Monday, December 24, 2007

Merry Christmas

Love, Peace and God's Blessings from our family to yours

Saturday, December 22, 2007

We are leaving on a Jet Plane

Our flights are booked we are leaving Newark at 3pm on Jan 12th and returning Jan 25th around 1:50...Staying the entire time at the White Swan. I've decided to take my laptop along so hopefully I'll be able to keep you all updated with photos etc.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Santa Train

Gramma, Carlee and I went on the Santa Train last weekend. It was just after the big ice storm so the trees looked like they were made of glass but the tracks were covered with branches so we couldn't make it to the end of the line and had to return to the station in reverse.

Persimmon Quest Animoto

This is Cool

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Persimmon Quest

Pappy and Gramma have a persimmon tree in the field down from their house.
So Sunday right after church Pappy decides it's a good time to get Carlee a persimmon. So out comes the old step ladder (circa 1950) and off they trek down to the tree. Carlee is in her Sunday school dress with high heels.















The Gingerbread House

Gramma bought a Gingerbread house at Walmart the other day for her and Carlee to do. After quite a bit of work and instruction they completed it. I think Carlee was quite pleased with the result.




Friday, December 14, 2007

Latest News

Cadee Update

Got a call from our agency the other day looks like we will be traveling from Jan 11th to the 25th, but they are still trying to push the dates up earlier and will let us know by Tues or Wed.

Carlee Update

Carlee had a temp of 102 this morning and is home from school and won't be able to be in the Christmas program tonight :-( Hopefully she will be better tomorrow as Santa is coming to the house tomorrow night at 6 and Gramma Ritzman, Carlee and I will be going on the Santa train on Sunday. So today Carlee and I are confined to the house. I gave her Motrin and her temp is now 98.8 so we will wait and see.

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Cadee Update

Here is the latest on Cadee. We received word last week that our agency couldn't get consulate appts for Dec so the earliest we will be traveling is Jan 8.

AFTH has 2 groups traveling one will be going to Jiangxi and our group going to Guangdong. We have approx 14-16 families in our group and approx 3-4 families going for their second child.

Our trip sounds like it will be a repeat of our trip to get Carlee.
Fly from Newark to Hong Kong. Stay at the Regal Hotel in the Hong Kong Airport then go on the bus with Ben in the morning to head to Guangzhou and the White Swan Hotel http://www.whiteswanhotel.com/eng/Public/briefIntro/index.asp. On the Shamian Island http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamian_Island stay at the White Swan for approx 10 days then back to Hong Kong and home.

I'm looking forward to seeing Jennifer's place http://www.jennifers_place.homestead.com/, Lucy's Restaurant, and the big dept store shopping spree again.

On the trip each family is assigned a number for Carlee we were family number 3. Well this time we moved up the list to family number 2.

There is another couple in our group from Harrisburg which is only 30 min from home. their daughter is around 7-8 mo. but hopefully we can keep in contact and let the girls get together once they get older.