Labor Day 2011

We decided to go kayaking on labor day this year. Arriving at Monterey Bay Kayaks

It seems that the kids are too big for the outing with us, so we took a picture with just us.

We started getting the oar

Then the instructor show us a few pointers...

Here are the boys..

Monica

Then we started to kayak

Passing sea lions.

Again, daddy has to watch Timothy

Here is me

Seagull

Afterwards we drove to Santa cruz and had lunch at Crow's Nest

I had fish while the kids had seafood fettucini

The view was amazing.. it was a really nice day.

BBQ and poker night

We decided to have Choi's and Huang's over for BBQ on labor day weekend.
We just happened to be dogsetting Casey as well. So, there were 3 dogs, and 3 families with 13 people.
The dogs met...

Then the girls began to chat with appetiter

The girls...

Then other set of girls began to decorate the cupcakes...they also walked the dogs afterwards.

The boys played wii of course.

I took an annual picture of the kids line up

The the guys started to BBQ

Start to eat

Our backyard with guests.

Then began the game of poker

It was fun :)

We ended the night with Mikey yawning.

The way to EAT

If I had to write a book about food, it would be "The way to EAT," obviously you can tell I like to eat more than I like to cook. However, I've been cooking for my family for all these years.
I watch shows like "chopped", read books from the library and was given to me. read food blogs and follow them. Still, I rather eat than cook...I am thankful that there is restaurants, take outs, grandma's house, and facebook to eat when I don't cook. I will start to document my journey on food so that I can remember in the future what I ate. I cooked Spaghetti with Fresh Soppressata yesterday. Today, I had my almond milk tea and piece of bread for breakfast, facebook for lunch so far.

First Day of School

Monica is a Junior this year and Tim is a freshman in High school!! How time flies...

Mexico cruise and L.A. trip

Mexico cruise was a memorable trip! Thanks to Ying-i for arrange it. It was a family reunion. We had 35 people attended the cruise.

Carnival Paradise: Long beach to Ensenada and back. Total 3 nights 4 days. The most memorable part is when we had the room all to ourselves. There was a slide show of pictures. We all tell stories of all we immigrated to United States. Every family has a story. Afterwards we played white elephant game.

The cousins bonded really well. It's always fun to see them interact :)

After the cruise, Paul went back home and we spent time with Mom and Dad

Mom loves to garden and Dad loves to play piano.
I learned to make soy milk and smoothie all over again :)

The highlight of L.A. trip is 85 C bakery. Yum! Love it.