Nothing big happening the last couple weeks. Kids are in school, weather is getting cooler (not!), soccer season started. Some pics for perusal ...
Kegan has been after Amy to get a bike for some time now and with the kids biking to school, she finally jumped on one. We borrowed the Connicks' truck to drive up the peninsula to buy a bike. We also picked up a used elliptical from my friend Mark. Hopefully, it'll help with exercise on the rainy days in the winter.
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| Success! |
Amy's dad celebrated his 75th birthday at Benihana. Auntie Loretta and uncle Graham came down from Vancouver so that was nice. It was a big step for them since they have been very cautious about the pandemic. Matt and Nicole came to visit as well. I was working so missed it :(
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| One of many Benihana photos |
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| Cute picture of Amy and the kids |
During that same weekend, Matt and Nicole came over with Daniel and Cathy. It was nice to see them all together and we're glad that Daniel is doing great in NYC (hangin' with Harsha and Mei Li) and Cathy seems to be finding her own two feet as a caregiver/companion to the elderly. Matt seems to be enjoying his new job as a psych RN and Nicole is working hard on her teaching degree.
Speaking of family, Joe sent some old pics that he found. This is a family picture from when I was maybe 10? I think this is the Chandelier Tree there. We would drive up to Yosemite or Sequoia every couple of years as it was the easiest and least expensive vacation, our family could afford when we were young. My mom and dad look pretty young in these pics.
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| Small family reunion |
Speaking of family, Joe sent some old pics that he found. This is a family picture from when I was maybe 10? I think this is the Chandelier Tree there. We would drive up to Yosemite or Sequoia every couple of years as it was the easiest and least expensive vacation, our family could afford when we were young. My mom and dad look pretty young in these pics.
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| The OG Udom family |
There was a massive heat wave last week with temps in the 100's. Apparently many new records were set around the West. It was super hot but we did well to conserve energy and only turned on the AC when we were going to bed. Lucky it's over now and temps are back in the 70's this week. Fingers crossed for good weather the next couple weeks in Nevada, Utah and Arizona where we're headed.
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| 110 in San Jose. 116 in Pleasanton apparently |
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| Lucky the Aoalins invited us to their pool on one of the hottest days |
Kai restarted soccer (no great pics yet) and, at first, I wasn't sure he was going to enjoy it. Practice is right after jujitsu so he's tired from that already so he's not very enthusiastic about it. Monday and Wednesdays are long because of the sessions but Amy and I think it is important to push him, otherwise he would like complain that he was bored all the time and have too much pent up energy. When asked for team names, he told Coach Mike, "maybe, like a snake of some sort?" to try to get the Vipers name back in but the team voted for Raptors. They had their first game this past Saturday and they killed it actually. Score was 7-1 and that was when their team purposely reined it in. Kai himself scored two goals which he was very proud of and he was trying to get in there to get the ball so we are really proud of him too. There are two kids on team, Brandon and Yuki, who are small but very fast and aggressive (that's what you need at this stage more than actual skills, I think) and they really set the pace for our team.
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| Just before the game started |
Kai also started music class at school with violin so we rented a violin from the music store and he seems to like it really well so far. We think it's because it's something different from what Sora is doing (piano). Kai does seem interested in music but he declined to start piano, maybe because Sora was already doing it.
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| The kids like to play / make noise together.. I guess you could call it a band :) |
We had a quick visit to celebrate Lester's birthday. We also have Paige's birthday this weekend and mine next week!
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| That Petron is pretty smooth.. |
We have also been pushing Jad to ride a bike now that everyone is riding to school again. He's more enthusiastic about it and has learned to pedal. A bit more practice and he'll be riding with the gang!
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| Woo hoo! |
That's it for now. I'll leave you with a pic that Amy took today after she biked 6 miles :) .
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| Great job, Amy! |
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