Papa

My Grandfather Clarence Sugihara MD, was an amazing person & we celebrated his life with family & good food! He lived a full 95 years & we will miss him.

In May, we celebrated Papa's 95th birthday at Shokudo. It was our last family gathering at a restaurant.

Birthday buddies!

I had a great birthday & received wonderful birthday wishes from near & far. I am so blessed to have such a great family & friends! Marley picked Farrell's restaurant to torture me on my birthday. I was forced to smile when the waiters sang & clapped for us. At least I got a free sundae out of the deal.

The best gift I ever received was on my 25th birthday, my sister gave birth to Marley on my birthday!! Shucks, I might have just given away my age...

I got Marley a lucky #7 for her charm bracelet. Oh my gosh, this means there are 7 charms on her bracelet, jeez time flies.

Dance recital

The nieces had a dance recital where they both tapped danced. An adorable elephant...

Video of the dancing to follow. Trying to figure out my Flip video camera.

The cutest alligator in the world!

Swim graduation 09

The Nieces graduated from swim school! Macie is swimming on her own and even stood up on the surf board in the pool.

Marley is becoming quite the fish, she can do the butterfly stroke!

scavenger hunt

We fulfilled my cousin Cec's dream of doing the Raven's Chase, a scavenger hunt around Honolulu. On the website it said we would be driving around the island, so we rented this 15 passenger van. Turns out the whole scavenger hunt was downtown & required walking. We don't recommend this adventure, it was not witty. I was expecting some sort of Goonies adventure. The cousins and the Van...

Dipping the magic paper into the water at the state capital to reveal our next clue. Ew, Stace where is the hand sanitizer?

We got bored and stopped in for a beer at Gordon Biersch.

On top of the Aloha tower, I've never been up there before.

Searching for the next clue.

We got some W&M burgers & decided to make use of the van & went geocaching. This was the coolest geocache we've ever found, it was a two part cache & you had to use the fishing pole to find it.

Josh was found this hard one. We found all the caches, but one. Maybe next time?

4th of July!!

For 4th of July, we went to the beach park in Hawaii Kai to watch the fireworks show on the water. There was a full moon that night.

Macie had an idea for a pyramid...

She then convinced others to join in...

We love JV because he brought the smore fixings. Josh & JV had quite a line for the smores.

Jon & Evelyn Wedding

My cousin Jon got married!

My family likes dark colors, we can't help it. My Grandmother always wears black.

My sister and Marc got married in the same church. They will be celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary in August.

How cute is Cec's dress? Jealous...

Josh hanging out with cool crowd at the Halekulani. Josh, Ryan (Stace's hubbie), Dustin (Cec's soon to be hubbie)

Who knew my cousin was so emotional?