Westlake Hills Elementary Open House 2014

The girls were so excited to invite us to the school open house on Thursday May 22nd! They showed us all the amazing projects that they have worked so hard in the year! The girls hard work paid off, we are so proud of their achievements! It's Erica's last year at Westlake Hills Elementary and she is excited to move on to the middle school in the end of August!

Frozen yogurt treat

Happy girls enjoying a late afternoon frozen yogurt treat at the Oaks Mall.

All District Stings Festival at Thousand Oaks Civic Art Center

This year both Erica and Vivian are in the Strings program after school. Both of them had a violin performance at the Thousand Oaks Civic Art Center in the evening of April 30. The overall performance of the group was so much better than last year's and we enjoyed it so much!

Antelope Valley poppy fields

It's been a long time since we last went to the Poppy Reserve, we planned a trip to visit there on our way to the cabin this weekend. We were very disappointed after paying $10 to get in the Poppy Reserve and found there was minimal poppies at the Poppy Reserve. However, there are plenty of poppy fields everywhere around the area, we managed to stopped a several places and took some nice shots of the girls. On our way to the cabin on route 138, the intensity of poppy fields are even greater than Antelope Valley, now we know where to go see the poppy fields next year!

A nice Sunday at the Griffith Observatory

It was a cloudy morning, we left home at around 8:45am, arrived the Griffith Park at around 9:35am, found a curb side parking very quickly and walked 500 feet to the Griffith Observatory. This was our first visit and we were very excited, what an awesome place to visit, we watched a great show at the planetarium, we have learned a lot about our planet, our solar system and the universe!

Sledding fun at the Nordic Base

We have missed the sledding fun last Sunday due to Erica's visit to the ER. This weekend the girls had a fun morning sledding at the Nordic Base! Snow was very thick and there were not a lot of people there, the girls tried out their new sleds we got from the sellers on the Craigslist this past summer!

Also posted a couple group pictures of our guests who visited and stayed with us at our cabin last weekend.

An unexpected trip to the ER from the mountain on Sunday morning

It was a fun packed weekend with Bonnie & Helena's family at our cabin over the weekend. Shortly after Erica woke up at 4am Sunday morning to go to bathroom, she came to our bed and complaint about cramping feeling inside her chest, the pain didn't go away and I found her heart rate was high... We took her to the fire station near our cabin and 3 firefighters checked on her, as precautionary measure, the firefighter call for ambulance from Frazier Park. The ambulance arrived in 1/2 hour, the paramedic checked Erica out and her condition has improved. Just to have a peace of mind, we decided to send her to the hospital to have a more complete check up. It was 1 hour 15 minute ride to go to the Henry Mayo Hospital in Santa Clarita, since it's early Sunday morning, there were only few patients in the ER so Erica got some attention very quickly. They have performed EKG and took an X-ray picture for her, result came back in 1/2 hour and everything was normal. The doctor told us that it maybe due to acid reflux... The ordeal was over in the early Sunday morning and the doctor discharged Erica at around 9am.