Thankful Thursday

WOW am I thankful!?!?!?! This week has been VERY Hectic and crazy allow me to explain....... My parents are doing a Holiday Fair Thursday-Saturday 10-8 so it is making things crazy! Also we went to the Hannah Montana concert on Tuesday in Charlotte (2 hours away) which was fun and i will post some pix later this week!Here is what I a thankful for!

• GREAT family and friends
• AMAZING Church group/family
  
• Beautiful China Angel
  
• The beauty of Christmas time
• The craziness of a chorus concert in 2 weeks today
• Fun chance to get to go see the Kibee family after Christmas! (went to China w/ us)
• Sweet Tea (lol)
• My little brother Hayne who was attacked by a dog 2 years ago while we were in the adoption process
• That we won`t have to spend another Christmas w/o our China Angel!!!

I am SO thankful and to the families who are in the process it won`t be long before your China Angel will spend Christmas with you!! I know this must be hard we were in the same situation last year! Have a GREAT week! :) The pix of AG is when my Mom caught her right after her bath in the pantry eating "froot loops to go"!

Clemson VS USC!

Well tonight we had a tailgate party with some of our dear friends, Jodi, Craig, Max, Cole, and Kamden. It was SO much FUN! We were biting our nails at the end hoping the tigers would pull through they did GO TIGERS!!!! Also GREAT job ASU! 4 Minutes left to win the game!?!?!??and they made a TOUCHDOWN! My Dad was SOO Happy!GREAT JOB guys!! Now Clemson is ranked in the top 20!!!!!

Anna Grace does NOT repeat DOES NOT like Santa!

I don`t like this

What are you doing
Somebody get me don`t just stand there!
I want a Dirt Bike(yeah right) a lot of Power Ranger stuff and Surprise Me!
Loving Adam`s Rocky

Hayne talking to Santa
Almost good if AG could look
Who are you???
Adam and Rocky
Hayne loves his Rudolph and is trying to learn the song "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer"
Me and my Baby
Our aminals (as Hayne calls it)
She LOVES Music
We took Anna Grace to the mall last night to see Santa and try to get a Christmas card pix of all of us.We got there at about four b/c we picked my Mom up from my Nana`s house. We got in line and 2 people in front of us and up got to go and then Santa was going to go on brake.ugh! So we swapped around our plans and went to "Build A Bear" to build some type of animal. I built Clarice the reindeer for AG and she L-O-V-E-S it! We named it Hannah for the reason that I am going to see Hannah Montana on Tuesday!!!!!!! I am SOOOOOOO excited! I wish AG could go but it would be WAAAAYYY to LOUD for her.After we went to Build-A-Bear we went down to see Santa AGAIN. When we got there there were not very many people so that was good! We waited for 15 minutes maybe? and the entire time everyone was staring at Little Miss AG she adored the attention! When we went to see Santa Hayne was so excited he could not stand it! He sat beside Santa and smiled so sweet, We put Anna in Santa`s lap and all she did was stared for about 1 minute like "Who are you and why did my daddy just hand me to you?" After that 1 moment She realized what happened and started Screaming at the top of her lungs but once we picked her up she was fine Oh Well. We got a few good pix.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone has a safe blessed Thanksgiving! We will b/c our little Miracle is finally home.The pix are from yesterday. Here is what happened.......... We got up yesterday and picked our babysitter. Then we all got ready.... Once we were ready we headed to the mall to find AG a dress. Once we finished that our photographer canceled.ugh So we decided to get in line to see Santa. After waiting 30 minutes my Dad called and said "WHAT NO DON`T GO LET HER SEE SANTA W/O ME!"So then we got out of line took a few pictures in front of a Christmas tree. Oh well no Christmas cards yet. But here are some bloopers below why I`m Thankful. Also Here are the reasons I am thankful...................................

• A Wonderful Family
• A beautiful Little girl who has become my sister this year
• A House and A Car (I don`t have my own)
• My Cellphone (that I love)
• No school for 1/2 of this week
• The miracle of already having the tree up! yay
• The Day after Thanksgiving Sale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Perfect guys!
Almost there

Fishy Face

I LOVE This

I saw this picture on Lanterns and Lotus Blossoms and loved it I thought it was so sweet so here is my little version of it.I also added some Chinese Proverbs around it.



“The journey of a thousand miles starts with one step.”

“When a child is born invisible red threads extend from the child's spirit and connect to all the significant people who will be part of the child's life. As the child grows, the threads shorten, drawing closer those people who are destined to be together.” Chinese proverb

World`s BEST Nana

Well My Nana has been asking me FOREVER to give her a post so here it goes the things we LOVE about Nana............

• She lets us eat what ever we want! (that over joys Adam and Hayne)
  
• Lets us use her camera and take pix
  
• Lets Adam and Hayne take samples home from her work
• Lets Anna Grace have chocolate ice cream
  
• Lets us watch her plasma TV!
  
• Takes us to blockbuster to rent any movie we want (that is not pg-13 or R)LOL
• Is wrapped around our finger! jk
  
• Loves us and shows that constantly
  

Music

If you would like to hear the Christmas music you can go to the bottom of the page and press play I don`t know how to get it to play automatically so if you want to hear it press play. I will post some pix of Anna Grace soon! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!I know we will! Take a look at My Uncle Johnny who is fighting in Afghanistan right now for us! He is really getting built! he has gained 32lbs in muscle!!! :0 I love you Uncle Johnny and are constantly thinking of you! I LOVE you and miss you!

Tooth Maybe???!!??!??!???!!!!

Miss Anna Grace is starting to cut a tooth! (we think) It will be great when she can eat regular food. Sorry for a while with NO update we haven`t had internet for a few days so it is nice to have it back. More updates on Anna she has a REEEEEEAALLLLLY BAD ear infection so we hope she can get better the child just can`t seem to get better well thats all for now.

Miss Anna Grace has on my FAVORITE Outfit today and I LOVE it! thought i would put in a few quick pics of her tonight! Have a GREAT Week!

Anna Grace`s Lovie

Giving her "night night" "Love"
My Mom wanted Anna to have that special "Lovie" That she was attached to. Well for the last few weeks she has REALLY been pushing it. Anna has just pushed/thrown them down. Well this week she started to bond! to a precious lamb that our friends Bobbi and Maddie gave us. She fights Hayne for it if he just wants to touch it!She calls it her "Night Night" it is SO Sweet! Thanks Bobbi and Maddie!

Reflecting on her changes

WOW! Anna Grace has TRANSFORMED in SO many ways! Just take a look it is Amazing to me that 4 1/2 months ago a scared little girl who didn`t know anything about us was placed into our arms and now a happy, smiling talkative baby! I just can`t believe my eyes.

Happy 4 months Anna and her Xiushan Sisters`! Hope everyone had a GREAT Weekend! It is hard to believe we have had our China Angel that short of an amount of time it feels like 2 years! Sorry it is late. I will post some new pictures Soon!

Well I was giving Anna a bath and washing her hair. We decided to have some fun so here are the pics.It is amazing what 4 months can do! I will post my slide show later! Have a GREAT Weekend!

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone had a GREAT Halloween! Anna Grace looked precious and was a trooper. Everyone loved her outfit and thought she looked precious. Although it was a little (take that back) really Cold we had a GREAT Halloween!Anna and I dressed alike in our chinese dresses. It looked really cute!