Life’s Little Adventures :: August

Claire & Mommy at 15 months…

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Cover Girls~

Here are the scanned magazine covers that we did while in Taiwan~! Claire looks so beautiful in these~

Giant’s Game & Choo Family Goodbye Party~~

August 27. Claire eating dinner.

August 28. Abba & Claire in front of an Lee Dae-Ho advertisement in front of Giant’s Stadium

In McDonald’s waiting for Abba’s friend to come. Claire looks like a movie star here

"Ma" When the pitcher throws the ball to the base to try to get the player out, Giant’s fans scream "Ma" which means "Don’t do that."

Poor Claire was tired

Lee Dae-Ho playing, Abba’s favorite player

The Choo’s

We went with Abba’s elementary school friends

Claire has ears~!

A Giant’s pitcher’s wife and son

Here is the pitcher that Abba’s friend knows, they were roomates before

Leaving the stadium, Thanks for getting us the tickets.

Gerry Lewster, the couch

Mr. Jo and Gang Min-Ho, Claire LOVES Gang Min-Ho

August 29. Seven Spring’s, where Claire had her 1st birthday party

A very messy girl,

Aunt Ariel & Kate gave Claire this outfit, Thanks

August 30. Claire eating at her goodbye party

Halmoni (Johnson’s father’s little sister)

Abba’s Aunt with her 2 sons

Halaboji (Johnson’s father’s little brother)

Drinking a strawberry yogurt frozen drink

With her cousin

Claire with all of her cousins~!

Claire & her Uncle

With Halaboji in front of the restaurant

Notice the gun in her hair??

This Halaboji put it there. Everyone wanted to cut her hair to get it out. Mommy used ice and everything was fine.

Claire playing with everything in the apartment~

With her Halmoni

right is Claire’s other Halmoni (Johnson’s father’s older sister)

Claire likes the American flag, she is ready to go to her new home~

Thank you

Uncle Stephen gave Claire these sandals~!

Aunt Jean gave Claire this beautiful dress~

This beautiful dress with matching socks are from MACK’s~

Aunt Tracey, Uncle Seoung and Hanna gave Claire this sexy shirt~

Preparing for GOOK~

This month is full of packing and preparing.

Sorry if I don’t get online all the time to post pictures.

In fact I am not even sure if we will have many pictures.

August 18. While in Taiwan Changwon got a Kraze Burger. Abba tried this with Uncle Eddie Lee and loved it so he took us here to try it out.

August 19. Abba left work to pick us up, Claire was so happy to see him she gave him a big hug.

August 20. Very curious little girl

August 22. Bruchetta’s, another favorite restaurant of Abba’s

Claire cheering

Eating spaghetti, such a mess

At home resting

August 23. So tired from taking care of Abba

A very happy couple~

August 24. Having lunch, seaweed and rice

HAHAHA, Got milk?!

August 25. Claire with her Aunts, she was very happy to see them again.

August 26. Abba LOVED Kraze Burger so much he took us back again!

Claire with the menu

Claire & Mommy

Then we went to Korean Air to book our tickets to GET OUT OF KOREA (GOOK)!!!!!

Goodbye Party

I had computer problems and couldn’t post online for a while, sorry about that.

Now that is taken care of so at least I can get on here more often. Enjoy the pictures from the last part of our trip.

Thanks to our many family and friends who made this such a wonderful trip.

It is a time I will remember forever with a big smile on my face.

August 14. Claire took Abba to a dimsom place for lunch. That is all he wanted to eat this trip (that and chicken soup)!

We ordered several different kinds and also fried rice for him. He loved it.

Claire & Mommy in the restaurant

We lived in XiMenDing. That is a young area where university students hang out.

Abba’s JenJu Milk Tea

The road where we lived!

The view from across the street. That is the 7-11 we always went to for supplies.

Claire having fun with Mommy’s cell phone

Abba is finally here for Claire to play with!!

Resting for the party later!!!

On our way to meet Aunt Jean and Uncle Keith to go to the big party

In front of Taipei Train Station.

In front of the elevator to go to the MRT station, Abba wanted to see the stationary store

Arthur & Sam’s family restaurant. This is where we had the party.

Taiwanese style Shabu Shabu. YUMMY~!

Claire and Andy~

Uncle Keith, Abba & Uncle Arthur

Aunt Jean, Claire & Mommy

The proud fathers~

Claire LOVED Arthur’s dog~ She had too much fun following him around.

Group shots…

Top row: Uncle Keith, Uncle Arthur, Abba

Bottom row: Aunt Jean, Aunt Anna with daughter, Mommy with Claire

Arthur getting us drinks, there is always a first for everything~ We should rememer this moment forever!!

Uncle Keith gave us a ride home to our apartment.

Aunt Jean gave Claire lucky money in a Hello Kitty envelope~

But I guess Aunt Jean didn’t give her enough money as she was trying to find more in her wallet~!!

August 15. Aunt Jean, Aunt Ariel & her son, Mommy & Claire, Abba & Aunt Kate

After eating dinner together

Abba & Uncle Sam went out after the dinner party

August 16. The guys breakfast.

Claire didn’t want to leave Aunt Jean~ She hugged her on the way to the airport.

Getting into trouble together~

More group shots~

Uncle Sam holding Claire, Aunt Jean, Mommy & Abba

Even more group shots~~

Claire looks so tired here. She had to see many people and do many things.

But she was very happy in Taiwan. We loved every minute of it and wish we could have stayed even longer. MISS EVERYONE~!

Meeting Uncle again~

August 13. We met Uncle Keith for lunch. This place was on the way to his work so we decided to go there. Niew Ro mien, shrimp fried rice, and 2 items from the breakfast menu. It was yummy.

Claire eating her favorite breakfast item!

Uncle Keith and Abba in the restaurant

In front of Uncle Keith’s company

We then went to visit Uncle Kuo-Chang, Claire looks so happy here

We all look happy and so hot~!

For dinner we met Aunt Jean and Aunt Sylvia. The first course

Wonton soup

Jean’s soup, Claire ate a lot of the noodles

Cabbage steamed

Dumplings

Jenju with tarrot and milk tea

Aunt Sylvia’s vegetarian dish

dessert, the pink one was Aunt Jean’s but she didn’t like it so she switched with Abba~

Claire "Oh no, no more food. We are full"

Aunt Jean, Mommy & Aunt Sylvia with Claire

Claire is always ready for the camera

Uncle Mark with Abba

Aunt Sylvia, Aunt Jean, Mommy holding Claire and Uncle Mark

Our trip in Taiwan~

August 9. Abba & Claire sleeping peacefully

Claire was talking on her "phone" I think she was calling one of her boyfriends here~!

Abba eating Taiwanese fried chicken~

Then we met Uncle Stephen and he gave us tickets to get hot pot, so we ate again.

It was yummy

We went to Agoon’s site and I sacrificed Claire once again.

We saw Uncle Stephen’s shoe store~

They were very happy together

Uncle Stephen’s family~

The food, delicious~

On the train to HsinChu

The ticket

Claire saw someone eating on the train so we had to get her a snack

HsinChu train station

At Aunt Joy’s. She has 3 big dogs and Claire was watching them.

Mommy & Claire outside

Claire on the driveway

Claire looking at the fish~

Claire fell down and bumped her head, she cried for a second and then stopped. Here she just looks sad~

With Uncle HB

Aunt Joy, Aunt Ivy holding Claire and Uncle HB

They are looking at Claire’s picture album

Mango

Starfruit

papaya

Say "Chio Ju Yuen" and she will raise her hand now~

She loved going up and down the stairs

"Abba, stop taking our picture, Mommy & I are so tired~!"

The restaurant where we ate some yummy Hakkanese food

They have chickens in the back here

In front of the house

The high speed train station!

Abba’s first day in Taiwan~

August 9. We met Uncle Sam, Aunt Vicky & Aunt Jean for lunch and dessert. For lunch we went to a Dim Som place (鼎泰豐). Then we went to Ice Monster (冰館) and had this, fruit with ice (YUMMY)