First and foremost, thank you all for your kind condolences about my shoes. I feel so loved! 

Now, here's a quick flashback to our adventure in California, where we spent a week before arriving in Oahu. First, Jake's birthday! Well actually his birthday was several weeks ago, but here are some photos of his belated birthday celebration with friends and family at Zachary's Pizza, mmm...

Jake received very thoughtful birthday cards, created just for the special occasion:

Tyler, Emily, Beth, ...

and Jean and I all joined him for the event:

And there was a big birthday hoopla including the waitstaff's happy birthday rendition:

See, Jake is just having buckets of fun here!