Be Chin

Cam on Chi Oanh nhieu, cai ao dep lam. Be Chin

Columbus 1/2 Marathon weekend

I walked the Columbus 1/2 marathon this past weekend. I also got an award at dinner on Saturday night for raising $1000 over my goal. It was a personal goal to finish but something I will never do again. I am thankful to my training coach for helping me through the first miles and her encouragement along the way. It really helped that Mark and Owen saw me at mile 7 then Mark and Isaac caught up with me at mile 12. My mom was around the corner at mile 13 too! I'm starting to walk better today and it doesn't hurt as much. My boys took care of me while I've been down.

Now I have to get back to the real world and go to the grocery, do laundry and clean the house!

garden weekend

this weekend we visited omaha's botanical garden...

yes, that is the eiffel tower in a field of wheat

and then it was onto our garden for some fall cleaning...
i love mckenzie's look here, like 'you want me to do what?' he's not used to gardening.

Mission : impossible

The mission: organise a birthday with 11 kids.
The place: a mini-golf
Your team: 2 (courageous) girls
The Duration: 2 hours and a half (far too much)
Conclusion: we survived!!!
And the kids had fun, I hope!

pendaison de cremaillere ! House-warming party !

So yesterday I had my first party in my apartement, it was so great ! we had fun !
here is a (bad) picture of the 'buffet' !!

Great news, 12 personns fit in my 20 square meters !

kings of leon

we went to see kings of leon last night....this video is for isaac (he loves them)! sorry i couldn't get your favorite song buddy...we left a little early.

Yoda Remi !!

belated birthdays

sorry i'm late but happy birthday to chin & chi dung!!!!!!

Nude

Four hours modeling...

Ohio Country Fair and Texas by Lily

Some pics taken during my short but memorable stay !

weekend around the house

we did a lot of work around the house this weekend...

we sorted our books by color....michel - we expect you will also do this with your wall of books next weekend

breakfast at our new table

hedge apples to keep the bugs away

if you look closely, we put up two shallow shelves in our guest room with pics of our wedding and travels + chi phuong's up close flower pics

the start of our vision wall...things that inspire us

Grandpa Jim's pumpkins

Isaac's family party

Paris by night

Hey,
it's been so long !!
So here are a few sketches of Paris by night, a subject the teachers gave us...
So I spent the few last nights out with friends drawing in the streets, singing like fools and eating chocolate cakes to cheer us up !!