100 Happy Days…Day 79

Stacy had so much fun at Aiden’s birthday at Skyzone.  Jumping around:

Playing dodge ball (although she was clueless about the game):

Jumping in the foam pit:

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I am not sure if this makes me happy but I know it makes Aya happy that Jack and Stacy both like to try new restaurants.

Aya and I took the kids to Tender Greens and surprisingly they liked it:

I go to Irori sushi at lunch and thought maybe the kids would like so we tried it one night and they loved it!

100 Happy Days…Day 77

Every year Jack’s school has a science fair.  Only 4th and 5h grade student’s have to participate, but the science fair is open to all grades.  Jack has done it every year (mostly because we tell him he has to do it) but Jack like school so he doesn’t mind doing the science project on the weekends.

This year Jack’s project was describing how potato power can run a digital clock:

What I liked about the project was that it was fairly simple and Jack could  do the project himself:

Viola:

I am so happy Jack likes school:

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Go Kings Go!   So normally I don’t really watch hockey but I do watch playoff  Hockey if the Kings play.  The whole family got into watching hockey this year and coincidentally, I took the kids to Randy’s Donuts for the first time and that was the day they just put up a giant Kings banner to cover the famous Randy’s Donut!

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Usually my father’s day gifts are kind of crummy compared to Mothers day but this year Aya got a poem from Jack:

And a cook book:

So, I am pretty happy because I am sure my gift probably won’t be this crappy.  hahahahahhaha!!

100 Happy Days…Day 74

Jack’s Sansei baseball season is rolling along.  His team is just like last year’s Culver City team.  They start off looking terrible but some how, some way at the end of the season they are starting to play better.  Jack is hitting very consistently and we just worked on his swing a bit for more follow thru and now he is hitting the ball with more pop!

We even had special visitors for the game:

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This makes me laugh…can you tell which pictures Stacy drew and which pictures Jack drew:

HAHAHHAHAHHAHA!!   FYI:  Stacy drew the 2 pictures of the cats.  Jack drew the picture of the elephant (with a small head and no trunk for a nose) and a turtle of equal size!!    And you people say I am “so mean” to Jack…the proof is in the pudding!!

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The lighting in the gym was perfect and it seemed like Matt was able to capture Jack when the sun was highlighting on him:

Jack does NOT have good foot work at all but here in the picture he is in front of his man playing good defense:

Passing out of the double team:

Sadly, we lost all 3 games in the tournament.  2 games we lost by 2 and in the last game we got routed but we played good teams and the kids did well:

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Matt Beard was back in action and he captured some great shots of Jack in the FOR basketball tournament:

I love that the pictures are in black and white!

100 Happy Days…Day 70

We celebrated Uncle Bryan’s birthday with dinner from Tito’s and posed for our family picture:

We happened to look at LAST years picture and we noticed Uncle Bryan was wearing the same shirt from last year and he posed with his finger in his nose, so this year in his honor we all put our finger in our noses…although my mom apparently doesn’t know where her nose is:

Now to our unscripted funny pose:

The part was Uncle Bryan picked cup cakes for dessert.  Yum….my favorite.  I was genius this year.  I ordered less dinner and saved more room for the cup cakes.  I ate 8 of them!!

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Boys Day and Grandpa broke out the big fish:

Apparently my grand father bought one fish for each of my Uncles.  Honestly, I only have seen my dad take it out twice.  Once for Jack when he was a baby and no again for Toshihiro.  We even had special guests, Uncle Jimmy and Uncle Ted were in town:

I am still amazed at how well this “paper” fish was held up since it is over 60 years old!!

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Bryan and I went to a Macallan marketing event:

We really didn’t know what the expect but it turned out better than expected.  Of course there was FREE booze and a sampling of Macallan 12, 15 and 18 year scotch:

The interesting part was them teaching you “how” to drink the scotch to taste all the flavors.  They even did a pairing with chocolate and I can’t tell you how good that was!   It could have been even a happier time if Jenny included us on her side of the table…because her side of the table won a contest and got to go on stage and get a special ice sphere with Macallan:

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I have to say, I really like being in a season ticket group.   No way would I want to go to every game, but I think Aya and I both think 6-8 games is just the right amount of  games for our family.

Now that Jack is playing baseball I think he has a little more interest at the ball park watching the game AFTER he finds the cotton candy guy”":

Stacy I think is bored at the games but as long as she gets her yogurt in a cup she is a happy camper:

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We went to the Dodgers game for Mother’s Day!  I know you are thinking, it is Mother’s Day NOT Father’s Day, but Aya picked our season ticket games and she picked Mother’s Day AND she knew it was Mother’s Day…how cool is that?!

The Dodgers lost to the Giants but it was a great day at the park and my dad told us about a short cut to the stadium and it was awesome!  We ended up getting the game SUPER early because of it so we took some pics:

I couldn’t find the 1988 ring, so maybe if we are early again we will look for it:

And even a family photo for us:

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Stacy’s school has really stepped it up on the art department.  When Jack went there he had art once a week and nothing was really spectacular.   This year there is still art once a week but there is always a theme.
This week was Earth Week and Stacy brought home a flower to pot:

Stacy is so independent and wants to do everything herself, “I can do it.”

Flower potted:

In the garden:

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Ahoy Matties:

Toshi-man, the word of the day is “c-e-r-v-e-z-a”

Rare family photo-op:

100 Happy Days…Day 63

This year we celebrated Easter early so when Easter actually came along we didn’t have anything to do.  Since the weather was nice and everyone was around we decided to head down to Redondo Beach to get a crab lunch:

We got there pretty early so it wasn’t too crowded and it ended up being a good Easter day for the family!

At Captain Kidd’s: