The Gee Family

We hosted some friends for dinner on Christmas Eve. Paula and her three kids, Eliisa, Oliver and Niklas; Nikki and her son, Alec; and Grace and her daughter, Ava.
Like Thanksgiving, we had lots of food. Ron tried cooking a rib roast for the first time; it barely fit into our small oven. Even though Ron [...]

We went down to Seal Beach to celebrate Christmas with Ron’s side of the family. Jan made a rib roast using a Lawry’s Roast Beef recipie that she got out of the LA Times. Julie’s carving the roast in this pic.

After dinner, we celebrated Iris’ and Morgan’s birthdays, since Morgan’s birthday was just a couple [...]

Morgan invited her basketball team and some friends from school to a sleep-over birthday party. The plan was to have a scavenger hunt the next day, so they started off by splitting up into teams, and each person made a t-shirt with their team’s color as part of the main design. Iris made a big [...]

The El Segundo High School Surf Team posed for a team picture after their meet with Mira Costa.

We went down to the Low’s house in Seal Beach to celebrate various birthdays with Ron’s sisters’ families.

A dodgeball tournament was organized at the Venice Japanese Community Center over the Thanksgiving weekend. It was a ton of fun, with kids, and adults, getting into the action. In fact, the adults seemed to be getting into it more than the kids. A mobile taco crew provided dinner and the evening was capped off [...]

We hosted Thanksgiving at our home for the first time in many years. For the past few years, Iris’ niece, Jennifer, had been hosting it, but this year, Jennifer and her husband, Edward, were in London over the Thanksgiving week. It was going to be a challenge, because our oven can’t accommodate anything very tall, [...]

Stephanie competed for El Segundo High in a multi-school surf meet in Hermosa Beach. Other schools competing were Redondo Union, Mira Costa, San Pedro, Palos Verdes, and South Torrance. Stephanie placed fourth in the Girls Long Board competition, beating out the surfer from Redondo Union and San Pedro. Also competing that day were Stephanie’s friends, [...]

Another quiet Halloween this year. We had maybe three dozen trick-or-treaters come by, mostly because our street is out-of-the-way and not too many houses seem to give out candy.
Stephanie took Morgan and Morgan’s friend, Carolyn, to some of the busier streets in El Segundo to do their trick-or-treating. Earlier in the day, Ron took Morgan [...]

Stephanie competed in her first meet with the El Segundo High School Surf Team. The KO Classic Surf competition was held in Hermosa Beach and involved five other high schools: Mira Costa, Redondo Union, San Pedro, South Torrance and Palos Verdes.