Invention Convention

Every year there's an Invention Convention project for the 5th graders. Erica's invention was a dog walker called Fido Fitness XP- The Ultimate Dog Jogging Machine! We worked together on the concept for a week and Erica has great presentations on last Thursday the 5th. She had presented 50 times to her fellow classmates, teachers and the parents that day!

Fall photo shoot at PMC

It's Sunday afternoon at PMC near the lake, The natural lighting was not perfect but I managed to snap some pictures to capture the mood of Fall at PMC. I save the best shot of the girls for the Christmas card.

Ugly school pictures 2013!

Received the picture sample from the school picture day, we went online and found this two ugly picture of the girls, check them out!

First time to the ball game!

Every year Mrs. Lewinson's class and Mrs. Anderson's class have opportunity to get two free tickets for each kid to the college football game. Vivian was excited about this for over a month and she really wanted daddy to take her to the game and enjoy the event with her best friends. The game was UCLA vs Colorado University at Rose Bowl. We arrived there at around 3:30pm and the kick off started at 4:30pm, it was a very exciting game and we all had tons of fun!

Trick or treating 2013

This year San family invited our girls trick or treating with Caitlyn and Alex. Cowgirl Vivian and Vampire Erica equipped with large pillow cases and scored total of 14 lbs of candies in about an hour!

Biking on a beautiful Sunday

We met a very nice family at PMC on Saturday afternoon, Iris & Jeremy, they are full-time PMC resident for two years, they are so kind to sell us 10 bags of wood pellets to get us prepared for the colder weather in the near future. Saturday evening was quite cold, we had our wood pellet heater on all night and it was very cozy even though outside temperature was only 8ºC! Sunday was so beautiful, 4 of us went biking around PMC for over an hour before going back to the cabin for lunch. I had outside plumbing insulation projects done in the afternoon while the girls were playing inside.

Some snap shots in the cabin on a Sunday morning

It's been another very hot weekend in LA and Ventura counties... We are so glad that we can be at a much cooler place for the weekends!

We had Korean BBQ for dinner again on Saturday after fishing at the lake. We slept till 9am on Sunday morning, had a great breakfast and took out my camera and did some snap shots of the girls inside the cabin...

Korean BBQ

We had a very warm week in the Southern California, good thing is it was nice and cool up at our mountain cabin. We had a very late dinner on Saturday evening. We finally got to use the Korean BBQ indoor grill plate that my parents brought from Toronto many years ago... It was a fun experience for the girls and they ate lots of BBQ chicken!

Erica turns 10!

After a day at school, daddy picked up the girls and met up with mommy at the girls' favorite restaurant Macaroni Grill for dinner. Mommy took the girls to Basket Robins to pick up an ice-cream cake after dinner. After homework, it was the birthday cake and birthday song time!

Can't believe our little Erica is 10 years old now!!

A fun Labor Day weekend at the mountain

The school has started last Wednesday, Erica is in 5th Grade and Vivian is in 3rd Grade. We received the STAR test result in the mail, both girls did very well. Vivian has been confirmed by Ventura County School District as top 2% GATE student! Daddy and mommy are super proud that both of our girls are gifted and talented!

This past Labor Day weekend marked our one year anniversary of our 1st visit at Pine Mountain Club! We went up there on Friday evening so we can attend the Fall Festival and the parade on Saturday morning. The event was fun but the best part was Erica & Vivian's buddies Caitlyn and Katelyn came up on Saturday too. San family purchased their mountain house last month at PMC, we are so happy to have more friends as our neighbors! We went to San's house for lunch, the kids went fishing and swim together on Saturday afternoon, four girls spend two nights at San's house! What a nice way to kick off a new school year!

"Best Summer Ever" Art Contest 2013, Westlake Hills Elementary

Today is the last day of school, summer vacation starts tomorrow. The girls has a great school year! Couple months ago, the school had an art contest and the girls have submitted their watercolor artwork. So proud that Vivian's water park themed painting won the 1st place in 2nd grade and Erica's beach themed painting won the grand prize in the entire school! Erica's painting will be on the cover of next years school directory!

A warm weekend up in the mountain

This was probably the warmest weekend we spent at the cabin! On Saturday, there was hardly any wind and the temperature was almost unbearable hot at night in the rooms. Helen and Erica slept on couches in the living room, Vivian and I slept in the girls room with the fan turned on. Sunday was a lot better with nice cool breeze. Helen and I spent an hour or so to clean the windows in the morning. After a quick bite for lunch, we went to the lake fishing again, Erica was able to use the new fishing pole we got for her, they caught total of 4 fish and they were so excited! After that, I took the girls to swim for an hour before taking shower and got ready to leave. We had dinner at Sam Woo,Van Nuys and did some grocery shopping at Ranch 99, we got home at around 8:15pm.