Happy New Year!

Celebrating a Happy 2010 ahead! We all had a champagne glass of ....... Apple Cranberry Cider!

2010 New Year Resolutions

Christine is asking our girls to list 12 things they like to improve on for 2010. Then do one improvement each month. Jody is already stuck on March 2010. Our girls said "We are so good, there's nothing else to improve."

What is your new year resolution for 2010? Please share with us!

Richard Nixon Birthplace.

Visiting the Richard Nixon Library.

Lego Train club display in the background.

More balloon pictures from yesterday

Jamie vs the Lobster

That's the one I want to "Just eat it, just eat it" (parody of Michael Jackson's Beat It song).

Great Bike and Balloon!

Breakfast at the Lin's

The Lee's visiting us.

Out with Skippy at the park

Swing!

New technology: Typewriter

Jody's new toy, "the Typewriter". This is a 20+ years old typewriter that just won't quit!

Xmas eve breakfast

Eggs, fried rice, Portuguese sausage, bananas, fruits, etc...

Twas the night before Christmas...

Christine was busy cooking in the kitchen!!!(wow),
The girls are busy counting all their presents,
Another 1000 piece puzzle was just completed,
What a way to finish the remaining days of 2009!

Christmas Card 2009

http://www.photoshow.com/watch/jf4gm6zX

Bead geckos

J and J's bead geckos.

Magic Santa show!

Kelly's chinese project on cooking

Kelly's fried rice dish for Chinese school. She needed to do a write up and presentation on how to make it. I helped :)

Puzzle of the day (Jody)

Can you spot what's wrong with this picture? First one to get it right will earn bragging rights for the day! Jody said winner can also sleep in late and be late for work :).

Still awake

It is past 9pm and we are still up! We like Xmas break :).

Kelly's Piano Recital on Wed Dec 9.

Warning!!! 5 mins 30 seconds in length.... go get a cup of coffee first. :)
Frederic Chopin, Waltz, Opus 34, No. 2 in a minor.

Marathon weekend!

It's another exciting marathon weekend on Sunday Dec 13, 2009. We have 2 family members and friends running marathons in Hawaii and Arizona.

First let's congratulate Russel and Kathleen Honda for finishing another Honolulu marathon! Nice Job! Click on images below to enlarge.


Also, one of Christine's friend, Julie Ng, originally from CA and now lives in Honolulu ran the Honolulu marathon.


Last but not least, one of my good runner friends, Cindy Croft, ran the Tucson Arizona marathon. From what I heard, she tripped over something around mile 14 and fell hard to the ground. She got back up and couldn't get back on pace. This is my friend Cindy's marathon debut and she did very well still with a finishing time of 3 hrs and 30 mins.

Kelly's science plants (final weekend)

Kelly is nearly done with her tomato plants. Using different types of water, there were different growth rates. She won't know the exact numbers until next week.

Our neighbor Marilyn came over yesterday and thought we were growing MJ in the house!

Sacramento(CIM) Marathon Results

Well, I did it! I ran a 3:10:56 (chip time) marathon in Sacramento this morning! Weather was in the low 30's at the start and perfect condition to run a marathon. Thanks to my friend Ken Chai for running with me and my other friend Ken Webb for providing field support! That helped tremendously! I now have qualified for the Boston Marathon (I needed a 3:20 qualifier) and I plan to go to Boston for 2011 (with my family)!

I came into the race with expectations of running a 3:15. But I PR'd with 3:10:56. I am a very happy guy!

Saturday morning

It's 6am and I am ready to head out the door for my final 10 mile training run for the upcoming Sacramento marathon next Sunday, 12/6. I am happy my recent marathon training is near its end yet nervous. I have trained hard and well these past few months and hope it will all come together for me!

Today's schedule is to start preparing the house for Christmas now that Thanksgiving has passed quietly. Somehow, the past few days have been a blur for me. Gotta go!

Door busters at the Doctor's office

First patient at the local clinic on black Friday! Exciting? Jody has been fighting a flu for 6 days now :(

It turns out that Jody got Pneumonia. She's on some heavy antibiotics for the next 5 days.

Shaun visiting us today

On his new MacPro laptop!

Sick Jody

Jody has been sick for the past 4 days with a high fever :( Please get well, Jody. Your sisters are so jealous that you got to watch movies all day long.

Typical Sunday!

Hmmmm... We went to Chinese School this morning without Jody since she got sick yesterday with a fever. Then we came home after Chinese School, had lunch, and started on Chinese homework. Never a dull moment! Christine said the benefit of doing homework on Sundays is to make sure we have time to do more homework during weekdays. Why do Sundays seem like Mondays? What do you think?

On my way home!

Full flight on a Friday afternoon.

Internet dinner with my family

I am having dinner with my family across the Internet. Unfortunately, I am eating hotel food and they are eating leftovers.

My view of my girls on my business trip

I am missing home. Good thing for the Internet!

Big meetings for the next few days

This is what I have to look forward to for the rest of the week. Exciting?

Over Monterey Bay area

On my way to San Jose for the week on business. Notice the big cloud of smoke in the Monterey Bay area!

Seat at breakfast

Someone got replaced by Skippy at the breakfast table this morning :(

Tomato plants!

Kelly's science project is growing fast. We are going to have more tomatoes than we can handle soon.

Christine said Skippy was cold

Skippy's new outfit.

Haircut for Skippy today!

Christine took 2 hours to cut his hair!

In front of Will Roger's house

End of our hike. Resting in front of Will Roger's house.

Made it to the top!

Downtown LA in the background on a cloudy day.

Will Rogers hike!

Visiting friends in LA

Visiting Christine's friend Rosanne, Karsten, and family in LA.

The Skeen's came and went!

The Skeen's arrived late last night and left for LV late this morning!!!! That was it....

Jamie's Halloween class picture

Chinese school.

Going Trick or Treating

At Kathryn's house!

Sorting through all the candy.

We want more sugar!

Movie afternoon

Waiting for the movie G-Force to start!

Locally grown fruits and vegetables

Christine recently joined a community sharing program where they buy all locally grown vegetables and fruits. Well, it's here! Can you tell she is excited?

Halloween dress up day!

Another Christine project

Christine completed another Elfa Shelf project in our livingroom last night!

Progress on kelly's experiment

The tomato plants are growing fast now!

Hanging out with cousins in Carlsbad

Kelly's science project

Effects of greywater on growing tomato plants.