Author: Carrie

The Kims go “camping”


For those of you who know us, you may be surprised to see our name and the word “camping” next to each other in a sentence. But our friends suggested we should all go camping together, so we decided to be open-minded and try it out! All of our girls are staggered in age, and since it was the 1st time for all of us to camp with a munchkin, we figured we’d all be in the same boat. To make things somewhat easier, we decided to stay at Campland in San Diego. It’s on Mission Bay, and basically – right in the middle of the city. The only thing that made it camping was sleeping in a tent and having a site with dirt … everything else was pretty easy and convenient. Campland had showers, electricity, a market, a pool, a park … and even Domino’s was delivering pizzas to some of the sites! It may not necessarily be “roughing it” … but at times, it was a little rough! :)


Thank goodness Ed is so awesome – he set up the tent right away with no problems.


The girls got cozy (and dirty!) right away as well …


And once the sun went down, Ruby got to debut some super cute campfire fashion – the little lamb pj’s!

Unfortunately, despite many trials in the pack and play, Ruby just didn’t like sleeping in the tent for some reason. This can also be translated as unfortunately, no one in the Kim family got much sleep in the tent.

Although we had a major lack of sleep, there were some highlights. The 1st was that Ruby was happy as a clam in the pool!

She spent an hour and a half in there non-stop! She was a very happy baby in the water.

Also super awesome was our introduction to “Hobo Stew” …

Basically, you chop up a bunch of veggies, potatoes and sausage. Then you take a piece of tin foil and load up whatever fillings you choose. We had a variety of sauces to add to the mix, such as ketchup, bbq sauce, mustards, wine, beer, etc. that you could top off with before sealing your creation in the tin foil and setting it in the fire pit. The sausage starts cookin’, the steam rises inside and cooks your veggies, and then about 15-20 minutes later you have a pretty good hot meal if I do say so myself!

Thanks to our friends the Arzates for introducing us to Hobo Stew!

All in all, we’re glad we did it – but its safe to say the Kims won’t be camping anytime soon. (Unless you’ve got an awesome vintage Airstream trailer we may be able to borrow from you … :)

Happy Fathers Day

The shirt is true - Ruby is a Daddy's Girl!

 

Today was Ed’s 1st Fathers Day! I could hardly wait to celebrate this – he is such a great dad and does so much for us that I wanted to make it special. I think I was more excited about Father’s Day than Mother’s Day! Ed wanted to keep things low-key, so I honored his wishes. :)

We started off the morning by presenting Daddy with a few gifts. Ruby made him a picture storybook called “Daddy & Me” with some of the best photos of the two of them so far. Want to see the book?
Click here to see the book
(You’ll see the book on the right, and use the “Next” arrow below to flip pages of the book)

After presents, we headed out to the beach for an early morning run (we had a delicious lunch planned, so we had to get our exercise in early!) Both of us enjoy running together and its always a kick to watch Ruby enjoy herself while she’s a long for the ride. We did about 2 1/2 miles from Bluff Park to Belmont Shore and back.

Finally, the part Ed was really looking forward to – lunch at Porto’s Bakery in Downey to enjoy empanadas, potato balls and ropa vieja sandwiches! We love Cuban food and Porto’s is simply amazing. The place was packed! Lots of families were in to pick up pastries for their own Father’s Day celebrations. It looks like our Foodie-in-Training is learning quickly – here she is making an attempt to steal our empanadas and potato balls! :)

We also had dates with both my dad and Ed’s dad to celebrate the day as well. We took my dad out on Saturday to Schooner or Later. It’s kind of a Long Beach institution and it was featured on one of my dad’s favorite shows, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives on the Food Network, so it was a fitting location! We enjoyed a beautiful breakfast by the water…

On Sunday, we took Ed’s dad out to the new Gaucho Grill in Downtown Long Beach for some Argentinean cuisine. Basically, that means meat! It was delicious, and Ruby was in a really great mood and hammed things up for her Harabuji at the house before went out.

All in all, it was a great Father’s Day. I’m so lucky to have all these great dads around me to celebrate with!

Our newest nephew has arrived!

Evan Kole Facey – born June 10, 2011 at 8:03am
8 lbs., 8 oz., 20 in. long

Hooray – our newest nephew has arrived! My brother’s kids have now gone from the “Fab 5” to the “6 Pack” (as my dad so cleverly coined it)! We are so excited Evan is here, and think its especially cool how close he and Ruby will be in age. With just a 7 month difference, today they seem ages apart – but in a few years, it’ll be hard to tell who’s older, I’m sure!

The proud Auntie & Uncle:
 

Congrats, Eric & Shirley!