I'm 30

I'm still on my back log of blogs and on May 16th I turned 30.  I was so excited.  Everyone makes like 30 is such a horrible thing but I'm so excited about getting older mostly because genetically the older my family gets the younger we look. . . strange but true, you should see my sisters!!!  I think that this is the case because when a Fuchigami girl is in the child rearing stage we tend to be more concerned about our children and less concerned about how we look.  Once the children are old enough to care for themselves we concentrate on ourselves again.

Well the weekend of my birthday my husband tried so desperately to have a surprise birthday party for me but I found out about it.  Poor Piko was so sad  so he kept the guest list a surprise for me.  I was so excited to have one of my bestest friends and "sister" arrive with my favorite, butter mochi.  That was absolutely the best part of my day.  Ardis Weight and her wonderful little 'ohana arrived and I ran in the house to tell Piko before I even greeted them because I was so excited and I wanted to kiss my hubby for thinking of me.  Ardis took all the pics at our little BBQ but I won't post them all because there were so many so I'll just post the ones I think are funny.

Thank you Damon, Kaina, Chad, Cilla and Piko for cooking all the food.  Thank you everyone for the great gifts. 

Speaking of gifts I really wanted gifts from my boys that they picked out by themselves so I told Piko to take them to the dollar store so they could pick something out.  Piko himself was bummed yet again because he wanted to buy me an ibook because I do digital scrapbooking and macs are so much easier to use when you are dealing with graphics.  You just click and drag. . . love it.  But Piko couldn't bring himself to pay double the price of a pc for a mac. . . he likes to add all the bells and whistles to his gifts so of course it would cost way more.  I'm so glad he didn't buy it. . . we need the $$$ to go to Hawaii in July.  So he also decided to buy me a dollar gift which I'm so happy with. . . Kolu got me a balloon on a stick, Nalu got me the cutest heart pen, and Piko got me a bath pillow which I use once a week when I relax in the tub with no interruptions.  That has to be my favorite gift, I'm so simple. . . Piko thinks I'm so high maintenance. He thinks of buying me gifts at the dollar value he'd like to have a gift at. . . he is so high maintenance. . . I don't buy him stuff anymore I just tell him get himself something fun and he enjoys that way more.

Thank you Ku and Josi for the wonderful guava cake. . . it was way huge and very delicious (thank you Ikaika Kelly for making it).    That cake was even better like 5 days later.  That's how much cake was left over even after everyone took a plate full of it home with them.  Keiko really enjoyed herself and ate about 3 pieces I'd say of which two pieces ended up on the grass.  Kolu was all about the watermelon and ate maybe six pieces.  I kept telling him to stop or he'd get diarrhea but he didn't stop nor did he get sick. It was a beautiful day with wonderful friends and family.  Mom and Dad Warr arrived after they rested from running it the Ogden run.  Hello Dad ran a full marathon and Mom ran a half marathon.  They still managed to be at my party.  Aunty Wilma and the Mack crew came too after working really hard painting and cleaning Aunty's basement that they are renovating.  I feel very blessed to be surrounded by many a loved one.