Category Archives: Smiling

20May/11

Garden State ETA 3 Weeks

May 20, 2011Smilingdada

We finally took our house hunting trip to NJ this past week, and although it was raining most of the week, we managed to find a townhome that we liked (in Parsippany, NJ) and signed a lease to rent the place.

The townhome won’t be ready until August 1st, which means we’ll be staying in corporate housing for the first few months, but that’ll help us save some money from the get-go.

Ryland was great during the long flight over to NJ and did pretty well considering the rain, living in a hotel for 5 days, and the nightly restaurants that his parent’s took him to while taking full advantage of a fully-paid trip to NJ.

Our ETA to NJ is now around the 3-week mark and hopefully the time here on the West Coast will go by slowly so that we can spend as much time as we can with our friends and family. One thing is for sure, it was nice to get off the plane, arrive in LAX, and go home.

08May/11

Happy Mother’s Day!

May 8, 2011Holiday, Smilingdada

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms and grandma’s out there. Thanks for loving us the way that you do!

07Apr/11

And the Jell-O’s Jigglin’…

April 7, 2011Laughing, Smiling, Sportsdada

The late-great Chick Hearn used to always close a Lakers’ win by saying, “The game’s in the refrigerator, the door is closed, the lights are out, the eggs are cooling, the butter’s getting hard….and the Jell-O’s jigglin’!” Well, it looks like the Jell-O’s jigglin’ on our time here in Los Angeles for now (just as Ry was getting used to watching his favorite team in the world…so he’s told)!

We’ll be temporarily (for at least 2 years) relocating to New Jersey for my work and will finally get a chance to experience the four different seasons. Being away from our friends and family is definitely going to be hard, definitely bitter-sweet, but we’ll hopefully try to fly back as much as we can. Hopefully people will also want to come visit us since we’re so close to New York as well. Once we find out where we’ll be living, we’ll be sure to update everyone!

~Dada

I don’t get it…we like the Los Angeles Lakers, and don’t like Jordan Farmar, but we’re moving to New Jersey where Jordan Farmer lives?

~Tiger

20Mar/11

Video: LOL

March 20, 2011Laughing, Smiling, Videosdada

My mommy and daddy want me to be a happy baby, so they try and make me laugh all the time. A couple of weeks ago when I was trying to sleep (like the good baby I am), my mommy and my Auntie Valerie kept me up all night just to hear me laugh!

~Tiger

16Mar/11

Four No More

March 16, 2011Checkups, Smilingdada

Ry’s 4-month checkup and vaccination was today (can you tell from the picture how much he enjoys getting shots?) and everything went well. Ry now weighs-in at 14.7 lbs and is now 25 inches long. Not a huge leap from month 3, but everything checks out great, which is all we can ask. Ry is trying to talk more and more now and is also extremely alert (when he’s awake), as he’s trying to take-in everything around him. These next few months are going to busy (not just for his parents), but also for him, as we may try to give him his first taste of rice cereal in the weeks to come. Let’s hope he likes the rice cereal as much as his mom likes Half & Half’s boba drinks!