FINALLY!!

Well we finally did get our assignment....we knew all along that our best chance would be to go to Ft. Meade in Maryland and that's where it is. Housing is quite expensive, but we're definitely excited to go. Chris has been TDY there two times and really loves the area...so we'll leave Feb. 24th if not a week or so early if we can help it!! ;)

As Always!!

Well as always, I wait until the end of eternity to update my blog and then have massive amounts to upload....so go back to older posts and you can see even more of the stuff I waited too long to post!! ;)

Decisions,Decisions!!

Once again I do everything backwards, 'cause seeing this video you won't have any idea what it is, but just scroll down and read the explanation and look at the pictures BEFORE you watch the video so that you can know what it's about. Anyway, this particular clip is also a custom that Koreans do at a 1st birthday party where they set out different things that could determine the baby's career and interests when he grows up...money (wealth), pencil (scholar/smart), but anyway this particular Dad wanted his son to be good at golf so he put out a golf ball hoping that that was what the baby would choose. You can kinda see a little steering towards that side of the table in this, but it worked!! Now his parents will just have to wait to see if there's any truth to it!!

All this for a 1 year old??

Well Chris certainly had learned about Koreans celebrating the first 100 days that a baby is alive with a small party....and so we were invited to a 1 year old's little birthday that Chris works with his dad and we expected a small get together at McDonald's or something of the like but NO!! This was at a beautiful hotel downtown in their convention room and all the decorations and pictures of which I didn't even get half of or probably just don't feel like posting all of them cost about $2000!! For a 1 year old people!! Anyway...a beautiful set up, just very elaborate!!

Birthday Loot and a "Peacable" Cake

Well here's a few of his presents from this year..an awesome starter train set with the track and a bridge and the whole works and a big bucket of blocks....and as is the custom I wanted to make him a fancy cake and this was what I came with since he loves cars SO much!! Chris's parents sent me a silicone cake pan in a car shape last year and at the time had no idea how I was EVER going to use it...especially because you had to bake it in "pieces"...like the tail spoiler was one section and the wheels were another section and so on and so forth...so the finished product here is all those pieces pushed all together and frosted over...it of course was supposed to be red with white-walled tires kinda like Lightning McQueen but the best my frosting and food coloring would give me was dark pink...oh well once again did he care.....NOPE!! Not a bit!!

I'm Singin' To Myself!!

Well we finally got to have a party for Kyle just with family and at home, but I decorated the table and put up a banner and everything, all with Cars or "Doo-Di"s as Kyle calls them (no clue!!) so he didn't care that there wasn't any huge fanfare put on for him....he must've liked our singing and wanted to join along or maybe he didn't like our singing and decided he needed to do his own rendition!!

What Is Going On??

So we went to Chili's that night after a long, cold, yet fun day at Everland (yeah I know, eating out twice in a day is a horror!!) Anyway, I told them it was Kyle's birthday and this is Kyle's reaction to their "musical salute" to his birthday and the treat that they brought with them!!