Okay, but just this once...

A slight amount of peer pressure has been applied to the Dan Fong Family to start a blog. Our response is always the same, "We don't have enough time!" And yet, here we are, blogging away. Basically it means we will add our lives in huge chunks of time! So here is what we've been doing for the last 4 months...

Lucas Wai Yohng Fong joined the Fong Four (thus making us the Fong Five) on May 29th around 3 AM. I say around 3 AM because he's the 3rd child and all the numbers just start blurring together into one amazing birth where 3 children were born at once! Anyway, here are his siblings welcoming him to our family.

Liz was shocked not to be the baby anymore...

...but Jared was an old pro.

We'll skip past swim lessons and other summer fun and jump straight to September 4 when Jared started school and Lucas started sucking his thumb. It was eventful day for the boys in our family.



Not wanting to be left out, Elizabeth decided to get noticed again. She got a pair of craft scissors and cut off one side of her curls and the bangs we had painstakingly grown out. She had some trouble using the scissors, but luckily big brother Jared was there to cut the part she couldn't.


She did a decent job of getting our attention! Here is what she looked like at the hair cutting place before haircut (very happy)...


...and after haircut (even happier!).

Needless to say, Lizzie loves going to get her hair cut! She kept saying, "But I don't want to have short hair..." If only she had thought of that before going Edward Scissorhands on herself.

Here's a quick picture of Lucas' newest trick:

Our final bit of excitement is Jared's soccer games every Saturday. He doesn't necessarily pay much attention to the ball or even really care whether or not he gets to play, but he has scored a goal! When they were handing out uniforms the coach held up all the numbers and let the boys pick which one they wanted. Jared jumped up and grabbed #7. When he got back to me he said, "That was Daddy's number too!" I'm not sure how he knew that but he was correct. So Jared and Daddy share a number - and their skill level is about equal as well. Here's an action shot.


You're probably wondering how a boy so young is able to keep a ball pressed to his chest while he runs. No, it's not the power of Photoshop, it's the power of The Force. He plays for the Jedi Knights.

Danny is looking forward to training his young Padowan with a lightsaber. I'm guessing when Jared starts putting a blade of plasma energy through the solar plexus of an opponent a lot more scoring lanes will open for him.

Finally, I'll end with a recent picture of all of the kids together. What do people without kids blog about? Themselves? Oh, well, Dan went to the Kings game on Monday. No pictures taken; sorry. Ok, back to the kids. This concludes our post. I guess it wasn't that painful; please don't tell Michael or Jen that. I "tag" Traci to post now (see how quickly I've acclimated to the blog lingo - I've already tagged someone).


See you in 4 months!

Hmmm...

I stole these pictures from Allie's blog...(Thanks Allie) because I never see these kids or even pictures of these kids. And I just want to prove that it does not take that much time to blog...so since we have this blog...and Michael and I are the ones that post on it, I am going to post my interpretations of what went on...


Once upon a time there was a family...kind of like the Adam's family...if you look closely "thing" is on Luke's head.

There was a sweet little girl...

A young man who sometimes got in trouble because he goofed off in the bumper boats...An adorable baby boy whose auntie and uncle would very much like to see pictures of him posted on the blog... A Daddy who made his little daughter a little nervous at time...(note Lizzie's face...)And a mommy...who sometimes leaks out of her shoulder who knows what.They all went to a pumpkin patch slash carnival one evening. Unfortunately the young man in the family got lost shortly after arriving...Where did he go?

Daddy and Lizzie were getting scared (or scary...?) about where he could be.

They looked everywhere for the missing boy. Even by some stinky animals...

The family eventually found him on the swinging boat...about to loose his Halloween candy. (That smile looks a little stressed...) But they were all reunited and enjoyed the rest of their time at the pumpkin patch.
And they lived happily ever after.

Well, since the rest of the Fong family is lazy, Jen and I decided to start one for the family. And although we are starting it, the other members of the clan CAN AND WILL be doing post of their own, so look forward to that. So, without further ado, aside from apologizing for the quality of the photos, meet the Fong's. (The Museum of Natural History would not let me take them out of the frames, due to their age and fragility)

Tom and Sherri
Met and fell in love as seen in this daguerreotype while attending BYU

Married July 1, 1972 in the Laie Hawaii Temple

They decided they would make a family and had two lovely children and one awesome child.

Their first attempt was Daniel, born March 27, 1975

The second try brought along Traci on August 13, 1976

After two "children," they finally prefected their recipe with Michael on September 2, 1980, and the world changed forever.

The children began to grow and both boys served in the Armed Forces

They kept growing and excelled in all that was put before them, including learning how to grow Wafro's, Bbbbangs! and "The Step"

The family grew as Cathrine joined the family on May 2, 1998

As the years went by, specifically two, on June 10, 2000, Shawn joined the clan.

And then again, after years of anticipation, everyones favorite son found love and Jennifer made the adult portion of the family whole.

To be continued...?