Sunday, September 27, 2009

FALL IS HERE

The last week of Summer was celebrated with flu bugs for all! Luckily everyone came out unscathed and the yard looks 100 times better these days as Ba Noi showed off her green thumb when she came up to help the fam through illness.





You know what else is starting to look better? Hudson's halloween costume. This year, Hudson will be donning Max's wolf suit from Where The Wild Things Are. Surprisingly, nobody makes this even with the Spike Jonez film coming out so we're putting it together ourselves. Here it is about halfway done. We're pretty excited and so is he.



Fayte will be Coraline this year. Stay tuned for pix!



With the cooler temperatures and football on TV, Fall also means BBQ in Texas. Since we don't have a smoker, we had to improvise today:



Yep. That's a smoker alright. Thanks to Food Network's Alton Brown, we were able to take his instructions and turn an ordinary cardboard box into a brisket-making machine!



The contraption consisted of an electric griddle, oak chips, a roasting rack, 2 dowels to hold the rack in place and a digital oven thermometer.



Add in a nice dry-rubbed brisket carmelized in Salt Lick BBQ sauce and you've got yourself some heavenly TX BBQ in 8 hours! Shockingly, the makeshift smoker worked like a charm and best of all, its recyclable! We're thinking of making one of these Alton Brown Flower Pot Smokers in the future. Gotta admit its a lot friendlier to the eyes.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

HUDSON TURNS ONE


Mini Mac made it over the 1-year hill this weekend and all of his cousins came over to celebrate.


Little man started his big day with some birthday TV time


Fayte wore her finest for the festivities


Couch surfing with Champ


Sharing animal crackers with Champ


Mommy made a special cake for Hudson


Our MVP of the day




Cousin Connor, Hadley and Fayte


Time for presents


A new guitar!


Hookem!


New jeans from Mimi and Papa


Momma's chicken legs


They are so skinny!


Aunt Tania and Aunt Kristi came through with sweet kicks.


Modeling Aunt Kristi's new shoes


It's blurry, but Fayte's "Old-Lady-Bingo-Winner" face is priceless. The kids loved this toy from Aunt Vian.


Ba Noi bought Hudson a brand new house!


Baby EINSTEIN!




Fayte models a new Yankees outfit from Ba Noi


Hudson displays some Longhorn pride via Aunt KJ and Uncle Andrew



Ba Noi, Cousin Connor, Aunt Kristi, Mom and the birthday boy


Uncle Patrick and the puppies


After a big day, Hudson is pooped.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

LOOK WHO'S WALKING!

Right before his first birthday, Hudson succumbs to the power of Cocoa Puffs.


LOOK WHO'S WALKING! from Khoa Le on Vimeo.


Thursday, August 20, 2009

FAYTE GOES TO SCHOOL!

Today was a HUGE day for the Le Family as Fayte had her first day of school and Hudson decided to finally walk after only teasing us with a few steps here and there the last few weeks. As you can tell from this picture, Fayte wasn't very pleased about waking up to go to class.


Look how excited she is about her first day!


Hudson on the other hand, was thrilled to see his sister off.


Fayte did warm up after she met her teacher and new friends at Grace Academy


And when we came to pick her up, she couldn't wait to tell us about her day. It's going to be a good year.

HUDSON'S BAPTIZED. IT'S A FIESTA!

Someone in our family's got a one-year birthday coming up and one of the things we promised ourselves is that we would get Hudson baptized before that. So, we made the trip down to Austin this past weekend and did just that.


Hudson and Cousin Connor fill up at the delicious Salt Lick BBQ before the ceremony


Wearing Sunday's finest. Sweet shoes courtesy of Auntie Tania


Big Mac and Mini Mac


Momma's Little Man


The Fam


Bubba arrives at the church in style


Ready to wash the black mark of the devil from his little baby soul!


The big show


"Great baptism, Father. High Five!"


Hudson with his Godmother


Wet mop


Godmother Aunt Kristi


Fayte, Aunt Kristi and Cousin Connor


Mimi


Mommy


Aunt KJ


Aunt Michelle


Fayte and Connor


Ong Noi treated the fam to the always amazing Ciola's in Lakeway




Before coming back to Dallas, we spent Sunday at an IBM family day at Fiesta Texas in San Antonio thanks to Ong Noi. We had the time of our lives and were suprised to see Fayte going on some of the scarier rides! In the middle of another scorching Texas Summer, the best part was the waterpark. It's tough to beat floating a river in a tube with your 2 babies in your arms.


The gang's all here!


The kids LOVED the characters. Hudson loved banging on all of their oversized heads like drums (as demonstrated above).


Fayte pilots Mommy through the sky. She also went on the Splash-Mountain log ride too!