Tet

It’s the year of the dragon – my year! I hope you’re all prepared. Yen and the kids definitely are. We went out to lunch today at one of our…

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San Diego

Our flight from Vegas got in around 2pm, so we didn’t head for the hotel right away. Instead, we drove up to walk around Balboa park and stretch our legs.…

Winter Fun

We’re having a mild winter (again… will stop even saying that soon as it appears to be the new normal…) but there is a lot of skating happening, and both…

Stylin’!

Linus got a haircut that he is very, very happy with – he even allowed Yen to take photos! Mina is supportive. And as a bonus, here is the kids’…

Galapagos: Isabela

After our intense day touring the islands around Santa Cruz, we had to get up early to catch a boat to our next destination, Isabela. People kept referring to it…

June 2023

Can you believe the end of school is almost here? The kids are so ready. There is much pomp and circumstance associated with the end of the year, not the…

A Few Fall Updates

Yen has a nice collection locked up on his camera, but I wanted to share a few highlights from fall. First is my ongoing attept to get a nice picture…

Aug 11 to Sept 17, 2022

This post is going to take me back a month to before school started and when it was still 90 degrees most days – which thankfully feels far away now.…

Skating

The kids are getting really into roller blading and ice skating again. They practice every day in our driveway (using our neighbor’s driveway across the street to really build up…

Vancouver

We thought we were very smart scheduling a summer vacation in Vancouver. We had visions of mild weather while we biked through Stanley Park. Unfortunately our visit coincided with record…

July 2022: Staying Busy at Home

Our big activity this summer has been tennis. The kids took lessons last year, but it didn’t really stick. Something did this year, though, and they’ve been playing it every…

Chicago

We’re slowly starting to travel again, which feels so good! We had grand plans for the summer. I am able to work from anywhere up to 4 weeks each year,…

End of School 2022

Linus’s Tuesday afternoon Super Sports ended the last week of school. I referred to this as the “sports sampler platter.” Every week they tried a variety of things so kids…

April to June, 2022

This is a random assortment, many from our phones, over the last couple of months. I’ll see if I can bring some sense to the collection. First we go back…