Hawaii I am here

Here is Melia and Me, isn't she cute!!!
Aloha!!!

Forgotten title

I forgot to title the last entry. I wanted to name it "These are a few of my favorite things".
The first pic is of all of my grandchildren, except for Melia who was born the day the pic was taken. And the picture of Robyn was taken on the day Melia was suppposed to be born. She obviously had other ideas!! and the last one is my Sweetheart!! This was a self portrait we took a couple of weeks ago when we went to Banff on another occasion.

 

More pictures from last week

I am not a very good photographer, cause I hardly got any pics of Lizzy the whole week. Here is a cute one though. She is a doll. She doesn't talk much yet, but definetly lets her opinion be known!!

Bri loved the snow most of all!! He didn't mind getting cold and loved to toboggan, make snow balls and throw them at his sister!!
Here are some of the girls getting ready to jump in the Hot Springs in Banff. Everyone loved it, and the snow was beautiful coming down while we swam. Newby, we missed you and wished you had come too.!! 

science center

Here are more pictures from the science center. Wow, Caty-Lynne and Bri are sure strong!!
Bri you look so little in this picture. Did you shrink? Caty-Lynne and Bri want to be astronauts when they grow up!!

 

I am so blessed!!!

Taylor and Natalie! It looks like Taylor is stretching to be as tall as Natalie. Now I have another grand-daughter in Hawaii - Melia Renee- who I get to visit this week. so I'll post pictures of her next week Here is Natalie!! She left yesterday to go home with her mom, but I get to babysit her in two weeks when Brian and Jeni go to Boston.
Here is my darling Caty-lynne. She is a bundle of sweet personality and I love being with her. Smart as can be (and very opinionated ) but it was so much fun to have her here for a week
We took Bri and Caty-Lynne to the Science center one day and they had a great time. Here they had built a big fort out of foam blocks. Afterward they had even more fun knocking it down! Bri is in kindergarten and is becoming a good little reader. He's also growing up to be such a nice young man, very polite and absolutely loves his baby sister Lizzy and his cousins . He was always hugging Drew and Brayden and loved making Natalie smile.
 

After we landed in Calgary from Beijing, Cami met us at the airport and we went up to the chapel, where the Stake Presidency set her apart for her mission. Cami, Cyd, and Dave then left on a flight to SLC to go to the MTC the next day. Have a wonderful mission in the Ukraine. See you in 18 months.

 

Our five-star hotel. Thank goodness for the western breakfasts we had each morning.

These lions are outside almost every door or entrance, as they denote Good Luck. 

Another cutie petutie. They are sure cute when they are small and very beloved, expecially if they are boy. Girls are often killed or left on the arphanage doorstep, as only one child per family is allowed.

These are people worshipping Buddah, by burning incense outside the Buddist Temple. they set the incense on fire and hold it between their hands, kneel, bow repeatly, and pray to Buddah, asking him for "Good Luck".
One of the lBuddist Monks. These monks are Llamas. The famous Dalie Llama came from this temple.
 

These are typical markets, or neighborhood shops. Lots of vege's, eggs, fruit and seeds, legumes

By the way, babies don't wear diapers. Their clothes just have a big slit from front to back and they just squat and pee/poo anywhere.
 

Our ride in a rickshaw, or pedicab as they call them.
We toured through an older section of Beijing, called a Houtong (sp?). People have lived in these areas for generations, and the following pics are someof sites we saw on this tour.


 

Chinese acrobats!! Wow these guys blew off our socks!! They were amazing.!!

 

These pics are from the Summer Palace. This was a palace built by one of the Empresses using billions of dollars of tax payers money and it's unbelievable. It extends as far as the eye can see clear across the lake, including the lake, and the palaces you can see on the other side of the lake.