"Fever" Pitch

As much as I would love to simply say that things have been grand around here, they just haven't! When we were on the 2nd part of the road trip last week, Jordy came down with a pretty high fever. The fever lasted three days, and luckily went away the day we had to travel back to Hiroshima. We were so happy that everyone was healthy, until the day after our return, Jake came down with this fever. The weird thing is, that neither of them had any other symptoms. They were eating fine, acting fine, no cough, no runny nose, but hotter than furnaces. I am truly hoping that after today, Jake will be fine, since it will be the magic 3 days for him too! Please pray for healthy kids!

So, I know I haven't posted many pictures of the road trip nor of life recently, but I will today! Things have been good, aside from the fevers. Mike has pitched in 4 games since the last blog, and has done real well. He had a string of bad luck last night, with a few mishaps on the team, but he is ready to get right back out there! We are gearing up for our awesome visitors, starting a week from Tuesday. Mike's mom, Janet, and Mike's brother, Joey are coming for a while, and we are super excited to have them. We will be traveling a lot with them, so that should be fun.

One of the other foreigners, families' is visiting right now, and they have a 3 year old girl named, Kennedy. Jordyn has been in absolute heaven playing with her. This is the 2nd year that Jordy is the only girl, so it makes it so much more fun having someone to play dolls with, and dance with, and not only have to play baseball with. I am pretty sure that Jake would sleep with every piece of baseball equipment that he has, if we allowed him to. Jordyn enjoys it, but certainly not as much as our little man. The last blog, I attached a video of Jordy dancing on the dugout, well, I got so many e mails telling me what entertainment she was, that I have decided to post another one. This honestly was one of the funniest moments I have had with her. We went into The Gap the other day to do a little shopping, well, Jordyn found herself a standup mirror and started jamming to the music in the store. She didn't see me until toward the end, which is probably good, since if she did, she would have put on a bigger show. To say the least, it was so funny, and every person in the store stopped their shopping to watch the in-store entertainment.

We hope everyone is doing well and we appreciate all the well wishes and prayers for the remainder of our stay here. Have a great weekend!

Jordy at The Gap

Ezra, Jordy, Jake, and Gavin enjoying the hallways of our hotel

On our way back to Hiroshima, after a long week

J & J watching Dora on the portable DVD player while relaxing in the bath

Daddy & Jake dining at Mother's Italian Restaurant...the best iced tea, I've ever had!

The view from our room in Chiba.  The stadium was right across the street, with the beach in front of it.