Old friend.

We had an old friend come to the island for a visit.  I met Frank when I was 16.  I was a counselor at Operation Trackshoes and he was one of my competitors.   He was great at helping and the next year he came as a counselor too.  We haven't seen him since Lili was a baby.  It was nice to catch up.

Lili and Fei were in camp with their class.  It was pretty quiet at home for a couple days!

Now with the school strike we're pleased to be starting our summer holidays.  Jia has a couple weeks of preschool left still, private school.

Lots of people around us are so affected by the strike.  We're not.  Barely impacts us.   Pleased to have our schedule lightened.

The lazy dayz of summer.

Dealt with a miserable kid, let Lili go on her first bike ride to Gramma and Grampa's by herself, visited Gramma stuck at home with her broken leg, ran errands in town.  Made it home in time to make dinner and get it to the backyard for dinner.  The day has been off all day regarding time and plans but it's a perfectly nice evening in the back yard.  Lili and Fei even went in for their first swim.  75 already.  Eric built a cool water heater.  Picture below.

Found photo

Forgot I took this one on Sunday before the piano recital.  I have no idea where Jia's poses are coming from but we love them.  Cute kids.

Alpacas.

I got to go with Jia on her field trip today to an alpaca farm.  So cute.  They got to meet them, feed them, see and pet a new born.  Then they fed chickens and pet the rooster.  Then they washed, colored, carded and spun the wool.  Fun stuff.  Jia was great, interested in everything and right in there.  Most of my pics are of the back of her head ;) 

Piano Recital

As always, our girls make us proud.  They are such beautiful pianists.  Always a pleasure to listen to them.  I didn't get Lili's introduction.  Opps.  Youtube videos are below their pictures.

Here is Fei...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyd453APSJ8

Here is Lili...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLaKlsFnrHI&feature=youtu.be

Chicken update.

Eggs!  Our girls are laying.  So proud. The older girls aren't laying yet?  We were surprised to find brown eggs first.  We ended up with 11 hens.  Such fun.  Our older girls are supposed to lay tourquise eggs.  We have quite a few people waiting for eggs :)  The white ones in the picture are medium size from the store.

22 years of wedded bliss.

Our anniversary is tomorrow but the girls piano recital is tomorrow too so we decided to celebrate all day with the kids in the big city.  Costco, museum to learn about Vikings and get my kiss in the ship, to have a picnic at the kite festival, visit to the VV Boutique and finally dinner at my favorite place Cafe Mexico - yum.  Our first date was to the museum and our first kiss was in the ship :)  Not so romantic with the four kidlets but lots of fun anyways.  Jia declared that she wanted a kiss in the ship too and a new family tradition is born.