bonnie & jason

Tyler and Rylee visit

Tyler and Rylee came to visit for a little while last week. It seems like just yesterday that Rylee was Alissa’s age and now she’s walking and talking… and talking! Sometimes I wonder what Alissa would say if she was able to talk. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.

Here are a few more pictures from the last week or so. In other news, Alissa has graduated from both green beans and peas and is now enjoying the fine flavors of squash. Delish!

I’m not sure where this face came from… I didn’t know her eyebrows could do that.

Apparently, Bonnie is running a baby spa complete with terry cloth robes:

Not a good look… maybe she’ll play the saxophone when she grows up.

This is the face I expect to get when she gets older and is trying to look innocent even though she knows she did something wrong. My mom probably recognizes this face.

Our 2nd anniversary

Bonnie and I went on our second “date” since Alissa was born for our 2nd anniversary. Bonnie had found a $99 deal for Morton’s Steakhouse downtown, so we went and gorged on warm onion bread, caesar and Morton’s salad, bacon wrapped scallops, Lyonnaise potatoes, grilled balsamic asparagus, shrimp scampi, filet mignon, key lime pie, and chocolate cake. Needless to say, we have lots of leftovers. Ugh… good thing I ran 13 miles yesterday. Anyway, I’ve been trying to convert our wedding video into something viewable online but haven’t been successful yet. In the meantime, here’s the photo montage video that we showed during the reception. I really am annoyed by the low quality necessary in order to share video over the web but I guess full quality streaming video is still a number of years away. Oh well… it’ll do for now. Enjoy!

Jason and Bonnie photo montage from wedding from Jason Wang and Vimeo.

UPDATE: I managed to get the wedding video converted. Don’t worry, I’ll only bore you with the 3 minute short version.

2005 07 30 bonnie and jason wedding video summary from Jason Wang and Vimeo.

Happy Birthday Eddy!

Eddy treated a bunch of friends and family to the Giants game today. It was a particularly exciting game since Barry was just one home run short of tying the all-time home-run record. Unfortunately, he didn’t hit one today, but it was a good game nevertheless. Here’s a short video of one of his at bats… he actually had a broken bat fly ball that went pretty far, but not far enough. The end has a short video of grandpa playing with Alissa:

Eddy 35th birthday from Jason Wang and Vimeo.
Here’s Alissa at her first baseball game:

Here’s Megan… she’s grown so much since I last saw her!

SF Half Marathon: Horrible start, ok finish

So today was the day of the big race. We got off to a bit of a shaky start, but it all ended well. What happened? Well, first of all, let me preface my story with the fact that the race starts at 5:30 am… still dark out and my brain isn’t quite fully functioning yet. So, I checked the muni schedule last night and saw the the L-Taraval runs every 30 minutes. So we planned on getting on the 4:30 train to get there in plenty of time to get situated, stretch, turn in our bag, etc. Well, we got on the 4:30 train fine, but it wasn’t a train, it was a normal bus.

(Here’s Lee hating the early morning start.)
So I figured ok, the bus will drop us off at West Portal (where the L-Taravel train goes underground) and we’ll transfer over. Well, we got off the bus, walked over to the underground station, and discovered it was closed. No trains. Apparently, at this time of night, the bus itself has an alternate route and continues on to Embarcadero. Doh! Now what? I ended up calling Bonnie (collect) and asked her to come pick us up at West Portal. Of course, she has to get Alissa in the car seat and stuff, but we figured we would still make it on time. However, instead, we ended up catching a cab on Sloat since we weren’t sure how long it was going to take Bonnie to get there (while unbeknownst to us, Bonnie was just a block away.) In the end, despite this little oopsie, we got to the starting line just in time. Here are a couple pics of the starting line.


And here’s a pic running by Crissy Field:

And a video running up the first hill:

SF marathon mile 3 from Jason Wang and Vimeo.
And the view approaching the GG Bridge:

And a saxophone guy at the parking lot on the other side of the bridge:

I managed to get short clip as Lee was passing the other direction on the bridge… we sound more idiotic than usual for some reason:

SF Marathon – Lee on GG Bridge from Jason Wang and Vimeo.
Here’s the view after crossing back over the bridge… stil lots of people going the other direction!

Here we are, done and done.

Poor bastards still running.

I finished in just over 2 hours… but I did stop to take pictures and I was preoccupied with some of the video taking. Obviously, I wasn’t that serious about finishing under 2 hours having carried the camera the whole way, but it was a good race overall, despite the oopsie getting to the race.

Update: My official time: 2:09.23, 9:53 min/mile pace. Lee’s official time: 1:44.15, 7:58 min/mile pace.

My first crack at wedding album design

For the past couple years, I’ve been working with a company that would design, print, and bind wedding albums for my clients. They were ok, but recently, I’ve found their service to be kinda not so good and their quality to be only so-so. As a result, I’ve switched to a company (Leather Craftsmen) with higher-end stuff and decided to take a crack at the design part myself. You can see a low quality pdf version of my first try here:

www.jasonwangphotography.com/photos/mpd4.pdf

I tried to make it simple yet elegant but some pages are a little busy given the number of images I had to squeeze in. If you have any input, feel free to give me some feedback. A lot of this stuff is pretty subjective as people have widely varying tastes. But let me know if you have any strong reactions one way or the other.

Alissa’s hair has fallen and it can’t get up!

So it’s finally happened. Alissa’s hair no longer stands up in front. For about a week, it would droop after a while and then stand back up again when we gave her a bath. Now, even right after a bath, her hair stays down. Maybe it’s because it’s longer now? Unfortunately, she still has a semi-bald spot in the back of her head. And she still scratches back there for some reason which isn’t helping.

In other news, I’ve moved the mac pro upstairs and cleaned out the downstairs a little in preparation for making it a guest room. While I was down there, I put Alissa in the middle of the room all by herself. She looked really small sitting there all by her lonesome so I took a couple pictures.

Also, she really likes feeling a breeze so we took some video of her highness being fanned. I combined the footage with some other miscellaneous shots from earlier in the month and ended up with the video below. I didn’t add any music as her laughing is soundtrack enough. It’s probably really boring stuff for everyone except maybe my parents. But the end is kinda entertaining with her reaction to the fan.

Alissa July 2007 from Jason Wang and Vimeo.

Studio pics of Alissa in her dress

I’m not sure I’d call these studio pictures necessarily… I’m too lazy to whip the lights out. But a little ambient light from the window and a black cloth draped over the desk does the trick well enough… even with her elephant stuck in her mouth.

Bonnie thinks she looks like a boy in a dress. I think she really meant she looks like me in a dress.

Fun with Shutterfly videos

I had some time on my hands tonight since Jason was shooting a wedding and instead of doing something productive, I decided to do something fun. So, I put Alissa, Abigail and Rylee in their very own music videos. I wanted to do one for Megan too, but I was unsuccessful in finding a picture that would fit. Anyways, here are each of their videos. They are all actually the same video, but with a different cute little face in it.

Alissa’s Alphabet Adventure video

Abigail’s Alphabet Adventure video

Rylee’s Alphabet Adventure video

Alissa squeals

Alissa has picked up a new skill… loud squealing.

Untitled from Jason Wang and Vimeo.

Alissa doesn’t really like green beans

Alissa has moved from rice/oatmeal/barley cereals to green beans. As you can see in the video below, she doesn’t really like them all that much. But she does finish what we give her. So that’s good. We’ll see if she will eat them later on after experiencing some of the sweeter veggies and fruits.

Alissa first foray into green beans from Jason Wang and Vimeo.