Prima ballerina!

Sunmi just performed her first ballet recital at her school. We had quite a bit of trepidation since her previous group singing performances she's always the one who quietly looks at the floor while everyone else is singing and doing the motions. But we were ecstatic and proud when she gave an awesome performance that still makes me smile and laugh whenever I watch it.



The last few seconds because I accidentally stopped recording. I like the ending where she holds the pose until they close the curtain. Way to stick the landing girl!

Catchup time

Things have been a bit hectic over the past few months. Also, google no longer allows us to host our own blogs, so I had to switch over the blog to hosting on their website.

No more excuses, here are the pictures that should catch up with what we did over the Winter. We had a great time at my friend Jin's wedding in St. Thomas, where Sunmi spent every day saving daddy from drowning in the 4' deep swimming pool.

Happy New Thankschrisoween!

Yes, it's that magical time of year when we celebrate 4 holidays back-to-back-to-back-to-back. Jihwon finally got some breathing room to pick out some pictures from the past few months, so here they all are.

For Halloween, Jumi was still too small to go trick or treating, but she got to wear a costume this year. Sunmi had a great time trick or treating in Foster City, where they block off a neighborhood so all the kids can run around safely.

Thanksgiving was family time, as we celebrated my mom's 70th birthday. My parents became the first of my family to visit our new house, and we spent the weekend revisiting the old places they had visited when they visited SF 30 years ago. Needless to say, things have changed a bit since then. Afterwards, the entire 18 member Im clan headed down to La Jolla and had a great time together.

Christmas and New Years was primarily spent at our place just relaxing with a few friends, trying to recharge our batteries for 2010.

As far as news around here, we've decided to make it a resolution to finish our kitchen remodel this year, and we've thrown away our old design and decided to expand the house. Recession? Pshaw. On the career front, I got promoted at work and finally have people reporting to me. I'll try not to let the power go to my head. :) Also, the Shubi business had our busiest Christmas season ever, thanks to being featured in Lucky and InStyle magazines.

Sunmi about 2 weeks ago has stopped needing naps. This was a shocker to me as I was hoping she'd take naps forever. Alas, it is not to be and so my much needed naps on the weekend are no more. There was a bad side effect to the lack of naps, which is that for a week, she was so tired at night that she couldn't get up to go to the bathroom. But she seems to be over that hump now. At school she is learning about the president's and can now confidently tell you who the last 3 president's are and where they live.

Jumi is starting to get a bit feisty. She has a habit of wanting to smack Sunmi in the face and smile impishly afterwards, but after a couple of stern warnings from mom, she appears to have calmed down a bit. She's also trying to talk a lot more, and likes to sway her body to music and sing along to row, row, row your boat (she can say ro ro ro). She's also taken keenly to 'Good Night Gorilla' which she insists you read to her 5-10 times a night.

Im's got Talent

Here are the winners of the Im Family talent show, as picked by the patriarch of the family. In his opinion, they were each remarkable in their own way, so he couldn't pick a winner. We leave it up to our humble readers to decide who the winner should be.

Here's Tyler wowing the crowd with his virtuoso skills. He's only been playing 3 years and is already co-first chair in his orchestra.



Here's Elyse doing her Mary Calas/Susan Boyle impression, singing a song from Les Miserables. Quite a set of pipes on my niece.



Finally, here's the West coast ImCredibles doing their best to win the contest after 2 arduous hours of dance practice. Sunmi couldn't figure out how momma got so small suddenly.