It Won't be Naked Night !!

I've been busying myself with things like my ensemble for the wedding in Hawaii. Finally after trying on way to many dresses I found the perfect one in Macy's the other day. Then I called my sister in law  Lisa to find out what Bill's should wear,  she explained to me her  father (Bob) could take the men to the commissary (he's retired Navy) to get Tommy Bahama Aloha shirts. Bill should just bring some nice slacks. What a relief, now we can go to the wedding with clothes on ( Bill's of course is disappointed it won't be naked night! )
I could now turn my attention to my brother Paul and his bacon. He loves that southern slab stuff with a zillion milligrams of sodium they sell in a sack so I'll got him a few slabs and contribute to the family blood pressure problems. All of you who know and love Paul will enjoy that he like the rest of us will retain water if he eats it, but he's still the same size; you heard me right...the same size! 
Me my needs run to the more practical, Valium and a good pillow to get me to Hawaii well rested, a well trained pilot to get me there in one piece and when i arrive there may be a cocktail in my future too!

THERE WAS WAY TO MUCH CELEBRATING GOING ON……….

It's been a busy few days leading up to the wedding but I promise I’ll fill you in on all the details eventually. We attended  a cocktail party at Lisa’s friend Bonnie’s house, an Aloha party at Lisa’s friend Patti’s house and  we've been to the beach of course. Then we all spent a few days at a beautiful resort hotel and then attended the wedding on an adjoining property to that resort,WOW what a place! As you can imagine there was not time to post a blog entry…. there was way to much celebrating going on!

The ceremony site 

What are you doing today Chris?
"I'm getting married"

So here goes, I’ll start with the wedding first since that’s obviously the best part. It was wonderful, beautiful and a perfect day. I’m not going to say another word; I’ll just let the pictures tell the story.

Nan and Byung  (father)

Paul and Lisa

Chris  and Ogja ( mother in law)

Chris and Nan LeClair
Tim their pastor

David (best man) and brides sister PoPo (maid of honor)

THE TRUE BEAUTY..THAT IS FAMILY

Alex standing in front of the truck that served us our plate lunch at the
Aloha party.

 Many of you know that my brothers and I live in three different states. What I think is the real beauty of family, the true blessing of love of family is no matter how often  or not we see each other when we're together it just feels natural, it's like we just saw each other yesterday. And our kids have and easy familiarity as do our spouses...

THAT IS FAMILY.

I've posted a lot of pictures and of course the common thread in them all is the family, showing us together...  I truly hope that somehow these pictures really convey to all of you who are reading this blog; those who weren't with us on the trip just how much we really enjoyed ourselves, and each other on our trip. Here are some pictures of just this and that, pictures I just felt like sharing today.

Syd & Alyssa

Bob, Bill and Matthew at the Aloha party.

                       

Amanda with Syd and Alex at the hotel.

What is better than enjoying a cold beer on the beach.
Lets ask Denise.

Mom drinking a shot of Soju

Hey, she didn't spit it out..she chased it with a cold one!
What a mom!

Both Gerard's taking a snooze

Someone is a little tired after the hike....that's the hike in Kahana Valley
not the hike to the mall!

Lorena, Denise & Lisa enjoying a bit of vino

Do we look like tourists or what?

Beach day!

Chris & Nan

Denise and the kids enjoying a float at Ko Olina

Looks like a winning hand to me!

Sydney & me

Gerard, Sydney and Alex

sibs

Lisa and Chibe, I think!

Meatball wars at Italian night...

So as you all may know we had Italian night here at the house . Gerard and I split some of the cooking, he made the sauce I did the meatballs. First I should say nobody got sick, 
that's the truth !! However we do make our meatballs differently. The same ingredients just a different technique; apparently I'm ass backwards according to my little brother.  He would like me to do a poll of the readers to see who does their meatballs which way, mine or his. 
I mix my eggs, cheese, parsley, garlic, bread then add the meat.
Gerard puts the meat in the bowl then adds the eggs, cheese, parsley, bread, garlic after.
He thinks my way is strange, it makes sense to me!
Let me repeat NOBODY WAS POISONED BY MY MEATBALLS
Seriously people, we had  a great time.
ALOHA, Jen