Visitors

We have had several visitors at our house over the last couple of days. The first visitor was Santa! Brynn's big gift from Santa was a kitchen and she has been cooking up a storm. She also loves her easel from Papa, Lou Lou and Aunt Faith.

 

Christmas night we met up with several families for a dinner buffet at the Wyndam Hotel. The food was delicious and we also enjoyed a live band. Matt was very happy that the buffet included fried chicken and turkey with gravy.

Matt and Brynn in the taxi on the way to dinner.

Our dinner table included the Brewers and the Whitlocks.

Our second set of visitors are my parents. They arrived late Monday night and we are so happy to have them here. Brynn even stayed up way past her bedtime to greet them when they arrived.  We have been very busy exploring Chengdu, eating and enjoying each others company. I'll will post on our adventures soon.

Granddaddy, Brynn and Granna at Jinli Street.

Christmas Eve in China...

Today is Christmas Eve here in China. Brynn and I started  the morning off by decorating some cookies with some other girls from our school. Brynn loved the decorating almost as much as she loved eating the cookies. I finally cut her off after three cookies and she was not happy. I forgot my camera, but you can probably imagine that we had icing and sprinkles every where. We met up with Matt and another family and headed to Peter's Tex Mex for lunch. We enjoyed a great lunch and then headed home for nap time. We are staying in tonight and hoping Santa got the memo that we have moved to China. I have a feeling Brynn will not be disappointed!

Here are some pictures we took throughout the month.Thank you Granna for the cute Christmas outfits!

Brynn loved decorating the Christmas tree and had a say where every ornament was placed. She even helped daddy put the star on top!

One afternoon we decided to put together a gingerbread house. I went to grab my camera in the middle of the gingerbread house making and came back to find this site. It was just too hard to resist taking a bite right from the middle.

Brynn had a much better time eating than decorating. The chimney never made it to the roof. We both decided it would just be better for us to eat it while it was fresh.

I did not plan enough in advance to get a Christmas card out this year. There is always hope for next year. We hope the everyone has a wonderful Christmas!!

Boo Boo and Beach

Our last full day in Singapore was an eventful one. It started with a trip to the Emergency Room. Brynn fell and hit her head on a bench. It bled a lot and we took her to the ER just in case she need stitches. Thankfully, there was a children's hospital 5 minutes from us. She was fine and all see needed was an antibotic and some TLC.

Her Daddy took her out for ice cream after the ER to make things all better. As you can tell it worked! There is nothing like some Ben and Jerry's to make you feel better. We met up with the kids that afternoon and went to Sentosa Island.

 We were able to take a 15 minute Tram ride to the island.  Brynn and Matt enjoyed swimming and I relaxed on the sand. I forgot by swimsuit, but enjoyed watching Brynn and Matt play in the water.

 Brynn loved the beach. She ran up and down the sand and laughed when the waves splashed her.

 Brynn tried to convince Matt to swim her out to boats in the background.

This is Brynn at the airport on our way home. She was one worn out little girl! We loved our visit to Singapore and hope to go back again one day.