Dec 26 - Dec 31

Sun, Dec 26
Mommy did a quick run to Oakridge mall solo today, while daddy watched the two kiddos. She's not sure why, but she always seems to feel guilty when doing this ... so she didn't stay out for long. The after Christmas sales aren't as exciting as the after Thanksgiving ones. She did get some wrapping paper, containers for ornaments, Christmas lights (for outside), a wreath, and a wreath box ...

We had dim sum for lunch. Tyler loves the sticky rice. He even eats some of the meat that's in it. Not sure he is aware it is meat, so we don't tell him. :)

Mon, Dec 27
We drove up to Tahoe to go tubing at Boreal. There was some very unusual traffic and it too way longer then it should. Tyler and Emily both did really well considering this. Tyler amazingly went tubing all by himself and had a blast giving daddy quite the workout keeping up with him. Mommy and Emily walked around outside for a while, but spend most of the time in the car, lol. They could have gone to the resort however from where we had parked it was a pretty long trek and mommy was afraid of falling down of all things.

It turned out to be a Mc Donald's day ... at least for breakfast and lunch. Dinner was the spam musubi's mommy had made but forgot to bring on the trip.

Hoku was a good sport. She stayed home all day alone and didn't make a mess. She also lasted a good 10 - 12 hours without going to the bathroom. Which was NOT our intention, but in addition to the weird traffic going up, we caught rush hour traffic on our way home as well. Guess we'll have to plan our next trip better.

On a side note, while stuck in the traffic there was a long line to exit the freeway. As nice people, we stood in line and waited out turn. However, there were other cars who thought they were more superior then us and deserved to drive up to the front and try to cut in. Because of this a lot of cars, including us, were driving close to the car in front of us to prevent them from cutting. You can probably guess what happened. Brad accidentally hit the person in front of us. Luckily they had an SUV with a toe hitch on the back, so all of the damage was just to the grill in the front of our car. No big deal. WRONG! The lady of the other car was a biatch about it. So once we finally exited, we pulled over to the side to exchange information. The entire time she was being all hissy, even after Brad had apologized. To top it off, she stole our insurance card and claimed we never gave it to her. Then she kept threatening us with saying that she wanted to call the cops. Whatever lady. You have our information, if you want to make a claim, call the insurance company. Your toe hitch looked fine, but if you really want another one we will get it for you.

Tues, Dec 27
*day passes without mommy writing*

Wed, Dec 28
Emily had her 1 month baby well visit today. Pretty average all around. 9lbs 2 ozs and 21 inches long. She got 3 shots and 1 oral vaccination, what a trooper. It made her grouchy throughout the day, but nothing too bad.

Thurs, Dec 29
*day passes without mommy writing*

Fri, Dec 30
New Year's Eve dinner was at the Murakami's. The parent's did most of the cooking ... yummy Japanese food with tri tip and spring rolls. It was all very delicious. It was a night of eating and drinking, the latter just Shaun and daddy.

Since fireworks are illegal here ... we can only play those weak sauce "pop pop" noise maker types. Nevertheless, the kids had a blast. The daddy's froze outside with them while the mommies stayed inside with the babies.

They were nice enough to make us smores though. :)

Sat, Jan 1
New Year's ozoni soup at the Murakami's along with left overs for lunch. Tyler's schedule is all whacked because of the late sleeping. Hopefully this will be fixed before it's time to go back to school.