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Woody and Buzz Lightyear
Oct 22, 2011We headed up to the cities to help Jenny and Andy to do their yearly family photo shoot. We met them in Minneapolis Sculpture Garden with Richard and Keith showing up in their Halloween costumes. Their Halloween theme for this year is Toy Story where Richard transformed into Buzz Lightyear and Keith dressed up as… Read more…
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Fall Colors in Minnesota
Oct 4, 2011 to Oct 8, 2011Amidst our hectic work schedule recently, we made an impromptu quick getaway to witness the fall colors in Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources had predicted this fall color season to be the best in a decade… and we concurred. This is certainly the best fall colors we have ever witnessed in Minnesota thus… Read more…
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Colorado Springs
Jul 8, 2011 to Jul 16, 2011We took the opportunity to do some sightseeing in Colorado Springs since I would be attending a conference near Denver at the latter part of the trip. We spent 3 nights in Colorado Springs and the rest of the nights at the conference hotel in West Minster. The flight from Minneapolis to Denver was only… Read more…
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Nashville
May 6, 2011 to May 11, 2011We have finally made it to Nashville! This is one of the few places we would have never gone there on our typical vacations simply because we are not big country music fans. However, since Angelina would be attending her conference there, we decided to take this opportunity to do some sightseeing in Nashville and… Read more…
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Keith’s One-Year-Old Birthday
Mar 18, 2011We headed to Jenny and Andy’s place to help out with Keith’s one-year-old birthday party preparation on the weekend. Keith’s actual birthday was on the following Thursday… so, this was more like a pre-one-year-old birthday celebration. The food preparation was A LOT of work. We brought our portable grill to their place, and I spent… Read more…
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All About Food
Feb 19, 2011We invited a few of Angelina’s coworkers over to our place for an evening dinner on Saturday. The chicken curry, char siu pork and minced pork steamed bun were the popular dishes among the eight dishes we prepared. Everyone was so focused on eating that we didn’t actually take any group photos. After dinner, we… Read more…
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Chinese New Year
Feb 5, 2011 to Feb 6, 2011We decided to hold a small Chinese New Year celebration with Jenny and Andy at our place in the weekend. Our celebration was simple and low key, but rather eventful. It’s always nice to see them and their two tots. Richard can communicate with us in full sentences now while Keith is an avid crawler.… Read more…
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Hanging Out in the Winter
Jan 15, 2011We decided to host a small get-together with our usual buddies to kill our weekend in the cold winter. We prepared nine “authentic” Chinese dishes for dinner since most folks have only tried the nasty and greasy Americanized Chinese dishes in their lives. By the way, guacamole and broccoli salad are technically not Chinese dishes,… Read more…
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The Green Dragon and Ricky Bobby
Oct 30, 2010 to Oct 31, 2010We were invited over to Andy and Jenny’s place for the weekend to do their yearly family photos. Richard is about two-and-half-year old and Keith is about seven-month old. Keith took about half day to get comfortable with us since he hasn’t really seen us a lot. Richard was way too comfortable with us that… Read more…
