Friday, January 27, 2012

Sun Valley, Idaho

30 to 31 December 2011

Sun Valley is a famous ski resort in Idaho, located about 2+ hours drive away from Mountain Home. There are so much raves about the place that it got me all excited about it. I am glad it didn't disappoint me, its indeed a beautiful place :)





Our original plan was to put Kaeden in ski school with his friends but seeing that he wasn't really keen on learning a new sport without Daddy around, we respected his decision and went on a recce-ing trip instead. We will definitely be back again for some ski-ing fun soon!




Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Welcome Mr Dragon!

Its the start of another 'new' year as we sent away the rabbit and welcome the dragon! Somehow, this year CNY feels alittle different being so far away from our families and close friends back home. Heehee, guess this festive season made us missed them loads.

Nonetheless, we would like to 祝贺大家新年快乐,龙年行大运,!- from the Cheng's in Potatoland :)

Friday, January 20, 2012

Inspector Ashlyn

Ash has learnt to open up drawers and cupboard! Not only that, she loves taking out everything she can find inside... Oh no, she is gonna keep me VERY busy now!

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Fun Time in Mountain Home

I am so glad that we had made the decision to stay in Mountain Home over the MLKJ holiday last weekend. It was really nice doing nothing major for a change!

We did some cooking, played board games through the night and went strolling in the cold winter. Something so simple yet so warming to the heart and soul :)

Our steamboat dinner on Saturday night...




1st attempt at making Ngoh Hiang for Sunday's dinner...



Kaeden's alone time with Daddy @ the playground. The smile on his face is priceless!






Its SNOW-ing!

Received news regarding school closure in MH this morning due to potential heavy snow and true enough, it started snowing shortly after!




We brought the kids outside to play but Ash probably didn't enjoy snow as much as Kaeden did. She was sooooo grumpy...




but Kaeden was super duper happy!





It didn't take long for the snow to accumulate up to about 2-3 inches and I had my first try of shoveling snow off my driveway. Look like such a simple job yet so tiring! Took me an hour+ to clear them off and of course lots of 'salonpas' before my backache got better :P

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Kaeden's new-found interest

Kaeden started to take an interest in jigsaw puzzle when he gotten one as a toy from a kid's meal. He couldn't wait to work on it the moment we reached home and I could see how proud he was of himself when he finally completed it. Since then, he has been playing with it countless times and we felt that we should get him something more challenging :)

He completed it in less than 20 minutes by his own effort!



But what surprised me the most was his patience the whole time while he was at it. Despite facing problems initially, he didn't give up like he used to but instead he tried his best to resolve it. We are proud of you son!

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Las Vegas

22 to 26 December 2011

Its not our first visit to Vegas but it sure felt different from the previous ones that we came as tourists. Since we have covered most part of the strip already (except the Bellagio fountain), we decided to venture into the Chinatown area where all the yummy Asian food are located... *drool*





M&M World

Kaeden was puking quite badly in the car and thankfully we managed to get some medicine from the pharmacy to stop it. We brought him to M&M World to get some chocolates as an encouragement for swallowing the medicine without much fussing (another sign that my son is a big boy now!)







The Musical Fountain & Christmas Deco @ Bellagio

Walker has been lamenting about how could WE have MISSED his Bellagio fountain during our previous two trips to Vegas.... Hence I could foresee that if we gonna miss it a third time, I won't have peace for as long as he can remember...









Cartoon Characters on the Strip

I don't recall seeing that many characters along the strip during our previous visits but I definitely do agree that this seems like the easiest way to earn some money! Heehee... at least they managed to earn quite a bit from me... all thanks to Kaeden!