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) to Oahu, leading to a separate division for Malia-style fiberglass canoes in 1960–78. By 1981, models of the "Mālia" had begun spreading to Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, Samoa, and to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf Coast, and Great Lakes across the United States. The term "Malia canoe" now refers to a class of Hawaiian-style outrigger canoes that follow the design of the original "Mālia", even when made of fiberglass. Every serious outrigger canoe club, however, aims to acquire at least one "Mālia" made of koa wood and other traditional materials. Malia (canoe) Mālia is a Hawaiian-style wooden racing