3 posts tagged “family”

So, the idea behind this photo shoot was that it was going to be for her senior portrait.  Well, it turned out to be more than that, as typically, you don't think of lacy dresses in senior portraits.  Either way...  Here is what came of it.

These are my personal favorites of the set.

She ended up using the one with her laying on her front side.

And the following are just photos of me playing around with photoshop.  The hair color was a request.  And she ended up liking the eye color a lot!

I've really been wanting to write an update on just the general status of life. Overall, it's good. Really, I don't mind working 60+ hours per week. In fact, this week, I've only got 30 hours thus far--and it's only Thursday! (Oh wait, we had Wednesday "off".)

Last weekend I went to my great uncle's funeral. He was related through my mother's father's side (Yawm Txiv (pronunciation: yuh tsee), Maternal Grandpa). This uncle I did not know well. I didn't even know that he had died, however, I did know that my mother's mom (Niam Tais (pronunciation: nee'yuh thigh), Maternal Grandma) and mother's father was going to be there. The last time I saw them was July 2005, as they live in Michigan.

Yawm Txiv recently quit his mechanic job (sold his shop) to go back to working in the farm, and that worries me because he's 64-years-old working on his farm and selling his produce for money. It takes far too long for 65 to come, for social security to kick in for both my Niam Tais and Yawm Txiv, as farming is their only means of money at the moment, I some how feel obligated to help them. So I gave them enough to cover for their plane ride to Sacramento, as it's not cheap.

With all of the coverage on General Vang Pao, the one person I really wanted to talk to about it was Yawm Txiv, but he hadn't slept in two days, and I didn't want to stress him to answer questions he may not know how to reply. Overall, it was nice to see them again. Before my family left, Yawm Txiv cut some of the raw beef that was there and gave it to me. When I got home I had to cut it into smaller pieces to store it into the freezer.

While there, my mom had pointed out, "Do you see that skinny girl? See how her clothes don't really match. Yeah, she's from Thailand. One of the uncles just bought her. She's like a second wife." One of the uncles got a second wife and she walked around with the first wife and looked as young to be her daughter. Well, she was 14. The uncle was 48. Yeah... I know.

I don't celebrate holidays for religious reasons, but I do take advantage of the fact that here in the US, they do observe it.  That being the case, I get to have days to spend time with my family. 

Wednesyda, November 22

 

Before the trip began, I helped to organize the departmental potluck.  There was good food, and a lot of desserts and lots of dip.  The VP of the department was kind enough to get a 20 lbs. turkey for us to eat.

 

Someone brought their Nintendo Wii for all to play, some people played pool, and we all filled ourselves and went home.  I did all of the above.  I got a chance to play Wii Sports - Boxing, where I proceeded to knock the guy out by repeatedly punching the opponent in the face and groin.  I played pool where I proceed to lose.

 

Thursday, November 23

My brother Ric and his girlfriend Alicia flew in on a Thursday evening and when we got into town we basically went to sleep. 

Friday, November 24

 

I woke up at 6:30 to check out and see if I could purchase a Nintendo Wii, but to no avail.  Instead, we went home, took a shower, sat around, and then went out to Best Buy again to look around.  I bought Elite Beat Agents for the Nintendo DS (and haven't put it down yet). 

 

Afterwards, we went to go and eat Hmong food, went home and played a lot of Texas Hold'em.

 

Saturday, November 25

It was my parents' housewarming party, and so we had quite a few relatives show up.  But even though the house was full, we still had 3 families absent.

 

Did I mention that A.J. came with me to Fresno/Sanger?  If not, he did come along.  He always played the guitar, and my dad asked him to play "Dust In the Wind" about 30 times.  Sorry, A.J.! :)

Sunday & Monday, November 26 - 27

Sunday was our trip home.  It was filled with the rainy cloudy weather of San Francisco on Sunday, and a bright clear day of Monday.

 

Though I live in San Francisco, I still love visiting every part of it, and taking pictures like the tourist I am. :)  It is always a joy to visit the bridge and walk along the paved roads down to Fort Point.  And walking around Baker Beach and Crissy Field.

 

My older brother's girlfriend is from Poland, and she has never really cared too much about coming to San Francisco.  Or to not misquote her, "I never told myself that I had to visit the Golden Gate Bridge before I die, or anything, but I am happy to be here."  All-in-all, it was a very eventful and busy, 5 day weekend for me.