Pictures of Charlene

Getting to know Mingzhu

We received our first email from Mingzhu today. We're learning about her and that makes us so much more excited to add her to our family! Here are the things we learned today:

1. Her American name is Charlene, that is what she wishes to be called while here in the US.

2. She LOVES kids and dogs

3. She enjoys art, reading, swimming and cooking...and wants to cook Chinese food for us...YUMMMM

4. Her favorite color is blue

5. She is excited to attend church and participate in Young Women's

6. She wants to experience walking the dogs in the park...she says that will be amazing.

We are so blessed to be able to have her in our home and as a part of our family! I will post new things I learn as we continue to communicate prior to her arrival on August 16th into Dayton!

Finally

It's finally FINAL...Mingzhu Ye will be joining our family August 15th!~ We emailed her for the first time last night and look forward to hearing back from her soon.

King's Island

We went to King's Island for two days and we had a really good time. Somehow we managed to lose our camera; so, I can't show you all the cool pictures we took =0(

We rode lots of fun rides, saw lots of cool shows (Sariah got to go on stage for one of the kids shows called Marty's Party...she thought that was pretty cool!), and played at the water park. Ammons favorite ride was the Fairly Odd Coaster (or for those of us that remember way back when...the Beastie) and Sariah's favorite ride was Scooby Doo. Jason and I truly enjoyed watching our kids have so much fun!

We're hoping maybe someone will or has turned in our camera to the lost and found...I really don't care about the camera, but I wish we had our pictures. Keep your fingers crossed that they call us and say they found it!

Playing in the wiggly sprinkler

Last year Ammon got the coolest sprinkler for his birthday and we are just now getting it out to use it. The kids have been DYING to play in the water so we decided today was warm enough. Here are some pictures of all the fun!

Ammon lost his first tooth!!

Ammon has had a loose tooth for quite some time now and he REFUSED to pull it out. Today he bit into a meatball at dinner and it came out. Here he is, our toothless wonder!



CONGRATS, Ammon!

Ammon Turns Seven

Ammon's 7th birthday party was a lot of fun! We went to the pool in Bellefontaine and he invited lots of friends, he even had a kid from his t-ball team who wasn't invited be a part of the party =0)







Sister Heflin made an awesome cake of Anakin Skywalker's Podracer zooming through the desert of Tatooine! Thanks so much Leah!




He got some cool gifts








And made lots of splashes!







Sariah had fun too =0)






Happy Birthday Ammon!!! We LOVE you!