Family Tales

I’ve been cleaning off the photos from the digital camera, so there’s a couple of new photo albums up on flickr now.

Betsy’s First Snow

Eli’s 6th Birthday Party

The Polar Express

Bionicles Through the Years

This is our first official family portrait per se. Yes, I know it’s only of the kids, but we working on a full lineup soon, I promise. It’s just that we felt it was more important to get something now rather than the ideal thing later. Time is moving on even if […]

Received this from Wendy today.

Eli ate ONE BITE out of his corn dog and that was it for his lunch. How do I know? While waiting for him, outside his class, I briefly said hello to another mother when the mom said, “Do you want her getting into that?” Betsy dove in […]

Well,
The pace at the house has slowed down a little, and we’re all beginning to fall into more predictable routines. Of course, that means that it’s time to start posting again :-), and I promise to bring everyone up to date on the events of the last two weeks very, very soon.
As a […]

Here’s our flight schedule for tomorrow.
We’re scheduled to arrive in Memphis on NW958 at 6:35 PM Saturday night. Everyone is welcome to come see Betsy arrive home at the airport That’s going to be your only chance to see her for a few days, as we’ll be due for some […]

Well, the trip is coming to it’s end, and none too soon. We leave the hotel tomorrow at 5AM for the Guangzhou airport. Yep, you read that right - 5 in the morning. We are *not* looking forward to the wakeup call or the plane rides for that matter. I want […]

One last post before heading out to a group supper.
Wendy and Betsy were doing a really cute thing last night. I’ve got pictures, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Enjoy. Tomorrow, I’ll tell the story of how Betsy became Besty.

*Mom*
Wendy is recovering from bad job city in Hong Kong, and although her stomach is still a bit queesy at times, things are looking up. In answer to a question from Holly earlier, no we didn’t travel with phenagarp (sp?), but we definitely will next time. Oddly enough, some chinese remedy stuff that […]

Since we crammed everything into Monday’s schedule, we’ve basically been free to roam the rest of the time. Of course, that sounds a lot more exciting than it really is because Guangzhou isn’t really my idea of a tourist destination. It really doesn’t take long before all of the trinkets start to look […]

Sunday, we got Betsy Ye and more or less holed up in our room to get acquainted. The next morning we were to go back to the orphanage agency to begin the round of notarizations and oath takings. So, we left the hotel Monday morning at 7:40 with 14 slightly delirious families and […]