Michelle Obama Obama has said that the two had an "opposites attract" scenario in their initial interest in each other, since Michelle had stability from her two-parent home while he was "adventurous". They married on October 3, 1992. After suffering a miscarriage, Michelle underwent in vitro fertilisation to conceive their daughters Malia Ann (born 1998) and Natasha (known as Sasha, born 2001). The Obama family lived on Chicago's South Side, where Barack taught at the University of Chicago Law School. He was elected to the state senate in 1996, and to the US Senate in 2004. They chose to keep their residence
Malia (canoe) of the Kona Coast on the leeward side of the Big Island, the site where the canoe was made. The Outrigger Canoe Club bought the original "Mālia" in 1940, and the Waikiki Surf Club acquired it in 1948, keeping it in use until 1988. From 1950-1951, the design of "Malia" was modified by Froiseth, Downing, and Choy. In 1959, the original "Mālia" won the first outrigger canoe race to Catalina Island in California. After the race, the "Malia" had a significant impact on the historical development of the racing canoe. According to Tommy Holmes: An interesting sidelight of the first