Growing With Our Children

children make us grow up

Necessity and Christmas Presents

It’s holiday season and the kids want to decorate their rooms. It’s time for us to spend money, once a year, this time. Audie wanted a white shelf and Brandon, a 32″ curved monitor and a gaming chair.  Audie claimed the stuff for the rooms are necessity and Christmas presents should be a different thing.

Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya 2018

Every summer we travel to an all-inclusive Caribbean resort for our vacation because we love the warm beautiful beaches and great food. This year, we tried the Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya and it was hit and miss. We booked with Expedia for 7 nights 8 days trip 6/26-7/3 for $4400 including private super-shuttle to/from the

FanimeCon (Anime Convention) 2018 San Jose

Audie’s growing up fast, it’s time she started to enjoy going to hobby conventions, this year, she asked to be in the FanimeCon (Anime Convention) for Anime Fans and we took her there. She chose her own costume from Amazon Prime and a $50 ticket to the convention. Audie and her friend did have fun,

Brandon Plays Golf

Every few weeks, I play golf and Brandon wants to join me for a round, but he never played before. We went out to the driving range for him to practice. Brandon seems to do well with the second and 3rd time.  

Mi Quang

Mi Quang (Mì Quảng) is a turmeric rice noodle dish from the middle region of VN, it’s very tasty with turmeric rice noodles and pork, shrimp flavor sauce. Ingredients includes: pork belly, shrimps (small to medium), mi quang powder, fish sauce, back ribs for soup, salt, MSG, sugar, onions, shallots, green onions, garlic, broken roasted