Anniversary...

Aya and I celebrated our 13th Anniversary earlier this month by having dinner at Cafe Del Rey:

Aya and I ate at Cafe Del Rey the night I proposed.   We usually go back every year...but we both didn't think the restaurant would ever be in business this long!

I can't believe 13 years has gone by so quickly.   Aya and I were just talking about how different and opposites that we are.  It is amazing we both agreed to marry each other!!

Aya and I already picked our destination for our 20th anniversary...Tahiti!!   We figure in 7 years to kids will be pretty self sufficient and the kids will be old enough to stay Grandpa and Grandma or Uncle Bryan and Aunty Dawn for a few weeks while we go to celebrate!!   

No jewelry or gifts for our anniversary but we have these lovely photo's:

Pro Photographer…

Aya and Stacy went to visit Uncle Su-Chan in Brea.

 

Unfortunately Aya had camera difficulties with a point and shoot:

 

How you can’t get someone’s head in the picture is beyond me!!

Green Lantern…

The girl toy’s are so crummy compared to the boy toys at McDonalds.   This week it was Green Lantern masks:

LA Part 2…

Jack wore his CP3 jersey to Easter and while Jack pretended to be CP3, Uncle Bryan got to pretend he was Blake Griffin.   Sadly, Jack looked more like CP3 then Bryan looked like Blake Griffin:

 

Bryan did better on attempt #2 but still not ESPN Top 10 worthy:

 

Jack decided he was better off scoring on his own!

LA Part 1…

Just in case you didn’t know I root for the following local teams:

Dodgers, Lakers, Kings and UCLA

 

I do NOT root for the other teams:

Angels, Clippers, Ducks or USC

 

I went to Sports Chalet last week and they had a few jerseys.   I thought Jack might want a Kevin Durant or Russell Westbrook jersey.   Jack’s Laker home white jersey was getting small as well.  I asked Jack which jersey he wanted, totally ignoring the Chris Paul and Blake Griffin jersey’s.   Sadly, Jack saw the Chris Paul jersey and his eyes lit up and he yelled out, “oooo-hhhh CP3.”

Miles:  “No, no, we don’t want the Clippers”

Miles:  “Don’t you want Durant or Westbrook instead?”

Jack:  “No I want Chris Paul”

Miles:  “Are you sure?  Lets get Kobe”

Jack:  “No, I like Chris Paul”

Miles:  “But I don’t like the Clippers.  I don’t root for the Clippers.”

Jack:  “But they are from Los Angeles just like the Lakers…LA and LA”

Miles: “Yes so lets get a new Kobe jersey”

Jack:  “No, I like Chris Paul…he is good”.

Jack: “We should cheer for all the LA teams.”

Grrrr.   So totally against my better judgment and heart broken we took the CP3 jersey up to the register and bought it:

Missing Tooth…

Jack’s teeth are just dropping like flies!   Jack had another loose tooth and it was bothering him so much he had Grandpa pull his tooth out:

Easter Doggie…

No Easter rabbit at my parents house, but there was an Easter doggie, Kekoa came for Easter:

 

Trick or Treat…hmm…wrong holiday:

 

Hahhahahahha:

 

Look at this guy!   Youngest guy at Easter and he has to take out Jack’s tricycle to walk the dog down the street:

Easter Basketball…

Seems like a family game of HORSE is becoming a tradition at the family gatherings.  Unfortunately, I was out as the doc hasn’t cleared me to run, jump or even goof around shooting baskets.   Man, it totally sucks watching others play as I wanted to play HORSE.

Lucy gave it her best effort:

 

Jack hung in there but was a little intimidated to play against the ‘adults’:

 

Thomas was representing the over 40 club:

 

It came down to our New Years Day Champion Scott…who nearly broke Jack’s basket hanging on the rim and Bryan.

 

Bryan ended up being the HORSE champion:

Easter Egg Hunt…

Not only did Harrison run the Easter Egg coloring event but he also set up the Easter Egg hunt for the kids:

 

The competition is down to Lucy, Maggie, Jack, Aiden and Stacy:

 

Stacy got the early head start and did better than Jack at that age:

 

Jack and Aiden were the next to go:

 

I don’t remember us getting dollar bills when we were that age.  I guess nowadays, you can’t buy candy for a quarter either:

 

Lucy did quite well and gathered a lot of eggs:

 

But Maggie was the big winner of the day:

Easter Egg Coloring…

Harrison gathered up the kids and had them decorate the Easter Eggs this year:

 

Stacy had a good time coloring and dipping all her eggs:

 

I like eggs…I like hard boiled egg….I like egg salad sandwich's….I don’t know why but I don’t like eating colored Easter Eggs.  Sometimes the color bleeds thru and gets on the egg white and just grosses me out to see that on my eggs.  Sadly, we had to take home the eggs that Jack and Stacy colored.

Easter…

Aya and Stacy went to the WLA Church Easter egg hunt.   Stacy warmed up at the park before the Easter Egg hunt started:

 

And off they go:

 

Stacy did pretty well out there on her own.

 

She gathered up about 5 eggs in her big basket:

 

We had asked Jack if he wanted to go but Jack said, “No, I have basketball practice on Saturday we have a tournament coming up so I better practice.”

Dawn’s Birthday Part 2…

Happy Birthday to Dawn…and this time I have a picture:

 

Stacy didn’t like blowing out the candle on her birthday but she was much more comfortable blowing out the candle on Aunty Dawn’s birthday  (Uncle Bryan looks awesome….duh):

 

Yay!  Happy Birthday!!

Dawn’s Birthday Part 1…

Hahhahahaha, I was planning on having this entry for Dawn’s birthday when I realized there was no picture of Dawn from her bday dinner!    As you can see the apple does not fall far from the tree.  Stacy i s hungry and Aya is peering thru the door hoping people leave soon so we can eat at Sakura:

 

Stacy is so hungry she is just slurping down her miso soup…you can’t even see her face:

Happy Hour…

Interesting….I can’t remember where we went for Happy Hour last week:

It has nothing to do with this picture as Jenny was the only one who really ‘boozed’ it up.  Crap…maybe it is old age.  In any case, I must be a glutton for punishment because I went out with the birthday people…this time together:

 

Why, I had to go to separate dinners with them and them see them AGAIN is beyond me…I must be a GREAT friend:

In any case, good times were had:

Jenny’s Birthday…

Happy Birthday to one of the all time pain’s of my life…Jenny:


Did you know that Jenny is going to take Saori and Aya to Paris in May?   Not Saori and her spouse or Aya and me with Jenny to Paris…just Saori and Aya.  This marks the second ‘free’ trip Aya has gotten this year and the second time Aya has gone to Paris without me.  Sure glad I got that passport…with ZERO stamps in it.  I didn’t even get a stamp in Toronto coming back from our Alaskan cruise when the cruise docked in Canada.

In any case, Ron, Jeff and I celebrated Jenny’s 41st birthday at the Six:

Oscar’s Birthday…

Since my surgery, I have stopped going out because:

1.  I have PT three times a week after work.

2.  I can’t be standing or sitting for that long and after 8 hours at work I need to elevate and ice it.

3.  My knee has been swollen so I am not that mobile to walk around very far.

 

The past 2 weeks I have been feeling better, so it was back to going out….EVERY night last week starting with Oscar’s birthday:

 

My second favorite Mexi-Can’t (Yes, Mark, you are still my first favorite Mexi-Can’t).

ACL–Week 8

Finally…a good day.  It only took 8 weeks but my Therapist finally said my knee is starting to look better.  Apparently this is the “best” it has ever been and hopefully the range of motion and swelling stays down.

I still have to concentrate to walk without a limp but I am starting to do more ‘normal’ things around the house.   My surgeon is away at spring training now, so he cancelled my 2 month checkup and he is so busy that I can’t get a visit until the 3 month checkup so hopefully all goes well the next month.

Faces…

Stacy loves to copy us and make faces.  Here she is copying Aya looking at the menu:

 

This is Jack’s standard goofy pose:

 

OOO-HHHHH:

 

Mad Face:

 

Mouth Closed: