Daddy's welcome home

The planes

FINALLY!

Waiting for Daddy's arrival...they came ready with sign AND snacks :)

Adam's Chinese New Year Parade

Waiting to be called to go home :)

Class after parade

Smiley Boy!

HI MOMMY!

Aidan in the parade, too.

Signs of Spring?!

The perfect bloom :)

I love all the different stages of bloom!

Forget we have irises out there, too! :)

Beautiful day! Didn't realize how big our magnolia tree has gotten or how abundant the blooms were...

Maddie's Chinese New Year Parade - friends

Boo jumping..for joy probably...FINALLY time to go home!

with her friend Ava

with her friend Kaylee

Matthew

The Class

Maddie's Chinese New Year Parade

The full dragon

Middle of the dragon

Maddie's class

Matthew - Maddie's Best "Boy"friend

What Boo Boo does best...taking a picture of Mommy taking a picture of him!

Maddie's Chinese New Year Parade - Classroom

All the kids were given chopsticks and did really good!

Boo Boo's space

Boo Boo helping Sissy hand out Red Envelopes to class

Waiting to help

Posing in front of parade stuff

Maddie's place setting/table

(the kids made their own dragons)

Fried Rice

So anyone who knows me, knows I do NOT "choose" to cook...let alone ASIAN foods! That's what Ba-y and Chu Tung is for :) Anyways, I signed up to bring "rice" for Maddie's class Chinese New Year party. It said "steamed OR fried rice" so I'm thinking, I do know how to pour 8 cups of rice into a cooker. Except I didn't take into account my daughter and her "need" to have fried rice with very specific ingredients, like eggs and chicken. Long story short, she gave me some cute smiles and puppy dog eyes so I made the fried rice. When I warned her I might not have time (left out the lazy factor), she asked me, "Why can't you just order it and ask them to leave out the onions?"

Needless to say, this is the biggest bowl of fried rice I personally have ever made! I took a picture of just the bowl and thought, no one can see how BIG the bowl really is...so the dollar bill might help put it in perspective :) It's the biggest mixing bowl I have! It turned out pretty good I think...I did get some compliments...

Olympic Spirit!

Maddie weightlifting?!

Hugs all around!

Modeling Olympic gear

*These awesome shirts were courtesy of our Canadian inlaws...THANK YOU Auntie Sandra, Uncle Larry, Joshua, and Elizabeth! And thank you to Boc Anson for personally delivering them!*

The NEW ride!

Follow the leader...

even if it is only around the front lawn :)

Boo Boo's new ride!

Yummmy mango cake

In honor of Eric's Sweet 16th!

(courtesy of Yasmine's husband/chef/broker...ok, maybe 99 ranch market! :))

Boo's new ride...or not.

Big Boy Bike...which turned out to be a BUST!

(a little TOOO big for this "little big boy")

What they love to do best at stores...

squeeze into toys they know they aren't going to get!

What to during break?

Play date with Sierra

Studio time with Chu B, Co Miho, and Miya

Invite Miya to come laugh at you!

Getting ready for Olympics!

Victory lap

Is this how I'd hold the bouquet?

Miga, one of the official mascots...

1st bike ride in a long time

Oops, maybe it's time for an upgrade?

Hamming it for Daddy!

Posers!

We made it across some BIG streets :)

Tet 2010 - Year of the Tiger

Happy New Year!