Catch Up

Hey! What are you still doing here? We've moved and so has our blog. Read all about our new life in America at:



http://aaoreillyusa.blogspot.com/

Fourth of July

Although it would have been nice to actually be IN America to celebrate the Fourth, we did have fun at the "Liberty Fest" on base where we:

snapped this photo of the boys in front of Joshie's beloved A-10 tail:

got lots of freebies including this fab headband:

walked around some airplanes:

watched Andrew's favorite robotic demo:

saw strange Korean man with squeaky shoes:

and saw Mommy's favorite item of the day:

This crazy lady was really rockin' out before I started taping her (holding the camera the wrong way, duh.)

It was a bit of a challenge keeping the kids up until 9pm for fireworks so we let then run around like wild animals and fed them copious amounts of snow cone and funnel cake.

Korea Roundup

We are on our way! Here is the year's final stats:


Number of trips to the ER: 4

Number of car accidents: 1 (Ainsley)

Number of parking tickets: 1 (Ainsley)

Days spent on PEN: 365

Number of illnesses: too many

Number of Sopranos episodes watched: all 86

Number of trips to McDonald's: .5 (The kids shared some of Uncle's chicken nuggets in December, but we never did eat there. Hooray! But, that of course is all over when we get back. Ainsley's already talking about it, sigh...)


Number of blog entries: 121

Number of pregnancies: 0 (Victory is mine!)

Pounds gained: 8 lbs (Madeline)

Pounds lost: 8 lbs (Mommy)

Regrets: 0

Adios, Korea!

Things we are looking forward to

1. Grass! A yard!

2. Garbage disposals

3. Central air

4. Our car

5. Target

6. Shopping for clothes in a real store and not over the internet

7. Grilling on the BBQ

8. ICE

9. Drive-thrus

10. Seeing our families

Wordless Wednesday

Things we WON'T Miss

Yes, we will miss all the nice people, yada yada yada, but here's our top ten of things we WON'T be missing about Korea:


1. The smell: The sewers can be overpowering but nothing compares to the horror of Korean-Kimchee B.O. Hands down, the worst B.O. on earth.

2. The traffic: driving through Songtan on a market day and driving our van through the street behind our house was like running the gauntlet everyday.

3. Parking on base: 5,000 people and 30 spots

4. The pollution and yellow dust

5. Running the air conditioner for five minutes and then turning it off so we don't run up the electricity bill

6. The mosquitoes: a large colony lives outside our front door and lies in wait for us to open it

7. Our microwave: reheating one slice of pizza takes 6 minutes and don't get me started on the popcorn

8. Driving to Seoul: will it take 1 hour or three? Who knows!

9. Apartment living

10. Being 7500 miles from family

Gravy Train with Biscuit Wheels

Suddenly, Andrew is all about doing chores. On Tuesday, he swiffered the kitchen floors. Wednesday, he cleaned the windows. Thursday, he cleaned more windows. And, this morning, he loaded the dishwasher.

I LOVE summer vacation!