We are the Stuarts (formerly of Imperial) now residing in Okinawa, Japan.

This blog started from a desire to bridge the miles as we were preparing to leave the USA for 3+ years. It has turned into much more. It's part travel diary, part personal reflection, part "sociology of military life" and part mommy-blog. We hope you read something here that is interesting to you (or at least not a total waste of your time).

Friday, January 23, 2009

Flashback Friday...Stuarts in Peril!


Yes, I KNOW I have been neglecting this blog...believe me, it's been torture! I do appreciate all of the emails I received checking on my well-being, and all the nice comments...

I have been so crazy-busy it's not even funny. Patrick went into a tirade the other day about it. We keep saying, "As soon as we're done (fill in the blank) things won't be so crazy." Patrick observed that we've been saying that for the past several years (I promise it's only been really bad the past several months).

Anyway, we've reached a new level of insanity as we try to get settled in a new home (our household goods arrived Friday) and a new country, and still try to tie up loose ends (with the help of wonderful friends) where we came from...AND get Cliff ready to leave on a deployment in less than a month (not to mention...he still has a day job they expect him to do)...AND something else that I will save for a BIG announcement in a posting all its own...but no...we are NOT expecting, I'll just say that right off the bat so nobody goes there.

On to Flashback Friday! I was amazed at how many photos we have along this theme...and I'm sure they are not even all represented here (I have SO many unscanned photos to tackle)...but I figured I had enough for you to get the gist.


Wild Animal Park 1998


Yellowstone Nat'l Park 2003
(OK...so they are not actually "in peril" here...unless you judged by Cliff's reaction to me placing our offspring in such close proximity to a wild, frothing, rabid beast...then you would SWEAR that they were going to DIE!)


Birch Aquarium 2003


Cabela's 2004 (Daddy's "happiest place on earth")


Embarcadero 2005



San Diego Natural History Museum 2005




Father/Son Campout 2006 (Cliff got me back with this one, big time. He didn't tell me it was dead until AFTER I freaked out!)


2 comments:

Living in oblivion said...

Loved it! Too funny! Huumm...we seem to have simular pictures....could we have lived in some of the same places on this little globe...? LOL

Lisa Lamont said...

I can't believe you're not letting me in on the secret?!?!?! Some friend you are. Don't leave me hanging.

TGIF,
Lisa