Eden's Birthday Weekend Extravaganza

Happy Birthday Eden! She's officially 11 years old! Happy Birthday to you!! We celebrated her birthday by having a weekend blast for her. It started off, oddly enough, with Emma and having to clean her room. We put her little Dora tent in her room. It comes with a mesh tunnel that she can crawl through. Needless to say, it was ME doing the cleaning, and her doing this...

So onto the party. We celebrated Eden's birthday on Saturday by having some of her friends come over for a sleepover! Aubrey and Holly came over and they had a great time. They watched movies, ate pizza, and had cake! Thank you Grandpaw for the yummy cake! It was a very DELICIOUS gift!

We even set up the karaoke mic that my parents "left" at the house. And although the girls didn't use it, Emma and I did!

Mr. DJ!! Mr. DJ!! You don't believe me? Try to listen to the video..

After all of the events of a great night, Eden opened up her presents from Joy and me and her friend Holly. She received a DVD player and a High School Musical 3 CD/DVD combo from Joy and me, and her friend Holly gave her two comics and a wind-up dancing robot. Eden has really great friends!

Sunday Morning was a real treat. Her friends left at 9, which was REAL early for them, since they were still up around Midnight the night before. Eden's grandparents had a really great surprise for her birthday...

THE BEACH!!!

Granted, it was foggy when we left Sunday Morning, and really cold (it was around the low 50s), it was a great day to go to the beach. There was hardly anyone there, and the sun was still out. We went to Seaside, Oregon, which is (obviously) on the coast. It's about 20-25 miles south of Astoria, which is at the very top of Oregon. This is where the famous explorers Lewis and Clark ended their trail. We headed down to the beach so Eden and Emma could play in the sand. Then we walked down to the street shops to see what they have.

One of the main streets near the beach held a lot of tourist shops and rides and stuff. They had a carousel that Emma wanted to ride on. Guess which animal she chooses to ride on...

Note the HUGE smile on her face. This one doesn't go up and down though, which she likes better than the ones that do. After the carousel, she just HAD to ride on this...

This was the FUNNIEST thing to watch. If you watch the video, you'll see part of what I'm talking about. The train goes around 4 laps around the track. On the third lap, the car that Eden and Emma were on jumped the track and the wheels came off for a bit. No one was hurt, but the guy had to stop the ride and put back on the track. SO GHETTO! LOL! Everyone on the train got a free lap for that incident.

After that we walked back to the beach. Here are more pictures.

Emma is running after Eden who has some kind of seaweed-type whip. It's probably a dead eel or something, but she had a great time with it whipping the sand.





These next pictures are by far my favorite ones of the girls. They came out really nice!

The girls walking towards the water.

Time to go home, Emma!

We had such a great time in Seaside. Thank you to Grandma and Grandpaw for a wonderful time!

Lastly, to all of our family and friends all over. We miss you and love you. Eden and Emma have one last thing to tell you all:

Thanks for reading!

Dog of the Year!

Salem - 2 Years old Black Lab

Hours of training: Countless

Number of pheasants retrieved hunting with Paw: 2

Getting caught in a tomato cage: Priceless

Yes, she's actually through the entire cage. As is the custom every night, Joy's mom lets the dogs in to relax on the carpet and get some warmth before going into the garage for the night. A couple of nights ago after letting the dogs into the house, Joy's mom let them in like usual. It was dark outside, and also in the living room, but she noticed that there was something wrong with Salem. She was acting very strange and it worried Joy's mom. She called over Paw to see what was the matter. I followed to, just to see if there was anything I could do. The pictures above just show you the hilarity of the events that ensued. I couldn't stop laughing and almost peed my pants! I barely had enough sanity to take these pictures. Needless to say, Salem was gracious enough to sit still long enough for me to take them. Paw had to use wirecutters to get the tomato cage off her.

This was the perfect ending to a very weird day. I wish I had my camera to capture ALL of the events that happened that night. That same night, Joy spilled her bowl of chili all over the table, floor, chair, and even some on Emma! Eden and Paw went to a movie and Eden left her purse (they called later that night and said that they found it).

Other than that, it was a great day! :) Until then, thanks for reading!

100 Days

100 days left till our precious baby arrives.

100 days till I become a mom to a "new" baby.

100 days till we have our third edition to our family. 100 days left till this baby develops fully into a human being.

100 days

It seems like a long time but then looking at it again, it isn't. 100 days is significant to Korean people because that is when we celebrate the 100 day celebration party for a child. It is tied into a sad part of Korean history since most children didn't live past 100 days and if they did, there would be cause for a celebration. Now 100 days is significant to anything in Korea. Korean couples celebrate when their relationship lasts 100 days, when you keep a job for 100 days, and so on. Eden and Emma didn't celebrate their 100 days in this way but Emma did celebrate her Tol or first birthday with a mix of Korean and Filipino traditions. There is much to do in these last 100 days, I hope were ready for you.

Movies

This weekend was filled with gloomy, wet, rainy weather. Albert and I got ready and headed to the DMV to take our test for our drivers license. I was a bit nervous since I haven't taken this test in ages and I failed at my first attempt back in the days. I hate memorizing all the rules and limits and other things they ask you in this test. Thank goodness we don't have to take a drivers test. By the time we got there, there was an hour left before testing ended and we didn't have correct paperwork. We'll try again next week. Oh darn. =)

After leaving the DMV we decided to try and take the girls to the movies. This would be Emma's first time in a theater and we were kinda nervous. There is a theater, Northern Lights close to my parent's house that offers older movies at $3/ticket (free for kids under 2) and you can order food and eat it while you watch you movie. Between each row of seats are tables and you have plenty of room to stretch out. I think this is a pretty cool concept. We opted to watch Wall-E and ordered some lunch. Emma wasn't scared and watched for the first 20 mins. After that she got bored. She began waving at the people behind us, had to go and change her diaper twice, and I had to bring her to the back so she could just wander around without bothering everyone. Wall-E didn't hold her interest. Maybe we will have better luck with Madagascar 2.
On Sunday, Albert and I snuck off after having put the girls to bed to go and watch an "adult" movie, Tropic Thunder. This was a funny movie.... not my type of humor but none the less funny. It was nice to get out just the 2 of us.

Story Time!

Every Wednesday at the Salem library they have story time for little kiddies. Emma has gone to a couple of them and she loves it, albeit she's a bit apprehensive at first to join in on the fun. This week I went along to see what all the hubbub was about.



Apparently we have to ALWAYS say hi to the fishies. She can kind of say "fishie"...


The "infamous" phone booth. She would not leave this little booth. It's a replication of old-school phone booths where there's a chair and a little rotary telephone that the kids can play with. Below you'll see the video of her talking on the phone.





Here's Emma after she was "kicked out" of the phone booth by some other kids. She was able to build a tower that was 6 blocks high! She was just as impressed with it as I was!












Overall, she had a great time. I would've taken pictures of the actual story time, but I couldn't. The librarians didn't want me to "distract" the other kids. There were a ton though! And only one other dad there. Figures... The librarian read two books, Binky Gets a New Car, and some construction book (I can't remember the title, but Emma wasn't interested in it either). They sang a bunch of songs like "The Wheels on the Bus", "6 Turtles" which she REALLY got into. She shook her little booty to that song the most.

Anyways, enjoy! Thanks for reading!

Rainy Day Fun

Ghetto Emma

About this photo

Emma loves wearing Daddy's hat and she put on Eden's costume headband. The combination of the 2 plus her acting like she is cold makes for one GHETTO pose! LOL

FYI: Eden has a new cell number. Please text or email us to get Eden's new number. Thank you!

I am 6 months as of today! 3 more months left to go! Grow baby!

The rains have been pouring down on us in Oregon and have kept us indoors. Yesterday after church, we went for a grocery run to Costco. On our drive back we drove through huge puddles in the road and thought it would be fun to take the kids on a rain walk. I used to do this with my sister when we were little. My mom would dress us up in our raincoats and boots and we would walk around looking for puddles to splash in. We did this through much of our childhood until an unfortunate incident involving one of my most embarrassing moments of my life created by my sister brought this to a stop. (SHIVER) Okay back to the present: here are a few pictures and videos of the girls having some rainy day fun!

Halloween!

Before we talk about Halloween, let's go back a week or so. Joy's mom hosted a party for her chuch at the house. So we spent most of the day cleaning up, especially Emma's room. Here's what it looked like afterward! Also, note the chicken in the last picture. Everyone's always out to get the chicken!




It was a great party, and we had lots of laughs!



Ok, on to HALLOWEEN! This year Eden dressed up as Haruno Sakura from the manga Naruto. We got the dress for her off of eBay for less than $20! She looked really cool in the costume.

This is how Eden looked before she went to her FIRST dance ever! Her school had a Fall Dance, where they got to dress up in their costumes. She had a great time, even though her parents and grandparents were teasing her that we'd be chaperoning the event.




ACTION SHOT! LOOKOUT, IT'S A HIDDEN LEAF NINJA!









And now for Emma. Here's a before shot. She's a PANDA! We bought two costumes for her, a panda and an elephant. As much as we tried putting on the elephant costume she DID NOT like it one bit! We tried getting professional photos of her in her elephant costume, but she wasn't having it. We ended up just walking out of the photo studio with no pictures, and a messy baby who had ice cream all over her.






After shot of Emma. We visited Grandma Belle and she gave the girls little lanterns and some candy. Thanks Grandma Belle!




Here's our "professional" shot of Emma in her costume.
Eden ready to defend the Panda Princess!


Lastly, here's a couple of videos of the girls. The first one is Emma's first successful Trick-or-Treat! The first house we actually went to, the people weren't home. Big whomp... The second video is Emma giving candy to some of the kids! She gives AND takes!

Thanks for reading!