What a relief!

Chelsi has been so upset and has dwelled on losing her sunglasses we bought in Korea since we got home.  She swore she left them in the hotel.  Lois swore she saw her with them at our home airport.  The kids found them in the couch today!  She was so excited to find them.  They are cute and irreplaceable.

Bright day.



Cloudy day.

Annual Photos for the Kids

We don't buy school pictures for the kids.  They're just too expensive.  I think the smallest package is at least $20 and you don't get much for that.  This would be $20 x 5 eventually.  I needed to take Jaemin's one year picture anyways, so we took the kids to Jay's farm and took pictures of all 5.  Here are the top 3 of each one that I like.  The great thing about taking pictures yourself is that you can have any of them and as many as you want for hardly any cost.

Jaemin







Chelsi







Kaelin







Chase







Cole







All 5 kids







And just for fun, Chelsi had to wear her kitty boots on the tractor.

B and Ms Weddings

We don't have any official pictures yet from either wedding, but both my younger brother AND  sister are married....one in August and one in September, just two weeks apart.  We didn't get to go to B's.  We couldn't afford airfare, hotel and van for 7 of us.  Everyone said the food was great at B and Ms and I heard Ithaca is just beautiful!  But, I finally got to see some pictures.  They're super small, but it was probably just so dad could email them to M.

Here is B and M.  Welcome to the family M.





Here are M and As.  Welcome to the family A.

Only because Chelsi's in the picture I will post one of me with my "escort" for lack of a better word....okay, the Best Man.

This must have been Chelsi before the ceremony.  She just wanted to ride the bus to the party.  :)



And for Lois, here are some pictures of the decor M designed and put together.

I want to know more (Korean)! 한국어 학습

I've been trying to teach myself, off and on, to read Korean.  It's almost impossible to learn to speak unless you have someone to speak to.  I know a few words, but not enough for conversation.  I can translate quite a bit now, but Korean is very hard and I don't quite understand all the ins and outs of honorifics and prefixes and suffixes.  I really am having trouble getting a handle on leaving I and you out of sentences, but I'm able to translate "some".  I want to know more!

I've been trying to find someone around here to help, but the Korean population is SO small.   What to do??

Lisa

Jaemin's Homecoming Video...finally

Since all we have is a short video of meeting Jaemin in Korea and not actually bringing him home like we did the girls, I put some photos together for his homecoming video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxzyenYOVF8

Dance, Sing and Play

My youngest 3 love to dance and sing.  So they were doing that today......a lot!

Here are the girls and Jaemin listening to one of the Korean Children's Songs CD's Jaemin's foster family sent with him.  They love listening to it, especially Chelsi right now, but she always wants me to find the Three Bears Song.  I hope to teach them San Toki (Mountain Rabbit) song sometime if I can get the correct words.



Video for Jaemin's foster family.  I hope you all are doing well.



After all this dancing, singing and playing Jaemin just laid himself down on the floor in the middle of it all and went to sleep.  How sweet.

I have a close up and one with all the animals scatter around him.

Our little fixer and wannabe

Our tractor has been broken for years.  The chain came off a long time ago and we just never had time to take it apart and get inside it to fix.  Chase has been working on it for a bit and got the chain fixed and then the steering went out.  But, he continues to work.  :)  Jaemin was watching big brother