Christmas 2020 at the Chen’s

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For the last 2 years, Leanne and I have been fortunate to be able to visit Leicester, NY to enjoy Christmas at the Chen’s. This year was especially fortunate as COVID-19 precautions have made travel very difficult.

Leanne getting swabbed for COVID. She was not a fan!

Very soon after landing in NY, Leanne and I both got tested for COVID and we both thankfully tested negative.

Tony Snowhawk, reporting for duty!

Now it was time to have some fun! Well one thing we don’t get in sunny California where we live is snow, so we made the most of it! We built a snowman and went sledding. So fun!

At the top of the hill, ready to sled.
We rented a movie theater for us all to watch “Elf.”
Building gingerbread houses.
Every year, the Chen siblings all take a picture with the oldest on the bottom and youngest on top. Leanne went from the tallest to the shortest, but the tradition remains!

But even more fun than the snowball fights, building gingerbread houses, having a private movie theater to watch Elf with just family, and sledding was playing with our brand new baby neice Aubrey Chen! She is about a month old and so precious! Tyler and Ashley are lucky, they’re parenting an amazing child! Aubrey mostly sleeps but we did enjoy tummy time with her when we got the chance!

Welcome to planet Earth Aubrey!

Tony Snowhawk

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Christmas time in New York with the Chen family is always such a great time.

Today started with building a snowman. We added a mohawk to him and his name is “Tony Snowhawk.” Here he can be seen saluting passersbys.

Left to right: Leanne, Anna, Jacob
“Tony Snowhawk reporting for duty!”

We Are Married

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I’m the luckiest person in the whole universe to be married to such a beautiful, smart, kind, and amazing person. We are officially married!

Just absolutely stunning!
A little pre-ceremony fun. Leanne is playing the bartender for Kaden.
There’s a tradition to break the clay piece. Whoever does it first rules the household. Leanne won by just a hair!
We did a tea ceremony for my mom and dad, as well as my grandparents.
Our first dance was to “Better Together” by Jack Johnson.

I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you!

Coworkers Take Us Out

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Tonight my coworkers took me and Leanne out to celebrate us starting our lives together. We went to a Mexican restaurant in downtown Martinez, CA.

Yum!
I love these ladies! These are my coworkers.
Beautiful downtown Martinez, CA. It has a charming small town feel to it that reminds me of DeLand, FL

San Jose

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Leanne is on a rotation in San Jose, CA right in the heart of Silicon Valley. San Jose is so beautiful and lively! We walked around the downtown San Jose area where there were tons of fun restaurants and alleys with incredible street art. In Japantown there were grocery stores filled with authentic Japanese groceries that brought me right back to Tokyo!

Perhaps the most fun part of San Jose though was the huge mall and Santana Row. First, the huge mall is filled with some of the ritziest stores I’ve seen. Gucci, Louis Vuitton, etc. Some of the funnest stores ever like Lego, Disney, and Uniqlo. And also, some of the best restaurants ever like this amazing ramen place we went to and, one of my favorites, The Cheesecake Factory.

Santana Row is right next to the mall and is a street filled with restaurants and shops. Leanne loved the taro bubble tea she got there and I loved seeing a store just filled with products from tech startups! Universal translator like on Star Trek? Check. Projector that projects an Android tablet onto any surface that you can actually interact with so you feel like you’re in Minority Report? Yep they had that too! We were definitely in Silicon Valley!