Thursday, December 4, 2008

My Big Fat Thanksgiving Vacation

Here are some of the highlights from our trip to Utah for the Uda family reunion/Thanksgiving blow out.

1) Honoring my Grandma and Grandpa Uda with a memorial at their gravesite to place a headstone on their grave (Thanks to Uncle Kelton who did a beautiful job making it!)

2) listening to everyone share funny memories about Grandma and Grandpa and seeing my Aunties and Uncles and cousins who we don't get to see very often because they live in Hawaii.

3) Stuffing ourselves with all the traditional Thankgsgiving food plus lomi salmon, lau lau, gyoza and poi.


4) Watching the Uda talent show and seeing how funny and talented all my relatives are.
5) Going out on a couples date with my sisters and their hubbys to a Tepanyaki grill (Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for babysitting!)

6) Catching up with our old friends, Dave and Jodi and their ADORABLE three week old twin boys, Kai and Cameron. I got to give Kai his bottle and it was the sweetest thing! I seriously could have held the tiny little 5 pounder all day!

7) Hanging out with my beautiful, hilarious, wonderful sisters! It was so fun having all 5 of us together. They are my bestest girlfriends and I seriously don't know what I'd do without them!

8) Girls date with my sisters, mom, auntie and cousins. We went to eat at Los Hermanos and then to see Twlight (Swoon!!) It was so much fun!

9) Playing Pounce, Scum, and Settlers of Catan every night after we got the kiddies to bed.


10) Seeing Teya and Brinley with their cousins. They all got along so well, it really made it hard knowing that we don't live close by. Thank goodness for airplanes : )

Other highlights: Dad and his Russian hat, Mom's lemon pepper chicken linguine, Rachel actually dancing hip hop, Ro putting Brinley's pants on Teya because he thought they were capris, Josh building a bomb, singing a duet with Erin, Naomi's mad pounce skills, Kevin's homemade apple cider, seeing Sarah as a Mom!, Tau coaching us on our dance and then joining in our performance, Jake's Margaret Thatcher joke, Liz and the birthday spanking machine, and playing truth or dare with the whole family.

7 comments:

Kevin Hanks said...

Dude your Thanksgiving sounds like it ROCKED!

Mine was cooler though, cause when you ladies all went to twilight, I got to stay home and help babysit all the kids! That rocked!

Norma said...

Wow that is so cool! I can't believe you were able to see so much family and do so many things. No wonder you left Taber behind to get in a couple extra days!

It's funny, Your whole family looks Asian, except you, you look Latina, especially around Taber!

It was great talking to you yesterday.

The Peters Family said...

Looks like so much fun!
It's SO FUN staying up playing games with adults, but hard if the kids don't realize they can sleep in too.
GREAT video too, btw! GO GIRL!

Joanne said...

How fun! I love seeing you with your sisters, because it reminds me so much of me and my sisters, and I love stuff like that.

And I miss Los Hermanos, which is weird, because there are so many Mexican restaurants out here. Just none like Los.

Pae and Guy said...

Uda family cooking always is a winner!

Did Josh's bomb work?

Margaret Thatcher? I'm guessing that was pretty funny! ;)

Naomi told us to use Picasa so that's how we make our collages!

Love you guys!

Helen said...

You look GREAT Becca! What is your secret post-pregnancy!?

Helen said...

Oh! And I need your new address, would you email it to me please! Thanks!