Another Surprised!

June15,2011

June is such a wonderful month, Craig's birthday, Father's day n our anniversary. Been thinking how should I made it special for Craig. Finally, I came out with a plan.. :)

Told Craig that I bought tickets to Hawaii, leaving on the 15th of June at 4:00pm , Burbank airport. Can't wait for this day to come.

Finally! The 15th was here! I told Craig airport called in the morning, they asked us if we are willing to give up our seats n we will be flying out the next morning. They offered 300.00 per ticket n if we are ok with that we will need to pick up the new tickets by 3pm. We dropped Iz off to school, had sometime to kill, I suggested to go to Fry's , coz it's close to the airport, we can just picked up whatever we need to pick up from the airport by 3pm.

2:01..2:20.. 2:45pm, got a text message. I then rushed Craig, told him we needed to go to the airport for the new tickets.

Got to the airport, walked to the United terminal, I saw him ( the surprise) sat on the bench, Craig walked passed him, didn't even noticed him.. I stop, stood next to the surprise. Finally, got Craig's attention, he turned back to look for me..

He saw him n he said, " what the fuck?!" LOL! It was Todd, Craig's brother who flew in to surprise him for his birthday. Just love to see both of them together.

That was never a Hawaii's Trip. It was just part of a plan to surprise him n to him to the airport without him wonder why we need to go to the airport.

Happy birthday, Craig!


















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Craig had an unforgettable hour with Barney

Sunday , June 12, 2011 - We were throwing a surprise party for daddy, who is turning 41 years old. Yay!

I have friends and family came to the Goodman's by 12:45, the surprise should be here between 12:45 to 1pm.  Was so thankful to see everyone of them.

1pm... 1:05pm.. 1:10PM.. the clock were ticking, I still haven't see my surprise.  Started to freak out a little, contacted the company but no one answer the phone. All kids were gathered in the living room to be ready to walked in with Barney to surprise Craig.[ Thank you Miss Carolyn& Miss Linda].  1:15.. 1:20pm .. Still no sign of him.. OH NO! I thought may be just forgot it.. Then Craig walked in to the living Room, he said "Thank you" silently.  I was like the ... someone must have accidentally told him.  But I still pretend.. pretend I had no clue what he was talking about.

1:25pm, I walked outside to try to contact the party person again. No luck! But I turned around, I saw a guy who kept looking at me and made eye contact with me.  I walked towards him, "are you the purple Dinosaur[they are not allow to use the word "Barney"]?" He explained to me why he was late, he went to the wrong party. Oh well, I didn't care much at this point.  Kids were hungry, parents were worried.. I told him, we need to hurry.

Sigh, took him another 20mins to get his suit on, in fact I had to help him.. anyway!  FINALLY, 25 mins later, he stood in front of the house, Kids came out and they screamed, "BARNEY!" That put a smile on my face.  Gathered the kids, walked to the backyard.. We all screamed, " HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"  Craig was in front of the grill, making some hotdogs. But he was surprised with the Barney, not with the party for him. ( His friend called him at 1:15pm to tell him sorry that he couldn't show up to his SURPRISED birthday party! LOL!)

Overall, it was a great day. Craig said he had fun with Barney. That's good enough.

But most importantly, it's the companies we had.  We are so blessed to get to share his big day with you guys.  Thank you for being patience and....

Thank you to..
1) friends who help me to entertain the kids while waiting for Barney/and made the killer brownies
2) friend who changed plan to just come to the party
3) friends who not feeling so good but still show up &who walked with one leg..
4) friend who made great apple martinis
5) friend who ate, drinks & crashed in Izzy's room ( u know who you are..LOL)
6) friend who always there for us, helping us with the doctor scheduling
7) friends who said they were leaving but ending spending another 2 hours. (LOL)
8) friend who watched after the cupcakes to make sure no one eat it before the birthday song (LOL)
9) friend who came really late but brought us GREAT BEER. (LOL)
10) My wonderful Mexican's friends ( Yes ... you guys!)
11) friend who had to work but still stop by
12) friend who help me to take pictures
13) friend who couldn't come but still call to break the news.. LOL
14) friend who bring her cutest daughter to entertain my peeps
15) friend from other state

Sorry I missed anyone...Just want to say the Goodman are bless to have you guys!  Btw, I hired Barney because he hated Barney.  LOL!

p/s I will post the rest of the pictures in FB as soon as I get back in town.

Walking in to the background. 

Surprised!

LMAO!

Aww.. see who is hugging the Barney..LOL

See what Barney Made him...

About time to have some good cupcake! 

Cheer!

LOL!

TooCUTE

Yay... Barney!

The Goodmans

The Charlie Angels

" Mom, izzyboo wants to go back to the car", she kept repeating it

5:30pm! Went for a short hike at Franklin Canyon

"bobo, this is nature." I pointed her around then asked again, "do you know what is nature? Nope, you don't huh?!" I smiled.

" Nature is everything not make by people. For example rocks, sand, plants, Trees..something that live away from the tall building n lots of cars!" I continued n turned to look down at her.

Iz seems to have fun. We kept Walking.. Walking and walking, the path is getting very rocky.. Then she stop n she said," paupau ( carry) me."

I encouraged her to walk more, she walk for another 1 min, then she said , "izzyboo wants to go back to the car.. " lmao

Of coz, we are not going back until we finished the hike. I told her this is life, we started it n we will finish it. Giving up is never an option, we need to keep going.. N she did, she finished her hike all by herself.. Yay!

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"Hey, Excuse me..." she said to the waiter

@9:30pm/Olive Garden

Just felt like eating out tonight, got there at about 8:30pm, ordered and ate. After she was done with her dinner , she asked to leave the table. I let her.

She got down , walked to one of the waiters then said, " hey, excuse me.." waiter bent down n smile at her then asked, " what do you need, sweetie?"

Iz said, "daddy birthday , sing birthday song for daddy!"

I couldn't help it but laughed, the people heard her, then laughed.. Waiter was amazed , then smiled..

I have to say our baby is really the sweetest.. What would we do without her? What would our life be without her? We are so bless .. So bless!

Asking the waiter to sing for daddy

I love my daddy!

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MyFriday

Friday!  Iz is always very very busy on Friday. Her day started at 9am: School- Swimming Class-Gymnastic Class - Occupation therapist.  By the time we are done with the Therapy, it would be 6pm.

Then she would tell me, "Mom, pick up daddy and lets' go to the Mall!"  Seriously?! Really?!! I was like I am so tired izzyboo, can we go tomorrow?

and her reply usually would be, " Izzyboo is tired too!"  she paused then continued, " Let's go to the mall" with a huge cute smile.

My Best swimming Instructor, Miss Allison

Love Cody!

At CHLA!

CHLA!

Mall 

"Mom, spend time with izzyboo.." she said

It was already 10:30am,  I have been trying to solve a design problem for the past few hours.  Nothing works.. Brain Freeze day! Suddenly, I heard footsteps coming towards my office, She walked in , grabbed my hand and said, "Mom, spend time with izzyboo, go izzyboo's room , tickle izzyboo!"

It's kinda our tradition, we usually spend a little time in bed having tickle fights on sunday morning.  We haven't been doing there for the past 2 weeks due to busy of works and parties.  :)  I think my little angle miss those moment.  

"where is Daddy?" I asked her.

"Bathroom.. bathroom.. let's go Izzyboo's room.. " she said that in a very demanding voice

I put down my pen, turned to her and screamed, " RUN.. RUN .. RUN!" She couldn't stop laughing.. That just brighten up my whole day.. Love ya, little girl. She just know when and which button to push sometime.. :)

Where was she on the Memorial Day of 2011?

@2:11pm at the Los Angeles National Cemetery

My Heart felt so heavy as soon as we drove in to the Cemetery. I can feel Craig's too.  Did not know how to describe it, but for sure I was glad that we got to take Iz there. We think it's very important for Iz to know what is the memorial day all about? who were these people? what did they do?

Parked the car, walked around and I told Iz to say thank you to the soldiers for what they did.  She turned to me and gave me that dirty look,  "to who? what r you talking about?"  LMAO!!

I would say we had a very meaningful memorial day this year!
 

LA National Cemetery

Walking around... 

She walked around with the flowers for a while..
then she found him

Flower from Izzyboo

Amen!