Tulips & the Temple

Our friends invited us to go and see the open house for the LDS Vancouver Temple last weekend. http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/vancouver/ . I was excited for Lizzy to be able to see the inside of a temple as ones that are dedicated are only open to those with a special recommend. On our way we stopped at the annual tulip festival held in Mt. Vernon. It was a beautiful day.

The temple was a good experience as well. It could have been a little better if we had let James run around for 30 minutes or so before the tour. The true problem was a lady with her guide dog was on our tour so every room we went to he would yell "Dog" at the top of his lungs and run to pet the dog. I truly felt sorry for those who were there to really learn about the temple. Adam and I tried to remove him from the room as the tour guide spoke. I also remember entering the celestial room in the temple and having such an overwhelming feeling of peace. Lizzy really enjoyed the trip to and keeps asking when we can go back.

We spend the night in Vancouver and headed to the aquarium in the morning due to the rain.

After lunch it quit raining long enough for us a to do an awesome hike across a suspension bridge before catching dinner and heading home. Thanks to the Hyuns and Kersavages for a great trip!

Move Date

Finally, 2 months and 11 days later we have a pretty firm move date. Coming back to the US has been wonderful and we have loved spending time with our family, but we are sick of living out of a suitcase so we are excited that we will be moving on or around May 4th to Charelston SC. It will be a great adventure. What am I looking forward to the most? the beach, 10 minutes away from my house!

Bi-focals do not make you old

When we came back from Taiwan we noticed that Lizzy's eye started crossing on certain occasions. We couldn't nail down the specifics, but thought we should get her eyes checked out. Turns out she is far-sighted. She sure is cute in her purple and blue glasses though.

Happy Easter

Easter has been so much fun this year. We started off by doing a family home evening lesson on Easter so Lizzy would at least know what it was all about. Trying to describe death and the resurrection was very confusing to her Monday night. When it came to activity time to dye eggs all she could say is that we were going to dead eggs. Every morning she asks for a dead egg for breakfast. It at least gives me a good laugh!

We have also been doing a lot of egg hunts around the house. Man has it been raining!!!! THe kids love it though. James tires of it a lot faster than Liz, but is still a good sport.

Today was a beautiful Easter Sunday. Lizzy was so excited for the Easter bunny to come and she got to enjoy her to-full basket for a bit before we enjoyed watching conference all day. Afterwards we set up some egg hunts in the back yard. It was fun to watch the kids running for the eggs. Liz even told us we needed to do the hunt over becasue we made it too easy. Gotta love that girl!

What have we been up to?

We have been back in the US for almost 2 months now. It is hard to believe how fast the time has flown. We have been enjoying ourselves despite missing Taiwan and our friends among other things. So what have we been doing?

We bought Lizzy a bike and she loves to ride it. This isn't the best picture of her, but do you notice how BLUE the sky is?

We have been reconnecting with old friends!!! We have missed you!

The cousins came to visit and we went to the aquarium

Lizzy was so tired at night she did this:

We reconnected with our friends the Ni's and had fun speaking out limited Chinese

We still play at the park all the time. We had one right out our back door at our temp housing:

We have been playing with Grandma and Grandpa

and last, but not least we have been doing a few things around town like the zoo

Go ahead, try and stop me

For the last couple of weeks, I have turned around to find James here

here

here

and here

I can't keep the kid from climbing on anything inside or outside. Some days I will hear him talking and sure enough he is on top of something and just not sure how to get down. Gotta love it!