22-Months Old w/ Mr. Bear

Another month goes by and another picture with Mr. Bear.
She now weighs 25lbs. and is 31 inches tall. Really big girl! She talking up a storm and doing two words phrases. Soaking it all up! She can also count all the way up to 10 but some of it is still a little mixed up after 3. She's super active and loves to go for walks an play at the park. She knows all her Aunties and Uncles and can call them that too! I think that's it for this month. Now it's time to get ready for the Christmas holidays!

Thanksgiving Celebration

Here we all our celebrating Thanksgiving at our Clubhouse!
It's the 2nd annual event where the Arakaki's, Ly's, Watkin's & Bui's celebrate all together! The family has gotten so large that we started renting out the clubhouse. It's nice that we can all come together and give Thanks during this time instead of splitting up the family by going here and there. So much fun! Thanks to the Watkins for coming all the way from Hanford! What a special treat to be able to share this special day with you and the rest of the family!

There goes Binh putting the 1st turkey in the fryer. It's so yummy with his special rub and fried! Super moist and super fast! He fried a total of 3 turkeys!

Dad Watkin's carving the turkeys for the big feast!

All the cousins together before the eating begins, Theodore, Elizabeth, Alexis, Alyssa and Makayla.

Three full tables.....all family is together! Too many names to mention but here we all are with our plates piled high!

A few shots of the buffet line. I missed the table with all the chaffing dishes that had the carved turkey, ham, mash potatoes and etc. etc. But here's the home made rolls by Aunt Judy, stuffing by Jennie and salad from Costco. And then the big yummy, yummy dessert table. All sorts of good stuff here! What a feast! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! So much fun! Can't wait until the 3rd annual next year!

Colts vs. Chargers Game

We headed down to San Diego to catch the Chargers vs. the Colts today! It was a Sunday night game and the weather was not so great. Weather calls for showers but we went anyways.....since this is Mommy's favorite football team and the Superbowl champions! Daddy got this as an early birthday gift for Mom. Too bad the Colts lost to the Chargers! Can't believe it! I guess I wasn't cheering loud enough.

Makayla practicing her touchdown cheer in the car right before the game.

Makayla smiling big in our seats.

I guess we didn't take too many pictures since this was the only picture of Makayla and Mommy sportin' their Colts gear at home after the game. We left the game a little early to beat the crowd out and it really started to rain hard.....all to find out that our car ran out of battery. Thank goodness for AAA on site to save the day! Fun times even though the weather was crummy and the car didn't start to come home! It must've been the Little Einstein DVD's that Makayla was watching that killed the car battery.

Janai's Birthday Scrap-A-Thon

This was a big Scrap weekend for the "Scrap Queens"! We celebrated Janai's birthday with our very 1st retreat! We scrapped for two days out in Alpine, which was a really nice little town in San Diego. We stayed the night in a hotel and all! What a blast we all had and boy did we get a lot done!

Here's a picture with some of the "Scrap Queens" that are pretty much the regulars. From left to right, Patty, Christine, Lucille, Janai & Anita.

Janai and her birthday cake! Thanks so much Bons for bringing us the yummy treat! And thank you so much Janai for having a birthday so we could make this happen! It was so much fun!

1st Appt. for New Baby....

Today was my 1st doctor's appointment for our baby #2! Everything went really well! It was nice to see Dr. Linzey & his staff of nurses again since it's been awhile since Makayla arrived! He was really excited for us! I also got to hear the baby's heart beat! 160 beats a minute! Can you believe how fast it is! That's the baby update for now.

Birthday & Annivesary Celebration

We celebrated Ba Ngoai's birthday today and Ong Ngoai & Ba Ngoai's 40th Wedding Anniversary! Wow! 40-years! We had a nice dinner with the whole family at a nice Chinese food restaurant. We celebrated it together because Grandma's birthday & anniversary are just a day apart. It was a special occasion so we decided to try the famous "Sprinkle" cupcakes......not too impressed! We all felt they were too heavy for a cupcake. Now we know not to stand in those ridiculous lines for cupcakes!

Ba Ngoai so happy cuddling with her little grand daughter!

Makayla's very 1st lollipop! Yum! Yum!

The birthday girl & anniversary couple!
We all hope they enjoyed this special occasion with all of us!
We also hope they go on that Alaskan cruise we got them too along with Binh & Janai!
They need and deserve a big vacation!