The Ikeda Family Blog

Photo shoot at Rockin H Ranch

Cathy Ikeda — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:58:07 +0000

Rockin H Ranchwear is all about palaka.

Aloha kalikimaka from us

Cathy Ikeda — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:46:48 +0000

And to think I saw it at the Houston Airport

keahiloa — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:52:33 +0000

Of all things to have at the airport…

Tagged: bass_pro, continental, houston, texas

Ken’s First Annual Turkey Project

Cathy Ikeda — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:06:52 +0000

Ken’s friend at Manoa gave him the idea of collecting $5 from people before Thanksgiving, then taking advantage of the sales to buy as many turkeys as possible to donate to the Salvation Army, or whoever is cooking and serving free Thanksgiving dinner to the community. For us, it’s the Salvation Army. So goal 1 was community service. Goal 2 was to get our kids together behind this project to do a good turn and socialize outside of school. For our first annual attempt, Ken just emailed our ohana list (the families that camp together) and I emailed some of my colleagues. We ended up giving 40 turkeys this year (almost more than the Salvation Army could handle – but we’ll figure that out next year).

The kids in front of the pantry

Tagged: service, thanksgiving, turkeys

Grandma in the kitchen

Cathy Ikeda — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:29:17 +0000

I found this and thought of grandma – a reason to never be a vegetarian. Check my blog post on her at http://rubberslippercontessa.blogspot.com

Tagged: food, grandma, kitchen, steak

Halloween

Cathy Ikeda — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:19:48 +0000

Ken as the Fruit of the Loom green grape, Pono and me as vampires in hiding (from our book club theme).

Ahi was a caveman, but sorry I don’t have a pic of that.

Here’s one with his friends at their hang out spot.

Tagged: family, halloween, pics

T-shirts coming

Cathy Ikeda — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:58:33 +0000

808 ID is offering 2 shirt colors for the holidays: chestnut t with sand ink and white t with charlie brown ink (earth tones).

Limited supplies – on sale in November.

Design – Kāwili- it’s a blend or mixture – the top of the design includes traditional patterns like the ʻihe, hāloa and lauhala. The designs then blend together with the modern styles to create symbols that are used in tattoos today.

My BIG birthday gift

Cathy Ikeda — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:48:37 +0000

I gots me my own paddleboard for my birthday, even if it’s on the Tokunaga installment plan. Schizophrenic as it is we now have four boards of different size and make. Mine is a purty yellow 11 foot Papa He’e Nalu brand. We just unwrapped this, but tomorrow we have to go put the pads on, the handle and the scag. Thanks Ken!

How 2 Eat a Cupcake: Ken Style

Cathy Ikeda — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:54:39 +0000

Step 1: Start with a plain old frosted cupcake. If it’s got sprinkles, even better.

Step 2: Peel off the cupcake paper and pull off the top of the cupcake.

Step 3: Flip the bottom onto the top and eat it like a sandwich.

Extreme cupcake eating courtesy of Sandra Lee of Semi-Homemade fame.

Pono’s Growing Up

Cathy Ikeda — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:20:38 +0000

Pono’s in middle school now – and in my advisory. There’s no escape.