The Zhao Family

Amist of our chaos we still manage to get something in for the kids.
I guess as the boys get older they know what they want. In previous years, we just make some cute cool cut outs from a book that came with the tools but this year the boys already knew what they wanted. So we scoured the web and printed the designs. Brennan wanted a ghost and Clayton wanted a Cyclops. Cayleigh: she just wants to have fun, and boy did she have fun.


She's so ready!


Learning on the job


Trying on the job.


Taking over on the job


Managing the job.


"No paparazzi!"




Proud owner of his creation!


Proud owner of co-creator


Onto the older crew....more intricate details.




Brotherly love..for 2 minutes...




The end result...just exactly what they wanted....


Moving onto Trick or Treat. Originally we were going to trick or treat at our usual spot but since we are going to move to a new neighborhood, what other best way to meet our neighbors than Trick or Treat so everyone can come out in front of their houses (or have five feet of snow in front of our house, but this is better). It was interesting though because I was actually shutting the water from the outside faucets and saw there was a bunch of children in costumes parading around the common area in the park and asked an old lady what's going on. She told me that they're having a costume parade and afterward go trick or treating around the neighborhood. I quickly called the family to come over. They missed the parade but had a lot of fun running with other kids trick or treating around our new neighbors! They all seem to be really nice.










See the way she holds the bucket already....bad sign!




At the end of night, they kids got full buckets of candy and everyone's happy!

We're movin' on up, to the North side. Right now we're in the midst on closing on a bigger town home. It is only 2 miles from where we're living now so it makes very little impact on travel. We're crazily busy trying to repaint and fix some minor things before we move in then fixing and repair everything on our current place before we can rent it out. These photos are old and all the furniture are of the then ,current, owner so it'll look different after we move in when we have our own furniture. No worries, there will be photos of the empty house and then after the kids roam and make everything a mess again.

We tried to get as many things done as we can outdoors before the cool weather starts to kick in. Cayleigh's growing up so fast and talking so much. Clayton is trying to catch up with his older brother while still trying to a baby.


Mom likes this picture.


Many faces of Cayleigh, basically.


Clayton likes to learn on his own. No worries he is not hurt and YES I did help him (after I took these photos. How else would you see these action pics)




In the midst of boxing someone wanted to have some fun! Some still have to do their hw while others careless about anything else.



Brennan's getting older and older doing more older stuff.


Can you tell who likes to eat and eat and eat????


OK. Real cry with fake tears? or real tears with a fake smile?


After a stressful day at work, why not use up my ColdStone GC!


Three kids in the tub is a very challenging task!

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These videos were quite old but hey I figure with so many things happening in our home, right now would be the best time to occupy our visitors for the time being.

This was a few weeks ago but I figured why not post it anyways since I don't know when I will have time to post anymore. It was a beautiful day and decided on a whim to take the Metro and go to the Zoo. They had a lot of improvements there and it looks great! The kids had a blast. We even got slurpee while we were there.













Our usual Saturday morning pancake making time while mom's still sleeping. We try our best to be quite but at times its not the most peaceful mornings.








Since the boys are on the same team, I helped out quite a bit for the coach. So then he just volunteered me to be his assistant and gave me a jersey and a cap. Way cool!









Cayleigh's latest trend: eating with her leg on the table.


Abbey was preparing food while I was in the kitchen helping. The boys were playing and we wondered where Cayleigh was. Next thing we turned around and saw her helping herself by climbing up the high chair on the table and helping herself to her brother's bowls that was cooling.

We're trying to make this an annual event at the time when the kids start school, we'll take some family pictures and see how much they change throughout the school year. Here are some for this year.













BTW, when I printed these out on 8x10 at Costco photo they called me to sign a release stating that these photos are taken by me and not by another professional photographer to comply with Federal copyright laws. This is the first time I've ever received such a call like that and I was actually quite pleased to be considered in that category. The printouts turned out really nice!