As most people know we moved back in October. The move was done during both of my surgeries and the fact we had to live with contractors. So..... The past few months have just been getting the house livable. We are now on the move to fine tune each room. I will try and post as many rooms as I can that we have done with before and after pictures. This is only the inside. The outside and ALLLLL its yard is another story.

These are 2 pictures of their play room before. The wood pieces are an incomplete wet bar.

Now we have the complete job. I just finished the curtains so those pics will go up tomorrow sometime.

Below is the wet bar. Of course because the children own the house and allow us to live here, it is there TV/VCR stand along with all of their movies. The front of it was painted with magnetic paint. The use it for all of the letters to spell with and for their magnetic dress up dolls

This area holds all of their craft supplies/ books and puzzles.

My favorite part of this room is the 6' long by 4 1/2' high window. It faces east and gets all the morning sun. Very cheerful. This summer we will put up the bird feeders outside the window. under the window area is where the pond will go.

Monson Church

I'm not sure I've mentioned how blessed I am for our Church Home. We have been attending Monson Church for over a year now and have NEVER felt more at home. The girls are welcome, DH is welcome and I am welcome. We have had problems in the past where we all have not felt as welcome as we should have. They are a caring community of people from every walk of life and socio economical background. People step up and help one another without being judgemental. How hard is that to find in today's society. I have attended church since being a child and have felt welcome but only at arms length not with open arms. God is Good.

HSM3

The girls are totally engrossed in High School Musical 3 right now. They saved their allowance together for the past month to buy it. We were told by a friend the movies wasn't that good, but so far we are loving it. We never made it to the show to see it. But I'm very glad the girls bought it.

Valentines Day

 

Daddy the girls and myself spent Valentines Evening at Church for a Spaghetti Dinner. It was a great time for all. They had a dance after the diiner but we took the girls home and let the couples have their time. The youth group sponsered it to raise $$$ for all their activities. They were talking couples pictures and what a better way to remember the night than a family photo.

Daddy's Girl

 

Lion Dance

 

 

That is Abigail under my jacket during the Lion Dance

Our beautiful Mei Mei

 

The Principle handing out Red Envelopes

 

 

After the performance, the girls got into blue jeans and had a great time. The Principle hands out red envelopes to the kids every year with a gold dollar in them.

 

 

 

More Chine New Year Pics

 

 

dance recital

I found a few pics from the dance recital on the computer, so here you go. When I load up the pics from the music recital I'll post them. Their dresses were beautiful this year from the music recital.

Chinese New Year

Genevieve made Red Envelopes in her Classroom one day and came home and put money in it. I really didn't think a whole lot of it. When her friend O came over after school. She gave it to her. She said that's what friends do. Give friends red envelopes. How Sweet. We had SEVERAL Chinese New Years parties and Celebrations this year. We had our usual get together at New China with their friends and family. The girls performed for 2 programs and did an awesome job. Their performance consisted of traditional Chinese Dance and a song. This year they did the Thunder Dragon Dance and then sang Mama Hao. I don't have those pics in here yet. They also both had parties at school. Genevieve missed hers due to a high fever. Abigail would have missed hers too but it has been postponed until Tuesday. She is now ill with the fever and it's settling in her chest. On goes the machine.

My friend Terrye at http://graceelyseshirley.blogspot.com/ chose me for this award. We started blogging in Jan 2005 so that we could share our journey to Abigail, and the antics of the rest of the crew with our family and friends. Now we have been home for over 3 years and still share our lives with our virtual friends we've met along the way and the friends who live far away. I was amazed at how many friends we've made along the way of blogging. Friends I've shared pain and joys with over the past 3 years. Friends I'm certain we'll be sharing with for a very long time. "These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find friends and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships will be propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly- written text into the body of their award." Joy http://twototsandateen.blogspot.com/ Jen http://ianemvivi.blogspot.com/ Heather http://www.abigailmae-xiao.blogspot.com/ Margie http://www.mississippizen.blogspot.com/ Rachel http://boundforchina.blogspot.com/ Donna http://everything-elizabeth.blogspot.com/ Kelley http://lifewithmytwogirls.blogspot.com/ Michelle http://waterschinababy.blogspot.com/

As per Grandma Lavon's request and a huge Thanks to Donna for the cord. Here are som random pics of the girls. So much has happened over the past few months. Can life be any better than walking down the street with Santa Clause :>) Genevieve all ready for her Christmas Program The girls and their"bestest"cousin Felicia at her Christmas Program Somedays she is just too darn cute Abigail on her birthday Genevieve's first day of school The girls and myself in China Town last fall Genevieve trying to read the CNY brochure from Chicago Abigail and her mean face Genevieve and her first lost tooth in November Abigail as Giselle for Halloween Genevieve in Her Wendy Wu costume for Halloween

Oh My life

I tried to add pics and the files are no good on this computer. So I went to reload them on here in a different file and I can't find my cord. GRRRRRR I will as soon as possible load pics. The girls have grown so much, it's amazing

Yes we are still alive in Granger Indiana

I will post more tonight but knew I needed to get on here for a minute or two. I will say few great things have happened. 1) The contractors have finally left our home after 3 months. It was suppose to be a 2 1/2 week job. But we finally can move on with our life 2) Abigail has a "real" diagnosis now. She RAD Respiratory Airway Disease. Now that we know what we are dealing with, we can better prevent it. 3) Genevieve got her first report card and she is doing awesome. 4) Daddy is still working. In this economy that is a blessing. 5) Because the contractors have finally left, I now have a fully functional laundry room. Wooooo Hooo no more packing laundry down the road. I have pics loaded in the computer and will get them on tonight. Thanks for being so patient and following along.