I love summer simply because I could find some many varieties of fruits in the supermarket! I could spend easily $20 just to get fruits in a week! Look at the fruit that has been arranged and cut. Don’t you want to take a bite too?

It’s new year again!!! Well, I got to have something new at home for the new year right? So, I decided to rush out doing the table cloth just to welcome the new year! Happy New Year 2010 everyone!

Finally, we decided to buy a tree this year to make Christmas more cheerful in the house. I guess especially for Nathan, he is very excited about the tree. The gifts that he has received so far, he has put them under the tree. Maybe he doesn’t know what is inside and that’s why he could resist the temptation of opening up the gifts. After all it’s his first year of Christmas that he really “know” what is going on. I’ve been busy creating some crafts myself. I did the stockings for three of us. Mine is taking the longest time since I quilted some difficult pattern using my friend’s pattern – Wendy (check out her wonderful works using the links). We’re ready for Christmas morning to capture the joys and excitement from the little one. Of course, we’ve been constantly telling him that Christmas is all about Jesus and not about tree and gifts . Here are some of the pictures of the decoration I’ve done around the house. Not that much, but maybe next year we’ll include some of the handmade crafts that I could make with Nathan. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, everyone! Another year has passed by…

This is a Christmas gift for a dear friend.

“It’s Friday, what can we do?” we thought we could try out the festival at downtown Rogers. When we got there, there was a throng of people coming in for the festival, we hardly find a parking space. We had to walk a distance to the destination but I would say it was a nice walk with the cool weather! Nathan was fascinated with the fire trucks and EMS vehicle parked along the street. Next, he saw people were lining up for the rides. Of course, he won’t miss that. We were worry about sending him off to ride on the train by himself. I was warning him to hold the handle and to sit tight. He did follow my instruction and enjoyed the ride very much. Well, we cannot pass on the funnel cake, corn dogs, and BBQ. So, we stopped to have our dinner there. Nathan had a giant corn dog all by himself. I would say that it was the unhealthy dinner for the evening… well, we could be unhealthy once in a while. It was 8pm, we decided that we need to go. The little young man didn’t have enough rides(we did pass out a lot of rides because it was too late and also daddy and mommy were too busy eating!) and didn’t want to leave! We promise him to take him to the Fayetteville one next week and he seems feeling better after that. Overall, it was a fun day for our family.

I wrote an email about the story of what happened to me and Nathan to my hubby. After thinking for a while, maybe I could share/document this so that I could re-read later on. The days goes…

Today er gu(second aunty from Andy’s dad) was leaving Tangshan. So, we sent er gu off at the train station. Before we entered the cab, it started raining. Andy’s mom hesitated about Nathan and I going to the train station with them. But I insisted that I should go and send her off. The weather was not bad at all when we reached the train station. Anyway, we were waiting for er yi(second aunt from Andy’s mom) and shen tong(her son) to come because shen tong was going to take er gu to beijing with him. Er gu started crying before she left. Don’t know why when Nathan said good bye to her and Nathan started crying also… it makes er gu cried even more. Your mom pursuaded us to leave early so that she won’t cry more. By the time we were leaving, the weather was fine initially. We wanted to take a cab to er yi’s house to pay a visit for a while. But just after we stepped out of the station, the rain came back. This time stronger and we had to stop under the big commercial umbrella to avoid the rain. We thought that it would be good enough with the protection, but the wind blew so strong that the umbrella flew away. Then it started raining hails. We had to run back to the station to avoid the rain. I ran with Nathan and I wasn’t careful with the step and we both fell down on the ground. Nathan was frightened. We quickly picked him up and ran to the store. In the store, he was crying and even a bar of chocolate was not good enough. He was wet and frightened… poor baby!

We decided that we had to go home by a cab. So, er yi ran out in the rain to catch a cab for us. We finally took a cab… but there was a car stopped behind the cab and make the cab driver so difficult to go out. Er yi had ran out in the rain again to push away the bikes in front of the cab so that the cab driver could make a left turn to get out of there instead of just reversed the cab out. In the cab, the driver took a long way to er yi’s house. So, we got stucked in the market street with many cars. So, er yi decided to walk home because of the poor baby was still wet and frightened and crying.

This cab driver apparently is not very skillful driver at all… I guess for one she is a lady driver and second I think she just got her license. She even could forget how to make a turn around when steering (she said that she was confused). Mom and I had to teach her a little how to steer. What a day… Finally got home, we had to bathe Nathan so that he won’t get sick. He was crying even louder. So, I decided that I need to nurse him to comfort him. After this he was better!! With the fall, I had a achy leg and little scratch on the hand. Whew… what a day but I still thank God that everybody is still safe and sound!

Can you believe that a few days ago we had hail in our subdivision?? It even didn’t happen at JB Hunt which is 5 minutes away from our house. It looked like we had an ice storm from the pictures…

The beautiful Fall season, the colorful trees and leaves are the first thing that comes into my mind.

“There is a time for everything,
       and a season for every activity under heaven” – Ecc 3:1

   In the US, people observe the Thanksgiving holiday. Even though I’m not an American, it is very meaningful for me because this holiday reminds me to be thankful to God. Sometimes we just take everything for granted but I think this is a great opportunity to pause and ponder upon all the blessings that God had bestowed upon us. I’m also enjoying the beautiful weather very much. So does Nathan! Playing the leaves in the backyard. I would say that I didn’t capture the best shot for the beauty of the tree at her prime… this is actually going to die and that’s why it’s turning brown instead of vibrant orange and red colors.