NEW52 - Week 13, new playroom, friend, and soul

So much to share.  First of all, we moved some things out of our extra room and made Bostyn her own NEW playroom.  She loves having her own space to play.  Her favorites are still playing tea party and baby.  Here she is with her NEW friend, Kamalei, who is the daughter of my college friend who was in town visiting.  They were too busy to stop and smile.

The kids had so much fun playing together, we decided to take them to the zoo the very next day.  Here they are with Kamalei's brothers acting like monkeys and petting the goat.

I know many of you were disappointed that I didn't share pictures with my latest and greatest foodie finds, so this week I sought out a NEW restaurant so I could appease your palette.  This week, we went to Soul.  This restaurant won the Honolulu Magazine's gold medal for best new restaurant (Master Chef Sean Priester pictured below).

It was a great southern style restaurant filled with buttermilk fried chicken, grits, gumbo, biscuits, cole slaw, etc.  However, the dishes had to have some type of island inspiration.  Some were the addition of local greens and some was using our very own spicy portuguese sausage.  It was very good.  I can't wait for a return visit for Sunday brunch.  I am dying to try their crab cake benedict with kaimuli mango hollandaise.

Pictured below is Tate's seafood jambalaya.

And my chicken, sweet potato, and kukui spicy portuguese sausage.

Sorry, the photos cannot tell you the flavor explosion going on in my mouth as I ate.  As you can tell, the portions were also very generous.

Below are some NEW layouts for the week.

This is my layout for Che Yang Designs 1st Year Challenge.  I loved the way it turned out.  It gave me a great reason to express my thanks to Tate for being the best dad (besides my dad of course).

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This layout was for the DHD March blueprint challenge.  It was perfect for the photos I took at the Chinese Lion Pole Dance I took at the Honolulu Academy of Arts last month.

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This layout was the Design House Digital digi-morph challenge.  It was a lot of fun!  If you like this layout, I dare you to lift me and put it in the DHD April scraplift challenge.

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I'm already working on my new for next week, it should be a good one.  April is going to be full of surprises and a bunch more NEW52 adventures.