Fly away with me.

Steve came home early on Thursday for Mei Li's back-to-school event. We were done by 4 and had all this extra time. So we went to the easiest, closest, free-est (after 4PM), and best place to take the kids. We love the Air and Space Museum. Don't you?

P.S. I do believe we have prepared all we can for Hurricane Irene. Now I'm just trying to take advantage of having power and holding my loves close.

Blessed Sunshine!

The weather was glorious today. I almost wanted to skip church so we wouldn't miss a single second of the sunshine. But we went and I'm glad we did. We discussed the Sermon on the Mount in Sunday School, and I feel so renewed and ready to be good again.

As soon as we got home, we opened our windows, ate food, grabbed the glider bikes (thank you, Annee, for the second one), and headed to the field. Stephen is improving. He's been practicing a lot. Now that we have two, Mei Li will be able to practice more.


We played "What time is it Mr. Fox?"


Mei Li got caught. This picture is so funny to me.


Mi Na wore a hat, and she was cute. Cute in the stroller, cute crawling around on the picnic blanket, cute sitting on the dead grass, cute in my arms, cute in Steve's arms, cute in Mei Li's arms, cute cute cute! Oh Mi Na, I love you so! Behold the cuteness:



There they are, the four people I love most.

We rolled down the hill. Mei Li and Stephen wiped grass off my back when I reached the bottom and asked me if I was okay.


Stephen was in awe of the guys playing basketball and stood to watch. Then we started hearing some ugly words so we distracted him with the next activity.

Stephen wanted to pretend to play basketball with Steve. He didn't have a ball, but his pretend play looked like a combination of basketball and football. Stephen is awesome.

Mei Li, Mi Na, and I were in Mei Li's make believe world, which was actually based on a story I made up for them. I usually, just have to come up with the beginning and she comes up with the rest. Mei Li is awesome.

Steve checked the flight schedule and determined that one of these planes was from Los Angeles. Oh Steve, nerdy husband of mine, I love you so!



Mei Li posed for the camera. Oh dear.

Then we all walked home. Thanks for another lovely day, field.

Our Weekend

On Friday night, Steve and I went on a date. Mi Na came too. We went out to eat, got some ice cream, and took a walk.

Steve went to clean the church on Saturday morning and then we went to the Dulles Airport Plane Pull. It was HOT, but still very enjoyable.

Here we are on the runway

This one's for my Dad, former navy pilot:

Fly boy Howard


Steve was in heaven.


This is the inside of a C5. A similar shot may show up in a local newspaper. Too bad Mei Li didn't look too happy in the picture.

This plane was HUGE and it came so close to us.

Mei kept saying she didn't want to be there and wanted to paint a picture instead. She cheered up a bit when she saw the huge inflatable slide.

Stephen loved the miniature train set up. He watched it go round and round for a long time.

We bought huge cups of lemonade to cool ourselves because we ran out of water.

I like this picture. Steve was racing Stephen.

I attended the General Relief Society Meeting Broadcast Saturday night. I felt like I was surrounded by angels as we all sang the hymns together. President Monson spoke about not judging others and I'm grateful for the reminder.

Today we went to church. Rebekah and I discussed the organization of the gospel art pictures in the library.

Steve made waffles for lunch and then I made slow cooker Thai peanut chicken for dinner. Rachel came by for dinner and we got the update on her wedding planning. It's going to be beautiful.

Mi Na is nursing/sleeping/smiling right now. It's so funny. She's three months old now. She's a smiley little one who sleeps at night. What more could I ask for?

Day of Rest

Church was nice. It always is.

Steve made waffles for lunch.

I talked to my siblings on the phone.

We watched some church video clips online together while Mi Na napped.

I made fish tacos for dinner. Stephen ate some. STEPHEN ATE SOME! Mei Li did not, but she DID eat some broccoli.

We went on our Sunday walk after dinner. We brought a blanket and a couple of footballs to our field.

We set down our blanket and played duck, duck, goose. Steve, Stephen, and Mei played catch and tried throwing the footballs as high as they could.

Then Steve held Mi Na while I rolled down the hill with Stephen and Mei. I forgot how fun it is to roll down hills.

Then I lied down with the kids on the blanket to find pictures in the clouds, at Mei Li's request. We found a boot, a snake, a frog, dots, and a mitten.

Steve stood and watched the airplanes.

Steve was able to tell us where a few of the airplanes were going.
I wondered how he knew. It turns out that one day after his evening commute, he looked up the evening airplane schedule so he could know the destinations of the planes that he saw on his way home. After learning this about him at 6:49 PM (KLM to Amsterdam was a little late), I loved him even more than I did at 6:48.

We walked home and put the kids to bed. And they fell asleep without much fuss.

Aren't Sunday evenings wonderful? How do you like to spend yours?