My Olivia. The God curser and spider killer.

Olivia has been totally cracking me up with the things she has been saying lately.  Here are some examples.

We are at the park and she yells to me that she has a "booger nose".  I tell her to run to the bathroom and go and wipe it.  She gets to the door opens it and yells "Mom!  There is toilet paper EVERYWHERE in HERE!".  I am helping Bianca with something so I tell her to just walk around it, get her tissue off the role and come back.  On her way back she starts talking VERY loudly so everyone else at the park can here, but not knowing that she has an audience and thinking she is talking only to me, she says....

"Mom, that was the grodiest bathroom I have ever been in.  It was SO DIRTY and there was toilet paper EVERYWHERE.  And you told me I still had to walk in that bathroom and get mines toilet paper so I went in and just said (while putting her hands up in the air towards the heavens) "GOD!  WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO ME?!?!?".

I about died.  It was so unintentionally hilarious that it took everything that I had to keep a straight face.  All the other parents were totally losing it too, but Olivia was still so disgusted over the matter that she had no idea.  I pulled her aside and told her we need to be very careful about when we talk about Heavenly Father and whatnot.  To use his name when we are praying or talking reverently about him.  I guess according to how she was feeling she used everything in the right context, so I give her points on that one!   One of her favorite movies is Joseph King of Dreams and he says that when he is in the dungeon and in the depths of misery so I think that is how she learned it.  Apparently toilet paper all over a bathroom is the depths of misery for her.

Then Marcus took the kids to the pool last night and a little black girl was playing in the pool with them.  Olivia proceeded to tell Marcus that the little girl, was indeed, black and how that was totally okay because we are all special and different.  Then she went on about how some people have curly hair and some are little and some are REALLY big.  That it all doesn't matter because we are all special.

Just today I killed my third spider of the day and said "I am SO sick of killing spiders.  YUCK!".  (I think all the moving and rearranging things have disturbed some dormant spiders or something because in two days I killed 5 and I am so grossed out by it).  Olivia looks at me and says "Mom just don't you worry about it.  I am not sick of killing the spiders so next time you see one just come and get me and I will take care of it."  Then she walked off to play.

Crazy girl!  She is so funny and thoughtful and we love her to pieces!

Our Next Post IS.......

OKINAWA JAPAN!!!

We have been starting to get antsy, just wanting to know where we are going next so we can start planning.  We thought for a while we were going to Korea so I had researched like CRAZY learning as much as I could to prepare.

Then we got word that Marcus was accepted into the program he applied for and our next post would be to Okinawa Japan!

I must admit at first I kinda crapped my pants.  Out of all the options of "possible" places, these one was low on the list of probability and I hand't even looked it up at all.  Once I stopped freaking out, which only lasted a few minutes, and started googling it up I started to get REALLY excited!

 I mean, how could you not?  Look at these pictures for crying out loud?  This gal, Vashti Radder, will live in this tropical paradise with my babies and my hubby for THREE YEARS!!  The schools teach Japanese so my kids will be bi lingual!

I have been so sad about leaving here because I LOVE this area.  The beach is magical and it is so fortifying to me!  I have been able to be in contact with a lot of people who have lived there or are living there and everyone loves it!

Of course there are downsides, we will be a LONG ways away from family and that will be hard.  We will be on an Island with not a lot of access to the stores I am used to (Target!!) but shipping I am heard is pretty easy with APO addresses and I have a feeling Amazon and I will become FAST friends!

Another downside is our weight allotment for overseas is a fraction of what it was to come here.  So basically we are selling EVERYTHING!  Getting down to the bare basics people!  I started this last week and Marcus jokes that this is now my full time job.  Fielding inquiries, setting up pick up times, answering questions, setting up times for items to be viewed.  A lot of sell and a lot to keep track of!

I keep telling myself "sunny beaches... sunny beaches" whenever I start to freak about all the stuff walking out of my house!

And of course you MUST know that our house would be open to anyone that cares to visit!  Anybody up for a little tropical vacation??   We would love to any of you com and visit, you would be treated to all the fancies that Okinawa has to offer!  

Radder's are going International Baby!

Stressful!

 If I had to describe our last month, it would be stressful!  Marcus has had REALLY late hours studying his brains out and extra Army guy stuff going on.  The girls and I have been trying to just keep ourselves as busy as possible, which works most days and then we have a really crazy day where we all decide to be cranky.

The stress is only going to last a little bit longer though!  Marcus is gearing up for his final testing.  THE BIG DEAL.  All his work this past year and a half comes down to three days of testing.  Marcus is trying his best to stay cool about it, and I am trying my best to stay cool for him but HOLY COW!  It is a big deal.  Counting down the minutes almost!

He has already had his final PT test for record while he is here so that was a relief to get that done, he totally rocked it by the way, SO PROUD of him!  Next test up is a speaking test where he just talks to a proctor in Korean about anything and EVERYTHING for an hour.  The he has a little bit of a break before reading, listening and writing portions happen.

He has done so well so far, his accumulated GPA is a 4.0 and I am SO PROUD of him!  He has worked really hard in his studies and worked really hard being a good Daddy and husband.   Attending this school is a pretty big deal and it is tough.  Army guy stuff on top of all his Korean studies.  A lot of people get rolled back or get sent out of the program entirely.  It is such an accomplishment just to make it to the end of the course, let alone with such awesome grades.

I will be on pins and needles until all the scores come back in!  I know no matter what the scores are, he is going to give it his all.  I am so proud of my Marcus with all that he has been able to accomplish this far!  WISH US LUCK!