Happy Birthday Daddio!

Happy 65th Dad! :)
This is one of my favorite pictures of him when we went snowshoeing on Mt. Rainier. (click for a close up to see his smile) :)

Ryan Immortalized

Ryan is immortalized in Google Map. :) He's on the street view!!!

We've been waiting for months for his appearance...(he texted me as soon as the google map car drove by...hee hee...)

check him out: http://maps.google.com/maps


If you're not familiar with Street View, it's Google Maps version of letting you walk around certain cities in the world.

To see Ryan:

Put in our address: 4995 Waa Street, Honolulu Hawaii

Zoom in close (click the plus sign on the right, or scroll with your turny mouse thing)

Then click the yellow man on the left side of the map.
(sometimes you just click on him, sometimes you need to drag him to the street in front of our house)

VOILA! There he is!! :)

hee hee...move forward and back, and around the house and he's practically in every shot!! Funnier is that in the east side Poola shots, it's a different time frame, that's him in his car following the camera, but you can tell it's a different time, cause he's in a diff shirt. (that was after he texted me the Google Map car drove by him, and I texted him back FOLLOW IT!) hee hee....wait till you see us on the Burke Gilman!!! (but that's another story)

Granny's thoughts on TV

Stopped by to see Granny today. She was watching Tyra. :) Said Oprah was boring, and Tyra was more interesting today because they were giving away all this 'useless junk'.

After Tyra was over and we were flipping channels... we started talking about the shows she's been watching:

Granny: What's wrong with all these shows these days? All these young kids doing bad things!
Stacy: Yeah, that's pretty much all the programs.
Granny: Yeah, last night I was watching this show and this guys goes and shoots up the whole place! Then his wife comes home and she's yelling at him, but then later she's kissing him! All these people misbehaving! None of the kids are gonna know how to act right anymore.
...(then later flipping thru channels) Hoo Boy! and see?! Look at them kissing in public. Everybody has to kiss in public! Especially on that CW channel.

hee hee hee...I love my grandmother.

Happy Birthday Granny!!

Granny turned 96 yesterday!! This is how our conversation went.

stacy: YAY!!! Happy Birthday, Granny!!!
granny: Why? I'm not happy!

hee hee hee...she was joking though and gave me a hug and a smile.

Real Weekend

It's so great to have REAL weekends again! (weekends that aren't completely booked and scheduled out)

Saturday went to the golf range to try out my new clubs, came home and made D & R (dad and ryan) chicken salad sandwiches with walnuts and celery, relaxed, made curry for dinner, then watched Transformers 2 with yummy popcorn.

Woke up at 10am today, ran errands, picked up Diamond Head Grill for lunch and now doing some serious R&R to get ready for Monday morning. :)

I love real weekends!

Happy Halloween

Cecily = Cat in the Hat

Stacy = Stacy in Seattle

We put real effort into our costumes. Hee hee hee...but we were together and that's what counts. (and makes for a wonderful birthday)

Nothing Better

There is simply nothing better in the world than family. :)

Especially having my WHOLE family together for my birthday! Thanks Cec. I can't tell you how wonderful it's been having you back.