Playing around at Lake Nodake before strawberry picking. Funny sign next to our picnic site.

Outside the strawberry greenhouse.

Picking strawberries with friends.

Strawberry Picking in Omura

Enjoying some homemade ice cream after all that work.

Christmas in Japan- 2010

Christmas cookies didn't turn out exactly as hoped, but the kids sure had fun making them themselves. Landon loved the flour!

Making reindeer food with friends.

Spending Christmas with good friends:)

Our first homemade gingerbread house was a success!

The front of our townhome New Year's Eve morning.

That's one BIG snowball, Jim.

Landon is building a baby snowman.

The girls kept themselves busy building a fort. Jim slowed their efforts down.

So, they started another.

Our little angel!