Well, to say the least it has been a super busy packed month! I'm not sure I will remember all that we have done, but I am going to do my best to catch up on the blog and all the happenings. My mom arrived just after Thanksgiving. All the kids wanted her to come watch them in their classes and I for the first 2 weeks of Mom's visit, we continued with our schooling. Right now they are enjoying a 2 week break from school, but this is our busiest time of year as far as meeting people, etc. Up first was Hudson in his piano class...I really love this teacher! She is sooooo good and teaches so well. I hope we can continue to take lessons from her!
Mom flew in to HK so I went to pick her up. Always a great view :)
She made it! After a 19 hour delay, we are finally on our way.
First up on the agenda...dinner! We ate at the Muslim noodle shop. It's one of our favorites.
This little little girl lives at the shop and is super cute. She loves Regan and always comes to watch us eat our food :)
Grand mommy brought some Christmas surprises for the kids.
Little Beanie Boos for all the kids...
...and handmade shawls and scarfs
We rode with Katherine on the bus to watch her practice.
The girls both did so good!
Shadow did NOT want Regan doing school! He stayed like this for a long time! Finally, she took a break and played fetch with him.
We made a trip up to Zhongshan to see our good friends. Mom also brought gifts for Winter and Yoyo. They were so surprised...they had no clue that we were coming!
Group picture (minus the dads)
Xiao Jun took us out for hot pot.
The kids really love it!
While we were there, we ran into one of Lauren's dance friends from 3-4 years ago. How fun!
Benjamin and Grandmommy
We did an art project for school one day. My friend, Melody, taught the class.
Benjamin's
Grace's
Kelly's
Katherine's
Hudson's
Lauren's
Regan's
Mom's
Kelly's
Melody's
Lauren's dance class
Benjamin decided to help Hudson learn guitar. This is Benjamin's first guitar.
Someone was SUPER EXCITED to get some Polynesian sauce from Chic-fil-A!
eating at McDonald's
These next two pictures are form Katherine's art class. I love them so much! The first is Grace's and the second one Katherine's. They actually got reposted to 250 people online by the teacher talking about the love in our family and how their dad cares about them and even makes pizza, etc. It was really sweet and both of these pictures are so true :)
WE made a trip across the border to Macau.
St. Paul's ruins in Macau
All the kids wearing their Tennessee shirts from Auntie Em!
such good friends!
We went to the Macau Museum. Benjamin wanted this picture because it made him look as tall as his cousins ;)
The kids found this so interesting! Cricket Fighting
The loser even gets their own coffin...oh dear.
Me and Hudson
Me and Regan
Me and Mom
Big brother helping little brother out
These two are so funny! They both made the same faces and then smiled ... hilarious
HayHay and KayKay
We went to visit the Wynn Hotel in Macau because all the hotels have Christmas decorations and free stuff so we went and had fun.
This hotel had little sky lifts that rode around the hotel.
Poor Daddy...he had to ride by himself because they had a 6 person limit (even thought there was plenty of room for 8-10 people) It was a fun day!
