Friday, February 19, 2016

Mamaw and Peepaw Come to China (Part 2 of 3)

Ice cream Friday with Josiah

Making jaozi with Ayi (AKA Aunt Anne)



Anna making jaozi

Dinner with Ayi

A visit to Anna's class (enjoying snack time!)

Katelyn gives a tour of her class

The Great Wall!


 












A little tea time to warm up



Mother/Daughter coffee date

Dinner with Elizabeth's family




Elizabeth's grandmother gave Mamaw and Peepaw a traditional gift from Tianjin




Thursday, February 18, 2016

Mamaw and Peepaw Visit China (Part 3 of 3)!


Anna's 5th birthday (pajama!) party

Singing Happy Birthday!
Making potholder loom craft
Dave enjoying his new hoodie from Mamaw and Peepaw

Peepaw at Anna's hair salon

 
Small group at the Finnamores



Group picture!


The Causeys (Mike, Rachel, Caleb, Heidi, Jonah, and Barney)

Heading back to Beijing airport; playing follow the leader drawing

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Our Home in China

OK, I'm finally getting around to posting pictures of our apartment here in Tianjin and the surrounding area!  Thanks for your patience!  Enjoy!

 The main entrance to our apartment complex

These signs haven't been too helpful for us yet. :)

 The path that leads to our apartment building

 The front of our apartment building (it has nine floors, and we are on the second)

 Our entryway outside our front door...where we leave all of our shoes before we come in!

 Our front door.  All of these welcome signs were from people on our team when we arrived!

 Girls room

 Girls bed: These bunk beds were a blessing (since we told the girls they could have bunk beds) and were left here by the family before us who had two daughters sharing this room

 Girls room

 Girls room

 
Master bedroom (we also have a guest bedroom, but you have to come visit us in order to see it!)

One of our bathrooms

Living Room (when you walk in our front door and look to the left)

 Living room

 Our kitchen (when you walk in our front door and look to the right)

Kitchen

View from the kitchen window

  Thankful for an oven...even if its on our porch.

 I found this plate when I went shopping for dishes at a random plant market!  I couldn't pass it up. :)

 Anna helping with laundry on our porch

  A blue sky day!  These are few and far between, so we enjoy them when we can!

 One of the vegetable markets near our complex

 An outdoor exercise park that the girls LOVE to play at 


  Another park not far from our apartment

Anna doing her "workout" at one of the exercise parks

 One of the playgrounds in our apartment complex

 See the fountains in the background?!




 This video is of a group of people that I see exercising/stretching every morning when I take the girls down to the bus.  Anna always says, "Look mom!  They're doing their warm up!"