Aunty Muriel dancing High School Musical! (1 min 20 sec)

This is from our Christmas vacation back in December 2008. We opened Christmas presents at Stacie's house. Aunty Muriel was really getting into the High School Musical dance pad which was Jody's Christmas present.

Kelly playing the saxophone

Here's Kelly playing the saxophone at her school performance. She lead the group playing solo!

Chinese New Years 2009 Clothes!

Happy Chinese New Year! This is the year of the Ox.

Chinese New Years 2009 - Jamie's class

Celebrating Chinese new years at Jamie's Chinese class. We took a picture with Jamie's Chinese teacher!

Chinese Acrobat show

We went to see the famous Chinese Acrobats with Gma and Gpa Lin at the OC performing arts center.

Front row! Too close???

Yikes! I didn't realize our seats were so close!

Night Out at the Improv!

Seeing John Heffron(winner of Last Comic Standing) at Brea Improv!

5k run winner

Kelly ran her first 5k race in Woodbridge yesterday. She took first place in her age group. I am very proud of her accomplishment!

Race Results Page below.
http://teamtrax.net/schalfmarathon/race-results-january-10-2009

Jody at rehearsal

Jody with the character (moon or month) during Chinese New Year performance rehearsal. Yes, she has to say lines in Mandarin.

Jamie at dress rehearsal

Jamie getting ready for Chinese New Year performance rehearsal. They still have 3 weeks to prepare.

Saturday luncheon

Saturday luncheon with Alex, Jenny, and Sascha at Ruby's. Mateo is at Gma and Gpa Lin's house.

Ozoni soup

Mushrooms(Enoki), mochi, tofu, daikon, kamaboko, and mizuna(spinach like vegetable). I am eating double for good luck :)

Ozoni for New Years!

Having Ozoni (Mochi Soup) for good luck!