The tree is here

As our Yu family tradition, we set out to go find our Christmas tree
This year, Jenny found a very nice "rounded" one


This year my sisters Alice and Elizabeth and James Shu-Shu came over and we had a lot of fun decorating and hanging out

Getting Ready for the Holidays

Its been a while since our last blog, we've been busy though. Most of the past 2 weeks have been spent getting over various bugs. But Katie and Carter have been spending quality time bonding together, although they still bicker like brothers and sisters usually do from time to time, in general they enjoy playing with one another
Carter's vocabulary has been exploding and its been a treat watching and listening to him develop. His longest sentence is now seven words : "I want to play Wii game please"

Last weekend we hung out a North Hills for a tree lighting

Look whose Two Wheelin

After only 4 hours...

Funny...you start off with 3 wheels(tricycle) then you get 4 wheels (bike with training wheels), then 2 wheels(bicycle), only to go back to 4 wheels(car) ...

Holloween and Proud Daddy Moment

Here are the kiddos
First, the Dark Lord of the Sith

Followed by, the Princess

On a side note, we got an email from Katie's teacher saying that she's befriended the new student and has made such an impression on her that she(the new student) wants to wait for Katie outside of class so that they can go in together(she was a little bit uneasy about going to class). Way to go Katie!

Princess Carter

Can anyone guess who's wig he's wearing? And no...this picture was NOT altered in any shape or form, just a lot of bribing

Wild Weekend

It was a fun filled weekend for the Yu Family

On Saturday we took the kids to Hillridge Farms out in Youngsville. Didn't expect it to be so busy it was. I've always wanted to take Katie panning for gems because I had such fond memories of it as a kid. She had fun looking through the dirt and finding the cool looking gems


At the very end we went to the pumpkin patch to find us some pumpkins to decorate the house with. Carter looked really hard for the pumpkin of his dreams


Today, we went to the State Fair. Here's Carter munching down on his favorite all time food

And Katie bungee jumping again


Carter's first fishing experience...of course was very successful


And finally, a neat picture of the Jo-Ma and Jie-Jie Maddie waaay high above

Crazy Week

Sorry for the lack of updates - this past week was one of the most insane for both Jenny and I. Kids are doing great in school. Carter's drop off has gotten easier and easier. I asked Katie today if she enjoyed school "a lot" or "a little" and she said a lot. She has really been practicing her reading and is starting to move from phonetically reading everything to recognizing common words.

Couple weekends ago we took the kids on a Heart Walk. The weather was great and I think the kids had a good time


Carter's like...how do you work this thing?



But lately, we've just been chillin at home and really enjoying it. And my little man, Carter he is just a plain goof