Lil' Dean Fam

I've decided to post in video form this year.  Here's our year in review!  2015 was a fun one! oops.  I forgot to give credit for the music.  I'll fix that and repost.

On June 16, 2015 our family said goodbye to Singapore.  We lived there for about 22 months.  It was an incredible experience for each of us in various ways.  I hope that we will always remember our time there and who knows, maybe one day we'll get to move back.  

We went down to the Marina to have dinner and explore the Gardens by the Bay and the Marina Bay Sands Sky Park.  We ate at Satay by the Bay.  It was a perfect spot for the six of us because we all got to order whatever we liked and everyone was quite happy with their meal choice.  And, the food was quite affordable too!   The boys paid a dollar to buy some food for the koi fish.    Then we walked over to the hotel to go up to the observation deck on the 56th floor.  We had to walk through the Gardens by the Bay and the Super Trees so it was like 3 sight seeing trips in one! We all had a super fun evening, my parents were so glad to check this off their Singapore bucket list!  

I'm starting to get the days a little bit mixed up but anyway, one night we went down to Arab Street and had some Turkish food for dinner.  Then we went shopping for some Singapore souvenirs and took the train home to Orchard.  Another fun evening!   

We are officially packed-out of Singapore.  We had a great crew come and pack us out this week.  They took two days to pack all of our belongings into custom made boxes and load them onto a 20 foot container.  That container will spend the next several weeks floating over the ocean to our home on the other side of the globe.  I've heard that shipments from Asia to the West Coast of USA have been log-jammed for quite some time... we will see when we finally get to see our stuff again!   Colin and I before the chaos began on the first day.   about half way through Our air shipment boxes. We were allowed a certain amount of space and weight in air freight. Because this goes a lot faster than the sea shipment; we filled it up as much as we could.   almost done!  These are the bags we'll be living out of for the next ... until our stuff comes! These are 10 bags... all O'gio.   Ryan with our boxes.  We had 91 in total.  

School is officially out for summer!  Ryan has finished grade 4 and Evan is done with grade 1.  They both did really, really well in school this year and I'm so proud of their hard work.  There are so many moments that I can't mention here but I've blogged about most of them already!  Here are some snap shots from the last week of school.   Evan walking home with his best buddy Lucy.  Ryan walking to school with his best buddy Noah.   Ryan participating in a class skit.   The boys on their last day of school.   Ryan with his buddy Jasaraj.  Ja ja had a hard start to first grade and I'm so proud of Evan for making quick friends with him and remembering to include him when he was feeling left out. Evan is a very good friend.   Evan with his teacher Ms. Lauren on the last day of school.   Ryan with his friend Phoebe on the last day of school.   Ryan and Evan with their good buddies Jacob and Benjamin on the last day of school.