Olympics- China 2008

The slogan of the 2008 Olympics: One World One Dream" expresses the common wishes of people all over the world, inspired by the Olympic ideals, to strive for a bright future of Mankind. In spite of the differences in colors, languages and races, we share the charm and joy of the Olympic Games, and together we seek for the ideal of Mankind for peace.

We spent almost every night as a family watching the olympics little "M" loved the gymnastics, swimming, volleyball the best but she watched it all till bed time. Let me tell you this brought out alot of questions about China, being adopted, and why she was not from the US. She now wants to know where everyone is from. Some questions we have answered many times and I am sure we will answer many more times. We were all very impressed with games and the job that China did to bring the countries together.

Catching Up

Over the summer little "M" took swim lessons with her best friend Abagail and we met some other sweet little girls that they spent the summer together swimming. They graduated and received their certificates of completion. They both now put their heads in the water, jump in, float on their back, kick great (got good marks for that), oh and bubble blowing :) So after all that it' the dog paddle method. We will be back to the pool next year. Daddy said no pool to she can swim.
She is back into ballet this year and also tap. She loves to dance. If you have ever seen the Disney Movie "The Game Plan" she loves the ballerina and the movie we must have seen it at least 100 times. I keep asking do DVDs burn out??? Well this is the graceful side of her because she is also taking christian Tae Kwon Do class with several girlfriends. She has asked for months to take this so we decided to start out slow. Steve believes this will help her in many ways I am not so sure I am the soft gentle type. If she likes it they have a mommy and me program so we both learn oh boy! I was hoping for piano lessons.... Well there is always next year.

Quilt Update....

I got an update on our quilts last Friday and words could not describe the pictures that I saw from my girlfriend Ginger's cell phone. They are both completed and are gorgeous the picture that I posted previously of little "M" was not even close to being finished when I posted it I am a non sewer so I thought when I got the picture it was done. What do I know.

Betsy will be delivering the quilts to me in a couple of weeks I am so thrilled I still can't believe how fast she made these and they are double/queen size each hand sewn. She is amazing. She wanted them home before the baby:) I can not wait to get updated pictures to post. Stay tuned.....

We are still here!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had taken time off from blogging. Life had gotten so busy and hectic over the last part of the summer I did not really have time to check email. We have met so many wonderful friends and little "M" is involved in several activities. It was a great summer, but really busy. Glad to be back I have a lot of blogs an emails to catch up on.

We have some GREAT news that hopefully we will be able to share real soon with everyone. God has been so good in our lives. I will post updates on all the happenings over the last month and 1/2 in the next posts!