CNY Lunch

Today we met a big group of adoptive families

@ Lyn's Bistro to celebrate CNY!

It was tons of fun and perfect for lots of photos!!!

I think my favorite thing was

no matter how long it's been since we've seen

each other, it's as if we were just together.

Conversation came so easy!!!

All my beautiful friends!!!

There were 16 beautiful miracles

in these two photos~

two went home early so that made 18!

Donna was there with her precious children

and we shot all these pics

because she helped every single one of these babies

come home to their forever families.

EK summed it up perfectly when I put her to bed tonight~

"This was a GREAT CNY day~ especially the party."

Can't wait until we all see each other again!!!

How They Look

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year~

the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays.

Each year we decorate

and celebrate the culture of our girls' birth country.

EK was very excited to help make

beautiful lanterns

to hang around our house.

SJ was happy to play with them. :)

As we went back to our rooms

to dress and make beds,

the light in my bedroom was amazing.

I had a brainstorm to dress the girls

in their Chinese silks

for a CNY photo shoot.

I'll let you decide if it was success~

I definitely think so!!!

This is 'How they Look'~

precious Chinese girls celebrating

their Chinese culture.

I am linking up with Joy of Love~ Day 2.

and

The Long Road to China

Chinese New Year Party

Lucy invited several families to meet together @ Lin's Bistro in Atlanta (Lin being a VIPart of our story- later) to celebrate CNY. It was such a wonderful time for EK to see all her precious Chinese friends and for me and Scott to catch up with our friends. They are all the kind of friends that you don't see for a long time and when you do, it's just like we were together just the other day. The only sad part was Mill getting a migraine on the way in and was sick the whole time. Hoping she feels better by morning!!! They have the week off for winter break so she at least gets to sleep in. Praying your year of the tiger is healthy and prosperous!!!

And this is my friend Donna , who even brought gifts for me and SJ!!!

Blessings,

Celebration!

Scott stopped by PF Chang's on the way home and brought home some great eats!!! Well just when you think the celebration is all planned... Scott has to stay late for work, Rosemary has to cheer after school, Amelia has to be at a basketball game @ 7:15, and Savannah is where she should be- school. We made the BEST of it!!! The celebration was all about eating and singing 'Happy Match Day' before blowing out her candles on a piece of Great Wall of Chocolate!!! Yum!!! It was the perfect night at the end of a perfect day!!!





Blessings,

CNY

We enjoyed a great CNY celebration with family and friends tonight. I was in Atlanta today and picked up Chinese take out from PF Changs- It was delicious!!! And the celebration was so sweet! EllaKate and Madelyn were precious in their traditional Chinese outfits.

Happy CNY

We were invited to a Chinese New Year party @ Dick Deitz' house on Sunday but were unable to go since we were @ Amelia's meet. On Monday we had our first social worker visit for the new baby's adoption and we dressed EllaKate in the outfit we bought her to wear when we were in China. She looked adorable!!!