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Happy Chinese New Year Friends!

For those of us in the US, the Chinese New Year starts tomorrow (although it really has happened already in China since it’s 1/23/2012). I think it’s cool that my son was born in the Year of the Dragon, so around every Chinese New Year, we have a small celebration by going out to eatContinue Reading

Christmas 2011

Well, I’m enjoying Christmas, but thought if you were at this site, you could check out the following videos!   U2 Baby Please Come Home (my wife’s favorite song):   Blue Christmas (Porky Pig version) Classic:   Last Christmas (Chipmunk’s version, Daughter’s pick)   Baby It’s Cold Outside (Elf the movie version, with Zooey Deschanel)Continue Reading

Christmas Dinner Tradition 2011

Every year in December, we (my wife, kids and I) take out annual Christmas Dinner Tradition  trip to our favorite Christmastime restaurant: the 356th Fighter Group.   It’s a very original looking restaurant with a stucco exterior with chunks missing exposing the underlying bricks.  This creates the illusion that the building has weathered some hardshipsContinue Reading

Having An Early Christmas

We decided to have Christmas early this year on my side of our family, and I’m okay with that! We were fortunate in the fact that we had a dusting of snow last night, so the drive down was surprisingly pleasant.  We played mixture of Christmas music, half kids songs (think Kid Bops and AlvinContinue Reading

Unusual December Holiday Season…

Sometimes the holiday season just doesn’t cooperate with us!   Quite often, it magically snows the day we go to chop (erh saw) saw down our Christmas Tree as part of the start of favorite Family Christmas Traditions. But not this year… This year there was no snow!  We felt kind of silly pulling ourContinue Reading