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Saturday - May 27, 2009 - Live, Love, Laugh!!!
~Live~ I'm glad to be healthy and alive to live my life as fully as I can, as God would have it.
~Love~ I can never get too much of this from God, my family, and my friends.
~Laugh~ Well I'd much rather laugh than cry, so I do this as often as I can!!!
Thanks to K-Earth 101 FM Radio Station (http://www.kearth101.com/), when I was on my way to Vegas last Friday morning at 8:30am, I called in and played their "Celebrity Knockers" game, and I won two tickets to the Laugh Factory of Long Beach! All I had to do was yell out, "Wayne Brady!!!" They had a special fund raiser show for the USO, and the entire show was being taped, so it can be sent to our troops in the field. How great is that?!?!? Comedy with a mission! There were many well-known comedians to support the cause. I tend to favor Paul Rodriguez, especially since he was kind enough to let us take pictures with him!
I won two VIP tickets.
That's me with Paul Rodriguez! He gave me a really longggggg hug, until Hank figured out how to use my camera! hee hee hee (http://www.paulrodriguez.com/)
Tom, Judy, Berda, and Paul.
Paul and Hank
K-Earth's Gary Bryan was emcee.
K-Earth's Lisa Stanley looked really cute in her camouflaged shorts.
#1 Who is this? Please let me know if you do!!!
Here's Tom Arnold.
Btw, in case you didn't know, he was previously married to Rosanne Barr (http://www.roseanneworld.com/home/).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Arnold_(actor))
Tom Dreesen (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=196516437)
Judy Tenuta (http://www.myspace.com/judytenuta)
Rocket man, Harlen Williams!!! (http://www.wireimage.com/ItemListings.aspx?so=0,d&igi=355625&nbc1=1)
Paul Rodriguez on stage!
Hats off to you, Paul!!!
Dean Edwards (http://www.myspace.com/deanedwards1)
Johnny Sanchez (http://www.myspace.com/johnnysanchezcomedy)
#2 Do you know my name? Please tell Berda!!!
Ron Pearson (http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=ybr_sbc&va=comedian+ron+pearson&sz=all)Hank and I had a great time at this special show. Normally, the Laugh Factory shows last for about 2 hours, but tonight's lasted almost 3.5 hours. There were some amateur comedians from the Armed Forces that competed for prizes. There were two soldiers that were tied for first place. The USO is such a giving organization, that they had decided to reward them both first place prizes of $5,000 each, plus other prizes too! WOW! Isn't that really great how they give back to our troops? I hope this event raised a lot of funds for the USO. If you feel you want to make a pledge to this worthy organization, please contact them directly through their website (http://www.uso.org/). God bless you for your generous donations; God bless our troops; God bless the USA!!!
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Friday - May 29, 2009 - Happy 25th Birthday Ada!!! And Happy 4th Birthday Jennifer! I loved celebrating with you at Disneyland!!! I hope you had as much fun as I did. I hope to meet you there again soon.
Princess Jennifer
Mommy Grace
Where's Scotty?
I've found you!!!
Grandma in Mickey's chair.
What a cute back pack, huh? He must be very secure with his manliness.
Watch out!!! Tiffany is driving!
It's Tea Time!
Here's a picture of the appetizers that started a huge meal. Soup, salad, bread, choice of creole shrimp, jambalaya, or rosemary chicken. We had coffee, tea, sodas, beer, or wine to wash down our desserts of beignets (pronounced ben-yays) and birthday cake! It was non-stop eating!!! Yummy!!!
Grandma, Derrick, and Kathy.
Scotty, Ada, and Ed.
Dave, the manager of Ralph Brennan's Restaurant in downtown Disney.
Happy 25th Birthday, Ada!!!
Curtis flew in from Hawaii for this joyous celebration. It's been a long day, and our little Scotty boy just couldn't stay awake for any more excitement. He slept through all the fire works too!!! Zzzzzzz~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Saturday - May 30, 2009 - We "had to" get together for lunch! We decided to meet in the middle and ate at Empress Pavilion for some Dim Sum.
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Sunday - May 31, 2009 - We all went to SBCC (South Bay Community Church) together, then a quick lunch at King's Hawaiian - The Local Place in Torrance.
After lunch, we went to East West Ice Palace, home of Michelle Kwan, for an afternoon of fun and a little bit of pain and discomfort. (http://www.cityofartesia.us/newsArticles/icePalace.html)
Brad, you're doing great for your 1st time on ice!!!
Look who we found in the parking lot!!! What a great surprise!
I'm so glad Baldwin brought the family.
Does anyone know what Tony and Angel are looking at?!?!?
What a beautiful family, huh?
Ally and Neigh!
Lady in distress...
...Stevie to the rescue!!! I'm so proud of my gentleman son!!! (sniff sniff) Btw Stevie, did you get her name and number? hee hee hee
JenJen, I see you!
Our college girls are home for summer!
Weeeeee! This is so easy!!!
Ice skating is a lot harder when you have to carry your baby around!
Jennifer's skates are just a little longer than a dollar bill. It's so small and cute, just like Jennifer!
Baldwin and Grace brought their friends today too.
Hey girls, who's that guy making the funny face?!?!?!
We have fun, even in a van!
What a perfect end to a great, exhausting day! We went to Guppies for some fresh strawberries and mango chunks on shaved ice drizzled with sweetened condensed milk. Then we washed it down with boba milk tea, smoothies, and spicy popcorn chicken. Yummy!
