Yen Family Site

i don't really have much to say, just wanted to add a blog entry to the family site. Well, I'm finally going to get to meet Teresa's family in New York....and we're finally getting Teresa on a plane, more importantly! We're planning to go around Father's Day since neither Teresa nor her brother Joe have been able to spend Father's Day with their dad in close to 10 years! It should be fun...I'm looking forward to this authentic New York pizza I've heard so much about and although I'm a huge fan of Chicago style, I think I'll still enjoy it greatly.

Like tons of other bloggers do every day, I'm sitting at the SFO airport writing this blog entry.  It's Saturday night and I'm just finishing a quick three day trip from LA to SF- two days in my office and one day with the twins.  We created our own "photo booth" and snapped a few quick pics of ourselves.  The other pics were the girls' attempt to capture the "real" fluffy.  I think they did a pretty good job.

Guess what... I'm going to spend Mother's Day with GB this year.  I had promised her I'd zip over after my project was finished, so I thought Mother's Day would really be nice.  I'm looking forward to taking her and Ann and Jim out for a special Mother's Day Brunch at one of the nice hotels.   Well, you guys heading over in June, don't worry, I'll save you plenty of shave ice!  (I'll be there May 12-17th.)

Well, Mr Johnson (J.J.) out-did himself this year. He remembered me and remembered that I had "several" boys that came to his office and who liked music.  Then he asked why he hadn't met my daughter.  What a memory.   My appointment took only 5 hours, his charge was slightly less than last year, and the tax return was slighter better this year.  Hurray!!  But  there was NOTHING to eat.  I should have packed a snack.

I'm going up to SF on Thursday morning (Mar 8) for a conference and will be stopping by to see my dad (Tim), Zehui and the twins on Friday and Saturday.  I'm not sure what we're going to do, but I hope we get a chance to stop by the authentic Sichuan restaurant I love.  The food is nothing like anything I have tasted anywhere else.  I can't wait!!!  I'll post photos of the trip when I get back.

After Jenny submitted that great pic of the girls on Valentine's Day, I realized that the photos weren't showing up on the home page.  I made some changes and now the latest photos show up in the right column.  If you have just a couple of photos to upload at a time you can use the "Add Something" menu on the left to add them.  If you want to upload a whole bunch of photos there is a super easy way using Windows Web Publishing Wizard...

I've never had a blog before, I'm feeling very progressive.

Google made it super easy for anyone to post video content anywhere.  I created the following video using some scanned photos and Windows Movie Maker that comes built-in all computers with Windows XP.  You could just as easily do the same with home movies or other clips.  Click the > button below to play the video.  There is audio so turn up the volume.  All of these photos are also in the photos section of this site.

I hope everyone enjoys this site.  I created it so that everyone can share family news, events, photos, recipes and more. 

Some time ago, I started posting photos to another site.  I also had a blog site and several other sites- all with related information.  I had thought about creating a family site but didn't have the time to do a lot of custom programming and didn't know of any tools that would provide enough features to be able to tie all these items together.  I gave up on the idea for a while.

One day much later, I sent a link for my photo site to Sue May and she suggested I create a way to share recipes.  I knew there had to be a system that could drive all the features I wanted and started thinking about it again.