Motivation

Start line

Saturday 6:45am start!

Beauty of St George Utah

Notice the beautiful mountains and valleys of St G.

Dixie convention center

Here at St George finally!

Ken

Our fellow runner and "coach"

Lunch!

Can you Vegas go-ers guess where?

Primm

Just crossing the CA and NV stateline.

Our van and driver

Our friend and driver Manju. He is shooting for a 3:30 marathon goal.

Road to St George Utah marathon

This is the beginning of my marathon trip to St George. My friends Manju, Ken, Cindy, and I are carpooling in Manju's Toyota Sienna. We just passed the Barstow outlet mall. St George, here we come! Marathon is Saturday morning.

Jamie reading

... Chinese ...

Heatwave hits Irvine

Gotta be a record for this time of the year!

5th inning

Rangers 1, Angels 0.

Guess where I am?

For a work function, of course! I am hard at work hosting customers.

First quesadilla !

Kelly cooking her first quesadilla! I am SO HAPPY!

Back to Chinese school

Kelly back in Chinese school, 7th grade.

Heading home

It's been a busy 3 hot and humid days in Orlando. Met customers, got to see University of Central Florida from my morning runs, and paid a bunch of freeway tolls from driving around. Glad to be done and heading home! Will be stopping in Salt Lake City before changing planes to head back to the OC. Bye bye Orlando!

"Departures" movie soundtrack

Love this soundtrack from the Japanese movie "Departures".

Jody growing

Jody said she grew a mustache in the last 2 days! Amazing!

Video Cam

I am on a business trip to Orlando. So, I have to do a video chat with my girls to say hi!

Reading in public

While Christine and I were shopping for bathroom remodeling things, I couldn't believe that our girls were all quietly reading together. Guess they got bored of looking at tiles....

Tomato worm

This guy has been feasting on our tomato plants! Christine screamed when she saw it. Not sure what the girls are going to do with it.

Winners!

The girls tied for first place in their sandcastle building contest!

Sandcastle building project

The girls are busy working on their entry to the sandcastle building contest at the Northlake lagoon. Almost done!

College is fun!

Fun to hang out with UCI's mascot?

Roots of knowledge

Christine showing the girls "the roots of knowledge" at UCI. Walk on it, get smarter....

UCI Student 2010

Hmmmm, my girls are curious on what this UCI student is working on. So cool to be a college student!

We will miss you, Mr. Lau

Sad news. We heard late last night that Mr. Lau (Christine's oldest sister's father-in-law) passed away at the age of 96 due to pneumonia. Our girls had the honor of performing Hula for him at his senior carehome about 3 weeks ago while we were in Hawaii. Farewell Mr. Lau. You will always be in our hearts! We will miss you!

Bike party!

Labor day weekend. Bike party starts now!!!

New Helicopter

The Chinook Cargo Helicopter.

First day of school(chaos)

Kelly's middle school. All the kids are trying to pickup their class schedule!

Skippy got comfortable

I woke up early this morning for my 6am run. The sun was not up yet and the house was dark. As I exited my bedroom, I noticed Skippy was not sleeping in his pillow in the corner by our door. Hmmm, where did he go? Before going downstairs, I saw that our girls' bedroom gate was slightly open. Nothing unusual or out of the norm.

I got downstairs and did not see Skippy in his sofa chair either. That's odd, where did he go? He went outside to use the bathroom? Not this early. I looked around the house downstairs some more and never found him. By this time, it was time for me to head out for my run with my running friends. I thought maybe I missed Skippy under the couch or something.

When I got home from my run, Christine had taken this picture. We guessed that overnight, he went into the girls' room and hopped into Kelly's bed. In this picture, Kelly is facing down on her pillow. Skippy seems comfortable. Today is the first day of school for Irvine and our girls are a little nervous. Maybe Skippy sensed their uneasiness and wanted to stay with them? Maybe I am reading into this picture way too much?

What do you think?