Cool shirts!

Zora and I wore one of these shirts in China and we have received so many positive comments about them.   You can go to this site to check them out:
http://www.gotloveadopt.com/

Chinese New Year

We traveled to Independence, Missouri Saturday to attend the Families Blessed with the Worlds Children Chinese New Year party.     The year of the Snake starts February 10th.  

The girls love to dress up in their "Chinese" clothes.   I think that they always look so beautiful in the  silks, but I don't like hand washing them.   The last few trips to China I have found that they have some really cute outfits that are more of a cotton material that doesn't unravel like the silk.    I really love these dresses too as the frog closures are just for looks and not to keep the dresses closed.   The dress zips up the back.   Black and white was the only colors they had in these dresses and I really think they look nice, but would have loved to get some other colors too.   And the girls dolls received new outfits for CNY too!    Yes, I am a couple of girls short.   They were busy doing their own thing!

Crafts are always fun.   Just wish that we had more time to work on them.  

They had all kinds of entertainment too.   Chinese musicians played, kids danced, played drums, danced some more, older girls danced, and the lions danced.   The one thing that I had really looked forward to seeing again was someone who did a demonstration with a Chinese yo-yo.   Unfortunately, he had to cancel last minute :(  

It was really fun and worth the 90 minute drive.   The most fun is seeing all the Chinese American kids having fun and dressed up!

Sledding

The girls were elated when we received enough snow for them to get their sleds out.   Even though it barely covered the ground and the temperature was 10 degrees they donned their coats and hit the slope.

Tessa was having a great time trying to get her sled to go backwards down the hill.

It always surprises me that they really go as far as they do!

Going private

I am going to make our blog private again.   If you want to continue reading our blog please leave me a comment with the email address that you want to use and I will add you to the readers list.   Or you can email me and let me know.   I will change the settings in a week or so.