Category: Travel

We are spending a week in Myrtle Beach. Here are some shots of our first evening there and Nadia’s excitement. Click the photo below to see all the photos from that day.

Our happy girl.

Here she was telling me all about the water.

Then excitement about the waves ensued.

Out of nowhere she flopped on the ground and started a GI Joe crawl that cracked us up.

Well it only took me a year to get the photos uploaded.  We are preparing to go to our 2 year travel group reunion and I thought I better get these up from last year. HA HA!  Six of the 9 families were able to attend and we had it in Austin, Tx where one of the families lives.

The first night we had dinner at a yummy tex-mex place and went to a cupcake stand called, “Hey Cupcake”. They had giant cupcakes in various flavors that were delicious. The girls were far more interested in the rocks on the ground.

The next day we went to our adoption agencies yearly picnic at a lake in Austin.

After nap time we headed over to one of the families house’s for some wonderful local pizza. We attempted a “purple couch” photo which went about as well as the red couch photo in China.

We had a wonderful time catching up and seeing how much the girls have grown. And while packing up our hotel room Mike took one of our favorite photos of Nadia ever.

Last week Nadia and I went to Sugarland to visit my cousin Jen. The first night there we went to Lisa’s restaurant Pearl Dynasty for dinner and a visit. Here are the girls after dinner watching a video.

The next morning we headed to the Children’s Museum of Houston and Jen’s good friend Trudy and her son Chase joined us for the adventure. It’s safe to say that the place is awesome! I don’t think we even saw everything before the kids were worn out and we headed home.

That night my Aunt Jane and Uncle Perry came over for dinner cooked by Jen (homemade spaghetti and meatballs – yum!) Here is a photo of Aunt Jane reading Nadia’s current favorite book “A Mother for Choco”

The next morning we had breakfast and Jen introduced me to a store called Charming Charlie’s which is like accessory overload, but very cool. On the way home we stopped in College Station to have lunch with Tahni, but that will be a separate post. And here are the cutest sunglasses that Jen bought Nadia is Baltimore.

Thanks for having us Jen, you are a wonderful hostess!

A couple weekends ago we took a spur of the moment road trip so that Nadia could meet my Grandma Johns who lives in New Mexico. She still had not met Nadia and so we packed up and headed out. Grandma Johns was so excited to meet Nadia and she let Nadia go on an investigation of her house which is filled with lots of cool things for a toddler to look at. In the blue room Nadia found some stuffed bears and had a blast putting sunglasses on them.

Uncle Jimmy.

Saying goodbye after some fun play time with Great Grandma. It was wonderful to spend time in New Mexico and for Nadia to meet her.

Click the photo above to see all the photos from the motel. We made it to Tucumcari, NM the first leg of the drive and stayed at the Blue Swallow Motel on Historic Rt. 66. Mike summed it up best by saying he felt like we were in a Cohen Brothers movie. The place was quirky and cute and owned by a character named Bill. When I called to confirm that they had a room available he said, “Yes, give me your credit card number.” Then I said, “Well how much is it?” And he said, “All the rooms are $66  a night, we are on Rt. 66!” HA!

Nadia got a kick out of all the painted garages and especially a little carved bear by the office. She said,”Take a picture mama!”