Camp Ronald McDonald Annual Family Halloween Carnival

It's our 2nd year attending the event located at the back lot of Universal Studios in Hollywood. We got extra kids tickets so Erica and Vivian invited their buddy Caitlyn to join us... It's a better organized event than last year's. The food was great and lots of Carnival games and rides! There are face painting, pumpkin decoration and lots of celebrities... The best part was the kids coming home with a van full of toy gifts!

Calabasas Pumpkin Festival 10-16-2010

This was the first time we went to the Calabasas Pumpkin festival. It's a fun annual event located just about 15 minutes south of where we live at Juan Bautista de Anza Park on Lost Hill Road in Calabasas. On the cloudy Saturday, there were dozens of marketplace vendors selling all kinds of arts and crafts stuff, live bands, Carnival games and many inflatable rides. It's a perfect event to kick start the holiday spirit!

A visit to Helen's old school on Sunday afternoon

It's been over 8 years since we last went to Helen's old school, California State University in Pomona. At that time, our Erica was not even born...

Helen said the school had a lot of changes. We went to the Japanese Garden which wasn't there last time when we went there. The grass was so green and the sky was clear and blue. The Leica DC Vario-Summicron on my LX3 performed flawlessly and captured some nice 24mm wide-angle shots...

Violet & Harujuku Cutie

There are still few weeks before Halloween but daddy has already received a few costumes for each girls through internal orders. Here are the costumes most likely the girls are going to wear on the Halloween evening. However, there are more Fairies and Princesses outfit which I will showcase in coming weeks, stay tuned.

Erica turned 7!

September 3 was the day that Erica was waiting for since the day after her last birthday! Can't believe Erica is already 7! It was her 3rd day in school and daddy had bought a couple dozens of Hello Kitty and Ninja Turtle cupcakes, juice packs and couple bags of Skittles for Erica to bring to school and share with her new classmates during morning recess. Her new friends had a little birthday celebration with her and sung birthday song for her... Mommy returned early form trip to the orient and we all went to our favorite Todai buffet for dinner, she ordered a small birthday cake for herself after dinner and here is the snap shot. Erica had a great time!

2 days with daddy at work

Mommy is in the orient for a week for business and the girls still have 2 days before school starts. They have been waiting for this opportunity for a long time and both were extremely excited about spending 2 entire days with daddy at work! It was Monday and Tuesday after returning from a week of vacation, tons of things need to be taken care in the office. I was so grateful to Marty, Moxie & Micky's help to keep both girls super busy for 2 full days! Erica and Vivian were so involved with making Minilicious food, drawing, eating M&Ms, socializing with designers who design their favorite characters like Pinkalicious, Disney Fairies, Hello Kitty... It was hard to get them out of the office at the end of the days. The girls burned up all their energy during the day, they slept all the way from Santa Monica to home on both days! Here I'm posting a few shots taken during lunch break at McDonald's & Carl's Jr. We had a walk to the Water Garden after lunch today.

Tomorrow will be their 1st day back to school, backpacks and lunches are all packed, it's going to be a very busy morning...

Ronald Reagan Library

We've spent a good chunk of afternoon time yesterday taken care of our Simi property, the trip to the Reagan Library was postponed till today...

It's much cooler today, even in Simi Valley, the daytime temperature was in low 70s, that's over 30 degrees cooler than the weather 2 day ago! We prepared some sandwiches, chips and drinks for lunch and drove 20 minutes to the Reagan Library, there were over a dozen picnic tables right next to the parking lot. It's quite windy up there, good thing that girls had their jackets. After a quick bite to eat, we were all ready for the visit. The facility is currently under construction for a huge upcoming event/ exhibition. We went to visit the Oval Office, get on board the Air Force One, checked out the Marine One, the museum store, Reagan's grave site... we really like the new coffee shop and the girls had some ice cream. The motorcycle exhibition was cool too... Daddy had a great time with the girls while mommy went to China for business.