Happy New Year 2010

Here is a little video of how we spent the first day of 2010.

Back to School 2009/2010 To Thanksgiving

Well before school went back into session with India beginning middle school (6th grade) and Gabe back at San Juan Hills for his Junior year. We took a quick family jaunt down to San Diego to visit Balboa Park. Where we visited the Aerospace Museum (Where we got to see the DaVinci Exhibit), The Automotive museum and The Museum of Man.

Then back to school. Unfortunately Gabe left before I remembered to take his photo.

Next we celebrated India’s 12th Birthday. We went to Disneyland on the day of her birthday then celebrated with friends the next weekend with some Rollerskating!

The Birthday train doesn’t end there… Next we celebrate Matt’s Birthday. We again went to Disneyland. Andrew, Michelle, Haley, and Claire where in town and joined us for the celebration

The fun doesn’t stop there! Matt and I got to attend one of my best and oldest friend Ed’s wedding in San Jose Del Cabo. It was, in a word, AWESOME! The wedding was beautiful and we got to do some really fun site seeing. It was incredibly relaxing and a well needed break and vacation. We even got to release baby turtles into the ocean.

We finish the month of October with some Halloween Fun. Harry Potter, Cho Chang, Pumpkin Fairy and Peter Pan.
India’s pumpkin masterpiece.

Finally the Birthday caboose came rolling in and we celebrated Gabe’s 17th Birthday. We had a great time going to Disneyland to celebrate his big day.

Veteran’s Day found me and the kids celebrating at Mochilato! It has bunches of fruit so it is actually healthy

Up next was an impromptu date to see the Western MLS Finals with the L.A. Galaxy and Houston Dynamo. It was a fantastic game with L.A. winning the championship in overtime. The power went out a couple times which made the game go until after 11pm.

And finally we had a wonderful Thanksgiving at home. We invited the Missionaries over which brought a really great spirit into our home.

We have a new hosting company

We’ve moved to bluehost.com.

Better interface, fewer limits, about the same price.

Boy Band Update: SS501

SS501 after 1 year and 7 months have released a mini-album. The first song they are promoting is “Love Like This” and it is pretty catchy. Here is the just released Music Video.

Here is a subbed version

What a Summer and Back to School!

“How We Spent Our Summer Vacation” by Jinkee McFadden.

Summer started off with India going to girls camp for the first time. They camped by the Kern river and got to go rafting and do a ropes course. Then we were all off to Oregon for Matt’s Dad’s 80th Birthday Party.

A little video of the event

The first week of August rolled around and Gabe left for the Philippines where he spent a little over two weeks with his Grandparents traveling around the Philippines and going to Singapore. While in the Philippines he got the opportunity to see the biggest cockroach he had ever seen in his life, and while in Singapore he got to explore the largest shopping center he had ever seen in his life. So some BIG firsts for Gabe. During that time India and I took a little girls getaway. First we drove up to Solvang for breakfast then onto Monterey where we did some sightseeing and spent the night. Then continued up to San Francisco where we spent a couple of days Fred and Nora and we also got to see Bree, Chris and little Beau.

Solvang

Monterey Bay

Alcatraz

King Tut Exhibit

The View from the DeYoung Museum

Ghirardelli Square

Chinatown

Then we cut our trip a little short because India got invited to Jonas Brother Concert by our Neighbor Hannah. Here is photo of the girls all dressed up for the concert.

After the vacation it is time for India to gets her Braces!

Then we were off to Utah to pick up Gabe from his trip. Our first stop was a quick overnight stay in St. George. Where we visited the Temple and Brigham Young’s winter home. I had a fig from his tree it was tasty.

Then it was just relaxing for the last couple weeks then back to work for me and a couple weeks later back to school for the kids. And that is how we spent our Summer Vacation.

A couple of nice pictures of the kids

Over Easter Sandi did a promotion for Easter pictures. Here are a couple of my favorites.

Best Mother's Day Ever!

For Mother’s Day Weekend Matt and I got to see my current favorite boybands SS501! On saturday we went to the Korean Music Festival at the Hollywood Bowl. It was seriously alot of fun even though we could hardly understand anything that was going on. Matt was totally awesome as photographer and videographer, so I could be a total fangirl. During SS501 he was totally cool as I was screaming at him to video tape this part and take a picture of this, and video tape that guy not that guy cause he is my favorite. Poor Matt trying to get me a steady video as he is surrounded by screaming fangirls. As I had threatened him with certain death if we got home and I found his video to be substandard. Luckily he did a great job, I am a very, very, happy wife! I will be creating a new page just for the Hollywood Bowl as Matt took over 200 pictures and about 12 videos and I will post the best stuff.

Matt’s Fancam of SS501 Deja Vu

SS501 Song Calling For You

SS501 Bye Bye

SS501 URMan

SHINee Replay

Girls Generation GEE

The Mormon Prom

My little boy is all grown up and off to his first Mormon Prom otherwise known as Mormal. His date was Alexa and the doubled with Ryan and Brooke. Here are are a few of the pictures I took before the event. I will also add a page with additional pictures that I took as well as some pictures that they took. Unfortunately  many of the pictures I took ended up out of focus hopefully Matt’s pictures are better. I will post those up soon as he unloads his camera.

My pose request in homage to all the Asian Drama’s I watch.

Brooke and Ryan

Gabe and Alexa

The Day Before the Oscars

Julie came to visit us a few weeks ago and one of the fun things we did was go to Hollywood and Highland. It was the day before the Oscars so we got to see all the set up stuff and we even had a celebrity sighting.

India at the top of the stairs at the Kodak Theater.

India and Julie in front of the Disney Soda Fountain

Matt and India at the mall at Hollywood and Highland the Hollywood sign
is on the mountain behind them.

And the Celebrity Sighting… Tim Gunn from Project Runway

A New Discovery!

While visiting my mom in Utah a new boy band has caught my attention. There I was in Nordstrom’s, I hear this catchy song that I recall hearing once before, I look up and on the video monitor are 5 boys dancing, singing and wearing coordinating outfits! This boy band seems to fit all the boy band criteria and even better they sing in English! Could this signal the return of the boy band era?! If so it would be just in time for my darling daughter India’s Middle School Years. Because what is adolescence without a boy band crush. So without further ado here are the details. The groups name is Varsity Fanclub I haven’t had an opportunity to do much research but here is a link to there wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Fanclub

I have also included a video of them on my boy band page. I have also included one of there songs on my playlist below. So check it out!