My Best Friend

6 years ago I married the most wonderful woman in the world. As we celebrate our anniversary on Saturday, I wanted to let her know how much I love her. Tina is the most thoughtful person you'll ever meet and always puts the needs of others before her own. She has always supported me in the things that I want to do, especially school. She puts up with my know it all attitude and incessant need to be right. Tina is also the most wonderful mother for our children. She is always putting the needs of our kids before her own. Kaelin, Sean, and Savanna are lucky to be able to call her mom. To those of you who don't know, Tina is from New Jersey and if the planets are in alignment, you'll get to hear her sweet Jersey accent (which she hides very well) which is another thing I love about her. I love her sense of humor and am glad that Heavenly Father allowed us to meet. She is always trying to learn words in Chinese so that she can share that special part of my life with me. So to my Jeui Hou ge Pahng Yauh. Ngoh Ngoi Leih. We have enjoyed 6 great years and look forward to the rest of our marriage together. I love you my bestest friend in the whole world.

Chicken and Curls

Chicken

Kaelin loves to cook. When Ratatouille came out, it also came with a DVD with different cooking shows, involving either the movie and/or kids. Her favorite one is a Rachel Rey episode. She has a young boy named, Beechum, help her cook "chicken toes". Chicken toes because they are smaller than chicken fingers. Anyway, she loves making them and we all love eating them.


The assembly line of flour, eggs, and special Beechum coating.




Father/daughter chefs posing for a photo op.





Curls


Kaelin also loves curly hair. She's always asking me to make it curly and it never lasts. Sometimes we go to the mall and get ringlets done by the "straight iron kiosk". I tell them if the curls last I'll buy the iron. I've never bought one. Sometimes I beat a couple egg whites to make my own curls more defined and last longer, so I thought I'd try it on Kaelin, with some sponge rollers.


I know its sideways but I forgot to rotate and I'm too lazy to do it all over again.




This is right after she saw the curls. She was pretty excited that it worked.


I had to separate the curls to cover up scalp spots. In the end it was very Shirley Temple-ish



Really striking a pose! We will definitely be doing this again!

Kaelin updated

I don't know what's happening, Kaelin updated but it doesn't show that she did. So, I'm putting it on here.

It only took 2 1/2 years

We finally made it to the Children's Museum of Memphis. It was fun! I've been to a couple others that are so much bigger that I have been putting CMOM off. I've been afraid that I wouldn't be able to do it by myself. After all the worrying, I finally went, with Rob, and realized it's much smaller than I expected and wasn't as scary as I thought. The kids loved it!

We were pretty impressed that when our kids went "grocery shopping", they filled their carts with fruits, vegatables, and fish. It was really cute watching them go up and down the aisles.







They got to climb all over this big fire truck.


Sean especially liked driving the truck. They also had a police car and a minivan. He made sure to drive all of those, as well.



Kaelin really liked taking apart this body. She was able to see where her food goes after she eats and what the doctors fixed during her surgery a few years ago.



She totatlly looks like some kind of giddy mad scientist.




Playing in the water. Although, they could barely reach the water and it was so cold. Is that how it usually is??





Kaelin flying a plane. I didn't go up but, her and Rob said there were so many buttons and switches. I liked making the plane down stairs fly by using a big fan.



I hope we'll be able to go back again before we leave. The kids really did have a lot of fun.

Cancelation of the Potty Training

*year old picture*

I realized, the my cute little man is quite short! I also realized, that I have a five month old that nurses quite often. 2 and 2 = potty training canceled. He did really well. The first day he only had two accidents, the next day was a little busier with trips and friends, so it was more of a 50/50 ratio. He still uses the big boy potty most of the time, but I'm not dealing with underwear, laundry and rushing to the bathroom 2 seconds too late because he couldn't climb up by himself. Maybe one day he'll be tall enough. Good job Sean!

Sweet Sweet Sugar

Congratulations to Utah on an impressive Sugar Bowl Victory over Alabama 31-17. Go UTES!!!!

Kaelin's blog

Kaelin wanted her own blog, so she could put her own pictures and words on it. Since we are monitoring content, it's public as ours is, but will require our permission before comments are posted. She's really excited about it! So check it out.