May Photo Challenge

I'm way behind on my photos, but I can't leave y'all hanging so here's the May photo ops!

May 4th - Pay a tribute to the wonder that is...the avocado! Show how much you love (or hate) it by snapping your favorite avocado preparation!
May 11th - Mom! Post a photo of your mom and describe what it means to you.
May 18th - Opposites attract. Incorporate two opposing/contrasting things in one shot.
May 25th - Levitation. Like a jump shot, but you gotta make it look like you're levitating and not just in mid-jump. It's actually quite hard to do because your natural inclination is to make an excited face and tense up your limbs! Check this out for some inspiration!

Have fun!

April Week Two: The best thing you ate this week

Been a bit stressed with so much work lately so chose to eat at Park Ave. with Kim this week - a treat for working so hard.

Seared ahi w/arugula & cucumbers to start, ribeye steak w/ string beans & twice baked potato for main course and cheesecake flan for dessert. Yum. :)

April Week One: A throwback or nostalgic photo

Obviously since we are getting older, there are more and more photos that make us feel...old. =)  I have a couple of photos I decided to post.  This first one would be the original MoKroopaLs with the shirts we made for ourselves.  I know I don't have mine anymore but perhaps some of you still have yours.

 

This second photo is just of me when I was little.  Actually, you can see my sister in red standing behind me and behind her is my youngest uncle.  This was when my family lived in Illinois - we moved to California when I was about 4 years old.  When I look at this photo now, it doesn't seem like I could ever be that young but I see a lot of myself in this little girl.

And, as just a side note: My grandpa is in an assisted living facility and my mom has been visiting him every week.  Yesterday she said they talked about his family and how he grew up in Vietnam.  It turns out that my great grandfather was a teacher and that several of my grandfather's siblings were also teachers.  They even opened a school in North Vietnam but when the country split & people fled to the south, they were drafted and unable to teach anymore.  My grandfather told my mom that he was so proud that I was a teacher because that spirit of helping others reminds him of his family in Vietnam...and I am also very proud of my teaching heritage.  Here's a picture of my grandparents when they first came to America (I think this was in Ohio?) and our family today.