"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.

Whimsical portraits by Traci Pascual

The paintings finally came in! They look awesome and the girls love them! I'll frame them and put up at our cabin!

Crazy Hair Day

The girls were very excited about their Crazy Hair Day event today and both got up before 6am this morning. After they braided their hair, I installed the wire and they loved the effect!

Vivian's 1st fishing trip!

Vivian was determined to learn how to fish so I got her some fishing gear at Big 5 last week. We met Sarah Connor's family at PMC this weekend, Sarah's dad Greg is a fishing expert, he taught Vivian how to fish... Vivian casted the line by herself and caught a pretty good size Bass at the lower lake, she was so happy that she was able to catch a fish on her first fishing trip!

Westlake Hills Elementary Open House 2013

Time to show off kids' school work to the parents in the evening on Open House Day. The girls were very proud to show daddy & mommy the hard work that they have put in on their essays, drawings and many interesting projects!

Good bye Corta Bella Condo!

3 more days till the close of escrow... I took the girls to our old condo for the final visit, lots of sweet memories from that place... I bought the unit in June of 1999 when I was still single, got married 3 years later and had Erica an year after that, 17 months later we had Vivian. The girls grew up in the condo, my parents also spent a lot of time living with us in the condo. We moved to a bigger house in the same city in October of 2011 and we rented the unit out for an year before listing it for sale last month. We are very lucky to receive an offer of our full asking price 3 days after we listed property. A couple in their 30s with two girls will enjoy this beautiful home for many years to come.