Christmas Day 2009

Merry Christmas 2009

Make a Smilebox greeting

Dinning Room project

Santa........

Christmas picture at home

Baking party with friends

Thanks for Jen organizing this wonderful baking party. We baked a ton of different chirstmas goodies to our friends and neigbhors. The kids had alot of fun helping to bake. Look at the mouths of those girls, you can tell the goodies are very yummmy.....

When we were done baking, I got my shares and hurried to pick up the kids from school. Then, we all went out to deliver to our friends.

Gifted Talented project for Quentin

Blowing Bubbles Outside

Halloween Costume

Project # in dining room

Yesterday, I went to Lowe to get the stairs casing. My next project is to add the crowning in the dining room. So, here I am having all the materials that I need to get my project done. I got three 10 foot long and one 8 foot long crowning. The saw, nails, glues gun, stub censor, etc. I started one side of the wall last night with the help from Fred, holding the 10 foot long crowning for me. I put the glue and put some nails to hold the crowning. The hardest thing is to get the edge put together, since I don't have any tool to cut the angels. I am kind of guessing how much I need to cut for the angel. Well, I think I did okay. This morning, I decided to finish the rest of the dining room. It gets easier and faster especially after I know how much angle I should cut. If I didn't cut the angles quite right, I just used the cualking to fill up the gaps. Not bad. Not to mention that, I got two little helpers to hold the crowning and passed me the tools. It is an easy project for me to do and it only takes 2-3 hours to put up the crowning. I need to paint them later. Ah, By the way, Kayley tried to help me to take pictures (before and after), then she accidentally dropped the camera. Usually, it didn't break the camera, but this time, I guess the lens went down the ground first. When I turned the camera on, I got the lense error. When Fred came home from work and told him the camera was broken, he said well it was time to get a new one anyway. I guess we are going to get a new and better one soon. Good thing I have the videocam that I still can take pictures. Hey! Don't forget to check out the before and after pictures :) The next project will be painting.. HMmm, what color are we going to pick for dining room???

Family meeting

After church and lunch, Dad is taking a rest downstair in his room and Mom was taking a nap with Bbay Bryden. After 45 minutes nap, Preston came upstair and woke me up telling me to wake up. He told me that we were going to have a family meeting in the living room and it is important. I told him that if he knew mommy was taking a nap with your baby brother. Don't wake us up. After 5 minutes, he came up again and asked me to get up. He emphasized how important it was. I didn't know why we have a family meeting in the middle of the day while Daddy was taking a rest downstair. Well, I thought I should go down and see what happened. When I got down, I saw Fred just waking up from his nap too. Preston then asked everyone to sit down at specific seat. Then, he asked us to take turn to open our red pocket. We took turn to read and it is very heartfelt and sweet note he wrote.

Preston has a very good and kind heart. He wrote every one of us a note saying how much he loves us. He put the note with coins in the red pocket. When we asked him where he got the coins, he smiled and said he got it from the yogurt cup where we put our changes there. He is very funny that he didn't use his money to put in the red pockets. Anyway, he is such a good example to us and his sibling. He consistently demostrates his leadership around the house. I am grateful to have him in our life.

Bryden crawls down the stairs

At his 16 months, he starts to learn to crawl down the stairs. In the past, he just knew how to climb up the stairs and very careful not to go down the stairs. Everytime, he gets to the edge of the top step, he would stop and not even dare to stretch his legs out. It seems that he knows it is dangerous to walk down the stairs by himself. Since yesterday, I notice that he would get himself down the top of the stairs, then push his hands down to the steps. It is funny to see him to do that without making any scary noises. You can tell he is learning to get his way around. Now, he can climb up and crawl down the stairs freely. He is getting very active nowaday.

Preston Front bottom tooth

Preston had his dentist visit two months ago and had a X-ray. The dentist told us that he will lose his front tooth by Christmas. He showed us the x-ray and it shows that there is a new adult front tooth coming out. At that time, we didn't see it on the surface. Now, it is very obvious the new tooth is there. And his front teeth probably will fall out soon. Good thing it doesn't hurt.

Texturing the restroom

Before the texturing After

After moving to a new house, we always want to put some color on our wall. Not until I went to Stacy Richard house and see her kitchen. It is exactly what I always wanted to do in my house. - texturing. I went to different paint shops before and looked at those technique painting skills and didn't really understand how they do it. Good thing, I have Stacy who is very kind and come over to show me how to do it. Of course, it is my first time to do and don't want to make a big mistake. I am starting with the small area which is the restroom in the hallway. I got the joint Compound from Benjamin Moore and she cane over one afternoon. I finished the texturing the same day. Man! It is a hard work. Don't know the result yet, will see. The next step is to get the paint - Get the antinque white paint, Then, the final step would be Glazing.

Anyway, see the 'Before' and 'After' pictures. Fred likes it and I think it is not bad after all. I think I can do a better job in my next room.

Copperhead Snake

I was mowing the lawn this afternoon while Bryden was taking a nap. When I was edging the side in the back yard. I noticed there was something moving, I thought it probably was a toad. There are alot of toad around the yard in Texas. But when I had a closer look, I found out it was a snake, I saw the head of it. I was not sure how big it was. He kept hissing and I could see his fork tongue. I was scared and not to do. Fred is at work and no one is around. I went in the house and grab the camera and the video cam. Then, I still struggled if I should kill it, if I do, how do I kill a snake? Or what I am going to do with it. After using the garden tool, I saw the whole size of the snake, and it was a 6-10 inches young snake. Still don't know whether it is poisonous or not, so I left and thought that would come back to get it. After 20 minutes, I came back and it was gone.
So, when Fred came home, I showed him the picture. He said it was a copperhead snake. I went on the internet and found out it is venomous . I should have killed it. Well.........

Chinese Costumes

Look at those cute little chinese!!!!! Preston saw Kayley wearing her chinese dress to church this morning and when we got home from church, he went to the closet and found his chinese costume that aunt gave him two years ago. I just hang it in his closet and no intention ever to take it out for him to wear. But he got it and put it on. It looks very cute on him and I am surprised he knows where the pieces go. They are having fun and doing the kung-fu dances. It makes me feel homesick.

Haa..... Bryden is READing

Bryden loves reading (actually flipping the pages :). He can sit in the couch for a quite some time and just flip every single page of the book. Look at his facial expression when he saw the tiger in the book. He is so adorable.

First Eureka for Quentin

Eureka! is a hands-on science enrichment program. I took Kayley and Bryden with me to Quentin's first Eureka. He was so happy to see us when he walked in the room. He couldn't help keeping waving his hands to us. Today, he is learning observation skills by using a hand lens 'magnify glass' to explore all the objects while searching for the items on the scavenger hunt sheet. It is fun to see Quentin enjoying his first Eureka. He picks all different objects and find the match. Look at how he was so focused on finding the match. Kayley also wanted to do that and his brother was very kind and share his magnify glass with her.

My hiding Places

Bryden loves to find a place around the house and just hide there. Today, he finds a new his hiding place, which is the cabinet below the countertop in the kitchen. He is very funny that he would find a place and then just sit there quietly. When he knows you find, he would have a big smile on his face.

My missionary

One of my memorable experience on my trip back home is to get to see my missionary who taught me the discussion. Anita Chan and her husband Donald met us at the church building in Causeway Bay. The meeting time was short, but we had a good time catching up with one another.

President and Sister Aki

Unbeliveable, I never thought that I would get the chance to see my mission president and his wife for a long time. When we visited Hong Kong and talked to a member, I found out that President and Sister Aki were serving their couple missionaries in Hong Kong. The day we went to see them was the last day on their mission. I cancelled our plan that day and rushed to see them. The joy was great to see them again and knew that they were still faithful in serving the Lord. I have tried to contact them since I graduated from BYU-H. Now, we saw them and got all their contact info. We would never lose contact again.

Trips back to Hong Kong

Enjoy Swimming

The weather is very hot here. We goes to the pool 2 to 3 times a week. The kids love swimming now, especially Kayley. She swims like a fish. She has a great personality and attitude that to make her a good and fast learner. She just loves to swim. For Quentin, he comes a long way. From the very beginning, he has a FEAR factor. He kind of overcome abit of that and enjoy swimming. Preston is the good swimmer too. Bryden just hangs out in the pool and learn to blow bubbles and kicking his legs.