Zoo, tractors and the park

We had a busy couple of weeks!  I got the zoo pass from the library which means that we get 2 free people to the Minnesota zoo... so our whole family went and had so much fun!  

We also stayed at Mima and Pepa's house while Jason was in Boston.  We had fun riding the tractor and playing at the park!

This is in the ball pit at church! 

more fun with Ipod photo apps!

I am loving my ipod touch photo apps! 

We haven been going to the park and playing outside lately... here are some pics!

Instagram Friday

Jason got me an Ipod Touch (basically the Iphone but with out the cell phone service)... it has a free photo app called Instagram and it lets you take a picture and edit it with fun filters.  Here some fun ones that I have taken the past few days.

I think it is pretty cool that I can take and edit pictures from my Ipod!  What will they think of next??

Happy Birthday Nyah!

Today is Nyah's 1st birthday!  It is pretty cool that we are celebrating it with her!

 If you remember when we started our adoption process for our 2nd we were told the wait time for a referral would be 1 year (we only waited 3 months) which would bring us to June... so we weren't even suppose to have a referral yet, let alone bring the child home!  So that is Miracle #1.  We were also told that travel times were a 11 months wait so that would make the child closer to 16 -18 months when we brought them home (not the 9 week wait we had for Nyah) so, we were not supposed to even celebrate our child 1st birthday with them... Miracle #2 (and many more I am sure)!  God is so good! 

So- Of course we had to celebrate it big!  We had almost 40 people over to our house and we party-ed!  We had Korean food catered from Mirror of Korea (Our favorite Korea restaurant) and have lots of cupcakes.

Here are a BUNCH of pictures!

Here we are in our Hanboks... traditional Korean Wear.

Nyah's came from her Foster mom.

Kyan's also came from his foster mom... it is the same one he wore on his 1st birthday!

We did the Table Ceremony. A tradition in Korea.  Many object are placed in front of the child and the objects that they touch predict the future for them. 

Here are the objects we had:

Pencil- You will be a writer

Thread- You will have a long life

Money- you will be rich

Paint brush- You will be artistic

Rice- You will never want for anything

Thermometer- You will become a Doctor

Knife- You will be a good cook

Computer Mouse- You will be good with technology

Calculator- you will work with numbers

Book- you will be a Scholar

Tambourine- you will be a musician

Ruler- You will be good with your hands

oops! Who turned out the lights?

Nyah picked the Calculator (be still my math teacher heart!) and the pencil and the brush.

So, she will be good with numbers, a writer and an artist! 

That makes a pretty well rounded girl, I think 

I ask Kyan to choose again... and he pick the SAME 3 item he picked when he was 1!

The Computer mouse, the calculator and the pencil. 

The hanbok came with a purse.

It is so beautiful!  

Kyan looking good in his hanbok... I think he will need a bigger size next year! 

Happy Birthday to YOU! 

Cake!!  

Started out with Mama feeding her... 

But she quickly took the fork away and got busy herself! 

Happy Birthday Sweet Girl!!

Como Conservatory

We took an outing to the Como Conservatory!  It was so nice to be around living plants and flowers!  The winter is LONG here in Minnesota and we forget sometimes that spring is coming!

It also provided us with some fun photo opps! 

#1 Crawling through a fake log

#2 Hear no evil

# Little girl by bench

#4 Day Dreaming

{I actually like how this really looks dreamy... it was totally on accident... my lense was all steamy from the green house.}

#5 Smiles

#6 Climbing the steps... to get away from Momma!

#7 Climbing the steps ...to follow big brother!

#8 We're off to see the wizard!

#9 Hey Big Bro... look at all the flowers!

#10 Ky-Guy peeking though the gate

#11 Nyah Peek through the gate

#12 Come on Mom, I am waiting.

I had fun taking pics of the kids!  It was fun to try some new shots!  Some times they cooperated and others not-so-much! 

Which ones are your favorites?