Anyways, back to this weekend, we decided on Thursday to head up to Portland to hang out with my sis - Son, my BOL - Kev, my all-grown-up-going-to-school-it's-almost-time-when-his-head-will-finally-be-in-proportion-to-the-rest-of-his-body nephew - Caleb, and my mini-me-my-daugther-is-almost-her-size-and-she's-two-years-younger-cutest-thing-to-ever-walk-the-earth-next-to-Alyssa niece - Casey! Honestly, my fondest memories in life have been just hanging out with the fam in the Northwest, so to say we were looking forward to this weekend would probably be an understatement...
Now, I understand you don't read this to listen to any of my ramblings, so on to the picture show that was our weekend...
Life Lesson #1 - FEM*A
There is one life truth that one must remember above all, even above happy wife = happy life and don't ever leave the toilet seat up... Force Equals Mass * Acceleration. My Casey bear unfortunately learned this message the hard way.
We were just hanging out at Portland church (where apparently almost every family in the whole church is protesting China's One Child law by having 6 kids each), watching the kids on various wheel based instruments (e.g. rollerblades, skateboards, bikes, scooters, etc..). It was almost like a druken Nascar event, with little blurs heading every which way as far as the eye could see. Along comes Casey, meandering along, when a kid comes around the corner on a bike at Mach 2 and bowls into her! Now, usually, one throws their arms out in an effort to break their fall. Alas, Casey has yet to learn this critical lesson, choosing to stop her fall with her forehead. The aftermath is:
Simple Physics, you say? I would agree.
Life Lesson #2 - Don't Send Girls Shopping Alone
Using the con of "You guys stay home and watch football while we go out shopping" to spend some "quality" time together, Fo and Son embarked on Sunday to go shopping. Usually, I expect Fo to come back from her trips with little bobbles from her expedition. However, this time, she got SangMi a $42 coat that was made out of recycled 2-liter Coke bottles or something?!? Apparently, Son and Fo are double-handedly trying their darndest to keep our economy afloat during these rough times. That being said, SangMi is pretty damn cute in the coat, if I do so say so myself...
Life Lesson #3 - There Really Is Nothing Better Than Hangin' Out with Family...
Random Pics...
My daughter worried about the anorexic state of Hollywood...Ironic, no?
Kev is Saesim's padawan when it comes to Jedi Master of Meat Grilling. Tasty? Believe dat...
My nephew and niece rockin out (Caleb playing Slow Ride on practice mode at the slowest speed is about the funniest 40 minutes of your life...Let's just say he gets his rhythm from Kev...)...
Check out the Wizard of Oz shoes and the facial expression...I really want to just bite her, I do...
The Kids. One happy, one indifferent, and one that's just kinda ehhh... No pressure, Brian, Linda, Grace...Just sayin'....
Yummy Food
I can't figure out how to get this picture rotated.. o'well.. =)
She loves this swing.. 
Sake bombs...
Yummy Drinks..
Man.. we need to take some photography classes.. aahah!!
Wow.. SHe's so yellow (how did we not know then??)
It's so fun being around her right now. She's starting to smile and 'talk' a little more each day. I can't imagine my life without her. I lOve you Alyssa. Happy 100th day!!
This is the nurse giving her the oral vaccine along with the childrens tylenol.
She loved it.. haha!! (Miss Piggy)
Now here are the other vaccines. OUCH!! She didn't like these all too much.
Then we were done.. She did fine.. =)
Who knew this could come out of such a cute little thing.. (isn't this the biggest poop you've ever seen?) 
Darn it.. I should have bought this onsie.. haha!! =)
I had the entire row to myself. Doesn't she look so comfortable.. This is her first time on a plane. Just me and her. ( SOn I don't understand how you do it with TWO kids.. It was hard enough with just one) Alyssa did really well on the plane. She slept the entire flight. The luggage was teh hardest part. I had her stroller, car seat, carry on bag and two suitcases. I had her in the baby bjorn then placed one smaller suitcase and carseat in the stroller. So I was carrying Alyssa and my carry on bag, pushing the stroller with the carseat and smaller suitcase, and pulling the larger suitcase... Won't do that again if I don't have to.. =)
Doesn't the plane look so 'pretty'?
You get your own tv screen. THere was a Top CHef marathon going on. (how funny.. this particular episode was when they had to make dishes for planes.)
You can even watch music videos, play games, chat with other people on the plane and they even have international channels. How crazy is that. 
You even order your drinks from the screen.
I won't fly any other airline when flying up to Seattle.
Do you see the gray middle house. That's my dream home. I told Paul that's the house I want him to buy us. haha!! ( I don't think it'll ever happen) This picture was taken on the I-90 bridge. I think it's considered Mercer Island. Bill Gates home is on the right side of the bridge. Not quite close to the bridge though. A women can dream right??
While I was up in Seattle it just happened to be our One Year Wedding Anniversay!! How romantic huh.. haha!! Can't believe that it's already been a year. This year has been so eventfull. We bought a house, a car, and had kid. (everything I wanted haha!! poor paul)
Our yummy cupcakes!!
I loved my flowers =)
I Love you babe.. Thanks for everything!! Maybe next year we'll be in the same State for our anniversary... =)
