Vivian is on product presentation board!

We are sending our product presentation boards to Toys R Us today... Our designer Ayami picked one of the pictures of Vivian I took last week and put on the Girl Gourmet Minilicious Mini Treats Maker packaging! Vivian got 2 missing front teeth replaced by Ayami skilled Photoshop retouch work!

Iceoplex

We took the girls to ice skating after shopping and pizza lunch at Simi Costco. This is the first time we took the girls to Iceoplex and more importantly, it's also the first time Helen and I went ice skating! It's way more difficult that we I thought! I was able to have lots of fun with the girls, thanks to the "walkers" we've rented! I was able to avoid many painful and embarrassing falls! Helen had made an impressive improvement but she had a couple of hard falls.

We went to Souplantation for dinner before we head back home, it's very chilly evening!!

Thanksgiving 2010

The girls were off on Wednesday the 24th so I told them a week ago that they can come to my workplace that day. Both girls were so excited, Vivian got up at 4am Wednesday morning and asked me how many more hours she has to wait to go to work with me... It was a very productive day at work, the girls worked with our Girls Activities teams and tested some Incredible Edible foods in the morning and worked as our photography models for the Minilicious packaging... I have used a few shots as design elements for our 2010 Christmas cards!

We spent the Thanksgiving day put together a new dinning table and house cleaning. We had our Thanksgiving dinner at the TGIF.

On the 26th Friday, we've invited Bonnie & Danny's family over for Thanksgiving. They stayed for both lunch and dinner. The girls had a lot of fun with Rachael and Rena!

On the 27th Saturday, we've invited Julia and her 4 kids (Hector Jr., Toni, Alan & Emi) over for lunch and dinner. We've spend some quality time together catching up everything that happened in 2010. This was 2nd year we've invited Gutierrez family to our place for Thanksgiving! Everybody had a great time!

Kid's Swap Meet

The girls have been waiting for this Annual Kid's Swap Meet for over a month since we submitted the application for a 8'x8' spot at the Thousand Oaks Community Center. Daddy has been busy organizing the girls old unwanted toys in the past week, everything was loaded on the van last night... We got up at 6:30 this morning, on our way to the Swap Meet, we grab some donuts, coffee and milk for breakfast. We were there at 7:45am and found most of the sellers are already conducting business! We started our sale at 8am, lots of early birds started buying our stuff even before we set up the table, there were a couple of ladies even wanted to buy our table! The sale was very good, most of our high ticket items were sold in the first hour of our business, the girls were very happy to offer discounts to multiple item buyers. We also took turns to visit other sellers' goodies and found some crazy deals out there. Mommy bought a ton of Christmas decoration items and the girls' clothes while daddy were hunting for DVDs, Nintendo DS and Gameboy Advance games for the girls. The girls also did some shopping and bought a gum ball machine, a big Lion King stuff animal (Nala), some necklaces & small decorative things... Before we close down the business, we donated approximately $50 worth of electronic toys to Erica & Vivian's pre-school teacher Mrs. Camarillo so the pre-school kids can play with them at their activity room. The girls made total of $209, we took out $10 Swap Meet application fee, $50 for the clothing, DVDs, various of video games and the toys we bought at the event, and the girls net profit was $75 per person, we let them keep the money. It was a wonderful experience for the girls and sure we'll be back next year!