HULA LESSONS

Besides enjoying feast, we also got a lesson in doing the hula and the meanning of several hula movements. While Mimi learned how to do a Tahitian dance, papa learned how to do the Hu-ki- lau ( not sure of the spelling).

ZGF'S HAWAIIAN LUAU

Xaunder's birthday party was not quite over when we had to leave and go over to the University of Washington Arboretum for papa's office party. As you can see it was Hawaiian themed with all of the trimmings of Hawaiian food such as spam musubi, dried mango fruit and pudding, mango cupcakes, chow mein and mama's favorite kalbi shorts (yum yum) white rice, fried rice, macaroni salad along with the green salad, tonkatsu, fish. They also had the usual sodas along with the Hawaiian sodas. We no sooner left the birthday party when it started to rain and it rained all during the luau too. Still raining at this hour.

XAUNDER'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

Yesterday was Owen's birthday and today is Xaunder turn to have a birthday party in the park. No bouncy house today but there was still plenty of food and fun for the little tykes. Of course we could not leave until Mimi had a whack at the pinata and of course Ziggy the dog had to get into the act of helping to open up the presents.

PICNIC AT LAKE WILDERNESS

Owen's birthday party was not over when we had to leave. As it turns out our SGI Chapter had a picnic scheduled the same day at Lake Wilderness. Papa had come early this morning to stake the place out. Pictured here with Mimi is her other BFF's Ling Ling and Sara. Hard to believe that just a couple of years ago mama could not for the life of her get Mimi to go into the water and now it is soooo hard to get her out.

BOUNCY HOUSE

Keri provided the bouncy house for the kids. The blonde head boy with the baseball cap that you see fainting is Cole. Cole is 7 ??? and he is the very first person that mama had met here in the neighborhood when we moved up here last year June. Cole and his family has moved out of the neighborhood and into a bigger home not far from us but they still make it our way to the festivities.

OWEN'S 4th BIRTHDAY

Today is Owen's 4th birthday and we all helped him to celebrate with a party in the neighborhood park. Keri provided the bouncy house and the kids had loads of fun. Of course Mimi was ecstatic that her friends Blake and Erin were there too. Mama was able to get a picture of Keri and Janet as well as the kids. I always write about them but rarely put a picture of them to match the name.

KISSY FACE

This is the look that Mimi will give when she gets busted for doing something that she was not supposed to do such as writing on the wall, then she will say "kiss me!"

Many moons ago mama did pretty much the same thing so I guess what goes around, comes around. This writing on the wall was done quite some time ago. I guess we're just keeping it as a reminder of Mimi.