MWCC Holiday Party

Another year was celebrated this holiday.  My "Mom's With Children from China" group continues to enjoy each others company throughout the year.  While the families don't change the number of children do.  Thomas and Matthew were adopted this year and baby Trautman will be here soon.  It is not often we can get the whole gang together but we managed this season and had a great time. 

MWCC Highlight Video

It's that time of year.  We have our holiday party tomorrow so I created a video to highlight our activities this year. So lucky to have these folks in our life. 

Daddy/Daughter Date

Zeb treated Keara to The Nutcracker today.  It was indeed a special day for her.  She has been asking to go for years so she was very excited.  Bruce and Elizabeth joined them for this special event and they all had dinner together as well.  So glad they had this special time together.

Gingerbread House Fun

One of my colleagues from work invited the girls and I over to make gingerbread houses last night.  I've attempted to make them before but often fail rather miserably so I was a little leery.  She was confident her method was foolproof and I became a believer when she told me we would need to bring hot glue guns.  I wasn't sure Kailei or Keara would be able to handle the glue guns but alas it was I that burned from hot glue.  The process took quite a while and Tina treated us to dinner and we ate our way through candy for dessert. The girls had an awesome time.  Keara was especially proud of her house and for good reason.  Kailei as expected ate more candy than anything.  My house was actually a barn of which I was proud too.  We had a great time and look forward to doing it again next year. 

A Story From Kailei's Writing Journal (exactly as is)

I had a sleepover at my Grammy and Poppy. I was fun relly fun. It was fuuuuunn. I loved it so so much excsept wen she wake me up in the mitel of the nite. Then I cod not sleep. It was horabol. I codint blevit. It was the wrste nighte evr.

Kailei-ism

Kailei: Can I have all these coupons Mom?
Mom: Sure.  What for?
Kailei: For my coupon collection.
Mom: You don't have a coupon collection.
Kailei: I do now.

Thanksgiving 2010

Typically we have Thanksgiving down in Walsh but Mitch decided to change things up a little and we had Thanksgiving at his house.  Merle and Phyllis drove up and then Sue and Jeremy flew in to join the fun.  Lieu and Phyllis did a great job preparing the meal and there was no shortage of food from the minute we walked in the door.  Not only did we have turkey, but later enjoyed Lieu's spring rolls, noodle soup and egg rolls.  The cousins had a great time playing and we enjoyed ourselves as well.  Tried my hand at playing some card game that I can't even remember the name of and took the losing trophy home.

Since we were in Denver, Lieu and I hit the malls on Black Friday.  I was out 14 hours but I got all my shopping done.

We'll be heading down to Walsh for an early Christmas in late December.  Can't wait to see the family again.