The Center Street School Cougar Choir performed at Universal Studio’s “Music in the Park” competition. The choir sang one warm-up piece, Pie Jesu, and two judged pieces, All Night, All Day and Exsultate Cantamos Festivo. Morgan is in the top row, second from the left. The Choir placed First and earned the second highest point… Read More »
Ron and his family on his mom’s side stopped by after Bev & Summy’s wedding to visit his grandmother. She lives in a convalescent home in Glendale. Unfortunately, the staff won’t let her walk anymore because she’s taken some falls and broken some bones, so she gets pushed around in a wheel chair. Plus she… Read More »
We went to Bev & Summy’s wedding. Summy is Ron’s first cousin once removed (Ron’s dad’s and Summy’s grandmother are brother & sister). It was a beautiful day for a wedding: the weather was warm and the ceremony was held in the outdoor courtyard of the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena. Stephanie was away at… Read More »
Stephanie left for a weekend at AstroCamp with 40 other students from El Segundo Middle School. The students conducted various experiments with gases and saw Saturn through a telescope on Saturday night.
We gathered with Iris’ side of the family at Hop Li in Santa Monica for an early Mothers Day celebration. Along with Iris’ mom, Sue, there was: Iris’ brother, Scott; Scott’s two ex-wives, Betty Ann and Julie; Scott’s son, Casey; Scott’s daughter, Jennifer, and her husband, Edward; and Betty Ann’s boyfriend, Dave.
Morgan, Stephanie, and Ron ran in the Los Angeles Firecracker 5K held in Chinatown. This is the first Firecracker for Morgan and the third one for Stephanie. Ron began running the 10K version more than 20 years ago, but his knee can only handle the 5K now. It is a very hilly course (uphill to… Read More »
We traveled up the Central Coast of California to attend a memorial service for Iris’ cousin, Jim Okada. We stayed at an Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo and had dinner at the Madonna Inn, which was just down the road.
Normally, we have Thanksgiving with Iris’ extended family. This year we traveled up north to San Jose to have Thanksgiving with Ron’s old roommate, Tim Orsley, and his family. We were joined by another roommate of theirs, Frank Kovac, and his family of four, from Lake Tahoe. We left Wednesday afternoon around 12:45 PM, and… Read More »
Thankfully Halloween wasn’t as involved this year as it has been in past years. The girls both dressed up, Stephanie as a Harajuku Girl and Morgan as a vampiress. Stephanie went to help out at the El Segundo Halloween Frolic while Morgan went trick-or-treating with a couple of friends after the frolic. Morgan also carved… Read More »
We took a trip up to San Francisco to watch the Blue Angels perform during Fleet Week. Apparently, Fleet Week is a pretty big deal up here. It seemed like thousands of people lined the San Francisco Bay in order to watch the many demonstration flight teams. We made the trip with both of Ron’s… Read More »