Entries from October 2008

October 23, 2008

Lotu Tamaiti – White Sunday!

Lotu Tamaiti – White Sunday!

Originally uploaded by The Watanabe’s

Last Sunday was White Sunday. White Sunday is a holiday in Samoa and since our church consists of many different ethnicits, including many who are either from Samoa or have Samoan blood, we celebrated our first White Sunday at Island Family Christian Church here on O’ahu. [...]

October 20, 2008

Calvary Church of the Pacific, Harvest Fest, Saturday, October 18.

Father and Son, heading into the "Pumpkin Patch"

Originally uploaded by The Watanabe’s

Our friend Susan e-mailed San the other day and invited us to go to her church’s Harvest Fest. It was a pretty incredible production that they put on. Outside the building, they had games and big, bouncy houses. Then, inside of the [...]

October 20, 2008

Three months old!!

Three months old!!

Originally uploaded by The Watanabe’s

Oh, our son is growing. You know, I’m not sure how much he weighs actually. He’s chubby, but he really couldn’t be classified as a Sumo Baby. He’s a little on the leaner side. But he does have rolls on his knee caps. [...]

October 20, 2008

Bekah and Donald lift off tomorrow

Uncle Okie and Eian at ‘Ohana

Originally uploaded by The Watanabe’s

Here’s a set of pictures from Bekah and Donald’s last ‘Ohana night, last Wednesday. They leave tomorrow afternoon. I got to hang out with them a little while this afternoon. It was actually longer than I’d imagined I’d get to see them. [...]

October 20, 2008

Our Jr. Explorer

Our Jr. Explorer

Originally uploaded by The Watanabe’s

Our little boy is finally fitting into some of the really cute outfits that have been given to him. He’s wearing his first 3 month outfit. This is one he got from Auntie Theresa Ogata, living in San Fran. He’s chewing on the whale he got from Uncle [...]

October 10, 2008

Our last full day in LA . . .

Can yo believe it!?  We enjoyed our last vacation day in LA and didn’t take a single picture! Ha! We had a good day. We did our final shopping trips.  Went to Trader Joes, then to Target.  We visited his Aunty Jean and Uncle John.  Then we continued our search for a duffel bag.  Our [...]

October 9, 2008

Fun Family Day

Breakfast at Flappy Jacks

Originally uploaded by The Watanabe’s

Yesterday was a fun day. We found this great breakfast restaurant called Flappy Jack’s Pancake House. The food was amazing! We had a huge mediteranean omlette, a massive portion of hash browns, and english muffins. We had also ordered the Spice Pumpkin Pancakes . [...]

October 7, 2008

Today was kind of a lazy day

Daddy just woke up

Originally uploaded by The Watanabe’s

We didn’t really do much until we went out to lunch. We went to the Olive Garden and you know, today was the first time that I felt dissastified and kind of yucky after eating there. I’m not sure what the problem was, but it really [...]

October 7, 2008

Dinner at the Kawaguchi’s

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Originally uploaded by The Watanabe’s

After the Getty Villa we drove up to Newbury Park to visit San’s old friend Glenn and his wife Harumi and their 2 son’s, Justin & Carter. Last time we saw them we had lunch in Pasadena and we weren’t even married yet. Now little over a year later we’re married [...]

October 7, 2008

Getty Villa Pond

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Originally uploaded by The Watanabe’s

Yesterday we went to visit the J. Paul Getty Villa. It was filled with Greek and Roman artifacts. We took the tour of the architecture and garden. There we marble floor pieced together by hand without any glue or grout of any kind. It was amazing to see the marble floor [...]