New pictures

Met up with a friend from church Craig Adams who has beautiful twin girls from China named Zoie and Olivia . We had such a fun time getting the girls together, and boy do they keep Craig busy. LOL Craig will be heading back to Beijing next week so we felt very fortunate to have met the girls, they are such sweeties:)

Also have some new pictures of Lily and her cousin Samuel who joined mommy and daddy from Guatemala the first of February. As you can see Lily tries to be in charge and they had a blast playing their first game on the WII.

So stinkin Cute!!!

Ok just one picture, I am sitting at work and call Jeff who is at home with Lily til lunchtime and he says, " here talk to Lily", so I start talking not knowing what she is doing, he says she is giving the cheesy smile then sends it to my phone. Of course as soon as I open it, it brings a huge smile to my face and reminds me once again how truly lucky we are to have this sweet little person in our life, she so stinkin cute and so funny, I am so in love!!!!!!!!!!!! This little angel also graces the screen saver to my computer at work, I am sure at times my co-workers are wondering what in the world am I smiling at, well how can you not smile when you see this sweet little face?????

Been Tagged???

Ok, so my friend Gina http://mgdtochina.blogspot.com/ tagged me and I am too list 7 things you may not know about me. The rules are to link the person who sent this to you and leave a comment on their blog so their readers can visit yours. Post the rules on your blog.

Share 7 strange/weird facts about yourself. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, linking their blog. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. I had never flown before going to China
2. My sister is in Guatemala right now adopting a little boy and will go back in 2 months for a girl who is also his cousin:)
3. Love kids, did daycare for 10 years and have worked with youth programs at my church for the last 15yrs.
4. Love the water, could just be in the water all the time, love to watch any movie or program involving sharks!!!! (crazy I know)
5. Ok, since you said strange, I can roll my tongue completely over and can turn both eyelids up, always freaked people out, oh I had sleep with my eyes partially open.
6. Speaking of sleeping, I use to sleep walk alot as a child, last time I recall doing lately though was about 5 yrs ago. Woke up and I was walking around the bedroom trying to feel for a door, then woke up once I ran into the corner
7. Ok, I am kind of strange or boring depends on how you look at it. LOL

Now I am tagging the following blogs:

http://www.kolejourney.blogspot.com/
http://crazy-eight.blogspot.com/
http://thewrights4.blogspot.com/
http://www.6daysweek.blogspot.com/
http://andavamakessix.blogspot.com/
http://odonnellchinagirl2006.blogspot.com/
http://waitingforbabyz.blogspot.com/

Hope I did this right??? LOL

Chinese New Year

Last Sunday we got together with a few other couples that have adopted to celebrate the Chinese New Year. There were quite a few kids and everyone had a good time. Soon the Krutsingers will be adding a new member to the group. They will be traveling to China soon.

Fun in the snow

We got our first decent snow a couple weeks ago. I finally have time to post some pictures. Mike and Julie are in Guatamala right now. They have Sofie and Samuel for a week, Samuel gets to come home with them and they will soon go back and get Sofie. A link to their blog is in the upper right hand corner of our blog.

Six months!!!

What an amazing six months, I remember standing outside that conference room on the third floor, my knees were shaking so bad, I don't recall ever be that nervous before. This picture is of Lily and her foster mom just minutes after she entered the room. I remember leaning to Jeff and saying, "she is so beautiful", not knowing yet that she was my daughter!!!! Lily has been such a blessing to our life, you many people say, "how lucky she is", truly we are the lucky ones. Although we had a very rough first few hours, she is now a very happy and outgoing little girl. She is full of energy and makes us laugh alot, we love you Lily so very much and are so happy that we are your forever family.

Dare Devil

Well Lily has now become a dare devil, almost falling as I type. She loves to be on the couch, runs back and forth and has almost gotten the "getting off" figure out. We still have to gate most of the house, she is great at climbing stairs but not so good on coming down and with 15 wooden steps I am in no hurry with her doing that by herself. Her big brother go her a recliner for Christmas and she thinks she is pretty big stuff, she now thinks it's pretty funny to stand up, now climbs on the armrest and just smiles and claps for herself!!!! She is so funny and so full of energy, can't believe we have had her six months!!!! She has a fear of nothing, with her brothers always throwing her in the air, no wonder she thinks she can stand on furniture???

Samuel is Coming!!

We just heard that Samuel has his Consulate Appointment on February 12th, which is also his birthday!!! YIPPY!!!!! We cannot wait to get this little cutie pie home, and praying Sohpie comes soon after so Miss Lily can get to know her new cousins.

Merry Christmas

Well, Christmas is over. We had a great first Christmas with Lily. She has plenty of new toys to play with I think we may have to add on to the house to make room for everything.

Pictures Finally!!!!

We finally took Lily to get her picture taken, she never sits still for us so I was a little worried, but Sears did a great job getting her to smile. Of course now we had to order ALL of them. lol Enjoy!

Santa please bring a Play Kitchen

Here are just a few pictures from the last couple of weeks. Jeff got me some p.j.'s for my birthday so Lily and I could match, I love them!!!
Thank goodness Santa is bringing Lily her own play kitchen, hopefully she will like it as much as she likes getting into the cabinets. LOL
This is Fun!!!!

The Maninfior elves

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1411346677

Copy and paste the link to see the Maninfior elves

Shopping in St. Louis

We spent Saturday shopping in St. Louis with one of our travel group members, Mike and Gina. It was nice to see them again and see how their daughter Olivia has changed. I'm not sure if Lily and Olivia remember each other or not but they seemed to like playing together. Lily had her first visit with Santa, as you can see in the picture she didn't think too much of him.

Time to decorate

We had fun decorating for Lily's first Christmas with us. It was a little tough keeping her out of the tree, but it was still fun. If we can keep her from eating the ornaments it will be a miracle.