The Zhao Family

There was this online coupon for people to paint a painting for a very good price. So she decided to go and do that. While I watch the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games with the kids. Her painting turned out great!







The cool thing about her painting is that she has 'hidden words' in the painting that one can not see with the naked eye. However if you were to take a photo of the painting with flash, then you can see the words. Kind of cool!

This summer due intensive heat and then suddenly a horrific storm called Dorecho swept through the Mid Atlantic and just wipe out trees including electric poles leaving many hundreds of thousands of homes without power. Though we're fortunate not to have trees damaging our property nor cars, we were without power for three days. The temperature was hovering around 99-105 degrees, so we abandoned house, pack all our foods and went to my parents house that's 20 minutes away but with AC and power.

 Due to this storm, many utility companies were called from other states to help out. Well those companies occupied the space where the fireworks were. So the city decided to postpone it for two weeks. Finally we were able to find a great spot with very people and little traffic with a great view to see the fireworks close to our house. It was great, the kids loved it!

                              



                                      

In the last couple months, FongFong has been very interested to play piano all by herself. She's proud of her little skills.