 

Here are a bunch of girl scouts looking bored, but not Faith, she looks happy.

Faith getting her badges. 

Kate getting her Badges.

Suzy getting her water bottle. That's what you get if your a leader instead of badges. I think they gave the rest of the leaders Alcohol. 

Memories from Akashi/Shioya

Here we are at Stake Conference. We're watching from one of the overflow rooms. With the toys. This was the one where Elder Oaks came and the kids got to shake his hand afterward. They didn't have translation in the overflow room, so there were a couple of talks in English (Elder Oaks and Sister Oaks).

Eating at the Club. These hotdogs were Hot! As Brighton's face will attest.

This was the pool opening party. They had Hula dancers! It was funny, because there are a small group of boys (maybe 4-5) who are in the 12-15 range.  They never pay attention to any of these performances. But if you notice, there are some younger girls dancing as well, probably also 12-15. They sat entranced the whole time. 

Hiroki Kojima! One of the kids favorite people in the ward. He was always awesome. 

Rino and Yugu, Jace's classmates (They're brother and sister - the Yoshida family)

Even though they don't speak English, Jace really liked playing with Rino-chyen (Chyen is like -san which you put at the end of the adults names as an honorific, but for girls. Kun is for boys). 

Bike riding in front of the house in the cul-de-sac.

Suzy eating weird food with friends. Those are tentacles. 

Mother's Day

In Primary, the kids made some Mother's day cards.

And decorated the envelopes. 

Earlier, they brought her breakfast in bed, as well as some other handmade cards. Mom's special day!

Jace is no longer a Kindergartener.

That's right, who's the man with a cap and gown. I guess when you pay more than my college tuition for Kindergarten it comes with some perks. Like a cap and a tassel. 

They did these cute videos where the kids talk about their favorite parts of school, plus what they want to be when they grow up. Jace...Dragon Trainer. 

Here was the presentation of the diploma. 

The kids performed a few songs, it was very, very cute. I love the size differential in Kindergarten already. 

[guess who] love's it when I take his/her picture

I like to take pictures of my family members. Most of them don't mind. In fact, most of them are ecstatic to have their picture taken. However, then is one in particular who always makes the ''face of disapproval" (FODs if you will). I won't mention his/her name, but maybe you can guess later.

Even when this person says okay to a picture, she can't help but roll her eyes as I take the picture. 

This isn't a new phenomenon (Just a quick side note, I'm an atrocious speller. You wouldn't always  know it since spell check saves my bacon more often then know. But I'll have you know I just spelled Phenomenon without spell check. Twice.). You can tell because this is in Singapore.

"What are you doing."?

Realises what I'm doing. FOD ensues. 

''Hey, what are you doing''?

Super FOD.