D’s parents sent us a box of New Zealand pears as a housewarming gift. How sweet (literally).

Anonymous requested pictures of the house. Here’s a shot from our balcony into the living room. Yes, we still have quite a bit of unpacking to do!

In other news, n can officially roll over from back to front. We’ll have to get that on video soon.

We’ve been busy the past few days.

Sat.: Movers brought our stuff out of storage and moved it into our new home.
Went to a luau at church. Unable to put our bed together due to lost clamps.

Sun.: Sunday School/Service. (k didn’t cry when we dropped her off!)
Lunch with parents at Panera.
Parents helped us with unpacking.
Failed attempt to buy Costco pizza. Ended up at “Pandy X”, as D likes
to call it.
Found clamps for bed frame, but now can’t find two of the
wheels. D has ingenious idea to use toilet paper rolls.

Mon.: Brought kids to parents’ to work since we didn’t have internet access.
Came home before 2 p.m. to let in the cable/internet guy.
D was able to get home in 15 minutes.
Went to dinner w/friends at Curry House.

Tues.: Mom took k to California Adventure with her free birthday admission.
(k got scared on the Toy Story ride and doesn’t like new things in general.
We’re going to have to work on that.)
I worked while my Dad took care of n. (n is going through a stage where
he is EXTREMELY attached to me. We call him mama’s boy.)

It’s official, the house is ours. Our real estate agent gave us the keys yesterday. We will be moving in tomorrow. This past week has been spent at my parents’ house. We’ve had it pretty good–home cooked meals and extra hands to help with the kids at all times! Looking forward to moving in, though.

After a full afternoon of packing, we went out to dinner with my parents. D’s co-worker has been raving about a Chinese restaurant called Fortune Cookie that is near by our place, so we decided to give it a try. (My parents and I had take out from there a LONG time ago, but D had never been). We ordered chicken lettuce cups, orange chicken, eggplant, House lo mein and brown rice. Fortune Cookie is known for being “healthier” Chinese–all of the nutritional info is on the menu. D and I thought it was funny that we were the only Asian people in there aside from the employees, and it was pretty crowded! We enjoyed the food, and even had enough leftovers for tonight’s dinner.

Note the mess that k made…this happens pretty much whenever we go out.

Afterward my parents went home and we headed to the nearby Los Alamitos Race Course for the Wiener Nationals! This was another thing that we have meant to do, and now that we’re moving, we thought we might as well.

We didn’t get there early enough to get the good seats. The dogs are so small, it was hard to see:

There was also horse racing, but we only stayed for the first race. I’m sure it is a lot more interesting if you have money at stake!

k was more interested in this:

D was able to snag a beach ball that they were throwing out to the crowd.

On the way home we ran into a DUI stop set up by the Cypress police…I guess they wanted to target the race attendees.

Also wanted to note that last week n turned four months old.

He weighed 17 pounds at the doctor’s office. Love those thunder thighs!

On Saturday we did something that I’ve meant to do for the past couple of summers but never got around to: attended Cypress’ Concert on the Green. The Cypress Pops Orchestra did a tribute to “The Greatest Generation”. The weather was perfect, and there were a bunch of trees that provided some nice shade. We arrived a half hour early, but there were tons of people already there. We couldn’t see the stage very well, but we could hear the music fine. According to the program, my jr. high band teacher was playing lead clarinet!

For our dinner we brought food from a new favorite local place: Cambinos! I wanted to order just one Mixed Plate for all of us (it’s a lot of food!), but D said he was famished, so we also ordered a chicken skewer bowl. We were stuffed, but the only thing we couldn’t finish was the rice.

We just happened to run into someone from my CBS group (her family is in the background).

k brought her doll Abby, because “Abby will cry if we leave her at home.”