The Zhao Family

So the circus was only in town for 4 days and they didn't advertise it well but we found out and Da's parents decided to take Brennan to the circus.


Someone really enjoys riding a horse.


Who's likes the smelly elephants too?

Pictures like these definitely can give grandparents a heart attack but heck the kids are having fun and everyone is safe.

So taking some time to wash the car was something that Brennan and I like to do......(hence WAS) ...until a girl came along and I WAS no longer in the picture. It IS all about our somewhat new neighborhood neighbor Amelia (yes this would be the 4th Amelia we know) and her coming to 'help' wash the car.

#1 reason: for the sake of our kids
#2 reason: to minimize grandparents cutting remarks, already have a history


So here are some of the brothers playing in a tent/canopy mom got them.


Who likes to see my chicken butt?


Want to play with me?

It's been debated whether to continue posting anymore or not. I mean who reads it? and those that read it comment on anything? but if we don't post we get complaints. Maybe we should not post until we get complaints. Its like working in the IT/computer field, "No news is good news" You can look at it in two ways-just pick how you like to look at it today.

Father and sons moment and the Ice Cream is really yummy too!!


Somebody's happy.


Enjoying something sweet and cold.


Would you say NO to this face?


Who's your favorite buddy?

Ok......Liz tagged me to post 7 random things about myself. so here they are:

1. I played with a real gun for many years when I was a kid. (No on was shot)
2. I was hit by a car at midnight when I was at BYU right before Final week in my senior year.
3. I am a Latter Day Saint (aka Mormon); joined the Church in Hong Kong in 1997.
4. I was allergic to CHOCOLATE when I was in middle school.
5. I got my Accounting BA and Master in 4 years.
6. I lived in Hawaii for a year.
7. I got my driver's license on my 5th try while in full term pregnancy. (Brennan's due date, actually)

Intersting, ha........ok. I need to tag 7 people.
Each person tagged gives 7 random facts about themselves. Those tagged need to write in their blogs the 7 facts, as well as the rules of the game. You then tag seven others and list their names on your blog. Leave those you plan on tagging a note in their comments so they know that they have been tagged and to read your blog.

here are the lucky ones. Melanie Eng, Ariana, Michelle, Jerin, Marjorie, Kimi, Andrew

This is a tribute to all the mothers, including Abbey, and mothers-to-be whom have/will have and continue to struggle with having all kinds of wisdom to make a family happy and healthy. With that said, Brennan and Clayton would like to thank you all with a BIG fat kiss for our appreciation and our love shown below.

Also Da would like to show his appreciation too. But to preserve the beauty of this page, you can see him here. Click here.

So getting postal mail can be hazardous to your health when you are Brennan. He scraped both of his knees on his way getting mail from post box which is about 100 ft away. I put Neosporin, gauzes, and surgical tape on both of his knees. The gauze and tape makes it looks worse than it really is. Anyways..when I asked Brennan who pushed him down on the ground, he said "mama"; So there, I didn't do it. It just looks so funny while he's walking around like a stiff duck. We both just laughed while he's in pain.

Have you noticed the pictures? There are no males to defend Clayton, not even bro or mom -getting all bullied by the girls. Apparently the photographer is also a female. Poor Clayton. You know sometimes its good to have girls around but girls bringing their mothers?-Cm'on that's too much! And NO, Clayton is not free to be rubbed on his head just b/c he does not has as much hair as the other kids.



This picture seems ok. The girls are just lightly touching his head.


This one is ridiculous. One is pushing down hard on his head bending his neck backwards while the other is chopping him on the back of his neck and the moms are helping!! Look at Clayton's hands, he can't hold it anymore. Hmf! Only if dad was there..all the girls will be flown against the wall along with their moms.


That is it!! No more playing with girls b/c they are all evil making Clayton cry for mom. Poor baby. Next when he leaves the house I make sure that Brennan is around to protect his younger brother.

Just want to share some recent pics I took for Clayton. He is alot smaller than his big brother...but he is such a happy baby. =)


We put him on a cute outfit for grandma's mother's day dinner.



He really enjoys the ride in the cart at Target. The view is alot better than in the car seat.


Just love this one.....love the dimples on him =)

We love to have our TOTLOT playgroup at our house. It's always so much fun. Thanks everyone for coming. Can't wait to have them over again next month.

Brennan is really good sharing his toys.....except the camera, but he finally shared that also with Yael, proud of you my boy!

For our Family Home Evening tonight, we learned about mothers and the significance of their role in our lives. Teaching Brennan the concept that his mama and baba also have parents was a difficult task so we just concentrated on us. For a surprise FHE, while Abbey was preparing dinner, I took Brennan and Clayton to our room and practice singing mama a song. We practiced about 25 minutes. Brennan was somewhat cooperative while Clayton just layed there and giggled. The outcome was quite impressive from Brennan and Clayton.


This is us recording mama while we were singing to her. As you can tell mama was very surprised and happy to hear us sing with that huge smile on her face that she did not tried covering her ears and kept wiping her tears..hehe


Then mama turned the camera around and recorded us singing to her again because the song was so beautiful and we were vey handsome. Hehehe.

This is a fairly old video, one month old, of Clayton just learning to crawl. He does this funny butt scoot synchronizing with his elbows. It's kind of neat. Just don't worry about the fall, it was all choreographed and no one got hurt.

Brennan is dancing to the tv show, American Idol while Da's mom is laughing like a hyena (apologies offered). He is actually pretty good at dancing we are surprised.

As anticipated I would get a complaint that we haven't updated our blog. So here is an attempt of recent activities that would bring some delight.




Brennan and Emilee are helping each other blow bubbles. They purposely turned their backs to the camera man to hide their secret to blowing incredible bubbles. Either that or they have started to learn to keep secrets to each other already.



Brennen seemed to be tired of it and move on with other things. He looked such a pimp and so sure of himself.



But what you know, the bigger kids stole the bikes and ran away with it. Seems like the big kids are enjoying their moment of happiness until the little ones are done blowing bubbles, they will call the cops on their pda gps-enabled phones to track every movement of their stolen bikes with LoJack.



Abbey thinks she came out to be the winner. But little did you know that soon afterwards the bike was take away from her. Hm, and everyone thinks that Da needs to grow up, this is evidence that Abbey still has the kid in her too.