I miss Oregon

We recently relocating to California for temporary and have been here for almost 2 months by now. One day when I was driving back to apartment, I suddenly missed the rain. I haven't see any rain in California since we were here. I used to hate Oregon's rain especially during fall and winter. I described that period as 'darkness' because the day is short and it always cold and wet outside. So I love late spring and summer as the 'darkness' is over and I will have sunny as well as dry day. Surprisingly that I miss the rain in Oregon now!

I miss my kitchen too whenever I read people's blogs on cooking/baking. I miss my kitchen appliances like bread maker and mixer. There are so many recipes I wanted to try out, but I only have a few basic kitchen gadgets and ingredients here since we will be here for temporary and wanted to keep everything as simple as possible.

Chun and I always joke that we both are "kampung" people since we love country style life compare to city life.  We prefer a slower pace and more relax life with a lot of greenery and friendly people. I remembered when my brother in law who staying in LA visited us in Oregon 6 years ago, he described Oregon as enchanted forest for vampire (that's why Twilight was filmed here) and he felt like sleeping all the time because of the cloudy, rainy and colder weather. Haha... California is more crowded. More people, more cars and more houses every where. It reminds me of Penang because there are so many apartments here and cars parking on both road sides due to lack of apartment parking. House price here is also crazy like Penang.

I used to think Oregon has too much rain and wish I could have a California weather in Oregon. But now, I think I can give up the sunny weather for the rest of the goodness in Oregon. Oh Oregon, I miss you so much!!!

Loke-Xuan's 3rd birthday

This week is my son's 3rd birthday. Time flying, it seemed like yesterday when I was in labor room giving birth. Can't believe that it already three years. Loke-Xuan is growing fast. He learnt a lot of new words, can communicate with us with full sentence, can recognize some letters and numbers and he is fully potty trained. :) He is so lovely and is the best gift I ever have in my life! 

We had a simple birthday celebration for him with his uncle who visited us over the long weekend. We got him a chocolate cake and went to Target to get birthday candles where he saw a cute little birthday hat. Surprisingly he wanted to wear it, he usually don't want to try new stuffs. So we were more than happy to get it for him. 

Loke-Xuan loves the cake and the gifts from us, my brother in law and Wai Yee. 

Here are some of the photos we took:

Enjoying his chocolate cake

Thanks Wai Yee for sending him all these gifts. He loves it so much!

Thanks to my brother in law for the teddy bear and clothes for Zai Zai.

I love this photo!