Mother's day, Ian's 9th birthday

This year we gave Ian a bbq and cake. And like most kids stogged himself on ice-cream.
However we all had fun

getting the steaks on the grill

 the chef hard at work. The bbq menu was chicken, steak, jumbo shrimp, hot dogs on sticks, thin sliced pork, grilled rice balls, grilled green peppers with grilled eggplant and marshmellows

gateaux a la Costco

 my oldest daughter cooking grilled rice balls, otherwise known as yaki-onigiri

 Ian and I just before he got a little sunstroke! That or he ate too much ice-cream at Costco this morning.