Mom, Dad, and Ben Return!

Yay! Mom, Dad, and Ben got home today!!! It's been forever since I'd seen them!! It's always good to have them home. Ben is staying here for good, Michael and I are going to be his legal guardians while he goes to school here and Mom and Dad go back to China to fulfill their church calling. It's kinda crazy.... not having kids and then becoming the parent of a 13 year old.... :D Hopefully it all works out for the best! It's still pretty exciting to have everyone home again!!!!

Chinese Outfits

When we were in China, we bought a couple of Chinese outfits for Aubrey and Evan, and Riley and Tyler. They were incredibly cute with them on! :D 

For some reason... Dad looks kinda asian!

Grandma's 90th Birthday and Lauritzen Reunion

This year was Grandma Laurtizen's 90th birthday!!! Go Grandma! We're aiming for the 95th and 100th birthday now! We had a Lauritzen family reunion to celebrate Grandma's birthday. Almost every single one of Grandma's posterity was there! It was absolutely incredible! Michael and I enjoyed seeing all the cousins and catching up with everyone. Grandma's birthday dinner was very memorable. A lot of the grandchildren went up and did a little diddy for Grandma. This is a very talented family and everyone is sooo blessed. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA!

Breakfast on the first day of the reunion.



Yes, we played fuseball during the reunion.... we got to know each other really well.... :D




Waiting for Grandma's Birthday dinner to start!

Ben's Birthday!

Since we were in Shanghai, we decided to celebrate Ben's birthday early! We had a really yummy cake we bought around the corner, and gave Ben his present... which was to fly to China to visit him! :D Hope he had a good one... the big 1 4!




Happy Birthday Ben!














CHEESE!

The Lion Forest

The Lion Forest was extremely awesome! It's the home of a government official back in the day, and he had stones and rocks brought it that were formed into different shapes, with different caves and tunnels to walk through. Ben got lost while we were there and Michael had to go back and look for him! :D It was incredible!

Tiger Hill

Tiger Hill is where one of the Chinese Emperor was buried. Kinda like the Chinese "Leaning Tower of Pisa". They believe the tower will fall to the ground in a decade or two. Still pretty cool though!

The Humble Administrator's Garden

I can't believe this was someone's garden! It was HUGE!!! Absolutely gorgeous... but HUGE! Michael got some crazy ideas as to how he wants our house built.... :D