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Tanaka Farms 2009

Jack — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:38:43 +0000

What difference did a year make! Looking at last year’s pictures (here) Lorelai was so baby-like. We don’t notice it seeing her everyday, but she’s changed so much this year! We went to Tanaka Farms again, but this time with Lance and Lorelai’s cousins. It was so tiring for us. All of our joints hurt after we got home, but it was fun :)

Halloween Craziness

Jack — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:13:49 +0000

This Halloween we tried to do a bunch since Lorelai semi-understands part of some things sometimes once in a while. We left work a little early to rush back and pick Lorelai up. We met up with Lorelai’s cousins Aidan and Tammy and took some snapshots (more updates later, maybe?) We then drove back to Chino Hills Spectrum for their annual Halloween carnival (traffic was horrible). Lorelai had fun running around and got lots of “ohh, how cute” :)

At around 7 something, we decided to call it a day and headed back home, but then we saw tons of cars parked outside of our neighborhood (not Sundance II, but right next to us). Jeannie demanded suggested that we park and go walk around (what a good suggestion!) Some of our neighbors went all out, and there’s even one that dressed up as Elmo!!!

Lorelai: “OMG!!!! ELMO!!!!!!! ELMO!!!!!”

Check here for some pics.

Tanaka Farms Pumpkin Patch

Jack — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:23:43 +0000

Following our previous failed attemps a few weeks ago to find a pumpkin patch around the Chino Hills area, I decided to just find a good one and drive there rather than aimlessly driving around searching for them again. Tanaka Farms is located in Irvine, and it’s a funny little farm where they have strawberries, pumpkins, Xmas trees, and other stuff depending on the season. When we arrived on Saturday, they had pumpkin painting, games, petting zoo, wagon ride, corn maze, and a big pumpkin patch. A fun place for families. The wagon ride was kinda cool since on the ride back we were the only ones on it, which made us feel special. Kinda like Jack & Jeannie + 1 ish.

Check out the gallery here.

Pumpkin Carving

Jack — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:08:55 +0000

As promised, I attempted to carve a pumpkin for Lorelai’s first Halloween, and to prepared, we went to the neighborhood Albersons to get a pumpkin saw. There was a $1 regular cheapo one and a $4.99 motorized electric saw (awesome, I didn’t know they make these). But since we only spent $1.99 on the pumpkin, Jeannie didn’t feel it was necessary to get the electric saw (I felt different obviously, but oh well). Went home to get started:

Things started out OK for 2 mins, and that’s when the cheapo saw broke in half… *ahem* I told you so *ahem*

OK, I am not going to go back to Alberson to get another saw, so I just pulled out one of the cheapo steak knives we had, and tried to go to town, when only after 30 seconds the knife popped out of its handle…

WT!?!? Stupid… I ended up finishing it up with my trusty Leatherman.

This concludes our pumpkin carving episode. Hope you enjoyed it, and Happy Halloween!