Providence…

The L.A Times came out with their list for the top 100 restaurants in Los Angeles, so we decided to try the #1 restaurant on the list, Providence:

I am not “foodie” so no pictures of the food.  I will say the food was good, typical LA, big plates, small portion and heavy on the presentation.  The service was good as well.  The only problem was the waiter was kind of a jerk.  Not very friendly at all…right on the borderline of rude.  I think when that happens you can’t be rated #1 in my book.  Would I go back…maybe…but I think because of the service I would try the #2 place on the list…except that is Urasawa and Aya has already gone there.

Pajama Night…

Jack is the second best player on his baseball team. 

His team had a king of the hill playoff tournament.   Sadly, the schedule came out late and we had a conflict, either go to the playoff game or go to school’s pajama night where the teacher reads stories.  This is how you know he is Aya’s son…he choose school over baseball!!

Stacy got to go as well:

I didn’t want to ‘guilt’ Jack into playing and I asked him several times during the week but he always chose school.  A few kids in his class were on the team he was playing but that didn’t do anything to make him want to play.  Oh well…hoping Stacy becomes my sports star!!

Square Dance…

Jack had a square dance presentation at school:

Unfortunately Jack was way in the back and I could hardly see him.

I got suckered into going into work late and watching his 15 minute dance recital:

Grandpa’s Birthday…

I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later, but Grandpa didn’t want Sakura sushi for dinner and opted for chinese food as long as there was two of the orders were duck and lobster!

We celebrated Grandpa’s 67th birthday with some chocolate dobash cake:

Grandpa needed some help for the kiddies to blow out his candles (1+5 = 6 and then 7 makes 67):

Happy Birthday!!

American Idol…

On the way to one of Jack’s basketball games, Stacy sung in the car the ENTIRE way:

She was singing so loud that we turned off the radio:

Unfortunately for Jack, Stacy would sing the same song over and over.  We made Stacy our ‘radio’ and started suggesting different songs for her to sing.   Jack still didn’t like it:

Baseball…

Jack gets his first home run in baseball:

The homerun is more bad news bears style, but hey, a home run is a home run!!   So proud of Jack!

WB…

It had been a while since I was back on the WB lot, but even longer since I saw these 3 bozo’s:

Vincent, Anthony, Mark and I all worked at WB in the mid 90’s.   Who knew the 3 of them would get so much uglier???

Good times and good seeing everyone again.

Cute or not Cute…

Stacy looking so cute wearing her SF strawberry hat:

And NOT cute showing us her chocolate teeth:

Science

At Jack’s school the have a science fair which is mandatory for 4th and 5th grade and optional for all the other grades.   Jack participated last year and this year was no exception.  Jack worked on his project on the weekends for a few weeks, doing all the writing himself:

The school didn’t want any ‘real life’ demo’s so we had to use pictures and instead of taking pictures, Jack decided to cut out pictures to demonstrate his experiment:

He did a great job!!   I thought his was the best one of the first grade!!

Walking Dead…

So Aya and I just started watching Walking Dead and we love the show!  I am not a big zombie fan so I am surprised I like it.  Aya doesn’t care for zombies, blood, guts and gore but she likes the show as well.  In appreciation of the show, we decided to ‘zombify’ ourselves:

Tigers Tournament…

The best part of the tournament for me was when Jack used his crossover during a game.  We have been practicing dribbling at home, with Grandpa and at club team practice.  I told Jack you have to do it so its natural in the game and he doesn’t have to think about it.

Well he did it:

Tigers Tournament Game 3…

Game 3 had us going against another Tigers team, Tigers Aces.  This game was pretty close for a half.  I think it went back and forth for a bit but in the second half we only gave up 2 points and won 26-16.

Not too shabby, 2-1 in the tournament.  I really wished we didn’t lose that second game but the kids played hard.  Jack did well in the tournament as well:

And everyone got their trophy:

Now we have a few months to get ready for our next season:

Tigers Tournament Game 2…

Game 2 was against the Tigers Thunder.  We hadn’t seen them since SBY season a year ago.  They were just as tough as we remembered.  It will sound like sour grapes, but some takeaways from the game.   They double dribbled and travelled a lot.  I think our team is the most disciplined team in the league in terms of NOT doubling dribbling and travelling.  It just seems like the refs don’t call it when they should be calling it.

Another issue was I realized after the game the coach didn’t play all his players evenly.  That was my fault.  In our league you have to sub the boys in every 5 minutes, all the boys.  In this tournament, you only had to play a boy 5 minutes a half.  Thus, the Tigers played there better players most of the game.

Still, we kept it close but we lost at the end 26-20.

Jack is so lucky to have his fan club come out to support him, Uncle Bryan, Aunty Dawn, Grandma & Grandpa:

Uncle Su came out to watch:

Tigers Tournament Game 1…

We played the Evergreen Knights.  We have never seen them play before and the game started fast and furious with kids knocking down jumpers left and right.   It was a close game back and forth but we went on a late run in the second half and played good defense, winning game 1, 26-20.

Bryan’s Birthday…

We celebrated Uncle Bryan’s birthday at Sakura:

Uncle Bryan with his presents:

So close!  We almost had a picture without someone messing it up, but Stacy sort of was making a silly face:

And then it was on like Donkey Kong: