Christmas Santa...

This year Santa was good to the kids.  Stacy asked Santa for Snow Glow Elsa and Olaf and Jack asked for SkyLanders Trap Force on the Wii:

Christmas Trash...

The kids were awfully lucky this year and got a lot of nice gifts. Stacy made out like a bandit:

Jack did well too but he is about that age where gift cards and cash is king for him:

The kids rolling around in the Christmas trash:

Christmas...

Okay, I need to catch up a bit from last year, so lets start with Christmas.  We took the kids to the mall to visit Santa:

Even Aya got in on the Santa action:

New Years Day Horse...

This year's game of horse was a little more competitive than in the past.  Last year's champ, Scott couldn't repeat in 2015:



























Tom Y was out early:





























Followed close by Tom S:



Harrison was in town this New Year's day and he was in surprise form and jumped out to a big lead:

Bryan dug deep and used all her personal trainer advice and basketball practice to win the 2015 New Years Day Horse Championship:

Maybe Jack will play next year with us, but this year he tried his best to beat Lucy and Maggie in 2 on 1 and lost 10-8:

Happy New Year!

The end of the year was busy.  Work was busy.  Everyone in the family was sick.  End of the year laziness crept in and I just didn't feel like updating the blog.  Now it's 2015 so away we go!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!




Dawn and Aya doing there part to help fry up wontons and shrimp:





























Bryan helping out grilling up the kalbi:

Thanksgiving Part 5...

We were each taking family photo's at Thanksgiving lunch but the Yoshioka clan was outside taking an additional family photo:

I completely forgot to go back inside and get other group pictures...and well...then it was food time...so I ate, ate and ate so more and never again brought out my camera!

Thanksgiving Part 4...

Stacy rode the ferris wheel with Aya last year and I have to say this Ferris Wheel does go kind of fast and Aya refused to ride it again this year, so I rode it with Stacy:

Stacy loved it and had a great time.  I think the workers forgot about us on the ride (we were the only one on the ride) and let us ride for 10 minutes!

Meanwhile, Aya and Jack stayed at the arcade and Jack ended up winning 1000 tickets:

Of course winning the tickets means we have to redeem the tickets and then 'spend' the tickets...so much for being on time to Thanksgiving lunch!

Thanksgiving Part 3...

Luckily, Jack started to putt well and that turned his mood right around:

Thanksgiving Part 2...

The weather was great...80 degrees in late November.  Empty golf course so we had the place to ourselves.  Everything was going great...until Stacy got a hole in one:

To add insult to injury, Stacy got BACK to BACK hole in ones, and needless to say Jack was not a happy camper.  (Notice he is kind of pouting in the background). 

Thanksgiving Part 1...

Every Thanksgiving we go to Boomers for a little mini-golf to work up an appetite before our Thanksgiving lunch.

CBO...

No sooner does our SBY end, our CBO season starts!  Normally we are the shortest team on the court, but this year one other team is shorter than us:

We are off to a great start.  We beat the other Venice team 34-7.  This week we destroyed San Fernando 38-4:

Miles Birthday Part 2...

For my family birthday dinner I chose Lukshon for dinner.

Lukshon was pretty good but not really children friendly.  A lot of the food was spicy (which was good) but too spicy for the kids.

Miles Birthday Part 1...

I celebrated my birthday with dinner at Bestia:

I dunno...maybe I have heard too much about Bestia but I didn't think it was all that great.  It was good.  A little too crowded...maybe a tad bit too 'hipster' for my taste.  I would go back...but I think I like Osteria Mozza more.

Jack's Birthday Part 2...

We asked Jack where he wanted to celebrate his birthday dinner and Jack picked Flemings:

Jack could have ordered filet mignon from the kids menu but for some reason Jack said he likes rib eye steaks and wanted a rib-eye steak...medium rare.

Aya and I think Jack originally Fleming's because of the chocolate lava cake! 

Jack ate so much that he didn't feel good after dinner!

Jack's Birthday Part 1...

Where does all the time go?!  I can't believe Jack is celebrating his 9th birthday already!

It's been a while since we had our family birthday photo:

Our goofy picture: