Officially Pregnant

We finally went to our first Doctor appointment for the new baby. We got to hear the heart beating and see the little person on the ultrasound. It definitely feels a lot more real now. My due date is July 19th. I had to switch doctors, but I really like Dr. Pew (Thank-you,friends, for all the recommendations). I will try to get the US pictures scanned so I can post those. I can tell he/she is really cute already. :)

Here is another shot from Mindy's photo shoot - we probably would have used this one for our Happy New Year card, but it doesn't look like that will happen now...so here it is anyway.

Posting for the Emmett's Too

We spent New Year's Eve with the Emmett Family - Our second annual Chinese Food Take- Out Party. It was very fun playing Alice's brother's Wii and eating. I had to spend the entire next day recovering from all the good times.

Note Olivia's hair in her singing picture - She wanted to wear one side braided and the other side down. I said OK, but only with the understanding that this hair style is only for going to special people's houses and not for church or preschool.

My wonderful Mom and Dad bought me a new lens for Christmas a 85mm Prime 1.8...it takes super sharp pictures compared to my old one, and a big bonus for me is that I don't have to rely so much on my flash. The depth of field will definitely take some getting used to. I am really enjoying it so far.

The following weenkend we went up to play in the snow and brought Austin along for some extra fun. I was all ready to take cute pics of them all playing together in the snow, but it was snowing SO HARD the whole time we were out that I was too chicken to expose my new lens to the elements. I like the ones of Drew and Austin in the car though.

For those of you who read this, but I don't run into in person...we have some great news...We are expecting baby #3 sometime this summer!!! our whole family is super excited.

Alice hasn't posted in a while I noticed so I took the liberty of posting a few of her cuties!

Christmas in San Diego

We arrived safely back from San Diego where we visited Phuong's family for Christmas. The weather was fantastic - lower 70's most of the time. The kids really enjoyed getting their shorts and flip-flops on and playing on the beach. We also ate tons of yummy Asian food.

This year has flown by...I think time speeds up when you have children.

Happy NEW YEAR everyone - May you enjoy God's blessings in the year to come.

Olivia's First Christmas Pageant

Last night was a big night for Miss Olivia. She was Angel #5 in her preschool's Christmas Pageant. All the children did a fabulous job - no body cried or ran off the stage...Olivia's line was "you will have a baby boy" - very cute. At the end of the pageant there was a suprise visit from Santa. I have to say this was a very authentic looking Santa.

quick trip to get the tree

Our tree buying experience was done in record time this year. We stumbled upon a place that sold all their trees for $15. They were all perfectly shaped and we walked up to the first row and picked the 2nd and 3rd ones. Normally we go to place that shakes the tree in the high-powered shaker machine, wraps it in rope, and loads it on your car for you. This year was much less expensive HOWEVER - I had about 20 spiders on my ceiling - I'm not kidding! I think we got most of them, but it still creeps me out.

Mindy's Photo shoot

OK - so i know most of you check mindy's blog, but i just have to post one that she took that i really LOVE of Olivia...she really did steal the show for the photoshoot, but I don't mind b/c when I take pictures, she hides her face and I end up getting a ton of cute ones of Drew. So here's one more - and they are all really good, so they might just keep coming. We'll see :)

I'm Back!

So first I have to apologize to all you blog stalkers who have checked my blog faithfully without anything new to feast your eyes on...sorry for being such a slacker - I'll try to be better.

So, now that i'm months behind in photos - I'll start by posting a few from Thanksgiving...We went to Lincoln City with my Mom ( my Dad was in Peru), and Quoc and Chau. We had egg rolls and noodles instead of the Turkey just for a change, spent time on the beach, and checked out the aquarium. Our house was literally only steps away from the sand. The weather was absolutely phenomenal - so we all had a great time.