Nyah's Gotcha Day! {Dec 22nd}

We celebrated Nyah's Gotcha day on Dec 22nd. It has been a year since she came home from Korea and joined our family!

Here are some pictures from a year ago:

 1. Our First meeting with Lanyah at her Foster Family's home
2. Lots of crying the first day that we had her.
3. Finally crashed after all the crying.
4. Happy with daddy
5. Waiting at the Seoul Airport for our LONG trip home (it took over 25 hours total)
6. At home with mom and brother!

 And here she is now!  Sassy little girl!

We went to our favorite Korean Restaurant Mirror of Korea to celebrate and eat some of the YUMMIEST Food ever! 

Cool story about eating at Mirror of Korea:
There was a large family who ate at the table right by us.  They asked about Nyah as we were getting ready to leave.   I told them that we were celebrating her 1 year anniversary of coming home.  And they told us they were doing to same thing for their sister (she had been home 23 years!)  How cool!! to think in 22 years that will be us! :)

Holidazzle and Kyan's Debut!

It is becoming a holiday tradition to go to the holidazzle parad in downtown Minneapolis each year.

It is super fun to see all the lights and the kids LOVE it!

My Parents join us each year and it is a fun event for all of us!

The Floats are so fun and pretty!

Our Church had a Christmas Music Night on sunday.  Kyan "sang" 2 songs with the preschool cubbies.  I put "sang" in quotations because he mostly just stood there and rang his bell, he did not sing a word.  He knows the songs, we have been singing them all week, but when he came back to his seat he told me "Momma, I got shy up there"  Ok- fair enough... there is always next year buddy!

It was still precious to watch our son up there "singing" with his friends!

A year ago...

Last year at this time we had just gotten one of the best calls in our life!   We got the call to travel and go get our little girl, Nyah on the Dec. 14th! We found out that we could bring her home for Christmas!  Jason worked with the travel agent and by some miracle we got a flight to Korea!   It is amazing to think that a year ago Nyah was not even here yet! We got our flight out to Korea on the 18th and came home on the 23rd.  Just in time for Christmas!  What a blessing!

It was fun to visit Korea during the Christmas season  to see it all decked out for the holidays!  The weather is a but more mild there then here in MN (it was in the 40s- 50s) so we were able to get out and about quite a bit.  And Shopping in the market was fun too,  The sellers there were trying to push the holiday spirit too (buy buy buy!), but there were deals to be had and get got some fun souvenirs!