~October Fun~

Our precious princess turned 4!!!!




We had a weekend get together with our travelmates!



Happy Halloween!

~Wow, It's Been Awhile~

Since the last post we have been through spring and summer, and now it's almost fall and our baby girls 4th birthday. She has everything all planned out lol, from the cake all the way to the kind of party she wants. She also knew exactly who she wants to be for halloween: Sleeping Beauty, so off to the Disney store we went and her gown is now proudly hanging in her room complete with her crown of course! Zo is changing so much, from a beautiful baby into a beautiful little girl :) Enjoy the pictures!

~DISNEY WORLD~

We just returned from a fantastic girls week at the "Happiest Place On Earth"....It was amazing! We had a blast. Z was absolutely mesmerized by everything there. The big hit was breakfast with the Princesses! My little girls face could not have lit up any more once she saw them all in person. Like they say pictures are worth a million words so we will let the pictures do the talking!

~OUR SWEET VALENTINE AND CHINESE NEW YEAR~

How fun that we celebrated Chinese New Year and Valentines Day at the same time! Our Chinese celebration started the night before at a new Chinese restaurant that is not even open yet. We felt very honored to be invited to their celebration as they are friends of my Dads. It was so much fun and took us right back to China. Super friendly, loved hearing the language being spoken again and all authentic food...not like we eat here normally. For that few hours we felt like we were back in our daughters birth country. The fun went on until after midnight. The next day was heart day and our local FCC get together. We always have so much at this. They have crafts, group pictures of all the kids, shopping, eating and a dragon dance which Z actually was a part of this year. She is really coming out of her shell. She is so sweet and loving and always smiling, happy all the time. I know it has been quite some time since I posted last so I hope you enjoy the pictures.

~HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRINCESS~

Our baby girl is 3!!! She loved her "DAY", she talked about it for weeks...picked out her princess decorations, her tinkerbell cake and balloons! We started the day out with Birthday pictures which she just loves doing, she gets in front of the camera and smiles and twirls and absolutely lights up the room, the pictures are beautiful! We then had lunch, picked up her balloons, came home and decorated, went to Big Brothers football game, came back and celebrated with family, pizza, cake and presents :) She is a beautiful, wonderful, loving and sweet little girl! She talks from morning to night (and sings), dances, loves to read her books (and be read to, which we do regularly), color and paint and just makes everyone smile and laugh! I love watching her grow and change and try new things. She is so precious and a true blessing to us!

~GOTCHA DAY~ 2 year anniversary

Last week was our gotcha day anniversary, 2 years already. I remember the very first moment I saw our baby girl, she was crying so hard it broke my heart. I wanted to hold her and comfort her and make everything all better for my precious little one. After pictures were taken and the paperwork was signed, I did exactly that..I took her to our room for a bath and some snuggle time, she played with toys and laughed and I just stared at her, this was our daughter..we had waited so long and here she was with me and in my arms finally! My heart could not have been any happier or more full of love. She is an absolute blessing. Everyday she amazes us with something new, she is such a happy and joyful little girl. To celebrate the special day we have her pictures taken and did she ever have fun, she said "cheese" the entire time and just lit up the room!

~The 4th of July~

For the 4th our family and friends rented out a park for a private celebration! We had so much fun. There was mini-put, a big playground, batting cages, a skate park, paintball and a water play park....although it did rain all day so we had our own water park, oh and lots of food. Of course we did not let the rain stop us. We played in the rain and had a blast! The rain did stop later so the fireworks were still on :)

Two years ago......

Yesterday we saw our first picture of our precious baby girl! We had waited so long for the moment when we would finally see our daughters sweet little face! It was an amazing day. From that very first look, every day since and now 2 years later she is everything we had dreamed of and more! She is a wonderful, loving, cuddly, happy and beautiful little girl :) She is a true joy.

~Our first picture~

Spring Is Here.......

And I have a very happy little girl, well she always is!!! Now she gets to be outside more though and she loves it! Last weekend we went out and bought her a swingset (they have definitley changed since the boys were little ) and she is so excited to have her own :) We play with bubbles, swing, slide and go for walks, well I walk while she relaxes in her big wagon...and our long driveway..yep you guessed it, is all uphill, LOL. Grandma and Grandpa had their pool opened so now she is ready to swim, we go over there and she says "Go swimming". Think we have to wait for it to get a little warmer or crank the heater way up! Happy Spring Fever!

~Happy Easter~

Today was a great day! It was warm, the sun was shining, the eggs were hidden and it was time to have fun....and that is exactly what we did. We started the morning out with Easter baskets and the sweet bunny also brought the cutest little pink scooter for Zoie and then it was off to Grandma and Grandpas. We had a wonderful meal and way too many yummy goodies and then outside we went to look for eggs. She had so much looking with her cousin, she would get excited every time she saw a new one hidden somewhere, she had been watching the Max and Ruby dvd where they looked for eggs, so yesterday she talked about how the Easter bunny was gonna hide eggs and she was gonna look for them and put them in her basket :) and she filled hers up!