Lily & Leo

Happy 1st Birthday to Khoa as a Daddy!!!  In case you don’t know, he just turned 28 years old!  This year I wanted to make Khoa’s birthday extra special because he’s a new daddy, so I planned a full weekend filled with fun events!  We had a surprised birthday party for Khoa at our house Friday night.  I ordered food from Famous Dave’s BBQ, one of Khoa’s favorite food item is RIBS!  So the catering choice was a no brainer!  We had a house filled with a bunch of friends and family all sharing the love and joy of Khoa’s special day!  I made an edible print of his Diablo3 character, a demon hunter, (thank you An for getting the screenshot for me!) and put it on top of a Marie Calendar’s banana cream pie, one of his favorites!  However, instead of printing on a wafer sheet, which was what I was familiar with, I decided to print it on a frosting sheet since it’s supposedly better, the print ended up dissolved and bled into the pie =(.  It looked quite horrible when I opened the box a few hours later.  Good thing I bought 2 pies so I can bring out the other pie for the cutting.  I was so sad, but now I know what not to do next time, which is not to use frosting sheets on super moist surfaces.  Anyways, the party was really fun and thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate!!

The next morning on Khoa’s actual birthday, November 3rd, we started the day by going jet packing in Newport at a company called Jetlev!  I got a deal for this event on Amazon Local Deal!  We took Lily along and she hung out on the beach in her stroller since we fly one at a time!  She slept through most of it but when she was awake, she had fun playing with her feet and enjoying the beach!  I was super nervous for my flight, I went first unfortunately.  They made me do a swim test first and that was when I knew this wasn’t going to be good.  I tried to swim but I just kept sinking.  I had so much trouble, I kept flying to the right and falling into the water.  After 10 minutes of struggling, I finally ending my adventure when I did a face plant into the shore…My right eye lid is scraped badly and my eye bruised and my nose bled a little bit, but overall, I’m ok!  I was able to give Khoa the rest of my flight time so he was able to fly longer.  He had much more luck than me and did SUCH a great job!  He was my rocket man soaring through the air!  They didn’t even make him to a swim test, he was a natural!!  Check out the video below of his flight!  At the end, the instructor told him to “fly” without hands and to flap like a bird, unfortunately this made Khoa yank out the key in the ignition and so he fell haha.  Other than that, he did great with all his “mocking God”, submarines, dolphins, and other tricks in the air!

That evening we went to the BIGBANG concert at the Honda Center with Lisa Guan and her boyfriend Eric Chao!  I won’t say much about this since this is Khoa’s post, but this was the most AMAZING concert and one of the most amazing events of my life (besides my wedding day, Lily’s birth, and anything related to Khoa being in my life of course =P).  Taeyang even did two of his solo songs, Look Only At Me and Wedding Dress, soooo amazing!!!  After the concert, Khoa bought me a t-shirt and a wand, and completed my night, I mean Khoa’s birthday!  You can see more pictures and videos from the concert HERE!

The next day, I asked mother nature for more time to enjoy Khoa’s birthday celebration, so we got a whole extra hour to sleep in!!  Oh the things I manage to get for Khoa! =)  I was planning to make Khoa a nice breakfast at home, but we had SO MUCH BBQ leftovers that we just ate that instead.  We then went to church at noon and brought Lily inside with no carseat for the first time, and she was so good!  She was awake the entire time and just sat there and enjoyed everything!  We then went to the mall to get some milk tea and relaxed at home with some TV shows.  I made dinner reservations and surprised Khoa by taking him to a Brazilian BBQ restaurant called Agora Churrascaria in Irvine.  They had a very nice salad bar and 16 types of all you can eat meat ranging from chicken, fish and red meats.  Khoa’s been bugging me for a long time to eat Brazilian BBQ, so FINALLY this was the perfect surprise.  I found it on yelp and this place had really good reviews and it definitely lived up to it’s expectations.  Just make sure you come with a very empty stomach because there’s a LOT of food there!  I told the waitress it’s Khoa’s birthday and he got a birthday flan dessert on the house!  We ended the night by watching some more TV shows, it was nice and relaxing, great way to end the birthday weekend celebration!  Happy 28th birthday Khoa, you deserve the best and I hope you enjoyed your special 1st birthday as a wonderful DADDY! Lily and I love you to pieces!!!

More meats please!