It's beginning to get chilly here in good ol Ningbo! I have proven I do not know how to dress for cold weather nor did I bring any clothes suitable for anything under 100 degrees. Moving to Idaho when I get back is going to be rough considering me and the cold aren't really the best of friends!
Here's a few of our adventures through pictures....
We went to Moon Lake last weekend and rented paddle boats for a little while. It was so pretty and serene and fish jumping out of the water made the experience that much better. It was the first time we had done something as our whole group in a while and it was a lot of fun to have everyone together for a bit.
AMERICANS CAME TO VISIT ME! Jordann had been in Bali for a couple weeks and then was staying in Shanghai with her aunt. Kelsey flew to Shanghai to meet up with Jordann and they were traveling together when it worked out for us to meet up. It was so nice having a bit of home be with me for a couple hours. I got to show them around the school campus and they came with me to teach my little babies. We went to dinner at our favorite restaurant and then I sent my little slice of America on their way back to the homeland. I loved seeing them and am so glad they donated some tootsie rolls as well.
We have newly discovered a bargaining market of sorts near our apartment and spend quite a bit of time there. It appears to be a bit sketchy to the newcomers, but it is full of surprises and lots of treasures to buy. I tend to buy nail polish each time I'm there and so far I have bought 24! 2 for 5 yuan? That's 40 cents for each bottle. How can I ever turn down such a great deal!? *That tower behind us is a Pagoda. I don't know much about it yet, but I do know I have finally found something that rhymes with my name!*
This was just another one of our treks home from church. It takes us two hours to get to church each week by riding the bus. We meet at a Hungarian families home and they are the sweetest family ever. Its like our home away from home. They are so welcoming and do everything they can to make us feel loved. We have sacrament meeting and class with their family and another family from England. If we all go, there are 20 of us at church. I love love love that although I am far far far away from home I can still feel loved and be blessed with the opportunity to take the sacrament and learn more about our Savior.
I got bit on my eyeball...... again. It wasn't as bad as last time, but it was definitely there. Those dang mosquito's just love me I guess.
Jennie and I had this really super awesome great fabulous idea to scare everyone for Halloween and then make a video of all our scares. Our plans were so fool proof and beyond perfect except it was an absolute fail and no one got scared and it was lame and now we just have this mask sitting in the office reminding us of how bad we are at scaring people. It could've been epic.
Halloween came around and we decorated and celebrated with our little kiddies. My babies were adorable and I was dying to take them home while I was watching them dance to the Halloween music.
My ADORABLE twins Peter and Paul. They have the cutest raspy voices and melt my heart each and every day. Their costumes fit them perfectly but they are so cute you can't ever get upset with them for being little stinkers. All the time I'll talk to one and be like, "Peter?" "NO I PAUL. HE PETER!" Gah, I just love them so much.
This is Jack, James, and Mckay. Jack is the cutest thing ever and is so smart. He has the cutest smile ever even though he isn't quite proving himself in this picture. I got to name the other two boys. James is my all time favorite boy name everrr so of course I had to name him that. The other boy I named after good ol Elder Cathcart. Except he's having a hard time understanding his name is Mckay so we are working on that day by day. He only knows how to say "I want to pick a song!" and some days it drives me bonkers. It's like that scene in Nemo when all the birds and yelling, "mine! mine! mine!" except Mckay and James say, "I want to pick a song! I want to pick a song! I want to pick a song!"
This is Penny. She is my favorite. She gives me hugs all the time. Whenever we sing happy and you know it she always wants to "beep" my nose and its the cutest thing ever. We have a secret handshake and Im probably going to find a way to adopt her.
Our little Ningbo group <3 We had a Halloween party with our kids that morning and then came home and took naps. Once we all woke up from our deep sleep we played the donut game where you try to eat the donut off the string without it falling. We carved little pumpkins and then made snicker salad. It was nice to have everyone together and having fun for a night.
My mom sent a package and it got to me on Halloween so it was like an early Christmas present for me. I should stop forgetting how great my mom is because once I opened that package up I was reminded how lucky I am. Who else can say their mother shipped a toilet seat across the pacific ocean for them? I can. Among the toilet seat there was a "Thanksgiving meal" for us. She sent stuff to make pizzas which included dehydrated cheese and I am quite excited to try that. She sent a million more stuffed animal dogs. I have so many here in China with me that I really don't know where to put them anymore. (It's a joke between us because I would always beg for a puppy and in return I would get a million stuffed animal dogs to make up for the happiness my parents refused to give me.) Everyone in my family wrote me letters and I absolutely loved reading them all. I'd been having a rough couple days, wishing I could be back home with everyone and that package made me feel so much better. (I love you mom! Thank you!)
5 more weeks and I'll be back in the USA! Love and miss you each more than ever!
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