I love my new Blackberry Tour phone, especially with the unlimited data plan that I don’t have to pay for. So many things I could do with the phone when I don’t have my laptop with me, like writing this post. That’s just cool!
Anyway back to the main topic, we are going snowboarding today for the first time of this season, taking advantage of the 4-pack ski pass we bought in the Fall. The forecast looks nice, 38F and snowing. Gotta love the fresh snow. The sunrise is just beautiful. We got our breakfast at McDonalds, and now ‘enjoying’ the 2.5hrs drive to Keystone. Traffic is flowing.
(to be continue…)
Hmmm… Can’t seem to attach pictures for some reason.
Tags: keystone, ski, snowboard, thanh nien, youthj
The thing with vacation is right after you get back from your trip, there are so many things to do and you just want another vacation right away. That just how I feel. I’ve been playing catch-up with works, chores, and many other things.
We had a wonderful vacation in early January. We were very excited and looking forward to this trip, but now it is thing in past now. It’s came and gone so fast. There are lots of things to write about, the experience, pictures… but please bare with meas I try to *whip* them out as fast as I can. For now, you can check out some of the vacation pictures updated in the Photo Gallery.
Tags: vacation
Wow another year , and a busy yet wonderful season of Christmas have just passed. I meant to update the blog with what was happening, but just one thing after another and I just couldn’t keep up. Well, it looks like a series of events are just going to happen pretty soon, and I am very excited about. I don’t want to keep piling things up to write about, but I don’t have enough time to tell every detail. So I be brief.
Let’s started with Thanksgiving. We didn’t have a church retreat this year. For the whole long break, we hang out, stayed up late, played lots of Bomberman on Playstation 3. It was a lot of fun. We spent Thanksgiving day and eating dinner at Mom and Dad. It was great.
Then started Christmas. Grace was very excited and wanted to decorate the Christmas tree this year. She decorated it all by herself and did a wonderful job. Tis the season, our church had the annual Bible Memorization contest. This year it was only 8 verse in Psalm. That was quite fun.
Christmas is always a busy season at church as we prepared for the annual special Christmas program. This year, we did not just one drama as the main program. We had carols combined with worships, we have choir songs, children songs, duet, trio, fun skit, sermon… Due to the complication of choosing the location to held the Christmas program, we had the service early than previous year, on the 19th. I felt like Christmas came too soon, and we didn’t have enough time to practice. It seemed overwhelming, but all things came together at the end. We had 200+ attendees, and dinner was served afterward. It was great.
Since we had early Christmas celebration, we felt much relax on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We went to Winter Wonderland, a Christmas Special at New Life Church. It was packed!! They had 3 services, back to back, and traffic was a mess. The attendance was 14000+ for 3 services. We hang out at home, open presents on Christmas Day, and have Christmas lunch at Mom and Dad. It was good time.
Before the year ended, the youth hang out and had dinner together at TGI Friday’s. The church also celebrated the birthday of everyone in 4th quarter. It was funny to see Benjamin lined up to receive his birthday card.
To celebrate the New Year, the youth hang out at Duc-Huyen’s house. We had foods, played gift exchange, and Anh Duc showed pictures of his trip in Iraq. It was quite funny that he mixed some quite disturbed pictures among the scenery pictures.
So… 2010 has started. I’m very excited for what’s ahead. There are goals, resolution to achieve, grace and blessings to come, lessons to learn. I am looking forward to all of it, and I want to document them all here, as much as I can. See you in 2010. Have wonderful New Year, you!
See pictures:
Christmas Program at church
Winter Wonderland
Christmas with Family
Year End
You hunted down and bought a toy that you thought your kid would really like, paid its price, wrapped it, gave it to him or her as present; then your kid in turn took it to school and gave it away freely to his or her friend. How would you react?
- Yell at your kid and give a speech about how much you had gone through to get that toy for him or her.
- Vow you would never buy anything for your kid again (but you probably don’t mean it)
- Question your kid about that “special” friend, and whether your kid is at the age of dating or admiring at the opposite sex.
- Wish you would have keep the toy for yourself instead of giving it to your kid.
- Wish you had told your kid that the toy is not to give away.
- Be proud that your kid is such a generous person, and will buy something else to reward your kid.
- Learn the lesson to make sure asking the kid first what he or she actually likes.
OMG. Someone stops me!! Too many reactions that I think I probably would react. Breath! breath!…. I guess I need to re-evaluate the joy of giving, tis the season.
I don’t remember the first song I sang when I was a kid, and I doubt if my parents would still remember. As for my kids, Grace’s first songs were both “ABC” and the “Barney’s Song: I Love You“. That’s right, she knew both song, sang it loud and proud. Songs are pretty easy for Grace to remember, and she sings some Vietnamese children song as well. Quite the opposite for Benjamin, words and English vocab doesn’t quite stick with him. He knows them, but he doesn’t say it back. When he was younger, Thao usually sang to him a Vietnamese lullaby and he remembered it.
Au o vi dau cau van dong dinh cau tre lac leo gap ghenh kho di. Kho di me dat con di. Con di truong hoc, me di truong lang.You start singing and he can sing the next words for you, but he doesn’t sing the song. His babysit lady is from Hue, a central region of Vietnam, and she speaks with thick central-region accent. Ben also now has some Vietnamese central accent when he talks. It’s quite funny. The other day he went home from daycare and sang first line of ”Ai Ra Xu Hue” (a well-known song about that central region) and we had quite a laugh.
Today mark a milestone for him as he can sing his first English song, “Happy Birthday to you!” ”ABC” didn’t quite work out. Too many letters.
So I was in the dentist office to get my tooth fixed. As I was laying down on the chair, looking up to the ceiling, it caught my eyes with the warning label that sticked onto the steel frame of the dentist light, that said: “Suitable for use in dry place.” I couldn’t help but to think of a reason for such warning label. Must someone have thought that it’s a good idea to use the light in a wet place before?! But now I think of it, the warning label didn’t say “dry place only”, and the water is always readily available as they perform the procedure on our mouth. I could think of several death scenes involve with electrocution that would write up the script for the next Final Destination movie. Man, I need to get out of this execution chair! Oh no, I can’t feel my lips now. It’s numb.
This is another random thought of the day. Now back to work!!
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