Happy Mother's Day! Our Celebration at church (^_^)

I cannot believe a year has passed! I was watching the video from our precious munchkins LAST year when they sang on Mother's Day, and wow, they have surely GROWN!

They are no longer toddler-looking but little ladies and gentlemen now! Boy, I am going to miss them so much when they go to college....tears....

   

                              Mother's Day 2009 Sunday School Preschoolers Singing

                                    Mother's Day 2010 Sunday School Preschoolers Singing

We had a Sweet & Memorable Mother's Day Sunday worship! The Praise and Worship was very beautiful, and the message from Pastor Al was very encouraging and touching too.

I chuckled  when I saw that moms spend about 180 minutes in a child's day with them (verses dad ~ 10 minutes), and laughed when he said statistically 80% of moms are the first to wake up in the family. In our family, Caleb is first (to get up and play Zoo World), followed by daddy (who prepares him breakfast and chauffeurs him to school), then mommy Soph, and finally Abbie.

Kids sing

The message was followed by a short, touching video (looks like Japanese animation) to encourage those who unexpectedly lost their moms (or other family members) early in life. It is very difficult to keep walking, but we must keep going, knowing that one day, we will meet them in heaven. Thanks for the video, pastor Allen!

The chinese school kids sang very sweet songs, and gave out flowers for the 150+ moms in the congregation.

Pretty Flowers for Moms

After lunch, we visited mom in law at the hospital. She was happy to see us and could recognize us! Then we took dad to Kobe, a very yummy Japanese restaurant walking distance from dad's apartment.

We treated dad and he paid the bill. The sushi chef, Jacky, has known dad in law for 10 years! He always gives us delicious BIG portions of fish when we visit! I guess caring for dad and keeping dad company was the best mother's day gift we can give to mom!

                  Grandpa Caleb says prayers before dinner and Abbie prays too!

Abbie loves tempura shrimp   Caleb eats a lot for dinner!!Jacky the chef, our buddy! Abbie loves Hamachi Kama

The day was wonderful, and though Abbie dented it alittle (by breaking our camera after dinner), we are thankful that God gave us loved ones in our family and God's family so we can learn to love one another unconditionally.

Asked 4 yr old (Sophie Wu) to take a picture of me, 'cuz my hubby and kids were too busy playing!!

The LAST picture (Can you tell it's hubby?) by our camera... after Abbie dropped it with lens open..... (*_*). Even then, we had a good Mother's day (and I am about to get a new camera! ^_^)

Happy Mother's Day Everyone!

 The "Walking Tour"