Christmas, Easter, and Clark's Birthday

Again, I have been remiss in putting up these videos. This is Christmas 2010 (but I am going to do another YouTube with the present opening). It has Easter at the Fiesta Resort. Clark won the Easter Egg coloring contest and Both Clark and Amaris won the Egg Toss. I don't think they understood the rules of the Egg Toss and the reason they won is they were the last with an unbroken egg. Enough said. We took the prize and proud parents and ran off before they could figure it out ;)_
This also has the Christmas play put on by Grace Christian Academy. We did not realize that Clark had about a 102 fever when he did this. He was sick the next week, but school was out so he did not miss any days. We have more shots of the Cliffs and making Christmas stockings. All in all pretty good stuff

Oh, there's a lot going on this summer! Clark has Taekwondo 3 days a week and both Clark and Amaris have swimming lessons three days a week and music lessons two days a week. Clark on Drums and Amaris on Piano. We also went to the Cliffs-Again- on Monday, July 5th. Lo and belhold one of the bands that marched in the Liberation Day the day before came to the cliffs and gave an impromptu concert. We and the people that followed them up there were their only audience. After leaving the cliffs we went to the "The Last Airbender" The kids went to a birthday party at the Palms Resort. They had a lot of fun swimming, eating cake, and hitting the pinanta. I am going to post some other things soon. They both got some very special gifts.

Thanksgiving Weekend with the Kids

Normally you like to be together with your family on Thanksgiving. However, this is not the case since we moved from Guam to Saipan. I lived on Guam for eight years and Doris for four years. We have many friends down there, espeically Doris. So each year she goes to Guam to visit and I stay with the kids. We have fun, although they can be a double handful. Clark and Amaris made a Thanksgiving sign that we put in our picture window. We visited the unfortunately named suicide cliffs on Thanksgiving and ate pizza and Clark rollerbladed and Amaris jumped on her bouncy ball. The wind was probably about 45 mph and almost blew away everything. It's very pretty up there and the view is great. Of course, about 1000 jumped off of these and the Banzi cliffs during WWII. The Banzi cliffs are are the other pictures you see with water. A nearby Typhoon kicked up the waves. Also, Amaris won a prize at a birthday party on Saturday.

Going to the Cliffs, Washing Dishes, and Stuff

We went up the Cliffs...again. We like it up there. We flew the kite and the kids had doughnuts. I had a sandwich. Clark also did his skates and we played kickball. All in all a good time.
Check out the video of Amaris giving Mommie at neck massage and helping was dishes. Every time mommie washes she gets her stool and starts to help.

Birmingham Saipan Christmas 2008

It was a great Christmas in the Birmingham house. Amaris was the first to wake up and ran down the steps to see her new pink scotter (see YouTube video) Clark got a skateboard (with protection)and a real basketball (we are having a basketball goal installed next week). It will not be sturdy enough to slam dunk, but if he's doing this, were moving back to the States and contacting the NBA. Amaris tried to sneak a "Santa Cookie". Santa might be better off if she did, but that's another story. They also got one of those dance games you hook up to the TV. Clark seems to have fun with it. We did our usual trip to the suicide cliffs with a Big New Yorker Pizza from Pizza Hut. The played with their toys. In the afternoon we went to see "The Tale of Desperaux". We all went to bed about 8:30pm and had a good night's sleep. Again, another great day on Saipan.