Happy Birthday Nyah!

Nyah turned 2 this weekend!  Where does the time go?  I mean seriously wasn't it just yesterday that we brought her home?! 

We got her a playhouse for her birthday and she loved it! She played in it for hours! 

Egg Hunt 2012

Our church had their annual egg hunt this weekend.  The kids always have a great time!

I got my new camera last week and I was excited to get some action shots of the kids... so there are a lot of pictures for you to see!

All I wanted was a pic of them with their buckets after the egg hunt, but couldn't get them to both look at the same time.  Classic!

a Bicycle built for 2!

Getting creative with keeping the kids entertained outside!

They both loved it and had me and Jason laughing pretty hard too!  
It was like our own little mini-parade!

Mom- can we go to the park?

Yes, yes we can!

With the weather being so BEAUTIFUL we have been doing a lot of playing outside and going to the park! Hooray for an early spring!

Fun in the SNOW! Finally!

We FINALLY got some snow around here and the kids were so excited to go out and play in it!  It was also great to burn off some of our energy from cabin fever!  We have had such a great time the past few day and I got some really " cool" pictures! (Pun intended!)  There are lots of them so get ready for picture overload!

Kyan LOVED sledding this year!  It is the first time he has been into in.  In years past sledding involved lots of tears on his side... but not this year!  He was going down the hill face first all by himself and carrying the sled up too!  Such a big boy!

Nyah also loves the snow and sledding... although I keep her on a sled with me for now. It is great exercise to go up the hil and works her core muscles for her balence, so it is a win-win! She mostly loved tramping through the snow around the yard.

Mommy loved the naps they took after all this playing out side! : )

Kyan's Buzz Lightyear Friend Party!

This was the first year we had a friend party for Kyan.  But now that he is in preschool and has lots of little friends we thought it was time!   Of course, it had to be Buzz Lightyear themed!   

We ran space ranger camp for his friends and they had a ball!

We had some fun space snacks!

Jason dressed up as Zurg and crashed the party! The kids got such a kick out of chasing after him!

We got to go on a Space Mission (in the basement)

Sang happy birthday and had cupcakes!

and opened presents!  

A fun Time was had by all!

 I also have some fun pictures of the magic show we had at the family party... I will try to post those later this week!

Christmas 2011

Christmas was so fun these year! Here are a few pictures!

We Started out up north with the Norman side:

Grandma made hats for all the boys, and Nyah is sporting her favorite gift... purple PJs.  Nyah really started to show her love of clothes and purple this Christmas and since these PJs were both she would not put them down!

A family shot:

Christmas Morning at home.  The kids were pretty excited about all their presents!

They were also very serious about opening them too!

We spent Christmas Evening at Mima's and Pepa's house with some of our cousins!

I took some really fun videos of the kids opening the gifts and playing with them. I need to edited them and get them loaded... hopefully they will be up soon!

Hope your holidays were bright and cheery too!

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!