Family fun and yummy thanksgiving meals

Thanksgiving dinner with Dada's family (Louies and Chings), 15 of us!

Dinner with Mama's family - Uncle Micheal we missed you!

Reading Franklin's Thanksgiving for our bedtime story.

Chess match, I almost beat Dada.

Chinese Checkers: Fluffy Ducky vs. Armadilly

Grandpa's turn to make a move. Checkers, one of our new favorite games. Anyone want to come over to play with us?

Boy did we all get twisted up!

Thanks Uncle Michael for helping us build our Gingerbread house while you were home from college.

Dada made us Star Wars pancake for breakfast.

Krispy Kreme donut, our 1st time!

Hot pot lunch at Google, thanks Dada!

FRIED turkey, juiciest turkey ever! This one is a 14 pounder...almost half my weight!

We were also frying everything in sight: sweet potato fries, potstickers, spam, chicken wings, mac n cheese balls etc. Dada also was enjoying his favorite beer. We wonder why beer makes him turn red.

Live crab for lunch. We each had our own whole crab.

Prime rib dinner with yummy sides (Auntie Emi - we loved your cream corn, thanks!).

Yorkshire pudding with prime rib drippings, light and tasty!

"Thing 3" Celebration

On Sat, we had a party to celebrate baby sister (aka "Thing 3"). Our family and many of Mama and Dada's old middle school, high school and college buddies came party with us. Auntie Emi/Uncle Roo - thanks for these Dr. Seuss shirts from your honeymoon!

Part of our dim sum lunch spread. PoPo, Auntie Jen & Uncle Roo - thanks for picking up all the food! They were so yummy! Auntie Min - thanks for all the fun girly decorations!

George Washington HS girls, friends for almost 20 years now!

SCU Clan taking a break from eating.

Both grandmas sporting their PINK.

Symantec team threw Mama a surprise baby shower. Dada even came to surprise her. Thanks Auntie Min for organizing such a great surprise for Mama. You really got her, she had NO idea (which is rare)! Wonder if Baby Sis will share her Target gift card fr Symantec with us to buy some toys?

Thanksgiving party at preschool.

Korean Kalbi dinner & Star Wars playtime with the Chang boys. Fun!

I've moved ... next door to Doa Doa's (big bro) room! Sun nite is our official 1st night as roomies! Gotta start getting nursery ready for baby sis.

Walking to church down the street on Sunday. In deep discussion ... about Star Wars characters.

Day with Dada

Dada brought us to work on Veteran's Day to hang out.

We made him more artwork to put up in his office.

Homework time with Dada before we do our next fun activity.

On Friday Dada came to my class to do his monthly Project Cornerstone reading to teach us not to be a "bystander" rather to be an "upstander."

Battleship with grandma on our weekly Tuesdays together! Thanks for the game and for playing with us.

Annual SCU adults-only thanksgiving dinner. This year they made it a murder mystery party. We hung out with PoPo and Auntie Jen - thanks for taking such great care of us while our parents partied and enjoyed a meal without having to feed us.

Swimming in Nov

We got to squeeze in 2 days of swimming on Wed and Thur when the sun was out. Probably our last swimming lessons from Dada for the 2010 year until it warms up again. Thanks Dada for coming home early from work to take us!

Like our new dragon and shark hoodie towels?

On Fri, Dada got invited to play in a b-ball tournament on the Warriors arena floor. He was so happy to play on a real NBA court. Even got invited to watch the Warriors vs. Jazz game that night from the 10th row! Lucky - wish were invited.

Jelly Belly factory tour in Fairfield, home of where all the Jelly Belly candies are made for the world. When Mama was a YMCA summer camp counselor in high school / college she use to bring kids here for field trips. She was so excited to bring us. We loved it and can't wait to go back!

The best part was all the flavors we got to sample. Some of our favorites: red apple, pear, smoothie, tangerine, sour apple and toothpaste! We bought a big box home, come on over to find out which is your favorite flavor.

After Jelly Belly, we went to the Budweiser factory next door and Dada enjoyed his 2 full samples there while we got pretzels and lemonade - all of it for free!

Helping Mama's cousin's open their b-day present. Yvonne in the middle was Mama/Dada's flower girl and Bryan on the right was their ring bearer. They were 5 then, now they're teenagers!

Auntie Emi & Uncle Roo - thanks for spoiling us with a Red Robin lunch and movie outing to see Megamind in IMAX 3D on a rainy Sunday afternoon! We had so much fun with you guys. We're so lucky!

Mama & Dada enjoyed a ramen date while we were out, something baby sister has been craving. They enjoyed their relaxing kidless afternoon.