Christmas 2013

We're the "Elfin' Louies" this year!

We started Christmas morning with a bday party.  He's the reason for the season.   

Family holiday celebration at Bennihana.  Always so much fun to watch the chefs cook. 

Christmas Eve service at South Bay Church. 

Christmas Day dinner at our cousin Logan's house.  Isn't he such a cutie?

Family tennis time.  Our 1st time playing ... pretty fun!

On babysitting duty for my cousin Hailey. 

Christmas celebration with Dad's side of the family.  Chings - thanks for hosting an amazing dinner!  Star Wars angry birds ... from Grandma.

Grandpa showing us the Louie Holiday Card album ... goes all the way back to 1977!  There are some pretty funny pics in this album.  

Auntie Alisa - thanks for Kiersten, my 1st American Girl doll. 

Fun in the snow

Merry Christmas!  Our annual Christmas card. 

Lake Tahoe fun with Grandma and Grandpa.   We had a blast building a fort for our snow ball fight and sledding down the hill.  

My gloves were too small, I borrowed my mom's so I can make bigger snowballs to throw at my brothers ;-) 

Cheers to Grandpa's retirement!  Dada treated us to a yummy steak and lobster dinner for the celebration. 

Enjoying the little bit of snow left before it all melts away. 

School Winter Concert.  Can you find Louie #1?

 Can you find Louie #2?

Celebrating Easton's 1st Bday with Elmo on Sesame St.  The Abars always throw great parties!   

White Christmas in NYC

This week our parents went to NY.  Dada had a business trip and invited Mama to join him (no invite for us 3 this time). 

They sure ate their way throughout the city.  At least 5 meals a day. 

Girls Nite out for an amazing Yakitori dinner with Auntie Erica.  Please come visit us soon! 

Ramen lunch with Auntie Tammy.  Hope our family can hang out again soon. 

Uncle Michael - thanks for the movie date!  

Popo, Grandma, Auntie: Irene, Tracy, Jen & Uncle Steve - thanks for being a part of the team to take care of the 3 of us.   We had a great time with you and our parents really enjoyed their trip knowing we were in good hands.  

Sat morning reunion - we were all so happy to be together again! Love cuddling in our parent's bed on the weekends. 

Visit from our awesome Hawaiian friends - Yu's and Fujikawa's.  

Tea Time for Auntie Nancy's Baby Boy #2 ... so excited for our cousin #5. 

Annual Xmas party with Mama's cousins.  Our silly pose.   Everyone sporting their new gift from Santa. 

Santa Visit 2013

Santa made a special visit to deliver presents to us SCU kids. 

Can I get off this guy's lap!?!

Visit to "Bethlehem" in Santa Clara to see the story of how Jesus was born and remind us why we celebrate Christmas. 

Celebrating baby Dean with the Fukuyamas (SCU friends) visiting from Hawaii @ Ming's in Palo Alto. 

Hanging out with Mama's friend Auntie Linda (friends since middle school).  So happy they've moved back to SF from LA.  

Celebrating Grandpa's bday.  Bummer our 3 cousins were sick and missed the party. 

Yummy crab at R&G in SF. 

Bowling fun. 

Monthly Home Depot workshop.  This month we made a Despicable Me Tic Tac Toe game. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!  I got to help out a bit.

 

Uncle Russ brought over 5 tasty crabs...we devoured them.

Grandpa got to play with Dada's Google Glass:  "Ok Glass, take a picture!"

Dada's side of the family.

We were in the kitchen and dining room from 1pm-11pm!  Dada made a movie recap of Thanksgiving using Google+.  

Loved spending time with all of our family all week.  Lots of eating and quality time.  One of our 1st guests were Mama's cousins from Seattle.

On our 1st day of vacation, we visited the children's discovery museum.

We then went to Mama's favorite restaurant: Google!

  After lunch we played at Google's Skee ball room...while Dada played with Google Glass.

Mama taught us about team work as we put up the Christmas decorations all throughout the house.

Saturday was full of parties...3 of them!  1st up was Cousin Hailey who had her 1st bday party and they had a magic clown.

Thanks for a fun party Hailey!

The 2nd party was in SF with Cousin Logan who celebrated with Elmo for being 2.  We ate a delicious ice cream cake!

3rd Party of the day: Mama and Dada's SCU annual Friendsgiving party.  All us kids got to watch movies while they continued pigging out...and we got to stay up 'till midnight!

Mama's been taking tennis lessons so Dada took the day off to see how she's playing.  

We all got to cuddle as we watched Frozen.  I love my siblings!