I know this is late news, but this was our first year where everyone participated in decorating the tree. The kids each got into it and helped to hang ornaments:
Then we tried to pose for some family pictures:
But it just ended up with us goofing around:
This was also the first year that Stacy did not cry when she visited Santa…although Jack looks like he is getting to big to sit with Santa!
This year I started a friends and family 10 team “beginners” fantasy football league consisting of:
Miles, Aya, my dad, Thomas, Scott, Carrie, Bryan, Dawn, Hans, Jeff
The league was pretty competitive except for Hans and Dawn who had pretty crummy teams. The rest of us were fighting for playoff spots and playoff positions up until the last week of the season.
In the end, my dad came away with victory and claimed the Yoshioka Cup in 2012:
It was a sad day to give up the trophy and $200 bucks to the winner. I totally wanted to win it and I was going to carry the trophy with me to all family functions.
I also should mention Jeff took second place. Looking forward to winning the Yoshioka Cup next year and expanding the league out to 12 teams. Any family members out there interested in playing let me know.
Missed me? I am back in all refreshed in 2013. I took a little hiatus from the blog because I was home for the holidays. Work closed for almost two weeks and during that time I usually spend time working on scrapbook for both Jack and Stacy. With a whole year of pictures to go thru and make two different photo albums for each kid, I get tired of looking at pictures and the idea of updating the blog was the last thing I wanted to. To makes matters worse, I didn’t even finish the scrap book until last week! It was like having 2 jobs…work during the day and then come home to work on the scrap book a few hours every night.
Now that I am done, I am back with regular updates so with no further ado, here we go!
For our Christmas present Bryan and Dawn hired a photographer to take family pictures. For those of you NOT on our xmas card this was our 2012 xmas card:
Family picture:
A great picture of Jack and Stacy:
Family picture:
Nothing like a photo bomb!
Ahhh, winter in Southern California…short sleeves and shorts! We headed over to the park in the cooler winter weather. Aya pushed Jack and Stacy on this artsy Merry-Go-Round:
Aya and Stacy hanging out together:
Put the real ‘genius’ portion of the day was here…when Stacy couldn’t drink her Capri Sun because this is how Aya inserted the straw:
When Stacy complained about not getting any juice, Aya didn’t even look at juice box or the liquid that leaked out on the table when she inserted the straw on the other side! hahahahhaha!!
Jack has been getting into football lately. Over the past few months Jack has been wanting to play football more and more. I kept brushing it off but finally I gave in and signed him up for a flag football class. He is awful…but more on that later. One weekend we went outside to ‘toss’ the ball around. Luckily I capture nice photos of Jack so it makes it ‘seem’ like he is good at throwing:
Catching:
Hilarious, because Jack stinks at football and Aya can hardly catch but in this picture you would think they are a couple of old pro’s at tossing the ball around:
Monkey see, Monkey do. Stacy thinks she is open for the pass as well!! I sure hope she doesn’t have Aya’s athletic abilities.
On Thanksgiving we went mini golfing before we gathered at Aunty’s Paul house. On the very first hole, Stacy got a hole in one!
Jack is already upset that Stacy got a hole in one. Later on, Aya got a hole in one:
Jack is really MAD now because Stacy and Aya both got a hole in one and Jack is no where near close to getting a hole in one. To make matters worse Stacy gets ANOTHER hole in one:
Luckily, Jack FINALLY got a hole in one. This is his ‘game’ face now:
Sadly, I was helping Stacy and got her two hole in ones but I never got a hole in one on MY turn. Luckily, I had low score and was turkey day golf champion!
Since I am about a month behind in pictures, I forgot that we celebrated Susu’s birthday early because he was going to be in Japan for his birthday. We went to one of my favorite places Fogo De Chao:
Sadly, Susu had a rough night the night before and he wasn’t up to eating his usual amount, but nonetheless good times. The waiter never let our glasses get half empty so it seemed like we were never drinking enough and then realized we already had 2 bottles of wine for the 3 of us:
We celebrated my birthday with dinner at my parents house:
My favorite cupcakes that my mom makes…I must be getting old because I didn’t eat more than 10 cupcakes this time!
A few nights later, Aya and I went to Lawry’s to celebrate my birthday:
Phew…and so ends all the November birthdays!
