The Zhao Family

It's 12:17am right now and I am sitting here ranting in my bed and there is nothing I can do or say to convince or deviate her from her determination. My wife has been a little paranoid a bit lately or thinking too much. I mean it's past midnight and I have to go to work tomorrow and she needs to take care of the kids. I mean what can't possibly get resolved that is so important that you can get it done tomorrow? She says she can't sleep b/c she thought she saw an ant in the car earlier today. She is right now outside in the 30 degree weather with a flashlight looking for the ant. I mean I've live in the DC area for twenty plus years and driven over 12 and have never seen any insects survived in cars. The DC area gets so cold and so hot that any creature living in the car will freeze to death or get cooked. Oh well nothing I can do to stop her.

Then earlier today she saw a black spot on Brennan's molar tooth on our way home from church. She says that he's got a cavity and I told her that it's the blueberries that he ate on Saturday. She was so serious that he got a cavity and was getting very personal how it would affect the rest of the tooth and how that tooth will need to be removed prematurely....etc...and of course use me as an example and how I didn't care of my teeth when I was younger(never gets old) So once we got home, without taking anything in, she took Brennan straight to her bathroom with his coat still on and stuck her electric toothbrush on him and brushed and brushed....finally it's cleaned and she realized that it's the blueberries.

12:28a-Yeap..she's still looking for the ant..run ant run....I mean I think she would have a better chance to win the lottery and struck by lightning than finding the ant in the middle of the night in the cold weather somewhere in the van. If the ant has any sense, which they are pretty dang smart, he's taken the food and hid himself and is probably sleeping pretty snugly in between a wedge or even have left the van and come in the house where is much warmer. But I shouldn't jinx myself b/c if the ant comes in, our house will be turned up side down for that one little ant.

12:32a-I've have enough time to re-read my rant several times and proofed it and spell checked it. This is probably one of the longest text posted I've had for many months and that its grammatically correct and without any misspelling. I would dedicate this post to all the blogs we've read that have so much text in them that once in a blue moon we can do the same.

12:37a-she's finally done; ant nowhere to be found. time to sleep

My sons got mad skills...







Yes I know that we post them drumming before but seems like it was only last month but look at the great improvement!! Look at the great improvement!

Happy Easter everyone!! We hoped you guys had as much fun as we did!! It was a very exciting and busy day for us! It started with the Egg Hunt at the church then onto the Birthday party at night.

To have a egg hunt in our tiny little house would be crazy..but then of course Da went ahead and married Abbey...hahaha


In order to 'hide' the eggs around around our huge living room (10'x12'), the kids are put in the kitchen. This looks like a kiddie jail to me.


Ms. Pearl had to kill the baby doll and Bob to get all her eggs. Her facial expression pretends to be innocent but its the danger in disguise.


And in this picture....our huge living room consist of a wall next to green bag and another wall on the right. It didn't take the kids too long to take all but five steps to the left, right, back and front to find all the eggs but nevertheless they had an awesome time.

Brennan's the lady's man....


Clayton gets fed by the ladies....


Who you say has the better job?

Some oldies but goodies. We finally got these photos back from a friend whom accidentally cut all the photos from the memory card to his computer.



You know we have cabin fever when our boys are clothed like they going to the North Pole. But for the sake of getting out of the house, a little runny noise, chapped lips, chapped face, frozen fingers, frozen toes or a little wind won't stop the boys from staying home.





Ready to rock and roll !





King of the Hill




I hear Brennan yelling, "Titanic is going down!!"




Clayton goes..."He he he...I am the captain and I know where I am sailing this ship"




"Since I sunkt the ship...it's time to move on to another career: driving"




"All by myself..."

sorry for this late post.....I was busy with tax returns last week.

A. The rules of the of game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names and then goes to their blogs and leaves a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and that they should read your blog.

10 years ago....

I just joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I was eager to learn more about the Church and so went to Brigham Young University Hawaii Campus for college in US.

5 things I need to do today...
a. go to Costco
b. feed my boys
c. lunch with Angela
d. work on tax returns
e. do my dishes

Snacks I enjoy...
* microwave dim sum
* Yogurt
* Dried Mango
* Cheese Bagel
---these are just the one in my house now

What would I do if I were suddenly a billionaire...
* Pay tithing of course
* Share some of the money with my family and Da's family
* Let Da open a photography studio
* Open a bookstore
* Open a jewel store (handmade/silver)
* Invest in real estate (Hong Kong and US)
* Probably donate a big part of it also....

3 of my bad habits..
a. addict to internet
b. screaming to the kids
c. impatient

5 places that I lived...
a. Hong Kong
b. Laie, Hawaii
c. Provo, UT
d. Brooklyn, NY
e. Germantown, MD

5 jobs I've had...
a. Temp at Statistic Dept in HK
b. Working in Salad Bar in BYUH
c. Payroll Assistance BYU
d. Tax Accountant
e. Stay home mom

5 things people don't know about me...
a. I played with real gun when I was a kid.
b. I don’t like chocolate
c. I don’t snack
d. I love salty breakfast (congee/pasta/dim sum)
e. I love Badminton and Swimming even I haven’t done one of these for years.

People I tag: Ariana, Brooke, Liz, Kara, Marjorie (people actually go and leave comments on my blog!)

It was cousin Emilee's birthday party today at Chucky E. Cheese's today. They boys had fun playing games.


Visiting team against the....


The Home Team....


We have a winner! (in your face!)


This, reluctantly, is one of the main reasons that places like this gives incredibly worthless junk after trading in all the tickets.

To play a basketball game: 1 coin
Plastic ball: $2
To watch grandma taking over a child's game and really enjoy it: Priceless
For everything else, there's a camera waiting to capture the moment



The reflection makes Clayton's eyes look its the only place we put on sunblock.




There are some enjoyable games there...


Brennan's got his curve down to get the most points and Clayton's getting ready to toss...


Ah.. heck with it! We all know that Clayton can't toss hard enough to get the balls in there. He figures he has a better idea, just climb up there and throw it in-it will definitely go in this time. Way to go Clayton! that's my boy!


(to all a good night, it's 01:51am)

You really think we let them sleep in the same bed together? and you really think they will sleep?....but they seem to love to sleep in the Brennan's bed. Photo taken, boys separated, parents get to sleep.

Today was about 54 degrees F and with daylight savings time, it was about 530P with plenty of sunlight left. Da came home in shorts and t-shirt from work (another story to be told) and just told the boys to go biking. Of course they all stopped eating yogurt and want to go out. Of course mom force them to finish their snack before going out.


Clayton's in the stage of wanting to put everything on by himself but he still can't put the shoe in his feet yet so he gets frustrated and scream for us after a few minutes of the shoe not going in.


Thats how every adult should eat yogurt, its the new shaving cream. Lets the face nutrition and moisturized and smooth.


"Get off me, I want to go biking"
Yes mom we are only going across the street; we are not leaving you for our girlfriends just yet.


Co-operation to take the picture.


This is pushing it.


Brennan: "I want to bite my tongue"
Clayton: "I think I am going to throw up"


Alright just last one.


Somehow Brennan got off the track and into the field with his bike.


He even abandoned it.....hm....................


Ok Ok they have swapped bikes and everyone's happy. There's a slight problem; Brennan's leg maybe too long for the smaller bike and Clayton's feet can't even touch the peddles.


Look closer; where is his feet touching?


Da is getting bald.


Playing bike chase, it ws lots of fun for the boys. Da was exhausted.