Just a swingen...

Grace loves to swing!

Stocking the pond...

Helping daddy with the fish

Grace couldn't wait to get the fish out of the bag!

Petting the fish

Feeding the fish

Molly is trying to decide if she wants to snap at the fish!

Trying to find the fish!

Recently we bought 200 little catfish and put them in our pond. We also bought a few other ones, but being the girl that I am I don't remember what they were called. Grace loved the fish! She wanted to hold them immediately, but I didn't quite want her too!

Happy (and very late!) Chinese New Year!

All the beautiful girls (minus Katie Lin and Addie) with their siblings!

Our forever family!

Grace and Addie! They look like their up to something!

Grace holding her red envelope. It is customary for parents in China to give their children red envelopes filled with money on Chinese New Year.

Grace and Brooke

Grace, Katie Lin, and Mr. Jeff

This is what was left of Grace's Chinese Yo-Yo. She didn't quite understand how to use it!

Baby Dedication...

Me, Grace, and her daddy on her dedication day!

Some of these next few posts are very old so just bear with me! Between having a very active two year old, gymnastics, preschool on Tuesday and Wednesday, church on Wednesday night, keeping up our house, trying to sell our house, and me being in grad school, there just don't seem to be enough hours in the day! Grace's baby dedication was on February 18th which just happened to be Chinese New Year. The verse we chose to read for that day has been a theme for us since before we even had Grace's picture! We read Ephesians 1:5 which says, "For we were predestined for adoption through Jesus Christ according to the purpose of his will to the praise of his glorious grace with which his has blessed us." For me the physical act of our adoption of Grace is the perfect picture of how God adopts us into his on family. Grace had no name, no father, no inheritance, and no hope. Now here she is with her forever family! She has a new name, a father, an inheritance, and hope. It is the same with us before we were adopted into our eternal family. We had no name, no father, no inheritance, and no hope. Praise God that he has given us a new name, a heavenly father, an eternal inheritance, and an everlasting hope! This is the only picture I have of this day. Lots of video tape! My sister took some pictures on her camera so I promise to post them when I get them!

Aloha!

We love us some Aunt Lauren!

My other outfit from Aunt Lauren!

Modeling her outfit from Aunt Lauren My sister recently went to Hawaii on a mission trip. She brought Grace back these outfits! As you can see she loved them! I have had to hide the hula skirt from Grace at least until the weather gets a little bit warmer!

Making Cookies...

Can't hide the evidence!!!

You can't cook them without eating them!

Showing off her skills at icing a cookie!

The icing was just too good! She kept trying to eat it instead of putting it on the cookie!

Making cookies for Daddy

Way Behind...

I am very fortuante to be in prayer group with 7 wonderful women! Last month we celebrated a birthday for two of them! Happy Birthday Amy and Ali!

Amy and Ali opening their gifts...

Grayson loves the bubblewrap!