This is our baby.... TIKI
She was a 1 1/2 pounds when we brought her home.

This is .... COCONUT
She is CRAZY!!! She weighed just 3.8 pounds when we brought her home.

There is an organization on island called G.A.I.N. The are pretty much the pound on island. Guam has so many wild cats and dogs it's crazy. They are referred to as "Boonie Dogs" and "Boonie Cats". The sad part is that the GAIN is so over populated that they put down at least on dog and one cat each day. Two days before I went there to look at the kittens they brought in 32 dogs. They had to shut down for two hours just to try and accomidate them all. They ended up having to put 10 dogs down :(
I say Tiki and Coconut and fell in love. The kids were so excited!! Madison literally grew wings and flew around the house. The sad thing was that because we got two cats and both girls were so excited Gage started to cry and asked where his dog was. He has been wanting a dog ever since Ellie. (Our Friend/Family's dog in Michigan) I had to tell him when we get out of the Navy we will get a dog. We are only aloud two pets in base houseing. Anyway, here are a couple more pics :)...

Playing at Dodi Beach....

Our friends, the Copelands, invited us to go to Dodi Beach and see all the crabs that come out at sunset. Apparently the typhoons that have gone around the island have washed up a lot of debris. There was even a computer monitor that washed ashore. Even with all the washed up stuff it was still a beautiful beach. Dodi Beach takes a lot of the gruff from passing storms. The beach is on the Pacific Ocean side of the island and apparently the Pacific is a lot rougher than the Philippine Sea side.

These caves where carved out by the Japanese during the Pacific War. They would hide in these caves and shoot through the holes as the soldiers came aboard island.




The Sunset was beautiful.... One of these days I would LOVE for Robby and I to enjoy a sunset - minus the children. The kids had a great time though.

HAPPY NEW YEAR....

We decided to start out our new year with exploring a new beach. We have decided we want to make it to ALL the beaches on Guam so what a way to start 2010! Our friends the Davids came with us and we had a BLAST. I can honestly say that so far this beach is my favorite. It is called Haputo Beach. We hiked down about 300 yards to the beach. The hike was through thick forests and pretty steep. There were narrow cement stairs, actually there were 212 narrow cement stairs. :) Going down was no sweat, but coming back up was a bit of a work out. Especially since Gage decided to RUN most the way up. Anyway, the reason this is our favorite beach so far is because it have BEAUTIFUL soft white sand with a HUGE corral reef. We were able to walk really far out and play in the waves. One of the great attractions of Haputo is this mushroom shape rock off the beach.









These are the last of the steps that we came down to get to the beach....

We have more fun pictures to show you but this is all I have time to do tonight... Love you all tons!