Weekend away from Reality

It's only human nature to wanna run away from problems when something bad happens. And that's what I did. I thought to self, ah what the heck, I need to take a clean break, away from all these unnecessary dramas, and of course, the best way to do it is to be physically away. :) Thus I went home with Sounjew and spend some family time with her family. Love the fam, they're awesome possum peeps. :) So began our little weekend trip - Sounjew, Nathan and I carpooled up to Nor Cal on a sunny Friday afternoon.

It's her little brother Andrew's graduation. :)

Her little nephews. :) Iggy (behind) and Di Di (the up-close one).

"Come let's go to the front to see Uncle Andrew."

Aww how cute! Here's how a friendship blossom.

Meet the fam. :)

This is Sounjew's daddy. He's Laotian Chinese, so we converse in Mandarin. :)
The first time I went to their house last Thanksgiving, he went out to get
me crullers and pao and made me coffee for breakfast. :)))) You can imagine how touched I was.

Playing with my new baby in the car, on our way back from the Asian Market. :)

Love that transcends words..

I love how they treat me as part of the fam and let me help in the kitchen :)

And they can make wicked iced coffee!! It's delish! hehe and I manage to fish out the secret recipe! ;)

Laotian food has a lot of vegetables. no need to worry about constipation hehehe. :P

Iggy and I spent some quality time together playing baseball :)

no lah actually all i did was throw the ball and him attempting to hit it. i love kidss..

fate brought us together and from there a friendship was born :)
love you, friend!

me the big mirror my baby the earring jeanie got me from cabazon
(it's a pair, but for some reason only one was shown in the pic).

and after a long day, we always go back home. always.

because home is where the heart lies. :)