Fun time with cousins

Weds cousins football game 

Our lunch date with a view that never gets old for me. 

Grateful for our corporate Friday wellness day - great company, yummy food and sound of waves - so relaxing

Ice cream picnic to kick off my FFF activities. 

FFF "minute to win it" relay race - how many goldfish can you chopstick over to the other side of the room. 

Ethan's new prized possession ... I don't understand all the Star Wars craze. 

Kids finally met their new furry cousin, Momo Mewie 

Celebrating the May babies

10 min long auntie / nephew arm wrestle ended up in a tie. 

Grateful to finally have the entire silly Louie and Ching clan together again, all 23 of us!   

 

Yummy weekend

Mari and her friends enjoying our neighborhood pool. 

Ethan's FFF dinner selection - Paxi deep dish pizza.  Too heavy for me - I had pork belly ramen instead. 

Ethan's lunch date with Mark at Habit.  Sounds like they really enjoyed their burger. 

Dinner with the Chings - so nice to hang out over yummy mediterranean dinner playtime with the kids. 

Big kids - big toys 

Kalbi for Wang family BBQ. 

Tommy's grooming crew.  Truly takes a village. 

Cousin's football game. 

Cousin's tackle pile.  

Weekly Wednesday playdate / dinner with J&O.  This week was a fishy one - salmon and chilean sea bass. 

 

Almost an adult

Happy 17th Tyler!  Can't believe you'll be an official adult next year.  Hope you enjoyed the day you planned including this homemade ice cream chocolate cake you requested. 

Boys night out @ Top Golf, so fun.  Girls went out to do some bday gift shopping for friends. 

Mari chilling in our nighborhood pool with her buddies. 

Tuesday night is Ethan's weekly cooking night - he made his yummy meatloaf this week.  Let us know if you're free to join us for his dinner on a Tue. 

4th grade Gold Rush scavenger hunt. 

Silly girls excited to dig for gold. 

Shot #2 - felt a bit achy the next day but so grateful we are fully vaccinated.  

Youth vaccine night at Levi stadium - Tyler also got shot #2 and Ethan got #1 

Family game night - Guessture. 

 

Mother's Day 2021

Mother's Day tradition continues.  Quality 1:1 time with the kids is so precious to me.  Noah's Bagel & Jamba breakfast with Mari, Habit Burger lunch with Ethan and donuts with Tyler (his fav Krispy Kreme & my fav black sesame mochi donut), no meal with Teddy - he's a cheap date.  

Boys don't typically come into our bed to snuggle on the weekends anymore so this was a special Mother's Day surprise.  

Lunch date with my mommy.  So nice to be able to dine out together again and just chat. 

Cinco de Mayo and early Mother's Day dinner with Gma & Gpa. 

This is how "school" lunch looks now ... so grateful Mari has such great neighborhood buddies to lunch with daily.   

Mari's FFF  - she picked In n Out for dinner. 

Mari planned a wheel barrel relay race.  Was a close one between Louie vs. Louie. 

No mercy from the eldest ... was trying to make me laugh so I'd fall.  I didn't take the bait. 

This is (almost) 17.  So grateful for Tyler's buddies ... most of them have been buds since early elementary!  So happy they can celebrate in person this year!  

Spontaneous joy ride to see the sunset from Mt. Hamilton. 

Ethan installed a floating shelf for his Star Wars friends. 

Dad's and his college buds golfing at Top Golf. 

 

Another round of blood work for Dad this week to check up on his thyroid. 

Family football game

Relaxing after a very tiring football game. 

Tyler and I were too tired to get up. 

Happy 15th Googleversary Mark!   What an exciting 15 year ride!  Thanks for all the ways you provide for our family.   How time flies, we were preggers with Ethan when you started.  

Father-daughter donut backyard hang out. 

Crispy pork belly - was yum but skin could have been crispier, will try again. 

TGIF boba hang out with Mari and her girlfriends. 

Smoke Eaters date followed by Krispy Kreme donut! 

Finger lickin good BBQ chicken wings.