List

Amelie made Mike and I a list of questions during our Stake Conference meeting at church.

(2 hours is a long time to keep quiet for a very energetic 9 year old)
Here is the one I made for Amelie (in it's original spelling).

Favorite Color: Blue, Red, Green
Favorite Sport: Swimming, Diving
Favorite Food: Pizza, Orange Chicken
What do you want? A Horse, a Phone, a toy kinchen
(we left hers behind in the move. I still haven't gotten one, I think she would have outgrown it)
Favorite Hobby: Horse back riding & Tennis
(She's only done each a couple of time, she wishes they were hobbies!)
Favorite Books: Her Evil Twin & Stone Fox
Favorite Movies: Pizza My Heart & The incredable Jorney of the turtle
Favorit game: Sims 3 
Favorite Clothing: Cassul
Favorite Song: All of Selena Gomez
Favorite Artist: Selena Gomez
Favorite family member: Mom (because of yesterday) see here, soon dad 
( it's usually always dad, I guess I need to goof off with Amelie more often)
Favorite Pet: Chloe
Favorite Place: Disney world & Ohio
Favorite TV show: H2o
Favorite Friends: Katie, Reessie, Maddie, Lexi, Arielle
Favorite Girl name: Rikki
Favorite Boy name: Ash
Favorite Vacation: Ohio
Favorite Animal: Horse
Favorite candy: Kitkat & Ressie
How many kids you want: 1

Pre Happy Valentines

Thought I would send Mike a little love email at work today :)

Sandrine Nakata wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:21 AM,

Mike replied:

Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: <3
cool fonts, your welcome, I love you too! Hopefully coming home soon! 


Me Thought:
Wow! Isn't he the romantic one... "cool fonts"??? LOL

Halloween

So I wish I had a better picture of Luke, my little nephew! 

Lina got him all dressed up in a little Basket Ball player outfit. 

Anyhow, as we were doing Amelie's make-up, 

Lina decided to write in Black on Luke's forehead 'Basket' 

I saw nothing wrong with it until the next day!

In French we say 'Basket' for 'Basketball'

No wonder the neighbors were asking what was written on his forehead!

They were probably wondering why on earth the poor kid had that written on his head!!!

Wow!!! Did we laugh about it for days! 

I'm still laughing as I write this post!!!!

J'aurais bien aimer avoir une photo de Luke!

Lina a habille Luke dans un petit ensemble de BasketBall.

Sur son front elle a écrit 'Basket'

J'en a rien penser. 

Mais le lendemain, j'ai réalise!

'Basket' ici veux dire 'panier' 

C'eat pas étonnant que les voisins on demande ce qui etait écrit sur son front?

Ils se sont certainement demande pourquoi le petit avait le mot 'panier' sur sa tete!!!

Qu'est-ce que l'on a rigole!!! 

J'en rigole encore en écrivant ce post!!!

Daddy's Boss is Mean...

Conversation with Amelie as she climbed in bed with me for a morning snuggle.


Amelie: Can daddy come stay with us for a week?
Moi: No, he can't, he's got to work.
Amelie: Can't he work on his computer here?
Moi: No his boss won't let him, not like his old boss. 
Amelie: Daddy's boss is mean! Why does daddy have to work all day!!!!
Moi: Because that is what daddies do. So we can eat, have clothes, a home...
Amelie: Why did daddy have to get retired from his old job?
Moi: How about you talk to daddy about that?

Big shoes

On October 6th 2003

Emric (then 7) asked Mike while pointing at his shoes:

"Is it hard Daddy, to walk in your big shoes?"

Emric (a 7ans) a demande a Mike en montrant ses chaussures:
"C'est dure Papa, de marcher dans tes grandes chaussures?"

Hold your Breath!

When Justine was about 4 or 5, we would take our kids to our 

local pool, for the end of the season celebration. 

They would turn off the chlorine in the pool and fill it with tons of little gold fish. 

Then they would let the little kids go and catch some for them to keep and take home.

In the car, on the way home,
Justine was holding her prized container on her lap while intently staring at the fishes.

Mike amused said:
 "You sure like those fishies"

Justine still stairing:
"Daddy, they sure can hold their breath a long time!"

Quand justine avait 4 ou 5 ans, on avait emmener les enfants a notre piscine de voisinage,
pour la celebration de fin de saison.
Ils arraitaient la chlorine dans la piscine et y mettaient des poissons rouge dedans
 pour que les enfants les attrape pour les garder.

Dans la voiture pendant le voyage de retour a la maison,
Justine tenait son conteneur avec ses poissons dedans,
et les reardait attentivement.

Mike ammuse a dit;
"tu aimes beaucoups c'est poissons!"
Justine toujours attentive"
"Papa, ils peuvent vraiment tenir leur souffle longtemps ces poissons!"

Birthday Wishes

Amelie had a birthday cake today for her 8th Birthday.
(I know a little late, but we wanted to celebrate
with her cousins and Aunt)

As she was about to blow the candles...

 Auntie Audie:

 "Make a wish"

Amelie: 

"I wish for nothing 'cause

 I have everything. Right here. Right now..."

How beautiful is that?
I wish I could always feel that way...

Amelie a eu un son gateau d'anniversaire aujourd'hui pour ses 8 ans.
( on a attendu de celebrer avec les cousines et Aude)
Au moment de soufler les bougies...
Aude:
"Fait un voeux"
Amelie:
"Je souhaite rien car j'ai deja tout.
 Ici. Maintenant."


Que c'est mots sont beau...
Moi, je souhaite avoir ce genre de sentiments toujours...

Hot dog

Made Skyline hot dogs for lunch today.

Justine: Mom!!!! How do you know when hot dogs are cooked?

Words to remember

So it's Fast Sunday at about 2pm as we are laying in bed...

Me: Mike would you like me to make lunch or walk the dog?
Emric: You go take the dog mom, I'll take care of dad. I'll make him my specialty ramen.
Mike & Me: "laugh"
Emric: no really mom, it's really good, with eggs and an extra packet of flavoring!
Me: Mike would you like Emric's specialty or me to cook?
Mike: I think I would rather have mom's specialty.

Anyone who knows Emric, knows that he could live on a strictly ramen noodle diet! And I must say he's got them down to perfection. That is if you like ramen noodles!
Mike always says that Emric has a 'body by Ramen Noodles'!

Talk about Sex-Education

Emric- "Justine, guess what class I have to take in school this semester!"
Justine- "What?"
Emric- "Guess!"
Justine- "Emric, I'm not going to guess."
Emric- "Just guess."
Justine-"No."
Emric- "Okay, I'll give you a clue, it starts with an 'S.'"
Justine-"I'm not going to guess"
Emric- "Okay, I'll give you another clue, it ends in an 'X-ed.' "
Justine-"Emric, its ok to say 'sex-education.'"
Mom- "Really, Emric, when do you start?"
Emric- "I've been doing it for two weeks now."
Amelie- (spits out some food) "Emric's having sex?!"

Emric- "Justine, devine ce que je prend a l'ecole ce semestre!"
Justine- "Quoi?"
Emric- "Devine!"
Justine- "Emric, je ne vais pas deviner."
Emric- "Just devine."
Justine-"No."
Emric- "Okay, je te donne un indice, ca commence avec un 'S.'"
Justine-"Je vais pas deviner!"
Emric- "Okay, je te donne un autre indice, ca fini avec un 'X-ed.' "
Justine-"Emric, c'est ok de dire 'sex-education.'"
Mom- "A bon, Emric, Quand est-ce que tu commence?"
Emric- "cela fait 2 semaines que j'en fait."
Amelie- (en crachant ce qu'elle avait dans son bouche) "Emric a du sex?!"

Words to Remember

Me: How many kids do you want Justine?
Justine: At least 3... I don't really care how many I have; it will be fun!

I just had to put this in writing!!!!

Moi: Combien d'enfants tu va avoir Justine?
Jaustine: Au moins 3... Cela m'est egal combien j'ai, ce sera amusant!

Justine & Chloe

Conversation n# 1

...a few days before I got Chloe:

Justine: "Why are you getting a dog?"

Moi: "For our family, don't you want one?"

Justine: "I could have gone my whole life without one..."

Conversation n#2

...a week later as she is steeling her from my lap:

Moi: "You can't just take Chloe away from me like that!
I thought you could live without a dog!"

Justine: "Well, I didn't know what I was missing..."

Conversation n#1

... avant d'aller chercher Chloe:

Justine: "pourquoi tu veux un chien?"

Moi: " Pour la famille, tu n'en veux pas un?"

Justine: "Pas vraiement, j'aurais pu passer ma vie sans chien."

Conversation n#2

...une semaine apres, pendant qu'elle essaye de prendre Chloe de mes genoux!"

Moi: "Tu peux pas juste la prendre comme cela!
Je croyais que tu pouvais vivre sans un chien!"

Justine: " Ben... je savais pas ce que je manquais..."

Little conversation with a soon to be 6 year old!

Amelie: Mom, I wish we lived in a house like "..." .
Me: Well that house is so huge, we wouldn't be able to afford it. It costs a lot of money!
Amelie: Like $10?
Me: No! A lot more!!
Amelie: I wish little houses cost a lot and big ones a little...

Amelie: Maman, j'aimerais bien qu'on vie dans une maison comme "...".
Moi: Cette maison est immance, on pourait pas la payer! Ca coute trop cher!
Amelie: Comme 10 dollards?
Moi: Non, Beaucoup plus!
Amelie: Ben moi j'aimerais bien que les petites maisons soit cher et les grosses pas cher...

Heart breaker...

Amelie to her friend Greyson:
A: Who are you going to marry?
G: Well... You.
A: No you're not.
G: Who am I going to marry then?
A: I don't know, ask your mom!
Conversation entre Amelie et son copin Greyson:A: Qui est-ce que tu vas epouser?
G: Ben... Toi!
A: Non
G: Ben, qui je vais epouser alors?
A: Je ne sais pas, demande a ta mere!

A sister's poem

This one is one justine wrote about her little sister Amelie... And the picture she used.
Celui ci est un poem que Justine a ecrit a propos de sa petite soeur Amelie... Et la photo qu'elle va utiliser.

The Chasing Game

The Chasing Game
We always play,
It's always the same
Ever day


I Love Her
And don't want her to cry
So I play with her
And to win I don't have to try


She loves to chase
all over the place


Once I can no longer see her
anywhere around
I must listen to a faint giggling sound.


She finally gets found


Tomorrow it will happen
once again
And the process
WILL NEVER END!

Justine Nakata

Poem from dad to his girls

Justine, for a school project, has to gather lots of different types of poems, she asked her Dad to do one... She is using also this picture of them from 2 years ago to put with it . I think it is beautiful and tender... This is what he wrote.
Pour un projet a l'ecole, Justine doit collectione plein de poems. Elle a demande a son papa de lui en ecrire un hier soir tard. Elle a aussi utilise cette photo d'eux il y a 2 ans. Voici ce qu'il a ecrit. Je trouve cela tres beau et tendre...

It's Late

It's late and the hour is nigh
to tuck you in and say goodbye

One more precious memory more valuable than pearls
one more precious day with my sweet little girls

The music you make is as sweet as can be
your talents and your gifts are so heavenly

The peace of each moment can be stolen so fast
If your time was cut short leaving only your past

Each time that I hug you tight and kiss you good night
There is peace in knowing that you're safe and alright

For my little girls will grow up and move on

But my love and concern will never be gone

Maybe someday when a fine new mother you'll be
you'll understand how I feel, and then you will see

And so I must treasure each day that I can
for eventually you'll grow up and find a young man

While I'm sure you will want him to be rich, fine and strong
I will have my own list too, and it will be much more long!

For he must make it so I sleep easy
knowing my girl is safe as can be

So for now that day may seem so very far far away
remember that a father's love is here to stay

J. Mike Nakata

A special visit!

Last weekend, we got to visit a dear friend: Linda! She was here to visit her parents near by, so we poped over! When we moved here to Ohio, almost 12 years ago, she adopted our little family like her own and became "Aunt Linda". She loved our kids to death! She moved away 4 years ago to sunny St George Utah, yep she got married! It was so good to see her, she has a gift of making all of us feel so special and loved. It is so good to be around people that just love you! We miss her and adore her!

Le weekend passe, nous avons pu visiter notre amie Linda! Elle est venue visite ses parents qui n'habitent pas loin. Quand nous sommes debarque en Ohio, il y a presque 12 ans, elle a adopter notre petite famille et est devenue "tante Linda"! Elle nous a aimer sans reserves, surtout les enfants! C'est bon d'etre en presence de personnes qui ont un don de vous faire sentir special et aime. C'etait si bien de la revoire! Elle nous manque et on l'adore!

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.”

"Il y a des personnes qui entre dans notre vie et qui en parte rapidement. Tandis que d'autres y reste plus longtemps, et laisse des emprintes sur nos coeurs, du coup, nous ne sommes plus jamais les mêmes."

Une pensee...

"People are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
"Les gens sont aussi heureux qu'ils se decident a l'etre."

A. Lincoln

Now

"Now can be a fleeting moment, or last forever..."

"Maintenant peut etre un instant de passage, ou etre eternel..."

Change...

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"

"Tu dois etre le changement que tu desire voir dans le monde"

Mahatma Gandhi