Japanese Tea Gardens

We’ve been wanting to check this place out for awhile now and we finally made it over there yesterday evening.  It was an enjoyable Sunday walk through the beautiful gardens as a family and a great end to a wonderful Father’s Day!  We thought we’d get some good pictures of Kennedy, but she wasn’t really in a smiling mood, there were too many things to see, but she’s cute just the same!

(I know I’ve been a horrible blogger lately, more posts to come soon.)  Smelling the pretty flowers

She loved feeding the fishies and seeing the ducks and turtles! We sure love this girl!

Daddy’s Day!

Happy Father’s Day Daddy0!Lo Lu (Love You) ~Kennedy

Lethal Luau

We had some friends over last weekend for a Murder Mystery Dinner Party.  It was our first time hosting one and we had a blast!  We had fun decorating the house Hawaiian and making kalua pork, rice, caramelized maui onions, macademia nut cookies, smoothies, grilled pineapple, and fresh fruit! Everyone really got into their characters and it was a fun night full of laughs and accusations!  Rip Tide and Birdie Putt Les Baggs and Leilani Joey Breakers and Holly Day Chief Honikaua Wiki-Wiki and Nadia Seymour Some of the characters had to demonstrate things throughout the game to try and convince us they weren’t the murderer, so here’s the funny videos.

Chief Wiki-Wiki demonstrating an ancient Polynesian ritual dance

Joey Breakers demonstrating a surfer technique called “Snake in the Grass”

Bluebonnets

The Texas winter was colder and wetter than normal this year, so there are a ton of wildflowers this spring and they are beautiful!! We couldn’t resist doing a little photo shoot in the Texas bluebonnets…along with everyone else in San Antonio.  You see people pulled off the side of the road all the time with camera and child in hand, it’s kind of funny. Warning: picture overload ahead!At least we got one smiling picture :)      Kennedy wasn’t too fond of the bluebonnets the first trip and was quickly done with pictures, so we attempted a 2nd trip to get the “perfect” picture of her surrounded by bluebonnets with her actually looking up and smiling at us. As you can see it didn’t quite work, but we still liked these ones. This is the reaction we got most of the time when we tried getting a picture of just her in the bluebonnets. Oh well, she’s still cute! Zak trying to tickle a smile out of her

Easter Hoppenings!

Enjoying her Easter basket Saturday morning Loving her new “rella” (Cinderella)   Enjoying her chocolate bunny from Gma Barb   Watching general conference on our “big screen” As if the ward easter egg hunt wasn’t enough, we went ahead and had another one in our front yard ;) “Ok, how am I going to get 3 eggs off the ledge?””Uh oh, I’m loosing one!” “Saved by the face… Genius!” Contemplating where to look next… She sure is “one sweet chick” to us!  We hope everyone had an enjoyable Easter weekend, we sure did as a family!

Ward Easter Egg Hunt

Kennedy caught on quickly that the pastel colored eggs on the ground go in your basket and have yummy things inside! She enjoyed her first Easter egg hunt. “Hey- these make neat sounds when you shake them!” “Ooh, there’s candy inside, even better”