Gong Xi Fa Cai!!!

Happy Chinese New Year!

Celebrated the Year of the Snake with some stashed fireworks and friends!
(Fireworks were stashed.... Not friends. They came willingly!)

Back at it.

Going to try to go less than a year between posts! Lots has happened since the previous post. Like.... we have a new addition to our family! Have I mentioned how adoption has rocked my world!?!?

Joseph "JoJo" Aaron  was born March 26, 2012.

And today... JoJo is 10 months old and the happiest baby ever! He is crawling and pulling up on everything. He has two bottom teeth and so far loves all food! He follows his big sissy and brother around everywhere. He is a total miracle in our lives.

A quick catch up on the rest of the time away from this blog....

Naomi is 6 and loves 1st grade. She loves choir and is an awesome little gymnast!

Daniel is 8 and loves "his friends" at school..... He discovered snowboarding this winter and is great at it!

There you have it.  All caught up...more or less.

Four years ago....

Three years ago...

It has been three years since we have been home with Naomi. Here's a brief look at the last 3 years! So much joy!

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4th FUN!

Attempting to fly a kite....

And...goofing around!

Preschool end of year production!

Daniel and his best buddy, Jack!



Daniel smiling for the camera!

Naomi sang all her songs!!! Woohoo!

Daniel and Miss Shannon.

Naomi and Miss Liz.


Daniel & Naomi with Mrs. Millang.

Yummy!!!

These are "Scrapies" as our friend Joe's mom calls them.. they are all the scraps left from the pie crust I used on tonight's quiche. I sprinkled cinnamon & sugar all over them before baking... We actually ate them BEFORE dinner! We being Me, Daniel & Naomi. Shhhhh... Don't tell Glenn! He never saw them! We were waiting for him to get home to start eating dinner & we could not help ourselves! :) Sorry honey!

This was dinner & it was so good! I made a zucchini and goat cheese quiche. Of course, I had to make it fun for the kids to want to eat it... so I made stars out of pie crust and placed them on top!

I am in a food mood... There has been a whole lot of cooking going on around here... It's a good thing Thanksgiving is right around the corner!

A Dollar A Comment!!!!

There are some amazing things happening with Starfish Cleft Foster Home.... I have their site linked on my sidebar. Please stop by and see all the precious babies in China, with cleft palates that they are helping.

Amy, whose blog you can visit HERE... will donate $1.00 for every comment that anyone leaves on her blog, under her "Thanksgiving post." All you have to do is comment on what you are thankful for!

Will you take a few moments to help these sweet children?

Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you, Amy!!!!!

Feeling thankful...

I saw this cute idea online...

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...and decided to do something to get my kids in the right frame of mind for Thanksgiving. Our goal is to fill our jar with blessings and things we are thankful for by Thanksgiving!
The kids had fun helping me dye the noodles... and I am thinking it will be fun to let them make necklaces and some art projects with all the noodles while we are cooking Thanksgiving dinner! It will keep them busy for a few minutes anyway!