Michelle Tsai Photography

Howdy Bruin fans, it’s time again for the Tsais’ once annual (except we missed last year- moving and all) tailgating-football watching-cotton candy eating-lost in a sea of blue and gold extravaganza! And this time, our favorite couple consisting of a fellow Bruin fan and his wife who loves him enough to come to watch football were able to join us!  🙂 Allie brought along hair stuff and waited a whole five minutes after we got there before asking Auntie Jami to do her hair.  We love Auntie Jami!  🙂 Meanwhile, the boys found other ways to keep themselves occupied. Mmm, burgers. Here’s a little story.  Once upon a time (that…

This one is high on the list of Tsai family favorites and a bonus for me is that it’s easy to make.  The family is happy, I’m happy, so win-win.  The only bummer now is that I’m going to have to start doubling this recipe in order to have any to pack for the next day’s lunches since every bit of it got eaten up in a hurry tonight. Chicken Pot Pie serves 4-6 Ingredients 1/3 cup butter 1 cup green beans, cut into 1/4” pieces 1 cup carrots, cubed  1/2 cup flour 2 cups chicken broth up to 1 cup water (optional) 3 cups chopped cooked chicken (I used…

Now seems like the perfect time to post first day of school pictures.  You know, now that we are well into October and school actually started back in August, two days after we got back from camping? Yup, as good a time as any. And this year, after praying and discussing and much angst (on my part), we decided to have the older three all try school together.  And every day since school has started, there has continued to be praying and discussing and much angst (on my part).  I’m thinking those three things are going to be continuing for the rest of the school year, too.  Possibly for the…

Then came our final day of camping together… Started off right with this beauty- pancakes with whipped cream, strawberries, blueberries, and granola. The familia. Then we tried to pack up before the heat got to us and snuck in a few more group shots.  And yes, that is my dad giving Jonah bunny ears. Crazy face.  And yes, that is my dad just being normal. Cousin group shot. Cousin crazy face. Then, we voted to head back to civilization (In-n-Out) and air conditioning over cooking and eating lunch in the great outdoors. And then, because my brother and I sometimes always have trouble with goodbyes, we found ourselves at a…

And the rest of the fishing pictures… Seriously, the fish just kept biting and biting and biting! Jonah had turned around just in time to see me pretend to take a bite out of this little fishy and turned around to open wide, too. A cute, normal couple taking a nice picture together. Continuing our inability to take a normal picture together. No matter, so long as the fish kept biting! Jonah lecturing the fish to stay in the bucket.  Or admonishing the rest of us to stay away from his bucket.  Can’t tell for sure which. A rare Tsai family pic!  Thanks Joanna for taking this one. I love…