Happy New Year

Monday is the start of the Chinese New Year- a 15 day long celebration. This is the biggest holiday with lots of ancient traditions and culture. This is the year of the OX. We had a wonderful evening celebrating with our local Forever friends and Families group.

Lily and Family

Kieaira and family

Ellie Lu

Kate

Lily and Meg

Kenli and Kieaira

Have you ever tried to take a picture with 7 kids at one time?? It doesn't work very well.



The best picture we got: Lily, Kenli, Meg, Lily, Kieaira, Ellie Lu, and Kate.

Craft time:

Snow Princess

The look is complete with the hiking boots- We can't let her be too prissy!

Our princess!!

Now with princess shoes

Complete with chapstick:

Tagged

We were tagged by our good friend Stephanie. The rules were, open the fourth picture folder on your computer, then open the fourth picture in that folder and explain the picture. This was a super fun day, that we had with Kenli's China sister Audrey. Audrey and her parents visited to week of Thanksgiving. Now I am tagging four other friends:
Ellie Lu: http:/ladybughappenings.blogspot.com/
Holly: http:/hollyfern2007.blogspot.com/
Aimee: http:/scrapladycamping.blogspot.com/
Charlotte: http://emanoff-china.blogspot.com/

Merry Christmas

Kenli had a great Christmas and is still sorting through all her new toys. Santa brought her a new kitchen and a violin. Pappy surprised us all with a drum set for her!!! Of course it was never very quiet at our house so a little more noise is no big deal. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

fall pictures with cousin Chase

Big Girl Success

Kenli has been potty trained now for about 2 months, YEAH!! She is such a big girl, and is sure to show everyone she meets her big girl panties.

A Sister Spicy Girl

Today we got to visit with Audrey and her parents as they traveled from Ohio to Florida for Thanksgiving. We had a great time catching up and reminiscing about our days together in China. The girls had a wonderful time playing. It is so special to be able to spend time with our extended China family, we share such an amazing connection with these families, and the "spicy girls" are Kenli's first family. We hope to see all 9 girls together this summer for a reunion.