12/08/2009
8th Anniversary
We don't usually celebrate 'special occasions' because I believe everyday is celebrating life :-)
This year, we decided to take a family trip down to Monterey Bay Aquarium on our 8th anniversary. Time flies when we enjoy living in the moments and counting each and every simple things as blessings.
We were freezing inside this greenhouse, looking at some duckies swimming in and out of the water....
This is Kealan's 2nd time and Rodney's 1st time to the Aquarium.
11/09/2009
Art Show - Nov 17, 2009
My coworker is an AMAZING artist. Last weekend, she held an exhibition in Palo Alto. I brought Rodney and Kealan with me. I had a great time enjoying her art pieces. I find her work totally AMAZING....they present the polarity of dark and colorful sides at the same time.... so difficult to capture these contrasting elements....very dialectical!!! For more info about her work, check out: www.jannamitchell.com
11/01/2009
Gilroy Gardens Nov 1, 2009
The 'day' has finally come -- a day trip to Gilroy Gardens with Kealan's cousins! Due to everyone's 'nearly impossible' schedules, we scheduled for over a month ahead to set the date to take the cousins to Gilroy Gardens. It was the first time for all of us to visit here, so we were pretty excited!
Rodney and Kealan with the strawberry!!
As you can tell, we had a lot of fun and used up all our energies by the end of the day.....!!
Halloween 2009 -- PM
Continued into our celebration, we drove to Cousins Fonda and Lantis home. Here are some pictures we were taking while the cousins were playing around in the neighbor with their costumes on, getting ready for the real fun tonight!
After dinner, it was getting dark as we started trick-o-treat....Rodney brought 5 (yes, 5 total!!!) flashlights to make sure the road was bright enough!
Kealan got a little scared as we pass along some houses that were really haunted-feel.....
Family picture of the Chung's :-)
We only trick-o-treat for 1 hr.... look at all the candies! Good job everyone!
Halloween 2009 -- AM
This year is Kealan's 'official' 1st Halloween - he dressed up for the first time for this festival! We met up with the Chan's in the morning for an early brunch and then 'practiced' trick-o-treat at the mall.
Sklyer and Kealan
10/24/2009
Dinner with Gilbert
Due to our busy schedules and living distances, we haven't gotten together with Gilbert for a long time. We scheduled tonight's dinner over a month ago, and finally we got to meet up! Kealan enjoyed Gilbert's company, and was making loud laughs to get our attention throughout the dinner - as showed in these pictures :-)
Children's Discovery Museum
Yesterday night while tugging Kealan to bed, I spoke softly into his ears about our plan for tomorrow (brining him to a fun day out!), while working on getting his commitment to sleep well at night. He nod twice, and thankfully he followed through his 'promise'. I woke up from a really good rested sleep, and was really excited about today's trip.
Arrival at San Jose Children's Discovery Museum - rated one of the best children museums in the U.S.
The current exhibition is showing history of China. Kealan got to see the 'Great Wall' and played with the drums!
Next, we explored the rest of the museum. One of the favorite places Kealan enjoyed was the kitchen area. There were a lot of miniature tables, chairs and toy foods. Kealan played being a CHEF for the first time!
Check out his red cute apron!!!
10/20/2009
Pumpkin Patch @ Uesugi Farm
This was grandpa's first time exposure to the US Halloween festival. Thanks to Shalima's recommendation, we went to Uesugi Farm and had a really great time! Both Kealan and Grandpa Jimmy was stunned to see the huge size of pumpkins!!! Noticed on one of the pix how they pilled up these pumpkins to form a pyramid!
A week in Seattle
My team and I attended and completed our 10-day intensive DBT training early in Oct. We worked really hard for the past few months in preparing for this training. With lots of homework, and then presentations etc. We did really well and have gotten lots of valuable feedback to help with our program moving forward.
Here's the view outside of our classroom.
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