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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Some happenings from 2009

4th of July

the fish that almost got away!

Regina grew this from a seed!

Rocky Mountain High, Colorado

Summer fun almost over!

Regina's first day of 4th grade

LuLu's adoption finial in USA!

Regina's 9th birthday
Dinner at the Med
CU girls Soccer game
and a candle that almost burnt down The Med! The whole place sang happy birthday to her!

First big snow! So happy the girls love snow!

Halloween

Halloween LuLu had a couple of different costumes but this is my favorite

Vail getaway

GO BUFFS!!

LuLu's first dance class, she LOVES to dance

Regina loves playing basketball

Christmas 2009

Raclett for dinner

The girls had a blast picking out the perfect tree

Our beautiful girls

It's been so long I forgot how to blog! HEHEHEHE

Happy New Year Cheers for a great 2010!

Nick enjoying

Swiss cheese fondue for dinner YUMMY!

yummy!

Chinese dumpling for a appetizer

Movie Princess and the Frog love that movie!

Lunch at the Med before the movie

Ok the blog has been updated! Yeah!!

Friday, July 3, 2009

Eight years ago today a small, scared baby girl was put in our arms! She could not sit up or rollover or even smile....with in a week she was giggling, rolling over, grabbing for toys, and sitting up (with a little help)! We can't believe it's been eight years! Today we are honored to be chosen to be parents to Regina Ya Xuan Fuster. Today we bless and honor her birth parents and China for giving us the most wonderful gift in the world.

As you can see we (Nick and I) tried everything to scan in photos of Regina's match pictures and this was the best we could do!

Our beautiful eight year old! Almost nine!!

Thursday, July 2, 2009

CCAI OPEN HOUSE AND REUNION

CCAI's open house was so much fun! It was wonderful for everyone to meet LuLu! Pam and Sara were so excited. Sara cried, I cried..... We hadn't gotten a picture with Josh and Lilly in a long time so that was nice. Regina and Lilly are from Hunan! Regina played so many games and shared her prizes with her sister. I met Josh's sister who is doing work in Henan and she knew LuLu....man did I start crying when she was talking about her in the orphanage. She had longer hair and it would stick to her head it was so hot (this explains why she wanted her clothes off all the time when she joined our family)! She would stand in the hallway with her friends and she was very pale because they didn't go outside very often......what a sad start to a little girls life. We now know that is why she always is so happy when we go outside to play.
We ate homemade dumplings that Josh's mother made I think they were the best I have ever had here in the US! All in all the day was excellent, Regina had a blast, Daddy and LuLu bonded and ate lots of dumplings and Mama got to show off LuLu and Regina and meet some of my cyber space friends.

Lilly, Josh, Regina and LuLu in the CCAI entrance. They truly are wonderful people.

They are the owners of our adoption agency we used for both adoptions.

Friday, June 5, 2009

The begining of summer

LuLu has alot of first so far this summer
running through the sprinkler (she didn't like it very much!)
the Zoo
the carousel (she didn't like it very much)
train ride she loved it
playing cooking with Hunter the neighbor boy
sharing Mom with her sister since Regina is now home full time school is out!
having her own room (she is always so grateful for her clothes and toys its so cute)
playing in the mud with her sister
laying in the grass watching the clouds
growing her own flowers
flying a kite
swinging in a big kid swing
I'm sure there is more but that's all I can think of right now.
she has many more words now my favorite is when she or someone sneezes she
"bess you"

We are looking forward to a relaxing and fun summer. It will be a time for Regina and LuLu to bond (keep your fingers crossed for this one)! I will try to post pictures once in awhile of our summer fun!