Happy Birthday sweet sweet

 September 1st may be my favorite day out of the whole year.

My sweet heart was born 25 years ago on this special day :)

I have wanted to do a "breakfast in bed" for David for SO LONG, but it seemed like every time I got up, he got up too. This time, when I got up to make some breakfast, he didn't immediately wake up, so I tried to be sneaky and make him some ono kine french toast! While I was still cooking, he got up and went to the bathroom, and TRIED to get into the kitchen, but I said "GO BACK TO BED!" haha I was kind of mean to him. --but I didn't want him to see the surprise yet! 

Anyway, here it is!

After breakfast, David went out and played his favorite sport: SOCCER! And then we went to eat some shave ice down the street. It was a hot day, so it was perfect! 

Next stop, the beach! we only went for an hour, but David caught me drooling while sleeping. 

Later that night we went to Gyu-Kaku, which is a Japanese/Korean BBQ. 

Oh.My.Goodness. It was so good! I used to eat this with my family in Japan at least once a month (and if we didn't, I'd be wining that I wanted to go haha)

We brought Zach and Sara with us, and they also loved it! 

One of my favorites, cow tongue!

S'mores at gyu-kaku? that must be an American thing! they definitely don't have that on the menu in Japan!

We came home around 10:30pm because we watched a movie called "Premium Rush" with the guy from Inception and Batman. I thought it was kinda weird at first, but I absolutely loved it in the end!

I found this crazy chocolate cake recipe on pinterest, and thought that I HAD to do this for David. I knew he would love it.

 And I was right, he loved it! :) 

The cake is called, "Chocolate wasted cake". You're supposed drizzle chocolate liquor in the cake itself, but I omitted that step. Also it was supposed to be chocolate cake on the inside, but I didn't want it to be more chocolate-y than it already is, so I used yellow cake.

I will post the recipe and some more pictures in the next post :)

He's thinking: "I'm not sharing this with you~!" haha

I love you so much David! I am so happy you were born! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

While we wait.

ok, I admit it...I love blogging.
It's so addicting! Don't worry though mom, I finished my homework first (ehehe)! :)

Today, I decided to make some banana chocolate chip muffins. I didn't think it would be that great because last time I tried, my chocolate muffins/cupcakes turned into brownies...

This time they came out super fluffy and delish!

heart-shaped muffins <3
I will post ingredients and instructions at the end of this post!!

 I made spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. Best meatballs I have EVER made.

I can probably eat this every night. 

David making our hot choclate--he's an expert.

And yes, we drink hot chocolate in Hawaii too. 

The pair-cup David and I got for Christmas from my brother.

Thank you Ken, these are my favorite cups!

We had a super lazy weekend because of the crazy wind and rain. 

It was literally raining tunas and turtles out there! We didn't want to leave our apartment. 

So instead, we did homework, watched movies, made good food. All is well :)

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Ingredients

 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

2/3 cup sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 2 large)

1 large egg

1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted

1/4 cup milk

3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Line twelve 1/3-cup muffin cups with foil muffin liners. Mix mashed bananas, egg, melted butter and milk in medium bowl. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in large bowl. 

Stir banana mixture into dry ingredients just until blended (if using a kitchen aid, just add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients--it doesn't really make a difference). Stir in chocolate chips.

Divide and fill each about 3/4 full. Bake muffins until tops are pale golden and tester inserted into center comes out with some melted chocolate attached but no crumbs, about 20 minutes. Transfer muffins to rack; cool.