Gettys Talent Show

Last night Ashton sang in the talent show at Gettys Middle School. This child has way more confidence than I ever did at this age. She took to the stage like a pro and sang her heart out. It was spectacular! Unbelievable! She opened her mouth and blew us away! It was so awesome when the audience would start clapping and yelling while she was singing-She received 2nd place and we are so proud. I see American Idol in our future :) Papa says he is volunteering to take her since he has never been-he says he can picture her giving him all the credit for getting her there(of course BJ has plans too)
We are blessed with such a supportive family. The boys loved holding the signs that Nana made and Ashton had an arm full of flowers from Nana and Mema. I think she knows how proud we are of her! We are blessed! Way to go Ashton!

Swim Regionals

Getting ready to leave the block!
With 2 of the Greatest Coaches ever!
Getting some last minute advice!

Ready to swim
Way to go-He just nailed his flip turn!
How many people does it take to get a cap on? :)


Filling up on a good breakfast at Cracker Barrell
We spent our weekend in Raleigh for Swim Regionals. Adam swam on Saturday and Sunday. We had so much fun with the rest of the team. The YMCA took 7 swimmers to compete. We had 2 great coaches go with us-Thanks Larry and Ce'line-We appreciate you! They are such great encouragers to ALL of the swimmers. This is such a great family sport and we can't wait for the season to start again.

Long Time No Update!

As you have noticed I haven't updated in forever! We have had lots of sickness in our house and are praying it will soon end!! Since I have updated we have been to the state swim meet which was lots of fun and got a big surprise..... SNOW! We never get snow and this was a great surprise! We only got 4-6 inches but the kids were ecstatic! I will be posting lots of pictures within the next few days but or now enjoy these!Snow Day!!Swim Meet

New Blog Design

I have the best daughter in the world! Don't you just love this new blog she designed for me in honor of Chinese New Year? She is the greatest. Her talent amazes me. Head on over to her blog at www.ashtonsmeimei.blogspot.com and let her know how awesome her work is! I can't wait to post all of the beautiful pics she has photo shopped for me-I love you Ashton!

Happy Chinese New Year

Our little Chinese Princess quite enjoyed her photo shoot with all of her "China" goodies.  She kept holding her tea pot and cup saying "Mommy I love my China set, mommy I love my China umbrella, ect." She is very much loving anything that came home from China with us.  It makes me smile.  I hope that we will always be able to encourage her and teach her how blessed she is to have such a rich heritage.  Tonight we are celebrating with our family at our favorite Chinese restaurant. We are a day early but they are closed on Sundays to be with family and we wouldn't miss celebrating with them.  

Anna Grace Day

Here is a rough draft of our sweet Anna Grace's Gotcha Day! Tell me what you think!

This is a VERY rough draft of our Gotcha Day video of Anna Grace. It has taken me almost 19 months to get it downloaded from my video camera to computer.  I am having a video made but I wanted to share this with those of you who have continued to ask.  I did add music but I could not figure out how to silence the video so please bear with me.  I love this song-I clung to it during our 2 year wait knowing that it would be worth it.  I find it amazing that my favorite part of the song is when Hal gets to hold his daughter for the 1st time.  This precious man waited for his girl for 15 years.  He prayed and waited patiently for me to hear the call to adopt.  I am so grateful that he was so faithful to the call and willing to wait for the right moment.  Our lives have forever been changed.  I would go back to China tomorrow if I could.  Hopefully soon we will have the professional video to share with you.