Chinese New Year 2012

We hosted Chinese New Year celebration at our house.  Our friends from Fayetteville and Peachtree City came for a night of fun, food and fellowship!  Always good to spend time with some of our favorite families.  The adoption bond is a beautiful one!  As parents we so treasure these relationships for us and for our children.  As always, the girls have a blast!  Chinese food, crafts and just running around outside together!  Gotta get our couch pictures also! Our girls are growing up so fast!

Wesley's Formal

So hard to get a picture of Wesley these days.  Don't have time mom.....gotta go....gonna be late.  I insisted this time and glad I did. One day.... he will be glad I did also!

Night Before Christmas

Will's Formal

It's been over a year since I posted.....yikes time flies.  Not that I am trying to"keep up" at this point.....I am too far gone.  Anyway, wanted everyone to see how wonderful he looks in his new duds.  Can not believe he just had his 18th birthday.  We love you Will.....so proud of you.

Random Post

It has been so very long since I last posted I am not sure I remember how to do this! Having a 12th and 10th grader in High school and then homeschooling Anna has kept me so busy this year! I hope to pick the blogging experience back up again and thought I would just jump right back in. I am posting a picture of Anna as Belle.....I took her to a local production of Beauty and the Beast. She loves all the princesses of course so she had to dress the part as well!

Anna's Favorite Pony

Anna is still loving her pony Butterscotch.  She loves to sit on her pony for a TV and juice break.  She also loves to dress Butterscotch in loads of jewelry and bows as she pretends they are in a parade or going to a princess ball.  Through the winter, Anna had to make sure her pony had her blanket on just right before she could go to bed.  Even read her a story.....about horses of course!  This girl is crazy about horses!  She loves to gallop around the yard on her stick horse named "Thunder" with the wind blowing through her hair.  On more than one occasion she has moved her dolls out of the doll house and moved her "My Little Ponies" back in.  Thankfully we only have to walk down the street for her to watch our neighbors horses run around and that is one of her favorite things to do as well.  

High Museum/ Chinese New Year

Earlier in the year we celebrated Chinese New Year with our friends at a very authentic Chinese restaurant. It was a beautiful Dim Sum restaurant as they brought out so many little plates of dumplings filled with surprises!  A couple of the kids tried some chicken feet.  

The food was so authentic in fact, we were all still quite hungry after we left and ate again when we got home!   On a separate outing, our families also enjoyed being together as we viewed the Terra Cotta Warrior exhibit at the High Museum in Atlanta.  China is so rich with history as the ancient artifacts tell so many stories.  It was quite an experience to see the warriors faces up close, each one unlike any other.  The families also made their own small terra cotta warrior out of clay, after the exhibit.  We enjoyed our little "visit" back to China minus the long plane trip!