HaynMade: March 2013

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Easter adventure...

Man,

I've been spending Easter with some very good friends of mine for years now. And year after year there's always great company and great food. I brought along my sister in law and my nephew and we spent the day there.

No, these aren't my toes, but my good friend did get into the sprit, she's crazy like that, lol.

We colored eggs, it was quite nice returning to my inner kid (which I never really lost, lol)...

And in true fashion, there was food, more food and even more food...

And yup yup, there was an Easter egg hunt, complete with money filled golden eggs...

And my friend REALLY gets into Easter, being the big hearted person that she is she hooked all of the kiddes (including me, lol) with Easter goodies...

Took a couple of pics of my nephew's new rides...

So I gotta hand it off to my friend for another great Eday, much aloha T n J!

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Dinner at Mom's...

Good times,

My brother, his wife, and my nephew headed over to my mom's and stepdad's place for some good home cooked dinner. While dinner was gettin' put on the table, my nephew and I busted out the toys n played away, yups I'm a big kid n proud of it, haha.

As usual she had the table all set up "Martha style" lol, with the full works, bustin' out her appleware Franciscan plates, cloth napkins, you know how it goes.

And man, there was the full spread of food, I starved myself the entire day for this goodness, lol, and hell ya it was worth the all day wait.

You can't go wrong, baked ham, scalloped potatoes, that tomato, basil, mozzarella balsamic vinegar thingy, potato salad, rice n sauté shrimp...mmm...oh so yummy.

I even got a lil play time with my mom's dogs Izzy and Pili, they crack me up. They were also the floor vacuums for any food that accidentally dropped on the floor.

And you know dinner wouldn't be complete without dessert. It's all about the coffee and cookies-n-cream ice cream, chocolate syrup and pound cake, hot damn, that was good stuff.

After dinner we watched a couple of movies, and yup my mom read my nephew a story, true granny style, lol.

Gotta love being with the fam bam, good times.

Monday, March 25, 2013

Hangin' out with da boyz...Part 3

And the adventure continues,

Back to the "Host" of our lil shin dig. This time I snapped away at his prized Scribe Dunny figs. These guys are friggen photogenic to the max, unreal how these photos came out.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Hangin' out with da boyz...Part 2

I wasn't kiddin' when I said I'd be back with more,

Another buncha figs I snapped away at was another collectors' Panda Kings. This guy is kinda jus' gettin' into the game, but man is he serious about his game too. He's a lover of Mr. Woebots and he has quite the collection of 'em. The guy is pretty beast! He had me take a few pics of his prized goods...err...Monarch n one off Pow Wow Panda Kings...

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Hangin' out with da boyz...Part 1

Today it was grand,

Having the opportunity meeting up with a collectors here from the 808. We all met up at "my buddy's" crib and I had them bring some of their family jewels...err personal collection figs and I snapped away at 'em. Gotta love it when the boys get together, we crazy folk!

(Name that movie, lol...along with the killer figs in the photo, "the boys" get a killer laugh outta this photo, puahahahahaha!)

And you know it's all about the food, damn, lookin' at the pic my mouth waters for all of this goodness we had. To the left, good ole HaynMade brought a sushi platter, courtesy of Waipuna Sushi. Here's their website if you ever wanna check 'em out: http://waipunasushi.com. I particularly like their spicy ahi tobiko mayo nigiri and their "Brandon maki" which is spicy ahi tobiko mayo nigiri on a shrimp tempura maki, whew, it's good stuff. "Our host" hooked us up with burgers that he slammed together, oh man, it was soooo good. If I remember correctly his meat, err...the patty was from Whole Foods. The chicken to the right was from Dirty Lickens', which was brought by our "3rd collector friend" aww man, this was the first time I tried their food, whew, gooooood stuff, I nearly choked on his chicken...err...it was good lol. If you wanna check these guys out, click here.

The first stuff I started snapping away at was at our "Host's" collection. The guy is pretty beast when it comes to collecting as a whole, but is monster when it comes to 3A. Heres some pics of his goods, err...his 3A figs.

There's more to photos to come, so be sure to stay tuned!

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Killer Hau'ula rental...

For good ole work,

As many of you know, I work with Hawaiian students and part of the mission of my work is to really provide them with an array of opportunities so that they can get inspired and aspired to pursue their educational and career goals for the future. My passion is to give them those opportunities that they may never get in school and/or at home. By doing so, in all of the data and reports that I do for my job, it shows that by doing so, many of my students end up with well off futures in their education, careers and even in their future families.

For this particular get together for work, the group of students that I work with were doing research on the marine debris situation in Japan and how that may potentially affect the environment here in Hawai'i. Throughout the year, my students have been working quite hard and I felt the need to continue our work but in an environment that would not only support that but at a place where they could also unwind and enjoy each other's company.

So nearly by accident, I found an awesome vacation rental in Hau'ula. It's a very quaint two, two story houser, with a number of perks. Here's some photos, do note, not all of these photos were taken by me.

But it was the perfect place for my group, we were able to relax a little and also get down to work in preparation for my students' science presentations for their families and some of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa presenters.

For more information on renting this Hau'ula home for your family, wedding, parties, etc., feel free to click on this link: http://www.flipkey.com/hauula-vacation-rentals/p363541/

Main house...