Every excuse I can come up with for not updating the blog just doesn't hold up for the entire year its been since I posted. I'll just say "my bad." Its been a fantastic year, and we're excited for the next one. The kids have gotten cuter, older, and bigger; Yuan has just gotten cuter, and I have...well gotten older (I turned 30 this year!!!). The big event of the year was going to China. The collective Mitchell fam was in China for 2 months, of which I was there for the first 3.5 weeks (So what did I do for a month on my own!? thats the next post). It was a great trip where the kids got some solid Laoye and Laolao time (Grandpa and Grandma for those of you that don't watch Kailan). They came back with their Chinese much improved, as you can imagine.
I LOVE this picture of Great Grandma and I chatting, that look on her face! She speaks Henanese, and I speak Mandarin, but we still manage to joke around well enough :)
For the tourist part of our Trip we went to the tropical island of Hainan (think Hawaii for China)
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"Kai and I" building a sand castle; Kai don't touch anything!
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| It was awesome, right as I snapped a wave up to their knees came up :) |
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| A warm tropical rainstorm (from our balcony at the hotel) |
We visited a tropical rainforest, amusement park style
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| Kai: "Momma, everyone knows your'e cute, quit showing off" |
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| A freshwater crab! |
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| Senya fell asleep on me, so I got good cuddles for the hour+ hike |
And just for good measure, a few more cute pics I wanted to post :)
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| Senya picked out this outfit: punk meets princess, oh heaven we're in trouble |
We visited a tropical rainforest, amusement park style
