California for Chinese New Year (the year of the Monkey)!

 

 This year for Chinese New Year, we helped roll in the Year of the Monkey by visiting family in California and eating some Monkey (well, Monkey bread...and lobster noodles and CHICKEN FEET!!!) What's a dim sum meal without Chicken feet...Max is upset in this picture because he had just dropped the chicken foot on the ground and was told to only pose for the picture and not to eat it.

 We walked around a park by my parents' house with all off these birds...the kids were amazing in their unending energy to keep chasing them for hours.

Showing off their New Years' Spoils at the mah jong tables!

A walk through the redwoods

Max in front of a redwood

The girls and their "wishes"

Cute pucker faces!

Off to California for some fun in the sun! This picture is always tough to look at...visiting my grandparents' grave sight...you can just see the pain on our faces...but onto happier times...

COSTCO!!!!...and Pandy #1 that would eventually be left at the Oakland airport...

We had to go to one of my favorite places growing up Genova's Deli...Best sandwhiches in Oakland...I always remember my dad taking us and we would get samples of salami from the guys that worked there!

Baby D taking a bath in my parents' kitchen sink...I remember when it was Max, then Lia and Kiri taking baths in this sink...it has cleaned many a grandchild!

Then off to Guernville!

Cousins!!!

 After our delicious lunch at a Thai restaurant in

 Baby D enjoying the ride.

 We drove to the beach for a day...

 Me, being a wino at the local burger/bar in Guernville.

 

A picture with all of the grandkids...quite the legacy to have built!!!