Brayden's 5th Birthday Party!!

Sorry this took so long, but *B* is officially 5 and he has been that way for over a month now.

On September 19th we had his b-day at the house and it was awesome, so check the pics and lets get this blog rolling...


Every year we have two pinata's because you know that everyone likes to hit something with a bat. The kids were up first and since I am not nice it took them a while to break it n get to the goodies inside. I really enjoy making people mis the pinata completely.

Here is Ryan taking a swing at the pinata, he missed alot thanks to me. Hee hee!! This pinata didnt bust until Jay took some swings at it. Next time we gotta put ear plugs in the adults ears so that they cant hear the rope dragging.

Here is the cakes!! We had a little cold stone ice creme cake so we could have *B* blow the candles out, then we had cold stone creamery ice cream cupcakes for everyone to enjoy. The best surprise was when Annie came with a pirat skull cake that she made. The cakes all looked good and tasted great!

We had a lot of games and prizes, but the best was the mustache that everyone could not resist putting on and posing with.

And the big winners were...First Auntie Yolanda won the guess the eyeballs in the jar game, she gues 56 and there were 60. Second is Auntie Adalay, she pulled out the red quarter from the golden sand filled tub and went home with a treasure chest filled with treasure.

Next up is the games, First Auntie Karen and Auntie Val supervised the balloon pop game. Next up is the center piece game. *A* set up nets for decor, and we had everyone throw paper airplanes into the nets to see who would win the fabulous boots filled with spam musubi making supplies.


Below is the treasure digging game, we put like 4 rolls of quaters in the golden bucket for people to dig out, an in the first pic is Papa Hiromoto, in the second my cousin Vance (who ran the game) helps out Kaeo.


Auntie Mary got us a huge cardboard and *A* painted the pirate ship on it for a bean bag toss game. Pictured here is Uncle Michael helping out with the booth.

Auntie Mary in the black hat helld down the pin the patch on the pirate game as I went back to my roots (i used to work at Tilt and my favorite thing to do was throw prizes at kids) and held the prize booth on lock.

In order to get prizes the kids had transform themselves into tattoo filled pirate...here is Uncle Micah and "Little" Sean after winning tattoos and transforming.

The highlight of the whole party was, as you can see, SNOW!!! We had 5 tons of the white stuff dropped into our front yard...It was worth every penny and lasted all day long. Check the pics of eveyone having a great time.

THAK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR COMING, AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT HELPED OUT!!!! Now so you know *B* does not get another party until he is ten...LOL

Below is the vid of the truck dumping the snow. You gotta hear the crowd roar as the snow drops...Classic!

Angeleca's Family Reuion

It's always good to see family and trust me we see alot of family here and there, but for those family members are on the mainland it is great to see you guys. A few weeks ago *A*'s fam from Oregan came back to the place of their roots to spend some time with the rest of the fam. The day took a while to get started but once the ball got rolling, everything picked up and didn't end until the next morning (around 3 AM).

On the way out to Mokuleia we encountered some traffic and started to wonder why the heck the road was backed up. It turned out that everything was slowed down because there was a fire on the side of the highway. There was cars piled up, police and firemen were in effect, and the chopper with a bucket was flying overhead droppoing loads of water on the burnt brush and the cars below. It was pretty cool but the day was clear and no rain was expected and still the car got wet because the copter was dripping on our ride.

After getting through the mess, we ended up at mokuleia and swam for a good 2 hours as we all caught up with eachother and I met some folks for the first time. While we were at the beach *A*'s brother and I got to see a honu up close and personal, I tried to get him to touch it but he was too scared, plus I know its illegal to mess with the honu's.

Next up on the adgenda was a trip to Wahiawa for a good old fashioned family pa'ina at *A*'s auntie Gilda's house. While there we all talk more story, ate good food, posed for pictures, laughed and played, and lastly we ended the night with some karaoke. I was top scorer until *A*'s brother got up and blew my score away. Anyways there are tons of pics for you to check out so keep looking...

*A*'s cuz from oregan thought I was wierd because I wouldn't shut up and kept trying to get him to talk, but ultimately I failed.

here's the food and... here we are blessing the food...then here we are attacking the food. WOOHOO!!!

The rest of the pics are for the family scrap book. We all had a great time and what made it great was that the family was all together for the first since who knows when. Thanks to *A*'s fam for letting me in and letting me enjoy in the little things we take for grated with you all. If you don't know time with eachother is such a little thing but it can have a huge impact on our lives. Enjoy the rest of the pics of *A*'s little family reunion.

glad everyone could make it and sorry to all of our like ten readers that we have not updated in so long. We are trying to keep up but as usual we fall behind. See you guys next time.

Been busy but...SCOOTERS ROCK!!!!

Sorry folks we just been busy lately and i been getting lazy so i haven't uploaded the pics from our camera in a while. In the mean time I thought that these vids would be entertaining because I knew that Razor scooters used to be the in thing but then they just keep on coming up worth new additions to make it cooler. The light up wheels were nice, the electric ones are dope too, but I like the spark!!!


I think i did the best one, but thas only because I am the heaviest. NOT!!! I got mad skills!!




Took her a while to get going, but she did okay...not as good as me right? She left *B* in the dust.


*B* is just plain cool. Check out his swag as he rides.

Here is some more random stuffs...

We took this pic like 2 weeks ago in Wahiawa and thought it was just plain messed up. I mean, they would have given us like 15% off but we were a month late. DAMN!!!

this is the best pho king vietnamese restaurant ever, but only because of its name. Say the name three times fast pho king, pho king, pho king!!

C-ya in a few, I finally up'ed the pics.

Late post, GREAT PARTY!!!

CHEEEEEEE HOOOOOOOO!!!!

It was a great UFC party on the 8th. BJ Penn successfully defended his lightweight title and now brings his record to 9 and 1 in the UFC lightweight class. The rest of the Hawaii fighters fought battles but Grove and Nelson could not impress the judges enough to get the decision win. Also, we got to see the horrible match up between Anderson Silva and Forrest Griffin in which Griffin got KO'ed by a straight jab and ran away destroyed mentally and physically. The UFC was event was an overall 10 because BJ Penn represented Hawaii and killed the competition.

As far as the party goes it was the biggest gathering we have ever had the house for the fights and it went well. Everyone got along, we all shared great food and when BJ Penn won the match I swear the yelling shook the ground. Check it out...
while BJ was fighting was the only time the place was quiet, but I was on the phone calling the fight with my brother who is currently in Texas and will be home for the next party on August 29th.
this is me after the fight....I was speechless nah j/k watch the vid below and you will hear what I was up to.

press play and see what happened!!

As usual we had a great spread of food supplied by everyone and us...
mmmmmmmmm....steak

looks a bit empty but later we had to bust out another table to fit everything.

We also had the new and the old contests and drawings for prizes and bragging rights...
the prize and game table

Suzie was a newcomer to the house and she won the first prize drawing of the night for a BJ Penn sticker pack.

Cristal was the second drawing winner and went home with a BJ Penn Lighter and Dog tag. She always gets lucky when she comes over because every time she goes home with a prize and I'm not just talking about her man Kapono.

The self proclaimed (so far its the truth) UFC quiz guru won for the second time and with a score of 8.5 out of 19 he out scored two others by a half a point to win a BJ Penn gym towel, BJ Penn Dog tag, and a BJ Penn lighter. I will get you on this quiz Sheldon.

Next, here is our new low score champ (he had 1 point) and our acting high score champ Ryan (the winner was Steph who will not be back until the next UFC). Anfernee on the left won a Pink Bunny that had a mustache and a butt hole. The winner was treated to a BJ Penn prize pack of all the Penn goodies that we had plus a water bottle.

Man it hurts me to say this but Jimbo Slice was the hard hitting UFC Undisputed Video Game champ for the second time, his training regimen included 2 hours of button mashing with 2 pound thumb weights and endless hours of online game play in order to prepare for and beat ME. Nah, Jimmy was just on point that night and I got my ass handed to me. He took home the worlds best pound for pound fighter Anderson Silva.

That's it for our winners and be there next time for more goodness. Check the random pics of the party and hope to you over some time. This is *L* saying good food, good fights, good friends, and good times create great memories and if not at least we can laugh the next morning. Take care and check the pics people....

Sindication Grand Opening Extravaganza!!!

A little over a week ago Sindication and No Fear took over the upper level of Windward Mall. It was in part with the Project X thing that the mall is doing and it was done to celebrate Sindications Grand Opening. Sindication has finally settled down in a spot that some people may know of already because Prototype and Ainokea used to be there. They are on the upper level, right outside Macy's.
Back to the show, they had a bunch of artists from Hawaii painting, Koak, Dodge, pancho and other members of the groundUp family were all doing canvases along with TSG, Newkon, CkaweekS, Rival, and many more. There was custom bikes to admire, live DJ's spinning, free food from rainbows, live performances, tons of deals and new shirt releases from sindication X fitted and aloha family, also they re-relesed the Woes X Defend Hawaii shirt in new colorways. Some dope stuff went on and everyone had a good time. Congrats Sindication and was good to meet new artists there and say hi to the old friends that we already know. See ya everyone and check the pics.

The bikes!!



After admiring the art and talkin story *B* played a bit in the playground at the Mall.



Thats it for now!!!

B's First Day Of Elementary School!!

Man, how time does fly! *B* is now in kindergarten and *A* and I are so proud of him. It was a long wait but the first morning of *B*'s new elementary life has gone and past. We woke up at six because he was so excited and got all his stuff ready. Weeks before we went shopping for supplies and new clothing. All that work just so he can go to the same elementary school I went to. I hope that all my teachers are not there because I know I was a terror to most of them. Anyways, he is doing fine in his new surroundings, but you won't believe how much stuff they got the little ones doing now, they have to learn 100 site words (words they know just by seeing it), they get like 4 pages of work to do every night, they got a bunch of math and a whole lotta reading. Check out how happy he is and till this day he is still excited to get up and get to school.

First day excitement!!!

Day one... Day two in front of his new class

chillin with all his supplies.

he was happy to learn that his pre-school friend was in his class.

Beach Day!!

A couple weeks ago we had an all out beach day experience with some family friends. We went to our favorite spot to swim i.e. SHARKS COVE. It really is the perfect kids beach. You have a bunch of rocks and tide pools to explore, you got beautiful sites under water while you snorkle and there is really no current to worry about. We all were there until around 1:30 then we got hungry and headed out looking for the famous white Giovanni's shrimp truck.

I caught this fish with my own two hands...and two nets



To tell you the truth, this was my first time actually eating at a shrimp truck.

I never jnew what I was missing until I had the chance to sample some spicy shrimp, garlic shrimp, and a hot dog. There is a reason why they say no refunds is because while eating it I was sweating and coughing since the red pepper flakes, siracha and other spices were hard to handle, but i made it through the whole plate and it actually was really good.



I also tried the garlic houtdog because *B* could not finish his, but it is not great. The hot dog is just a costco dog cooked in the garlic oil, not too special.



Lastly, since *A* could'nt finish her plate I even tried the famous garlic shrimp and I gotta say it is shrimpy, garlicy, oily, crispy goodness all together.



After eating we of course had to wash our hands and as we went to the restrooms we discovered a hidden gem in the bushes...

thas right Kaiser is back there so no worry if you order the spicy shrimp and pass out you will be taken care of.

we just thought it was funny that they could put a restroom sign on the door but they had to draw on the guys and girls.



Since we were already close to Laie we decided to head there and go to see the giant Mo'o in the water. It was the L*A*B's first time seeing the sight and it was spectacular. The water was clear, the wind was blowing strong and it took a while but we all were able to see why the rock in the water has such a great story behind it. After snapping some pics we all still had one more spot to go, can you guess where?








That's right, we went to haleewa for some shaveice. It was late so Matsumoto's was just too packed and since Aoki's was not too bad we went there. This was my first time tasting it and to tell you the truth I didn't care for it as much as I enjoy Matsumoto's, so net time I will wait for the Matsumoto's goodness. Well thas it for now but you know up next is the UFC 101 review.