Chloe is drawing stories.

She drew the house we stayed in Long Island a few days after we came back from the trip. She definitely has an eye for details and is very observant.

Shane at almost 4 years old is drawing people.

This one is me!

It was a beautiful night…

My girlfriends and I are planning a surprise birthday party for one of our friends tomorrow night. She’s also moving to London in a few weeks with her family so this party means a lot to us. I have the joy of decorating for this special night at our friend’s house. We’re using their splendid family room to put three of 6′ tables in the middle which will comfortably accommodate 19 guests for a sit down meal.
The theme of the party is: English garden.

Julie is a beautiful woman of God. Truly inspiring…and it’s my honor to plan her party. I’m blessed to be able to say she is my sister in Christ.

I made a collage out of our vacation photos.

walkway to the beach

Picture perfect

There she goes!

We sit over here.

While they play over there.

Nice and relaxing…

I can really get use to this private beach vacations…

Mr. Cool

Then I joined the kids playing with sand and made this.

A unicorn for Chloe.

Now the decorating part.

She has spots.

And she’s riding it.

Hold on tight!

I think she’s loving the ride~

I love our house. We’re not sure how long we’ll stay in this house though since we feel we’re outgrowing our space…. So I thought I take some pictures of our house today. Just to have it as a record that this is where the kids were born. This is where it all began…

Living space

Kids tea table

dining room

1 st floor bathroom

Our refrigerator broke over the memorial weekend and that lead to doing some paint works in the kitchen. No more wall paper!

This afternoon we rushed eating dinner to go back to school for the kids art show.

Shane, downing that cupcake. Luckily, he dropped that cupcake after this picture so he didn’t get to finish it. Thank goodness!

Oh wait, so he got another cookie?

Playing with his best buddy.

Ms. C &  Ms. C. They are super excited about their play-date next week.

I was very impressed with the everyone’s creativity. Great job guys!

Chloe & Shane both yelled out “happy mother’s day!” to me many many times this morning. Then I got so many surprises from them. Thanks guys!!!

Chloe: Mommy, you are the most beautifulest mom ever! And you are such a great designer and the best artist in the whole wide world! And you wear the most beautifulest dresses and I just love you the most! ! !

Shane: Mommy, mommy, you are so beautiful and you’re a best cooker. I love you mommy.

You guys sure know how to please me! You’re just the sweetest things ever! 🙂

We still had so much food left over from yesterday. So yeah…

We went out to get some exercise in the park.

Then we had  ja jang myun for dinner with my mother-in-law.

We invited some friends over for a bbq in our backyard today. So lucked out with a gorgeous weather!

While I was busy making Aloha cocktails (so yummy!),

Andrew was busy grilling.

I was up until midnight last night making burger patties and marinating chicken.

Hard work paid off. It was pretty good!

Friends brought great desserts!

kids table { before }

and { after }

Kids took out all of the beers from the ice bucket

and put their toys in there.

I made sweet and spicy chicken for the guest who stayed over for dinner.

Thank you for coming over to our party! We had a great time and hope you did too. 🙂

Chloe drew these after the guests left. Haha, I love it!

This afternoon, we headed downtown nyc to enjoy Tribeca Festival where we got to see concerts, do craft projects, buy toys, and eat fun foods.

My pretty girl, growing up so fast…

They are pretending to run.

Afterwards, I was craving burgers so we went to Bubby’s for dinner, a place I used to go a lot when I used to work nearby.

chatting, chatting, chatting away…

cupcake lip balms

Her favorite: mac & cheese

A perfect way to end the family fun day.

Update: Check out my cuties in Time Out Kids