Fangtopia

Our local international adoption group put together an exciting weekend of activities with Fang for the kids. We had watched a documentation called Somewhere Between a few months ago and Fang was one of the four young ladies featured in the movie about what it's like to be adopted from China.

Families Blessed friends

Fang read stories to the kids and taught them some Chinese

Alex showed Tai how to race

Fashion Girl

The first thing that Sophie wants to do when she gets up in the morning is find a pretty outfit to wear. She is into tights and skirts. No jeans for this girly girl. But lots of shoes, necklaces and barrettes. She would change her outfit three times a day if we let her.

Check out the new skirts that Papa got me this week!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is always a much anticipated holiday. Alex and Sophie have been wearing their costumes for a while already and like to play dress up pretty much all year round. Plus it's always fun to go door to door to meet the neighbors and collect chocolate candies and other goodies along the way.

Preschool Halloween Party

Here are all my preschool friends

How do you like my first day at school picture next to the coat hook?

Peekaboo! Boo!

!st graders celebrating too

Some girls told Alex that he was "cute" as Tigger

We're on a mission: collecting yummy chocolate!

Checking out Marilyn's house

Riding in the wagon from house to house

Smoke machine at the Kaschka's

What a fun night!

Soccer Party

Soccer season is over. Alex had a blast playing with his school friends this summer and fall. He liked receiving a medal and is looking forward to going back to soccer in the spring time.

Medals for team Shark

Looking proud! Even with pink ribbon medals...

Thank you Coach Elizabeth for teaching us soccer!

Happy girl after she licked all the frosting off the cupcake

Video games are the best part of this party!

October Fun

Fall is here and we're enjoying the season with plenty of activities as usual. Uncle Vern & aunt Dolores came for a short visit on their way to Puerto Rico. We went to Oma's house for the weekend to show her our Halloween costumes. And we got to carve some pumpkins at a party. Cool stuff!

Sophie the artist making some handprint paintings

Showing Dolores my favorite book about reptiles

Bedtime story with uncle Vern

Pumpkin patch at Deanna Rose

I can't seem to forget about grandma Peters' horse Pocahontas

Beauty nap on the way to Oma's house

No nap for Alex, just plain racing on the iPad

Halloween costume preview

I love to eat Aufschnitt at Oma's house!

Cool outdoor playground in Beatrice

Sophie isn't so sure about that game. No head upside down for her!

Look at that, Oma!

I'm not as ticklish as Alex!

I lost my 2nd baby tooth at Oma's house!

Playing "old people" with Emma's walker and cane

Carving some pumpkins

Party time at Ky and Tanya's house

Check out our pretty pumpkins!

School Pics

Check out our new school pictures! Can you tell we grew up a little since last year? We have a sparkle in our eyes to remind our parents how mischievous we can be sometimes...

First Grade

Preschool

Fall Party

The kids love to go to parties. They had a blast decorating lanterns and blowing off tiki torches.

More lanterns for our collection!

Cool party

The best part was blowing off the torches...