Sunday, March 10, 2013

Day in SLC



To celebrate Aki's birthday, he wanted to just spend a day with his family. We had hoped to take the kids up to Park City for the Legos art exhibit, but for various reasons decided to stay closer to home. We spent some good time at the Church history museum, where the kids were interested to see the death masks of the prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum. The museum was also exhibiting the winners of an international youth art competition...the works of art made by such young people were amazing!

This was done by a teenager in the Philippines.
We then utilized our membership to the Planetarium and watched a 3D movie on the dome theater, The Ultimate Wave (about surfing in Tahiti) and an IMAX movie, To the Arctic. The first movie gave us motion sickness and the second movie traumatized us as a male polar bear was pursuing two young cubs trying to kill them. Both, however, were very educational!

On the way home, we realized we hadn't taken any photos, so we did it while driving. It was a beautiful evening, and Tooele County looked so pretty.

Took my spot in the van and my sunglasses too. Can you say 8 going on 16?
He didn't last five minutes.
I love this man. He's a great driver too!
Listening to Imagine Dragons or Bon Jovi, no doubt.
Yep, Mom was there too!
And last but not least...

Happy birthday, Aki!!

;Aki turned 36 this year. The Sunday that was his birthday, all the kids were quite sick. I stayed home with them so he got to go to church all by himself. What a birthday, huh? While he was gone we decorated a little with things I had prepared the night before. I also made his requested meal of honey lime chicken enchiladas and tres leches cake.

What a man, what a man, what a mighty good man.
They love their daddy!
A list of 36 things we love about Aki.
The tres leches cake with peach and strawberry garnish.
Just to make sure he knew how much he means to us, we celebrated again the next Sunday (so that previously sick kids could join in). By the way, Aki was in a facial hair growing contest at work during this time, but gave it all up when it started driving him crazy.
We gave him a basket of his favorite treats. He, of course, shared it with the kids.
Makai made brownies from scratch (Grandma Risa's recipe) for his dad. He did a great job!