We learned about Harbin’s International Snow and Ice Festival when we first moved to Shanghai. For the next few years we played the, “Hey, we should plan a trip to Harbin,” game with our friends, where we all excitedly talked about it, but never actually got around to planning anything. Knowing we were leaving China...
I have learned many valuable life lessons throughout the 15 months of motherhood I have experienced thus far- one of the most important being that time flies by entirely too fast! Watching Isla grow and develop has been an amazing, and sometimes mind-boggling, gift. I am so very thankful for every day with our sweet...
Our Christmas at home was FILLED to the brim with merriment, happy times with loved ones, and lots of delicious treats- just as you would hope your holidays would be! On our first day home we took all the cousins to visit Santa… as you can see, there were mixed emotions about the meeting! Afterwards...
We kicked off our Christmas celebrations on Thanksgiving night by opening our new holiday jammies. I absolutely LOVE this tradition (2013, 2012, 2011) and have so much fun thinking up different themes… I already have next year’s all planned! Isla is just beginning to get the hang of opening presents and so she helped Isaac...
The fall and holiday season seemed to fly by! I’m just now getting caught up on our personal photos, and I thought I’d post a handful of favorites from November. It was a happy and busy month for us. Sweater weather finally arrived in Shanghai, we took part in a number of fun holiday related...
