Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Our time with Chad and Jen

Chad and Jen at the Forbidden City. This is the huge marble carving that was so huge they had to wait until winter, spray the roads with water so it would turn to ice, and drag it to the Forbidden City.


I love the roof-lines of the Forbidden City. Unfortunately it's a fairly grey day.


Every time we came to a cannon, Chad wanted his photo taken with them.

Chad and Jay playing some basket-ball. Jay loved it!


Here we are at QiXia Mountain.

This was an interesting portable praying spot...


This is in honor of Lori, since she had her photo taken here. You make great Budas guys...

Happy Rirthday to you, Happy Rirthday to you! Even Jiang noticed the mis-spelled word and thought it was funny. Birthday is one of the few English words he knows. This is only one of the fireworks we set off. Tell me Michael doesn't look as if he were a little boy, about to play with fire!

Enjoy being in your 30's this one last year, Michael!



Caitlin did a great job with her dance at the school talent show. She practiced hard and it paid off! Notice the flowers she is holding. I stopped to get them for her, just wanting to grab some really quickly. There was an old lady who was very excited to wrap them all special. I think she may have used over 30 peices of that special felt tissue paper. It took over 30 long minutes! No doubt Caitlin felt extra special :-)

Nicole is enjoying taking photos of the beautiful spring we are enjoying. Here is another of the trees out in the back yard.