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Feb 27, 2011

Family picture 2010

Thanks Susan for these wonderful family pictures.

Trip back to Texas for Thanksgiving

We had the chance to go back to Texas for Thanksgiving this year. It's really funny that I was eagered to go back there. That's something I never thought would happen. It's been a year since we moved out of El Paso. I do miss my family and friends there.
Ian and grandpa became best friends very soon. He followed grandpa everywhere. He even asked for grandpa when he woke up the first night in the middle of the night. It's very funny to see he likes grandpa so much now since he was not like that before.
Grandpa took Ian to water the trees in the back yard, played with Sasha, and racked the leaves. Ian had lots of fun with grandpa and grandma.

We stayed in El Paso for few days then we all headed to Austin for Thanksgiving with the rest of the families. Ian was very excited to see his cousins. He loves his cousins. He loves playing with them.

Thanks for Laura and Catherine for preparing all the meals. My sister-in-laws are amazing cooks. They made delicious meals, especially Thanksgiving dinner.

We had lots of fun with families. 2 weeks is not enough time to do what we want to do or to visit friends we want to visit. But we are glad to have the chance to be with family again.

Ian and grandpa patting Sashy

Ian was waiting for the rest of the families to finish their movie. I took Ian and Ethan to see Mega Mind when the rest of them went to see other movie.

Ian's helping daddy getting the leaves

playing with cousins

playing with daddy,uncles and cousins

Ian and Sashy

Ian and grandpa

May 8, 2009

Video--Easter Egg Hunt

Activity---Easter Egg Hunt

This is Ian's first Easter Activity.

I have no idea what to do for the activity. So I asked Pat what did he do when he was little. We cooked the eggs, colored the eggs, decorated the eggs, put candies or chocolate or toys in the eggs. Then hid the eggs in the front yard for Ian to find.

Seriously, Ian had no idea what were we doing. We had to try really hard to show him how to find the eggs and put them in his Easter basket. It's hard for him to let go of the eggs. He just wanted to hold the eggs instead of putting them in the basket.

Grandpa and papa helped Ian to find the eggs everywhere. Actually, They found the eggs and told Ian to pick them up and put in the basket. Grandpa had to hold the basket for Ian. Because Ian didn't have extra hand to hold it when both of his hands were full of eggs.

Ian had no idea what's in the eggs. Until we showed him the candies. He was very happy to crack the eggs open and got the mouthful of candies. This was one of his happiest day ever because how much candies he ate. Hah!Hah!
(It took me a while to decide what to put in the eggs. I didn't want to put chocolate or other sweets. So I chose t to put the jelly beans in there. At least the jelly beans are a little bit healthier than chocolate, I said to myself.)

I'm ready to go.

"Where are they,Daddy?"

I got one!!!! How many do I have in the basket?

Grandpa: Put them in there,kid!

Put it well.

One more here hiding in the tree

May 6, 2009

Tour Around Taiwan--ShuiLi

After Jiji, we continue our trip to ShuiLi. There is a very famous kiln there. It's called " The Snake Kiln". It's one of the oldest, the most traditional firewood Kiln.

Pat, Ian & Grandma

Pat & Me

Pat

May 3, 2009

Tour Around Taiwan--JiJi

After the funeral, Mom decided to take a 2-day trip with the whole family which are Ian, Pat, John(my brother) and me. Plus one of my cousins-Gloria.

Pat had never tour the southern Taiwan. The last 2 trips he had were up in Taipei. Though my family moved down south a while ago, he never got the chance to go anywhere.

We though this will be a good way to help Mom to relax a little bit. Also this might be able to help her to ease some of her grief when we are all around her.

We decided to go to JiJi-ShuiLi-Sun Moon Lake-Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village.I never been to one of these places before. So we were all excited about this trip.

We went to JiJi first. JiJi is a very beautiful town. It famous by the " Green Tunnel" and the train station. The Green Tunnel is a 4.5-kilometer route with camphor trees on both sides. It's wonderful to see the greens all around. The train station was built in 1922. It's one of the oldest train station that had left in Taiwan. The train station now is a hot spot for taking pictures,especially the wedding photos. Of course, we did take some pictures as well.