Geez, it's been quite busy at work and so many things has happened with us that I totally lost track of time from my last post. I am realizing that I tend to use this as an excuse more and more frequently with my last several posts.

Anyways, we've done quite a bit the last three weeks. We've gone to DC and wanting to see the Cherry Blossoms but the traffic to get into the basin was too much so we opted to watch airplanes fly out of Gravely Park which was quite enjoyable as well.

We've put up a bird feeder to see all the birds in our area only to find out that the squirrels are smarter than the birds. Even before the birds find out our stash of birds seeds, the squirrels already find a way to get into our squirrel proof feeder. Our bird feeder has a weight closure spring so that when the heavier animals get on the hinge, the door would shut out the door to the seeds, however the squirrels found a way; one would hand up-side-down to counter the counter weight so he can use his claws to dig the seeds while the others would be on the ground waiting for the loot to fall to them. We have taken the feeder back since then but will put it back out another way.

The boys are done with ice skating for this session and did well that they are ready for next class up. They loved it so much they want to continue going back for next session. Only sad thing is that I will not be able to skate with Clayton since he can do it himself now, however there's FF when she's ready.

In this large post, we've also done many other things.




Visiting my good friend at Arlington


What mom need to do to protect her young ones...


She got to the point where she can cover her ears all by herself while carefully putting down her milk. (Don't worry about the background giggles....)


Thumbs up!


Clayton's TBall team: Detroit Tigers!


What we did at the Apple store: everyone playing with the iPad2.


The boys cutting the bag of bird seeds for...


..our birdfeeder!!


But see how smart the squirrels are: one would take out the seeds while the other two wait for the loot to come down...








The boys art work without any help.













FF's music and arts classes that mom's taking her around to do.












Earth day at the local sanitation open house.



Brennan's breakfast Beegancake sandwich. Using pancake to wrap the egg white and bacon. Very yummy!


As peaceful as you gonna get.


While Brennan's doing his homework.....












Clayton the painter





FF the fashion artist!


She's getting more independent!! (BTW, Brennan has just learned how to tie a knot by himself)


Mr handsome boy....

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This story is inspired by a blog by Anna about her lack of interest in college basketball and how it's similar to our situation.

Of all the years we've been married, we watched many movies in comfort of our laptops in our beds and never watched TV. For one reason we couldn't get any broadcast stations where we live and secondly we didn't want TV as a main source of babysitting and lastly there's never really anything good on broadcast TV except news and sports. Even when I wanted to watch a game or two of football and/or basketball, Abbey would sit next to me chatting away on her laptop.

But this time is different. She got onto March Madness for one purpose and one purpose only: she found out her school's BYU basketball team is very good this year and she want to watch JIMMER. Since moving to this new house, we couldn't get our dsl from the old house so we had to get Comcast cable Internet and we only wanted Internet. Apparently we get some basic channels for free too! And it happens that BYU's game was on one of the channels. Abbey was very excited. We invited the Kuehne's over for dinner and then watch the game. It was quite exciting to have my wife and boys (Cayleigh's gone to bed already) and another family rooting for JIMMER. Abbey was all into the game as well as the boys jumping up and down for each 20 - 30 footer 3 point shots he sunk. We went through a whole big bag of potato chips and two big bowls of popcorn cheering BYU all the way to the win! By the time the game was over it had well past 10pm, which is the first time the boys ever stayed up that late.

With this, we had a great family home evening and the boys learned a lot about bball and BYU.

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So Spring is finally here and I like it! Since the weather is nicer, we are getting out more and doing things out of the house. But then again its kind of funny b/c you think that we would do warm activities, however we’re taking out kids ice skating lessons; in Spring. But we did get a chance to go to the park so the kids can get out of the house.



















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This is the first time the kids went ice skating. Since we haven't done anything for the winter mom decided to take the kids for some ice skating sessions. It was rough for them at first but after falling many times they got the hang of it and was having lots of fun while continuing to fall. Mom dressed the kids up to be well padded to minimize bruising all over the body. But they thoroughly enjoy the session.



Her tiny little skates...so cute!




The boys were getting ready for some fun too!


See they can't wait to get in but it wasn't their time yet.


It's always nice to hold on to someone...


Clayton already getting the hang of it after the first 15 mins on the ice.


Bold man...


Even had fun falling!


Brennan's in a different class, so he's on his own.


A little trotting, knee bending, and he slow gets the hang of it.


A little self practice and...


See some amazing things you can do...hahaha (I think he was about to fall)


Since we couldn't get close enough to Brennan, we were able to record his siblings small little ice-capades.







The kids are doing really good in s sense that they learned how to get up on their own and even after falling down, they can get up to fall back down again and still have fun! Awesome!




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The last couple days has been really nice weather in the 60s and 70s. And we're enjoying every minute we can. Here's a few things we've done in the last couple weeks.



Our friends from New York stopped by this weekend and we had a gathering at our place to catch up with old friends and everyone's lives. The kids got right onto having fun and Clayton just lead the way.






For Valentines day, Da took the day off to spend time with family at the request of Abbey.

Someone did a little bit of shopping.




Brennan was well loved at school with all this classmates







Guess who's ready for school?


Future career? or maybe something else?





Last week was not that warm so the kids stayed in and was a bit imaginative








On such a nice day and the snow is melting, mom took the kids outside to draw on the sidewalk. Who's the one with the funky hair?

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Happy Chinese new year!! The year of Rabbit!! We got the little kids to wear their Chinese outfits. We got ONE good one out of 50+ pics.



Last day of the year, we went to grandparents' house for dinner. It was a feast as you can tell.



Per grandparents' request, we brought the Chinese outfits the kiddos so grandparents could take pictures with the kids.







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