Holiday: Christmas 2008

Merry X-mas everyone! It's all about family time these days. Big poppa and I enjoyed some homemade dimsum with his family for brunch. That was followed by a grilling session with my family. And then we had a late dinner with his family once more. Lots of food. Me likey! We're not a turkey and ham family so for the holidays, it's almost always Vietnamese and/or Chinese cuisine and that's perfectly A-OK with me! And also with big poppa of course. My mom marinates an assortment of meats and then everyone grills it for themselves on a skillet. The meat is then wrapped in rice paper along with a medley of veggies as well as some vermicelli and SHAMWOW you've got your very own personalized spring roll.

My family. My dad is a super old-fashioned Vietnamese man and also a lover of all things DUDE. As in the dudes from back then. Not your modern day anti-mister-fix-it dude. It's funny sometimes just sitting back and watching him being FORCED to bond with his three semi-Americanized daughters. I'm sure he wishes he had a son, as any father with all girls would want. But since he doesn't, he has to deal with us draping him in clothes my sister got for Christmas. Don't worry. He's not mad. That's just how he looks in all his pictures. He always looks grumpy and he never looks directly at the camera. Maybe he's part Amish. Ha!

My mama gives the dogs a lot of love. And Tino loves her and the attention she gives him.

My cousin giving my mama a big smack!

Neo, the best gift of all!

My gift to big poppa. The new iPhone 3G. He's been wanting it for LONG time. And now all he wants to do is play with his iPhone. Sometimes, I feel like taking it away from him.

His gift to me? A munny that he painted of me. Haha! Gone are the days of me wanting designer pish posh. I'm ten years clean. I'm more into artfully creative things. And it means a lot to me that he spent MANY hours just brainstorming and painting the cute little munny. Most people have no idears what a munny is. So when people ask me what big poppa gave me for Christmas, I'll just say he gave me money. Which I guess makes even less sense cos who in the world gives their gf or bf MONEY!

Lastly, a big happy 4 years to me and big poppa! Here's to keeping the arguing at an average. Cheers!