I think this ends Aya’s birthday festivities!
Aya’s brother was out of town in February so we finally got together at 5 Crownes for dinner:
Aya was explaining to the kids that people had to use a phone booth in the ‘old’ days because there were no cell phones:
I took Jack to the park for some extra practice:
I am trying to improve Jack’s quickness and foot work:
Aya tries to get in on the action as well:
Stacy thinks she can do everything Jack can do:
Jack has been working hard at basketball club practice:
He works out for 2 hours and relishes his water breaks:
He has been going for about one month now and I can see a difference:
Hopefully it all translates to good basketball tournament in April.
Stacy likes going to Menchies for some frozen yogurt:
Stacy doesn’t like it when she has no more Menchies yogurt!
This is what happens when Aya has the camera. You would think she would take a picture with Jack and Wooly, but nope it is Aya and Wooly:
Jack got to see it snow for the first time:
Snowman with Aya:
Thanks to Aunty and Uncle for letting Jack and Aya tag along:
Jack in action:
Jack gave skiing a thumb up!
He didn’t hate it, he didn’t love it…but said he wanted to go again next year:
Jack at ski school:
I am not a skier, but Aya said that Jack did okay for his first time.
Aya, Jack, Aunty Dawn and Uncle Bryan went to Mammoth.
It was Jack’s first time to Mammoth:
Getting ready to go skiing for the first time:
Well not quite opening day, Jack missed the first week of the baseball season so this was his first game:
Jack did quite well. The team we played was great! It felt like we were the bad news bears, ghetto, no coach, no one knew the rules, full of minorities playing against an all white team. In any case, Jack did not do that bad:
Jack made some stops in the field. He even tried out being catcher even though he never did it before:
To make matters worse, the coach called me an hour before the game and told me that he forgot to remind me at practice that he would be out of town and that I would need to set the roster, place the kids and pitch to the kids:
Sadly, I think I only gave up 1 run, struck out maybe 14 batters as we got crushed 24-1.
Grandma & Grandpa have been working on potty training Stacy. To this point Stacy has been stubborn about learning how to be potty trained. She can definitely hold it for a while but she refuses to tell anyone she has to go to the bathroom until AFTER she goes.
Last week she finally did it for the first time!
Grandma and Stacy were reading Red Hen and made the Ren Hen cupcakes!
Stacy loves to help make food:
Adding the ingredients:
Pouring the batter:
Viola!! Just adding the sprinkles:
Grandpa and Stacy did a lot of heart ‘art’ for Valentine’s day and made lots of hanging hearts:
Grandma got some flowers for Aya that Stacy was trying to hide in:
Last week while driving home from work, Aya’s car lost all the power on the freeway and would not accelerate over 30 mph. Aya’s got off the freeway and called the tow truck. Unfortunately, Aya’s car needed some serious repair and it wasn’t worth fixing compared to the value of her car which was already 10 years old. So, over the weekend we went to the dealer, traded in Aya’s old benz and upgraded to a new one:
Figures Aya picked the salesman that sold Kobe Bryant his SL65 along with other various NBA players. Aya with her new E350:
I got the E350 when it was a new line back in 2005. This is the last year for this body type...and it is WAY better than my version of the E350. Plus, this is similar to the car Aya’s mom was driving when she passed away so a nice reminder for Aya to think of her mom with this car:
