Trip To Grandma's House

Zack's 2nd Birthday Party!

Zack & Erica Random Nov 08

Zack's Music Video

Zack loves to dance. Here he is getting down to some kind of Rap or Hip Hop song he found on the radio. Yes, he is 2 years old and knows how to work the radio.He actually has a couple of pretty good moves. Or maybe they are dance moves only a parent can love :) Either way, I think you will like this video.

Japan Festival 2008

Evan :)

here are some pictures of Evan (maria & jeff's baby). :)

Dress Up Oct. 08

Ryan & Satomi's Brithday Sept. 08

odd how it's Satomi's & Ryan's birthday...& no pictures of them. :)

Erica Random Sept. 08

Kelly

Kelly locked herself out her truck & destroyed tinkerbell's wings to fish them out :)

Hurricane Gustav/Dallas Vacation Sept. 08

Zack/Erica Random August 2008

Zack likes the pigs August 08

Zack/Erica Random July 08

Zack/Erica Random June 08

...the torturing of the little sister begins :(

The New Baby: Erica Sugo Hutchinson

Time To Go To The Hospital!
Zack doesn't like this.

Say Bye To Mom/Dad





This bed is comfy.
Baby Erica is here!


She has big feet!
& Pretty Fingers :)
6 lbs. 6.1 oz.




Say hi to your dad, Erica!

Time for a diaper change!


She likes her Aunt Janice. :)



Zack's A Big Brother now!!
Let me hold her!


Does she have to come home with us??
Zack gives kisses :)

It's fun to poke my little sister.
IV poles are fun!
Wheee
She's Sleeping.





She has lots of visitors. :)





Aunt Christy

I want to help mommy!

Wow!; I'm a big brother!

Zephyrs!

We took Zack to see the Zephyrs play baseball a few weeks ago!

He likes the big hand. :)

Poor Zack :(

Working For Dinner (duck)

Practice cut so I don't loose my fingers. ^
He goes for the single mighty blow!^
an unspecified number of blows later....

....a Chris Buckel's dad impersonation...

AND THATS LIFE!! THIS IS REALITY BOYS! ^
The first step to dinner^
I dont think your mom will let you mount that over the fire place.^

The pig eats the duck head.


Now to get the feathers off.^
cutting the wing tips off.^
cutting the feet off.^
Getting better with the knife.^
more plucking
and even more plucking^
the final plucked product...washing it down.^
spiced up....starting to look better.^
and finally, DINNER!^

More random pics

Hard to belive Zack has grown this much in less than a year.

Random Older Pictures of Zack for nihon-Jin Grand ma

Random Pics

I thought this picture looked cool. here is the pig cleaned and butterflied. Looks like 2 pigs :)

I just wanted to associated Molly with the pig killing. We took this pic at a wedding. congrads Josh and Molly!

More Zack cuteness.

Pig Roast - Delivery

We got up at 4:30 am to start cooking it and didnt bother taking pictures.

Here we are bringing it inside.

I put to much coals on the end and ended up burning the head a little bit. But all the other meat was fantastic!

Satomi making a pig of herself as she cant wait to get started eating :)

Pig Roast - Butter fly

Working together being extra careful to only split the backbone and skull without breaking the skin.


Brother In Law thinking, I wouldn't do it like that if I were him :)

Almost got it

Pig Roast - Butterfly time

Here is my brother in law giving advice on how to best butterfly the pig.

Here is me ignoring his advice and sticking to the 3 cubans article.

Enough with the talk and brother in law shows me where he wanted me to cut :) (Actually, it worked out pretty well)


Zack crawling over to see what the comotion is all about.

Pig roast - More hair removal

kelly playing with the camera during the hair burning.





I dont have a meat scale yet, so I used our home scale to weigh myself then weigh myself with the pig and subtracted the difference. the scale showed he weighed about 65lbs dressed, but im sure this is not entirely accurate. Also, this is the pig after the hair removal and scraping. I scraped him again once he was in the house too.



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Pig roast - Hair Removal

I did my first whole pig roast for Christmas. I followed the steps from 3 guys from Miami in how to cook it. Except I did not buy a prepared pig, but rather raised one from a baby and killed and cleaned it myself. I'll spare you pictures of me killing and gutting it. But here are the more interesting pictures.

Next time I think I'll do the hair removal before gutting it, but live and learn.

We used blow torches to burn the hair off, then scraped off the burnt hair and skin with a knife.

Church Play - Zack as a Sheep

This is the best I could do. he was interested in the instruments.

Zack fighting to see the choir.

Zack in Santa Outfit

I have nothing to do with the glasses or the outfit. Zack, if you are older and reading this, I was outnumbered by the women. I told them not to dress you this way, but they did it anyway. ;(

Here Comes Number 2!

This was not planned and came as another surprise :)

I've got to figure out what keeps causing this!

A few Animal Updates

Birthday Party Part Whatever

1st Birthday Party part vii

1st Birthday Part vi

1st Birthday part V

1st Birthday part iV

1st Birthday party Part III

Zack and His Messes

Zack likes to explore and dig!

Zack really likes the outdoors. Here he is riding on the back of my truck without any help. No fear, I was not driving backwards. Just forwards, so if he falls he will just fall on shells at a low rate of speed. Now where is that mother of his??

Here are a few pictures from our trip to Grand Isle. We didnt take many pictures because we were so busy fishing and catching crabs. We stayed for 2 nights in a good friend of ours camp all to ourselves. When it was all said and done, we caught an ice chest of crabs and had 2 zip lock bags of fillets! We also had fun eating at the great restaurants at night on Grand Isle.

Here are a few pics of out time together on Grand Isle. A good friend let us stay at his camp. Even though these pictures dont show it, we caught a ice chest of crabs and a few zip lock bags of fillets. All legal fish of course! :)

Zack loves outside

zack's 1st haircut!

zack with his aunt maria :)

More pictures of zack from janice :) at 6 months

^June 5th, 2007






^6-5-07
^June 5th, 07
zack likes his toy
^April 24th, 07
zack fell asleep on me :)

JK Baby Pics

Airbots!!!

Ryan
Janice

Zack!! :-)

Zack 2-13-07
2-12-07
2-12-07
2-7-07
2-7-07
2-6-07
2-6-07
2-5-07
2-5-07
2-5-07
2-4-07 Zack's dedication
2-4-07
2-4-07
1-31-07
1-31-07
1-29-07
1-29-07
1-29-07
Ryan and Zack 1-23-07
1-14-07
1-10-07
1-10-07
1-8-07

1-7-07
1-7-07
Ryan and Zack Jan. 7th, 07
Zack 1-7-07
Janice with Zack 1-8-07
1-7-07 Satomi and Ryan
1-7-07 Zack with his great grandma & grandpa
January 7th, 2007
12-16-06
Zack's taking a bath :) 12-16-06
12-16-06
12-16-06
12-16-06 Oak Alley
12-16-06

12-16-06

12-16-06
12-16-06 Satomi and her Mom at Oak Alley

12-15-06
December 15th, 06






Satomi and her mom 12-6-06

Erik and Kelly with Zack November 29th, 06

Christmas 2005

Ryan and Satomi's first Christmas at the Hutchinson familie's place

Janice says...do it mom.

Boneless turkey and other great food

The cook

Ryan is soooo funny! We love Ryan

Sooo cute!

That is really cute and handy Satomi....Yes, I do love you....No, we cant buy it right now.

You dont buy! Quit kissing me. Look at camera!!

You know you like the kisses

This present better be for me!

move that camara or I'll shoot you.

Well kids, your mother and I got you a few cards for Christmas...let me look in them first to see exactly what we decided to give you all.

Japanese women dont get old or fat



More loot! More loot! More loot!

my mom gave us a couple of fruit trees for Christmas. (Myers II Improved Lemon Tree, a percimon and some girly flower type tree)





Everyone is in a normal mood....Christy

Yep, Life is good :)

Welcome to the Cayman Islands

Satomi with a picture of Bi...umm - a Pirate.

More ships

Pirates are big in the Caribean

Looks Iguannas!

MORE IGUNNAS

yeah, thats right. Satomi better love me.

Can you find the fish in the water? He is about 4 feet long. With my $160 pair of Oakly polarized glasses I could see him very easily.



Some friends I made

Yeah, thats right. It was the sign next to Satomi's black pirate friend.

Sting ray tour!









STING RAYS IN THE WATER!!













The water is pretty clear



This is what comes out of the konch shells

Here is the konch murder



Pirate boat

Satomi kissing the sting ray



Tender boat

Cozumel Mexico now

It was really big on selling beer to Americans





The police officer has a sub machine gun. I was trying to get a picture

Tender boats by our ship



Our carpet selling friend



Satomi liked the mexican dishes.

Hands up!

Put sling shot down. Me cut you!

Nice roof construction



Satomi and her new boyfriend

Our friend fidel.

In a mirror.

On the beach of Cozumel







Frogs and rub we picked up in Cozumel. I wish I had bought the entire set of frogs.



A sneak peek of Satomi in the Marriage bed

sun on deck



sunset

Satomi eating a fry

And to start off our Honeymoon I hid all of the money :)

Even though I am an American they make me have a cool book to prove it before they let me into foreign countries. Satomi gets really mad when I say things like that...she's just jealous.

a night of formal dining on the cruise ship :)

I love my hot chocolate. 2 or 3 cups a night!

Every few days we had a new towel animal put on our bed.



Letting satomi know who is boss on this honeymoon





This is her reaction to all my huffing and puffing

View from the deck

Being very careful not to fall overboard

Its a big ship

And this is why i hid all the money!



More reasons to hide the money

Jamaican plastic that looks like metal.

You had lots of obscene things there. This is a mild one

We were contastaly being asked to buy "smokes"

Rafafarian

SALES SALES SALES!

The safety area in Jamaica.

The not so safe area

Part of the ship.



8am waiting for our excursion. I was given that necklace for free.

Jamican scenery

Drug dealer's houses

and now the horse back riding

I was the first one to get on a horse and satomi was the last one.

Satomi finally gets in line

Windmill built by the English in 1746





Cliff!!





Goats!

I got called John Wayne a lot

Next we ride the horses into the ocean.

Here is our guide. She was very friendly and her name is asljlyldsgflu

I found a rock!



Oh the places to go!

There is our ship. Its big!!

The "safe" part of Jamaica

Ummm, Satomi I dont think we should go there.

The loot we bought in Jamaica. The orginal price was $800. But because we are poor and newly married we negotiated it to $23.17. Those Jamaicans are so generous

Looks like Louisiana

One more of the boat.

Sammy and Sabrinas daughter with Satomi's mom. This is an interestingly racially diverse photo :) It was taken at the wedding rehearsal

Hisayo practicing

My beautiful bride before the wedding.

Another nice shot right in front of my aquarium

Who's the princess?

Mom and daughter

inlaws

assorted family





with the flowers



by the limo before going to the wedding

shoichi and satomi posing Japanese style

me looking at Satomi on stage



Notice the Japanese subtitles to our wedding.

The reception

This just looks cool





Mr. Yuji



Group shot of grooms men and women

GQ magazine cover.



Notice the armadilla cake in the background.

International Friends. 

Satomi at her bridal shower :)

The toilet paper brides. Only women would do this. Just imagine what you would think if men did this!

Felicity helps with who gave what loot! (only a man would use the word "loot"

Satomi is so happy

Satomi's favorite present! Thanks leiah (i think that is how your name is spelled)

Satomi had the never to ask for this expensive fire bowl...but she got it so no laughing at her! ha ha - actually, I asked for it an Satomi was quite surprised to see it at her bridal shower. I was quite happy :)

The cake

Satomi and her Mother in Law

Close up of cake

Satomi and my GrandMa 

Engagement Announcement

We are Safe!

Hello Sugous!

Satomi and I are with friends in Houston TX. We are staying at the Hilton Hotel. We are out of harms way with the hurricane.
This is one of the worst ones ever!! You can read more information about it at our local newspaper:

http://www.houmatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

But dont worry, we are safe.

Ryan

If this does not prove my family is getting into the "we-have-a-Japanese-daughter-in-law" then I don't know what will. My mom made Christy a "kimono". Yes, thats right. She did not "buy" she "made".

Here is the back view. Hey Hisayo! How did the back of the kimono come out?? Sign up for an account and start leaving comments sister-in-law! You are the only one in your family I can speak to right now besides Satomi......so you should talk to me more often until I learn Japanese! :)

In the last post you could see the nice Alligator that was on my property. Recently, I took Satomi with me to try and track where he came from and while doing so I looked out into a field and saw DEER! Thats right, Plural! A deer with 2 fawns! It was awesome. Unfortunately, they ran into the woods before I could get the picture off. :(

Recently, Satomi and I bought 3 acres of Property close to where we live now. Here is a view of the trees in the front yard from the road.

There is our house in the back. Everything you see there is our FRONT yard

Here is the view down the driveway

And here is our home. One day, we will replace this with a home we will build. But for now, I am very thankful to have something this nice to stay in. Later on we can post pictures of the inside.

This view is from standing in front of the home facing towards the road. You can get a better idea of how deep and wide it is. The trees are really nice!

This is on the side of the home facing the back yard. Lots of Cypress and Oaks

Here is out BACK yard. It goes all the way to the Bayou. Boy and I not looking forward to cutting grass :)

This is a picture of the Bayou in the back of the property. If you look closely you can see ducks.

I found an Alligator in the back of my property. I caught him and put him in the back of my truck.

At first satomi said "thats not an alligator", "you called me out for this!!". So I took it out of the truck and she yelled and cried for her mama.

Finally, I calm her down enough to stand next to me for a picture. The alligator bit on to the stick and would not let go of it!

Here is satomi getting a little braver :)

Finally, she touches it :) Notice the alligator is still biting that stick!

Satomi says the Alligator did not intrest her much. I guess this is the face she makes when she is bored and not having a good time.

After a while we noticed it was tagged by wild life and fisheries! So we decided to release it back into the wild.

Its night time and I cant see very well to grab the alligator. So I pin his head down first before grabbing him.

one final picture before I throw him back into the Bayou.

Me and Josh with the Alligator by the Bayou. 

This is Ms Rebeca, a photographer of our wedding. She took engagement pictures for us

This is the back yard. Japanese can't live in that kind of place

I will take you guys the place. It is absolutely gorgesous!! 

This is Yasemin from Turky. She loves Turkish coffee!! 

This is Turkish tabacco called nargile. They smoke it through a hose

He is my favorite singer in middle east!!

I have no idea what it is. Arabic letters seem some insects to me....

I went to Middle Eastern market, Mona's cafe in New Orleans

Japanese foods make me so happy:) 

This is good friends of mine, Candace. We are preparing for her wedding

This is the day before her wedding. All her bride maids

This is a few hours before her wedding. She is a very beautiful bride:) 

Ryan is very gentle. He always carry me:)

This is Ryan's mom, Mona. She loves to be taken a picture. Can't you tell??

Ryan and I in his parents house 

Hey! Check this out!!!!!

Hey dad, mom, hisayo, syuichi &yuji

I am writing it from the school, so it will be English:) I hope that somebody can translate into Japanese. Ryan and I bought a digital camera, so we can update what is going on in Louisiana. Also, you can leave a message for us both in English & Japanese.

I took some pictures of Ryan's family, so enjoy:)

They have been learnig Japanese agressively, so you should show you English skill to them !!!!!!
Anyway, I will write you in Japanese next time

Talk to you later
Love you

satomi

ryan has huge feet!!! 

Ryan & Ryan's grandma

Janice's new hair cut. It looks good:

Ryan's favorate girls

Ryan with Chrisy & Janice 

Boy, do I like this new camera. Unfourantly, no one else does. Sorry mom

Christy avoids her picture being taken by running into a bathroom closet. Your hair cut is not that bad!

Even satomi, ducks out of the way :( This is turning our harder than I thought to get Satomi's pics on here.

Chris is back in Houma. Unfourantly, Josh is on his way out out town.

Here are my neighbors the Davises. They came with me today to a church BBQ. They are great people and we had a good time :) 

Satomis first picture of Neko.

Neko gives Satomi a hug.

Satomi and Neko shake hands.

Cats are strange. Ok, this will be enough of Neko for a while. Hopefully, i'll start getting more of satomi up here :) 

My cat Neko

Self portrait pic with the new camera. I need a hari cut badly :)

My crawfish

Close up of my turtle

another pic of my turtle

Side shot of my aquarium

Ourside view of my house at night

another pic of my house at night.

Overall aquarium shot

Thats right, the banned Nicholls Mascot. I have a digital copy of it, and I am keeping it :)

this was taken at a Salt Conference BEFORE Higgins actually started. I think I am 18 in this picture.

Adnan, Mike John, and Hishaum

Elias and Hide

Sorry Mike, I was young bored and hyperactive

Habib front and center

Hide and Rob



Me and Habib Chaklader at a Fall break Away back in 98 I think.

Once again, sorry mike. I am starting to understand why you did not move in with me at Nicholls and instead headed for the hills of LaTech and married Kayla. Obviously, you owe you current life to me. This moment right here set you on the path to bigger and greater things. I was obviously used by God in your life. 

My First Post

Hello Everybody,

Satomi does not know about this yet, but I thought it would be a good idea to start a blog for both of us so her family back in Japan can check up on and see what is going on. I just got in a new Digital Camera. I think picasa (the google program) will let me automatically post pictures to this blog which is why I picked this one.

Well, enough for now. Let me do some more testing.

RJH