Happy Birthday Chloe and Aidan

As Chloe's and Aidan's birthday is on June 30th, we had their birthday party today. Happy Birthday!





This year, in addition to the obligatory water slide and bouncy in the backyard, we rented a climbing structure which was a big hit with all the kids.



A big thank you to all of Chloe's and Aidan's friends who came over to celebrate with them.

















The link to all the pictures I took can be found here.

2011 Angelman Walk-A-Thon

Past Saturday, we participated in the annual Angelman Walk-A-Thon. Here's a picture of Team Aidan:



We were walking on behalf of everybody who generously donated and sponsored us. Aidan is saying thank you to all of you!

Here's a picture of all the Angels that were represented at the walk in Long Island:



The walk was organized very well, with lots of food and activities. Chloe got her dose of facepainting...



As another highlight, my hobby (Angelware LLC, check out our website at www.angelwarellc.com) was co-sponsor of the local walk.



I leave you with another picture of my personal Angel (and Anna):



As always, here's a link to all the photos.

Seal Beach

Yesterday we got back from our vacation in Seal Beach, CA. We spent a week in a beautiful house right by the beach with Anna's family.



Our house is the middle one.



The kids (Chloe and Aidan, and Alissa, Amanda and Ashley) loved playing at the playground which was just down the beach from our house:



Here some more pictures of the kids playing:









Monday we went to Legoland, which was great fun for Chloe and Alissa.







Wednesday we took an excursion to Disneyland.









And here photos of some more highlights, including seeing a seal on the beach in front of our house, and Chloe jumping in the waves.













All the photos and videos can be found here.

Christmas in Germany

After a long hiatus (mainly because nothing exciting happened to us), here's some info on the recent trip to Germany. We spent Christmas with my parents and sister in Herrenberg.



The kids had a great time, especially because we had a white Christmas, and there was lots of playing in the snow involved.





After the four days at my parents, we went to Lenggries (1 hour south of Munich) for some skiing. Chloe had her first experience on skis, and she loved it:



Anna and I went skiing for two days as well, and we saw some spectacular scenery due to the interesting weather (fog in the valley, and sun on the top of the mountain):





I took many more photos and also quite a few videos, all of which can be seen here.

Skiing Anybody

This morning, after we had to cancel all of our activities because Chloe was sick, Anna decided to check out the ski clothes she had bought for the kids last year. This is a preview of our trip in December where we plan to have Chloe take some skiing lessons in Lenggries (one hour south of Munich), and maybe go sledding with Aidan. Here's Chloe:



And here's Aidan. The only sharp photo I could get of him was while he was lying on the floor:



And here are both of them together:

Our Montana Vacation

Finally, with a one-week delay, I'm getting around to creating this blog entry about our vacation in Montana the week before Labor Day.

Anna rented a georgeous 5000 sqft house on the side of a mountain outside Kalispell, which is 1/2 hour drive from Glacier National Park. We stayed there with Linda and our friends Stephanie and Ray and their daughter Cambria and son Logan.





Cambria and Chloe got along extremely well and were pretty much inseparable during the stay.





As for activities, one of the highlights of the trip was a one-hour horseback ride on a mountain path. The kids especially loved it.







Another great day trip was a boatride on Flathead Lake, the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi.



We stopped on Wild Horse Island for a nature hike:



Ray and our boat captain were looking very hard for some wild animals, but we were not that lucky.



Lastly, we also drove into Glacier National Park, and went on a 3-mile hike to see the Hidden Lake, which went very well considering we were hiking with 3 5-year olds and a 9-month old.







Here are family pictures of the Pache/Hsu's, the Yee/Chiu's and of Linda.







And here's the link to all the pictures on flickr (warning, there are 386 photos!).