End of blogging

Since all our friends are on facebook, we are discontinuing our blogspot blog because it's too much to keep up with. With our lives changing and getting more busy, we'll just be updating our facebook pages with updates and pictures. Thanks for reading!

RV Road trip - update 1

We are back from our rv road trip up the CA coast. It was a tiring trip, but well worth it to experience it with our son. He enjoyed crawling inside the rv and seeing all the beaches along the way. The above picture is one of the many stops we made along the way up. It was right off the highway 1 that we camped out in our rv. It was also the night of the meteor shower. The stars were brilliant and abundant that night and we could see it very clearly, but we accidentally slept through the time when the meteor shower was supposed to occur.

Wedding weekend

Orion attended his first wedding celebration this weekend. It was his aunt's marriage in a courthouse ceremony and a dinner reception the following day. He wore two ties. The lighter one for the daytime and a darker one at night. He shared in some of the 10-course meal the adults had, but with just 2 teeth, we had to be careful what he could digest.

His two teeth still stand alone in his mouth. They popped out at 7-months of age and nothing else has come in since then. He just can't wait to get teeth so he can eat all the adult food he can get his hands on.

Bad Water Experience

It was Orion's first beach experience and he was fine as long as he watched the waves from a distance. Once daddy put Orion's feet in the water, he cried! The water was not warm like bath water. After that, he seemed to be traumatized when going in to get a bath. He used to love bath time. Now, it seems like he is scared of the water and cries. He also tries to climb out as he's crying and we have to pick him up out of the bath and hold him. This has been happening for the past 3 days so I hope he'll get over it. Otherwise, it'll be very painful to give him a bath every night.

Our 4th of July Weekend

The San Diego Fair wasn't one of our favorite places, but this year it was more enjoyable because Orion was there. He loved to people watch and see all the colorful banners, stuff animals hanging off the carnival games, and live animals. Everyone enjoyed chowing on the turkey leg, polish sausage, and famous funnel cakes topped with bavarian cream, whip cream and strawberries. The night before Amy went to see Transformers with a bunch of friends will Allen stayed home to fix the rv for the upcoming road trip. He's really excited to fix the rv and it's coming along nicely.

This picture (below) is our favorite's at the fair. It was taken during the piggy races. They sold these snouts for $1 and we had to get one. Orion kept pulling it away from his daddy's face and everyone around was worried for Daddy because it would have been very painful for it to snap on his nose. Orion seemed to enjoy himself very much here.

Here is our friend, Brian with Orion at the fair. Brian tagged along with us.

On Saturday, we headed up to LA to visit Mai-anh. We had shabu shabu and then played 7 games of Settlers of Catan, Cities and Knights. There is a running tally of who wins the most in 2009 as that person will be champion of 2009. Amy was the champion in 2008. She has 7 wins over the 2nd place person so far. Can she be stopped? The games get pretty heated at times as everyone is pretty competitive. Here is a picture of Orion and his aunt, Mai-anh at her house in LA.

Lil Boy

Time is going by so fast. Can someone please slow it down? These pictures look like he's in preschool eventhough he's only 8 months old.


So family life is pretty mellow these days. We take our little one to the park on the weekdays, zoo or wild animal park on the weekends and try to squeeze in some vacation time twice a year. We don't take big trips anymore, just little ones within the U.S. Next year, we may go to Hong Kong/China with Amy's mom, brother, aunts, and uncle from Norway.

Our adorable son is 8 months old this week