Christmas with the Gees, 2009

| December 20, 2009

We went down to Seal Beach to celebrate Christmas with Ron’s side of the family. Jan made a rib roast using a Lawry’s Roast Beef recipie that she got out of the LA Times. Julie’s carving the roast in this pic. After dinner, we celebrated Iris’ and Morgan’s birthdays, since Morgan’s birthday was just a… Read More »

Morgan’s 12th Birthday

| December 18, 2009

Morgan invited her basketball team and some friends from school to a sleep-over birthday party. The plan was to have a scavenger hunt the next day, so they started off by splitting up into teams, and each person made a t-shirt with their team’s color as part of the main design. Iris made a big… Read More »

Birthday Dinners

| November 28, 2009

We went down to the Low’s house in Seal Beach to celebrate various birthdays with Ron’s sisters’ families. Click here for more pics.

Dodgeball Tournament

| November 27, 2009

A dodgeball tournament was organized at the Venice Japanese Community Center over the Thanksgiving weekend. It was a ton of fun, with kids, and adults, getting into the action. In fact, the adults seemed to be getting into it more than the kids. A mobile taco crew provided dinner and the evening was capped off… Read More »

Thanksgiving

| November 26, 2009

We hosted Thanksgiving at our home for the first time in many years. For the past few years, Iris’ niece, Jennifer, had been hosting it, but this year, Jennifer and her husband, Edward, were in London over the Thanksgiving week. It was going to be a challenge, because our oven can’t accommodate anything very tall,… Read More »

Multi-Team Surf Meet

| November 14, 2009

Stephanie competed for El Segundo High in a multi-school surf meet in Hermosa Beach. Other schools competing were Redondo Union, Mira Costa, San Pedro, Palos Verdes, and South Torrance. Stephanie placed fourth in the Girls Long Board competition, beating out the surfer from Redondo Union and San Pedro. Also competing that day were Stephanie’s friends,… Read More »

Halloween

| October 31, 2009

Another quiet Halloween this year. We had maybe three dozen trick-or-treaters come by, mostly because our street is out-of-the-way and not too many houses seem to give out candy. Stephanie took Morgan and Morgan’s friend, Carolyn, to some of the busier streets in El Segundo to do their trick-or-treating. Earlier in the day, Ron took… Read More »

Surf Competition

| October 24, 2009

Stephanie competed in her first meet with the El Segundo High School Surf Team. The KO Classic Surf competition was held in Hermosa Beach and involved five other high schools: Mira Costa, Redondo Union, San Pedro, South Torrance and Palos Verdes.

New Cooktop

| October 22, 2009

We got a new cooktop from Sears. Our old one looked like it originally came with the house, and, ever since we moved in, only two burners have worked. Sears was having a sale, so we ordered a black Whirlpool cooktop with a ceramic glass top. We thought it would fit into the space occupied… Read More »