The Zhao Family

'Tis the season and it's upon us! The Spirit of Christmas has come to our home and we're ready for the Holidays!!




















SS and FF can only take so much before they're tired, so CC and I finished setting the rest of the tree...










The kids are sleeping under the tree waiting for Santa?...

Then we visited the DC Temple Visitor's Center Festival of Lights with the Ly and Chang family

I am not sure when it's a good time to post these videos with the Holidays here but I figure if I don't post it here now, it'll have to wait until after January and who knows what will happen then. So here are the videos.


This is CC at 7yo practicing for his Primary class "I Love to see the Temple"









We actually got quite a bit of snow for the first time of the season! quite exciting! And of course we played on it!






FF playing in her music class with her bumblebee outfit.



Can you tell how addictive video games can become?





The receivers of the Yellow Belt for all their hard work.







So this won't get neglected, CC got his trophy for winning the Raingutter Regata.

We have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. Everyone was home and celebrated with family.
Abbey has been tasked to cook a turkey this year. She used a recipe from our godfather in NYC and it came out just perfect!
















This is the kids getting dressed up to get ready to go to grandpa and grandma's house.


We couldn't wait to eat the turkey at night so we had it for lunch first!



In between the time, I taught Brennan to play chess while others played Twister.


Then it was time for dinner!! Da's dad made his usual famously delicious ducks, lobsters, and fresh fried chicken with half of the turkey. We feasted and once again ate too much.








Then we headed to PA to visit Abbey's high school friend and their new house. The gathering was great! and everyone had a great time catching up and shopping!





Brennan and I even make fresh pancakes and waffles for everyone!

So Brennan and Abbey's been taking Karate for some months now. Brennan likes this over Tball and Abbey claims this to be her exercise regimen. Nevertheless, this week both of them were tested for belts. So both of them are Yellow now. Here's a recap of the tests.










This was a surprise which I didn't think would happen but Brennan even got a trophy for outstanding performance and working so hard to get his belt! There was only two trophies for the group of 40+ kids. Way to go !






Abbey getting tested for her hard earned belt too!