Its been a busy weekend! Thursday night was Kalaheo's Homecoming Dinner to celebrate the Football team. Parents were amazing and pulled out all the stops when it comes to our kids. I made a lot of pasta (four trays of pasta, 1 for homecoming dinner, 1 to leave home for family dinner-Darin, Malu, my parents, 1 for my brother and sister-in-law and their family, and then 1 more for Saturday or Sunday's events).
I actually had to leave early to get to hula by 7:15pm. And it was still a school night.
On Friday, I got up early to bake a giant batch of shortbread macadamia nut cookies hand dipped in dark chocolate and topped again with more chopped macadamia nuts. It was just practice for the cookie crust that I needed for my fancy green lime jello cheesecake dessert for Saturday's University of Hawaii Football Game.
Friday evening, Kalaheo smashed Roosevelt in our Homecoming game 50 to 14. Go Mustangs...all the way to the playoffs! Woo hoo!!!
The JV football team's season is over and it was definitely a learning curve for the new football players, I'm sure they will play even better next year!
In the meantime, Kai needs a break from contact sports as he is still recovering from his injuries, but he's already looking forward to playing another sport soon.
Saturday morning, Darin made spam musubi's while I squeezed in a quick 4.5 mile run. A few hours later, I was cheering on my Warriors but that was after a really awesome tail gate party! OMG everyone went all out, the food was so ono! Seriously yummy! I'm wishing I had leftovers in my fridge. The Warriors had a tough game, but my nephews had me smiling as we wandered about in search of ice cream :) yum!
Sunday, after a morning work out to sweat off all the naughty things I ate since Thursday, we packed up the family to join my lovely friend Diane on location in Diamond Head. She was filming for a fascinating story about the disappearing art of Amezaiku, Japanese candy making. It was fun and although, my children felt they were to old to participate, thinking it was just for the little kids (they were such diva's that day, grrrr), they begged for their own fancy Amezaiku candy lollipops and were as thrilled when they got them as the 4 year olds (some kids may have been older or younger than 4 but all were adorable).
Please Check out my friend Diane Ako's blog this is a link about her Halloween event and she writes on so many interesting topics. I can't wait to see her story on the Amezaiku with Nathan and Chika Tanaka of Candy Art Hawaii.
It's now almost midnight as I type this, and way past my bedtime on a school night. So uploading all this text plus my photos to share with all my friends on facebook and elsewhere will just have to wait til morning.
Happy week ahead everyone :) smiles for you!
Love always,
Maile
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