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  • Marie’s 50th “Surprise” Birthday Party

    Marie’s 50th “Surprise” Birthday Party

    We were invited by Marie’s daughter to Marie’s 50th “Surprise” birthday party.. pretty honored to attend this event actually. However, we missed the “surprise” moment by arriving at her place just a few minutes late… so, SURPRISE!! Marie, are you surprised? If not, please read on. It has been good to see Marie in person,… Read more…

  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts

    Minneapolis Institute of Arts

    Today is the official Museum Day and we decided to spend our entire afternoon at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA). The MIA is dubbed “the home to one of the finest encyclopedic art collections in the country” and it houses more than 80,000 works of art representing 5,000 years of world history. It is… Read more…

  • Strawberry Picking and Dragon Boat Race

    Strawberry Picking and Dragon Boat Race

    We spent a weekend at Andy and Jenny’s place, hoping to do some strawberry picking and attend the Dragon Festival, which showcases the cultural heritage of the local Asian Pacific Islander communities. Richard is one year old now and he can walk on his own, albeit a little clumsy. At times, it seems like his… Read more…

  • Root River State Water Trail

    Root River State Water Trail

    We decided to go canoeing on Root River State Water Trail with Kurt, Corey and Joe on a beautiful Sunday afternoon…. eight persons in total. We carpooled to the canoe rental place in Lanesboro and the rental owner drove us to a place where we began our 8-mile canoeing along the Root River. Everyone of… Read more…

  • Richard’s One-Year Old Birthday

    Richard’s One-Year Old Birthday

    We spent the whole weekend at Andy and Jenny’s place to help them in organizing Richard’s one year old birthday event. A lot of food were prepared and a lot of effort were put in to make this a successful event. I had tried in vain to persuade Jenny to buy a separate cake so… Read more…

  • Shinedown Concert

    Shinedown Concert

    We attended the Shinedown concert at Mayo Civic Center with a few of my work buddies to promote team building (if my supervisors are reading this), or to just hang out, drink beer and enjoy the awesome rock concert (if others are reading this). As I’m blogging this now, I’m listening to the Shinedown songs… Read more…

  • Richard “Baby Skunk” Yi-Ern Law (Part 4)

    Richard “Baby Skunk” Yi-Ern Law (Part 4)

    We were invited to Andy and Jenny’s place to take some pictures of Richard in his Halloween skunk suit… that’s right, a skunk suit. Thankfully, this suit didn’t have the skunk odor. I was initially lazy to drive up to cities looking the fact that we have been spending many weekends outside… but the lure… Read more…

  • The Ruuds and The Hookom-Olsons

    The Ruuds and The Hookom-Olsons

    After an 80-piece sushi feast and Sake drinking with Corey’s and Kurt’s families on the previous evening, we headed to Kari’s place in the Sunday afternoon to do some photo shoots for her family and Tara’s family. Although the weather looked a little gloomy and cloudy in Rochester, it was nice and sunny at her… Read more…

  • The McGlones

    The McGlones

    Corey and Liz invited us to their place to photograph Conor, who is going to be 6 months old soon. It was a pleasant surprise to have Liz’s parents to join us in this photo shoot. Conor was pretty well behaved considering the fact we spent an hour and half taking photos. Conor seemed to… Read more…