College boy is home for Thanksgiving

Tyler's welcome home lunch.  Nice dining together as 5 again. 

Kalbi dinner for college boy's first night home.  So nice to have all 5 under 1 roof for a few days. 

Louie Thankgiving

Louie cousins 

Wang Thanksgiving 

Thankful turkey turned out juicy.  This 20 pounder gave us 3 meals: thanksgiving, porridge and pot pie! 

Wang cousins celebrating Logan's big 11. 

These 2 unite after 3+ months

Teddy misses Tyler's lap 

Friendsgiving with our neighbors & church small group buddies for over a decade.  

Brother-sister tennis match 

Ping pong fun 

Tyler made it back for the last football home game of the season to witness the Trojans beat the Irish!  

 

Big football and robotics competition

USC vs. UCLA football watch party with our USC alumni friends. 

Tyler and his Trojan buddies at the Rose Bowl - what an exciting game.  Yay for a 48-45 win against rival UCLA ... USC off to Pac12 Championship in 2 weeks!  

Mari's 1st robotics tournaments.  Overall, they did great, team was invited to Lego Innovation Expo in March to present their project! 

Post-competition celebration with Boba

Ethan's silver hardware came off ... love his smile :) 

Kid swap - Uncle Steve and Auntie Jen took Ethan out for dumpling dinner. 

Meanwhile Jacob is giving Uncle Mark a hard time with chess.  

PE time at home, Teddy's the push up counter. 

Tyler's intramural football team made it to playoffs but unfortunately, didn't make it to the championship game.  They had a great time bonding and playing together! 

 

Simple & yummy weekend

Ethan and Mari crashed our Friday Google lunch date since they didn't have school on Veteran's Day.  We all enjoyed the yummy shoyu ramen.  Kids' 1st Google meal post-pandemic. 

Thanks Mewies for hosting us for a lunch playdate - so nice to catch up and play games together! 

Teddy's all ready to watch "Attorney Woo."  Our first Korean drama show, awesome show! 

Mark and I made a big batch of lap-chung fried rice (comfort food) for the weekend.  

Mari and team practicing their presentation with the parents. 

Tyler and his Academy buddies took the LA Metro to the movie theater to see Wakanda Forever.  Ethan also watched it with his buddies opening day.  

 

Ethan off to college ... to visit big bro

Mark sending Ethan off to fly on his own for the first time to visit big bro @ USC for Homecoming weekend. 

Brotherly lunch date @ dining hall. 

Ethan got to witness USC beat Cal in person.  USC has an 8-1 winning streak, ranked #8 nationwide!  

Pumpkin carving contests!  

Our family theme costume tradition has officially ended this year with one kid away from home for Halloween and 2 teens too cool to match with us.  Will do a couples theme now. 

So much excitement on this candy trading floor. 

Ethan and his pose strategized and went to homes on streets they were less crowded and got LOTS of candy. 

Halloween poker game 

Mom and Dad joined us this Friday for our weekly lunch date at the G. 

Burger lunch at Shake Shack.  Valley Fair has so many food options now with nice outdoor seating. 

Then Boba Guys ... nice relaxing Sunday with our "only" child for the weekend.