Thursday, February 12, 2009

A Visit From Our Special "China Friends"

This past weekend our friends came to visit with us and go to a Chinese New Year celebration that was being celebrated at a local mall. This family is so very close to our heart as this is a family that we met during our adoption process, and ended up traveling to China to adopt our girls at the same time. It just is so great to have families close to us that we can get together with.

Well, Thursday night I happened to talk to "J" on the phone and told her about the CNY celebration and mentioned they were more than welcome to come & join us. Well, to my surprise they made last minute plans to come & join us!! YEA!! I wish I would have thought about it sooner and would have called our other friends Ally & her family to join us as well!!

The girls had a great time! And I just love that they live close enough that we can make last minute plans to be able to spend time with our very special friends!

The girls reading books together

They were having a raffle drawing while we were there & "M" was one of the helpers that got to draw a ticket. Then, we ran into some other local friends that also adopted from China (after we did) and their little girl "L" also got to draw a ticket. The girls were so excited!
Daddy & Anne Marie waiting for the "show"!






They had all kinds of special Chinese dances, music & entertainment. Anne Marie LOVED the dragon dance -- she was very upset when it ended -- she even asked to go find the dragons when they went off stage!
After the show we decided to take the girls to Chick-Fil-A to get Milk-Shakes. And let me tell you --Y-U-M-O! If you like milkshakes & have never tried theirs -- GO GET ONE -- but you will probably need to share they are HUGE!!

1 comment:

Ally said...

Gee thanks!! LOL... Looks like so much fun. How cool is that, they had CNY in the mall. Girls look like cuties...Your little ones hair is growing like crazy!!