Ian's Birthday Party

Happy Birthday little Ian man! So, this last weekend we went over to Mun Sum and Steve's and helped their little Ian celebrate his very first birthday party. From his slightly confused look in this picture, I bet he won't really remember what happened on that day! As part of any kid birthday party, you'll notice that he is happily eating off the "1" candle instead of a regular fork or spoon!

Ian got lots of toys that involved blinking lights and really cute noises. Thankfully, all the toys had "off" switches to spare his parents the torture... His cousin Ryan actually had more fun that Ian did with the presents, taking them and hiding them from everyone else!

Even Yeesin got into the action, playing his new baseball game!

A Picture Share!

Snow day!!!

Had the first snow storm of Winter yesterday!! Looking outside this morning, we had at least 10 inches on the ground. Both of us are working from home today, not having to worry about crazy driving in the snow. Spent about 40 minutes over lunch time today shovelling out the snow so that we can back the car out (Too lazy & too cold to do the whole driveway!). Brrr.. still freezing cold in the house, sipping on green tea, chained to our laptops!!! At least we can work in our robes... ;)

Monotony

Ahh... sometimes its nice to have some monotony again... We can't be Gallivanting on vacation , or do something really really interesting every weekend... Well, i guess we could, but we'll be broke!!

So, just to show that life if still life...This is what we did over the weekend... After all the guilt trips brought on by our thanksgiving fiesta (Benji's incident nonwithstanding), we decided that a workout was needed on Saturday morning. Here's a pic of us walking to the gym at work (We are Working HARD on Saturday).

Eventually, after a refreshing workout, I was thinking of doing some autumn leaf raking. I mean, those darn things always seem like they multiply as soon as I sweep them up!! Yeesin made me see the light tho. The only reason that I wanted to sweep the leaves was cos my neighbor was doing it... So I decided to teach him a lesson by NOT sweeping up my leaves! Show him that I am not KIASU... Hmm.. maybe if I wait long enough, he will get bored and start cleaning my side of the lawn too! hehe...



Finally, Its OFFICIAL. Over the weekend, we transitioned from really-COLD to REALLY really FRICKEN COLD!!! Or as Yeesin puts it, if women had ba**s they would be shrunken. Oh, and if Hell were in KS this weekend, it would be frozen over too. Its was about O deg Farenheit after wind chill this morning! BAH, you people out in California and Dallas, you're just jealous cos you can't enjoy the refreshing KS chill. Besides "It builds character"... :)

Happy Birthday Yeesin!!!

Happy Birthday Baby !!! (Its Yeesin/Hostess for the rest of you guys). She is the love of my life, my "bestest" friend, always sticking with me, thru thick and thin.... LOVE YOU... ;)

So... while the kids were in town, we managed to do a quick birthday thingy as usual. Couple of years ago Yeesin mentioned that we were never to throw a "surprise birthday party". Hmmm... maybe it might be related to the soft-toy hidden in a vacumm cleaner box surprise awhile ago!!!

Anyway, here's a pic of the cappucino cheesecake that Elaine and Yeesin made (Yes, the lack of a surprise unfortunately means that cake is DIY too). Anyway, it was a very short ceremony, with the blowing of candles, followed by a very long ceremony of trying to separate the crust of the cake from the cake tray... MMMhhmm, still. it was decadently delicous... Must be the good bakers!
So without further ado, let's introduce her presents! She got a very very nice gift card for Express from Huay+Nick+Elaine. I see some shopping therapy in the near future! Then she got a very snazzy and hip jacket from me ( again no surprise means that she picked it out herself!!)

SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY baby!!!!