christmas with friends

 Miss Diva jumping on the famous trampoline at Maelyn's house. She loves this thing. She made a bee line for this as soon as we arrived.

 The 3 girls making christmas braclets for a craft while we are waiting for dinner. This made Miss diva happy..more bling!!

                                                    showing of their bling

 The food was amazing, miss diva enjoyed the chicken and the rice krispies squares with smarties in them.

                                                                 the schraud girls

                                                           the Schraud princess

                                          Our friends with the present we had given them

                                    Leanne and Joad with the present we had given them.

 Miss diva, myself and J opening presents. They were so excited. I love these kids.

 Miss Diva with her treat bags I had made for the kids. Of course she was excited because there was smarties inside.

OM GOODNESS, Miss Diva got a tramploine just like the one she loves to jump on @ Maelyn's house. Thanks Paul and Jan, you're spoiling our girl.

The girls were playing with a tunnel and Joad was crawling in after the girls. I am not sure who had the most fun...Joad or the kids. What a blast!

Here is Joad half way in the tunnel after the girls. They were screaming, laughing and jumping on top of him. What a time they had together.

The christmas wish of a Orphan....

Potty Time

She is trying the potty more and more. She is staying dry longer and enjoys reading while sitting on the throne.. she makes me so proud! Great Job Yan Yan

Miss Diva's first snow experience

Madisyn was so funny, she was a little concerned that this "white stuff" was sticking to her . She was giving me a looked that was saying"ahh..mamma, this white stuff is sticking to me, why is it sticking to me?"

pretty lights

Every year jason and I go to Waterloo park to see the lights. This year it was extra special because we had a little voice saying"look, mamma.la" She really enjoyed the lights.

 Jason and Miss Diva standing beside Santa, we know that Santa is visiting our house this year.

 They still had some of the animals out in the park. The swans, ponies and the donkey was still there.

 This is Sants'a hotline, they had pretend phones on the inside so the the kids could call santa. Really neat to see the kids getting all excited.

 There was a farmers wife there with one of the cows dressed up like rudolph. Miss Diva had no idea what to think of this big thing.lol

China's referral information is 100% correct

When we received Madisyn's referral information they said that she enjoyed cutting paper. Well, the results are in the they are 100% correct. The good side of this is that she also enjoys tidying it up as well. I thought when receiving that information...yeah right..sometimes you have to take the information with a grain of salt. Now that I have been to her orphanage and now have miss diva home her information was 100% correct. Everything they had in her referral information dossier. We love her to pieces.

Putting up the christmas tree

she thought this tree skirt was a dress, funny yan yan

Last year we bought her a bulb while we visited the states, we want to buy her one every year to put on the tree