Balent Times

 

  Rya D with Cocos Island in the background. 

#withlovefromguam

  Currier with his buddies after a long day of waterpark fun. 

  Currier and I wake up early every single morning and come to our little local beach to let the dogs run around while we collect shells and...

  Come and get your cookies. Come and get em!

 

It's no James Island Holiday Festival of Lights but it'll do for our tiny island and simple life here on Guam. 

  After I drop the kids at school in the morning, I like stopping at this spot to finish my iced coffee. 

  Lola, she was a showgirl! 

  Sometimes all the litter, the overwhelming stray animal problem and the lack of convenience on this tiny island gets me down but this view...

  Rya got stung by a man o' war (floating terror) at the beach today and none of us could produce pee to help kill the venomous sting. P...

Kicked off our Christmas advent activities with a visit to a life-sized gingerbread house made of 400 sheets of gingerbread and 800 pound...

  Today we swam out to this mini island off the coast. On the other side of this rock were some good waves that nearly killed us all. Every ...

  My Sicilian friend (She also lived in Charleston when we did and now she lives in Japan so our friendship has spanned 3 different continen...

Trent started teaching Rya how to Scuba dive. She still has a few years until she's old enough to get certified but it's never too e...