Hello my friends from NY, Chicago and Virginia.

I loved having you guys over. Love you all. It was a long overdue reunion.

We purchased a brand new piano yesterday!!

We bought it hoping Chloe and Shane will learn how to play. I haven’t played in years and I was actually never good at it even after 8 years of piano lessons when I was a kid. But I think I might pick it up again.

Indonesian grilled fish, recipe here.

pork tenderloin marinated with pineapple, orange and soy glaze

Sauce:
1 can pineapple juice
1 cup orange juice
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice (from 1 large lemon)
1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon arrowroot
3 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
1 (1-inch) piece fresh ginger, peeled and coarsely chopped
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, plus extra for seasoning

Recipe from: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/orange-and-pineapple-beef-recipe/index.html

I custom ordered these handmade wool slippers for the whole family and they’re finally here! Aren’t they adorable?

Afterwards, we went here for some seafood.

My frozen strawberry pina colada~

Finished the dinner by sharing rainbow sherbet together.

We went to Sandy hook today to play in the water. The waves were really strong, I had fun riding the waves with kids… until I got knocked down while holding Chloe and we both went down pretty hard and couldn’t get up for the next 4 consecutive waves. Oh boy, I got sand everywhere inside my swimsuit. Chloe was just laughing the whole time. Some kid she is…

We created our own town of igloos.

Only our kids wear goggles on the beach. What can I say, they love their goggles…

and water!

Grilled tilapia taco

We made plans to go camping today but we had to cancel because of the crummy weather. Instead, we drove around the neighborhood and found this beautiful park we had been to before but couldn’t find it again. Turns out, it’s only a five min. ride from our new house!

Then we ate Thai for lunch.

Chloe has her reading time by herself after our family devotion every night before going to bed. Tonight, she wanted to read more Bible so she sat next to me and read for almost an hour. Now that she’s reading a “big kid’s” version of the Bible called, Day by Day, she’s couldn’t believe how much dramas are in the old testament!