Easter 2012

Abby and Mommy had a wonderful Easter. We headed off to a friends church for an Easter egg hunt. In church before the hunt listening to the Easter story. The kids took turns opening eggs that each held something symbolic and part of the story.

Abby found a ton of eggs and candy. We went back to that church the next day for Sunday service :)

Abby and Mackenzie. BFF's since they were babies:)

After the egg hunt they decorated Easter cookies. I love how kid oriented this church is :0

Abby and her cookie.

Abby's Easter basket. Mommy was too lazy to take Easter morning pictures :(

After church we met up with the rest of our family for lunch. Nope! No pictures of that either :(

Abby posing in front of our Easter tree.

Easter pictures we took on the way home.

I love my pretty girl :0

Tinkerbell

Abby made her own Tinkerbell outfit all by herself!

Mommy was impressed by her creativity and talent!! Look at her details :)

She even added a size tag :)

I just love my little girl!

Happy Gotcha Day (retro from 1/6/12)

Unbelievable! Really? Our fourth Gotcha day anniversary :) Where does the time go? This sweet and wonderful treasure that I am lucky enough to have as a daughter. Such a scared little person that had been through so much. Oh how I wish they could see her now :)

This picture sums up my Abba pretty well! She is strong, joyful, spirited, determined, compassionate, opinionated, kind, graceful, smart, beautiful, loving, stubborn, energetic, amazing, spicy, musical, fun and most of all LOVED!

Opening her gotcha day gift from Mommy.

A Chinese Yo Yo.

She knew just what to do with it :)

And also a porcelain bracelet Mommy bought in Jiangxi.

Life is good :)

Snow

After such a snowy winter last year Abby and Mommy too have been a little disappointed this time around. So far just 2 times have we seen snow and both times just a dusting. The first time it started around 5 PM. Big flakes that looked pretty promising.

Abby was excited

Check out the big fluffy flakes.

They were covering pretty fast.

Abby with her magnifying glass checking out the snowflakes.

Checking out the snow in her hair. Funny the camera did not pick it up.

The next morning we found our dusting. Winds were whipping with a windchill of about 10 degrees. Abby insisted on going out.

Wearing the new snowpant I got her this year. Yep probably totally why it hasn't snowed a lot this winter.

I think the Chinese clothing police would have approved.

And out she went to make the most of what little snow we had. :)

She had fun while Mommy watched from the window and took pictures.

Getting her magnifying glass ready.

Love my girl and still hoping we get at least one good snowstorm before winter ends :)

Random pictures

I really need to do a better job with Abby's blog. I have tons of pictures out there along with many uncompleted posts just out there in limbo. For documentations sake and my eventual plan to turn her blog into a book. I need to do it for her. Plus she is growing up so darn fast :)

Feeding one of our cats (Quackers) who is always starving.

Dress up fun with cousin Josh.

Abby in our Culdesac riding bikes with some of the neighborhood kids. I love it! And this was a big reason why I bought this house :)

My sweet girl taking a bow.

Sassy!

Modeling her Valentines day outfit from Meema!

Cheeser :)

You blinded me Momma!

Nope not going to open my eyes.

Wearing her 100 days hat she made at school.

100 day in Kindergarden and 100 days smarter :)

No more pictures Please!