February: Chelsea comes to visit and then we all go to California (Mostly pictures)

 Chelsea handing out presents from China and Hawaii

 All of the Christensen grandchildren

 All of the Christensen grandchildren with Grandma

 Rub a dub dub, 3 kids in the tub

Cousins sharing toys

 Penny and Naomi watching Shaun the Sheep in the morning while we get ready to go out

 Grandma and Penny on the train in the mall

 Joshua just posing for a picture in the mall train

 Getting ready to board the plane to California

 On the plane (he doesn't understand that the tray has to be up while taking off)

 Chelsea, Naomi, and Penny on the plane.

 Waiting to be picked up from the OAK airport

 Cousins in strollers

The first thing we did was visit Papa in the hospital. He had passed out earlier that day.

 Playing at the park in Walnut Creek when the wildlife center was closed

 Sending Chelsea and girls back to China (the worst flight of her life)

 Playing at the beach after dropping Chelsea at the SFO airport

 Cool panorama shot of the beach - there's two of me! :) hehehe

Playing in the sand at the beach

 Visiting Papa in the hospital waiting for him to be discharged (he had some stomach & esophagus problems while we were there)

 Playing with Sylvia in the hospital

 At the petting zoo section of the Oakland Zoo - brushing a goat

 Zoo attendees: my mom, Sylvia, Joshua, and me

 Playing with antique toys at Grammy & Papa's house

 Baby Jimmy with his Grandma, Auntie Karen

 Second cousins meeting  

 Playing with Bubbles at Aunt Sonia's house with Justin on Sunday

 Riding the steam train at Tilden park.

 Riding the Carousel at Tilden Park 

Petting the Cow at Tilden Park "Little Farm" - we didn't know to bring celery to feed the animals. We went again in June and had fun feeding the animals celery (see future post about it).