Welcome Home Party

Last night we went to a squadron party (Scott's work) to welcome back all the deployed members. The squadron had a lot of people deploy this spring/summer and the last 5 have just returned (Scott included) so a party was in order.

We went to the Skoshi Bowl on base (skoshi means "little" in Japanese). Kadena has two bowling alleys; a big normal one and a separate small one (the Skoshi Bowl right next door) that is smaller and people reserve it just for parties. It was a lot of fun 'cause it was just our squadron there so it wasn't too loud and we weren't bothering other people with our loudness.
Here's Matthew wearing his glow in the dark glasses.

Anna put hers aside so she could run around with a half eaten hot dog bun in her hand for a while. There is another little girl in the squadron (a daughter of someone in the squadron) who was born one day before Anna and they haven't seen each other since we left Okinawa last December, so it was fun for them to see each other again. They've both grown into busy little girls. And there is also a new little boy their same age in the squadron now, so they had a little toddler posse going last night. Matthew supervised the whole thing.

Here's Matthew bowling. The bowling place had the pop-up rails, so Matthew could have the rails just for his turn, and they had these frame things that he could use to roll the ball down the lane. I've never used them before, but they were just right for Matthew. He had a great time with it! Scott, as it turns out, is pretty good at bowling, so he beat us all.

Here's the Welcome Home cake, complete with a tank on top.

Here's Anna with our commanders wife, Jenn. The kids love her and were squealing and running around trying to give her high fives a lot of the night. She was a good sport about it. She also watched our house and tended our cars while we were gone in the states, picked us up from the airport and put the bowling night together. She's great!! We had a really fun time! Maybe we'll have to go bowling again.