We made it! Today marks a full 365 days spent here in China. It has been a full year since we have breathed American air, shopped in Target, driven a car, flown in an airplane, or had a coke at Sonic!
At first I was thinking “Wow, we have come so far!” and then I realized- No, He has brought us so far. Through our own power, we’d be wilted, exhausted, overwhelmed, and unsuccessful. By His grace, we are gifts for girls empowered to keep going.
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It arrived yesterday and Katie is loving it- gifts for girls here she gifts for girls is sleeping with her gifts for girls doll:
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When we bought Olympic tickets, we just randomly picked a day to attend.
Imagine our surprise when we found out we are seeing team USA men’s soccer on August 10th! DUDE!!!!
This is part of the 16 qualifying teams’ “preliminary” games. Then we’ll see a quarterfinal ladies match on gifts for girls the 15th.
Technorati Tags: giftsToday, we celebrated Katie’s birthday. After the amazing Cinderella-themed party she went to a month ago, we had to work hard to come up with good stuff! I have never had a “kiddie” party for my kids’ birthdays with lots of non-family kids. So, this was a “first” for us!
Emily & my mom had each mailed us some Disney princess plates gifts for girls & napkins, so we ran with the theme. The invites: gifts for girls
Technorati Tags: giftsOne final story from Qingdao (from Keith):
When entering Qingdao’s Polar Ocean World (the place with the penguins and dolphin show) with your ticket, there are several lines for people with general admission tickets. Then to the far left, there was a sign indicating an entrance for “the old, the lonely, and the single” people.
Maybe Polar gifts for girls Ocean World was designed by an old guy who was lonely after his girlfriend dumped him??? gifts for girls
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Our last day, we asked several random people to take family photos of us- here are our favorite two:
The Chinese Olympic sailing team:
The bathing beach we swam at- this first gifts for girls shot shows the width of the entire beach- this is one of Qingdao’s 6 main “bathing” beaches:
Technorati Tags: giftsSo, we arrived back in Tianjin safe and sound Tuesday afternoon. Kimberly went shopping with Eliza to buy Katie’s birthday present, so I’m stealing the blogging duties tonight. Don’t worry….Kimberly will be back tomorrow, or maybe even tonight
gifts for girls But I do want to share something that happens to me quite frequently.
Technorati Tags: giftsI completely forgot to mention that we went to an amazing “Polar Ocean World” aquarium on Friday. gifts for girls The girls loved the dolphin show, polar bears, penguins, etc… It was super fun gifts for girls and they ate up every last minute of it!
Technorati Tags: giftsFirst, gifts for girls we have train gifts for girls tickets home- yay! It stresses me out because you can’t buy until a few days before you depart, but I should have relaxed, because it was no problem to get seats on a good train home!
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