An old photo taken during our last visit with Mike and Reiko. Dug it out to enter a contest on flickr. Look at how little Sarah was.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Praise God that we are now back home.
We had lunch with the family at Todai today. Afterwards, we decided to swing by church to see how is everyone doing and if we can help in anyway. When we got there, the Toms said that they are heading home already and that scripps ranch is also safe to go. We confirmed after we got back to Janet's mom's house that that is the case.
So our home is pretty much untouched other than soot everywhere. The hose that I left out in the front yard trapped piles of soot which will need to be washed off. It's awesome to be back home and actually a little weird knowing that we could have lost all of it.
We don't know yet if anyone from our church has lost their home. (Earlier report that our Cantonese Pastor may have lost his home turned out to not be the case as his house turned out to be the only one standing. What a miracle!)
We had lunch with the family at Todai today. Afterwards, we decided to swing by church to see how is everyone doing and if we can help in anyway. When we got there, the Toms said that they are heading home already and that scripps ranch is also safe to go. We confirmed after we got back to Janet's mom's house that that is the case.
So our home is pretty much untouched other than soot everywhere. The hose that I left out in the front yard trapped piles of soot which will need to be washed off. It's awesome to be back home and actually a little weird knowing that we could have lost all of it.
We don't know yet if anyone from our church has lost their home. (Earlier report that our Cantonese Pastor may have lost his home turned out to not be the case as his house turned out to be the only one standing. What a miracle!)
Monday, October 22, 2007
Just want to let you all know that we are all doing okay from the fire. It's pretty crazy down here. At around 2 PM we got the order from the SDPD for a mandatory evacuation. So we packed both of our cars and drove down to Janet's Mom's house and that's where we are. The sky is clear down here and the air quality is much better
The girls are doing okay. More exciting then anything for them. Sarah is enjoying being out of the house and spending time with Maykay. Her only complaint was that she didn't get to watch Disney Channel as we have been watching the news constantly. Catherine is also having fun crawling everywhere.
Needless to say, no work for me today and looks like for tomorrow too. Sarah's school is also closed tomorrow and Wednesday.
Anyhow. Appreciate all your prayers.
The girls are doing okay. More exciting then anything for them. Sarah is enjoying being out of the house and spending time with Maykay. Her only complaint was that she didn't get to watch Disney Channel as we have been watching the news constantly. Catherine is also having fun crawling everywhere.
Needless to say, no work for me today and looks like for tomorrow too. Sarah's school is also closed tomorrow and Wednesday.
Anyhow. Appreciate all your prayers.
Monday, September 17, 2007
As most of you already know, Janet's Grandma passed away on 8/30 at the age of 85. Though she was getting weak physically in her last days on earth, her spiritual strength was like a giant. We look forward to seeing her again in eternity.
Sarah also started her first day of her 2-year Kindergarten program. Her birthday is in October so instead of having her being the youngest one in her class, we decided to let her have 2 years of kindergarten. It's not a "Chinese" thing to do but we believe in the long run, it will be better for her.
3 nights ago, our neighborhood had a planned power outage from 10 PM to the next morning. The moon was also not out so it was a good opportunity for me to try some star trail photos.
I did a couple of them each one is around 15 - 30 minutes. The results were "okay". I had to play around with different apertures. Hopefully I will have more opportunites to try it again soon. While waiting, I pulled up a lawn chair and admired the beautiful starry sky. I even had my old star books with me and looked up a couple of constellations.
Today, Catherine started to crawl up the stairs. We've never seen her do that before.
Something new everyday. =)
Sarah also started her first day of her 2-year Kindergarten program. Her birthday is in October so instead of having her being the youngest one in her class, we decided to let her have 2 years of kindergarten. It's not a "Chinese" thing to do but we believe in the long run, it will be better for her.
3 nights ago, our neighborhood had a planned power outage from 10 PM to the next morning. The moon was also not out so it was a good opportunity for me to try some star trail photos.
I did a couple of them each one is around 15 - 30 minutes. The results were "okay". I had to play around with different apertures. Hopefully I will have more opportunites to try it again soon. While waiting, I pulled up a lawn chair and admired the beautiful starry sky. I even had my old star books with me and looked up a couple of constellations.Today, Catherine started to crawl up the stairs. We've never seen her do that before.
Something new everyday. =)Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Today is Catherine's Happy Birthday! Her party is not until this Saturday so today was just like any other Wednesday. Catherine actually went to bed pretty early. After dinner, watched Baby Einstein and off to her crib, not even a fuss. I guess she was really tired.
Did get a chance to play Grand Tourismo with Sarah though which was pretty funny. She wanted to pick Elina's Rav4 as her car but it's not available. Then she saw the late model MR2 with the top down and she picked that one because she said that's fufu's car. Haha, so cute. Of course, we didn't really race as she can barely remember which button is the gas paddle so we ended up just crashing our cars into each other. She loved that. It was pretty weird crashing a MR2 into a Aston Martin Vanquish again and again. Ouch!!!
We did more preparation for Catherine's party. Janet was doing all the party favor bags and I did the magnets. I love how the magnets turned out. Unfortunately we ran out of the magnet supply. Pray that we would be able to get some more tomorrow.
I will continue on with the vacation blog some other day. Do check my flickr though as I may just put all the photos there.
Did get a chance to play Grand Tourismo with Sarah though which was pretty funny. She wanted to pick Elina's Rav4 as her car but it's not available. Then she saw the late model MR2 with the top down and she picked that one because she said that's fufu's car. Haha, so cute. Of course, we didn't really race as she can barely remember which button is the gas paddle so we ended up just crashing our cars into each other. She loved that. It was pretty weird crashing a MR2 into a Aston Martin Vanquish again and again. Ouch!!!
We did more preparation for Catherine's party. Janet was doing all the party favor bags and I did the magnets. I love how the magnets turned out. Unfortunately we ran out of the magnet supply. Pray that we would be able to get some more tomorrow.
I will continue on with the vacation blog some other day. Do check my flickr though as I may just put all the photos there.
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