Week Overview

I cannot believe this week is already over. Even though we had nothing major planned, it just flew by. Sunday it was raining and cloudy so we just chilled in the house. Monday was cleaning day. Tuesday, in the pool. Wednesday we both had doc. appointments in Greenville. Mine follows up with an endoscopy next Thursday...yuk! And we are waiting for Duke to call us for an appointment to see Sophie. She has one eye that wants to turn in and "they" are having trouble determining if it is just the folds in that eye (very possible) or if something else is going on. Soooooo, we are going to the best of the best to make mommy feel better:) Now let's see... Thursday we went to the aquarium and the beach with Aunt Christy and Levi....by far my favorite day. Christy is sooo easy going and I just loved watching those two kiddo's! Now today I decided to come back in cause I'll be taking off so much for doc appointments and then on the 20th:) We are just so excited. Sophie and I will be going to Top Sail Beach to spend the day with the Decker's. They are one of the wonderful families that we traveled to China with. Savannah and Sophie were crib mates! I just love summer!

Our Fourth of July

We really enjoyed the festivities this year. Last night we when to the River Center and watched the fireworks. They were really good. We were very impressed. Sophie however, did not agree. Maybe next year she'll be more into it. We also got to meet our blogger friend, Allisyn. That was nice. I hope we are able to continue to meet up some outside of the blogging world!
Today we relaxed with friends and family by the pool, grilled some chicken, and shot off some fireworks of our own. Hope everyone had a awesome Fourth of July!

CCAI Guide's

So when we were in China although we were only in Beijing a short amount of time, I must admit Helen and "Mr. Money" left a huge impression on us. Helen did everything possible to make us comfortable and help us in anyway. Our first day there, we arrived before all the other families, but only by a couple of hours, so we hung out with Helen at the airport. The other flights were a little late, so by the time we got to the hotel I just could not think....I didn't want to think. So figuring out how to set up the Internet or even make an international call was simply not doable at that time for me. So what happened....my daddy calls Helen on her cell in the middle of the night..."Where's my Daughter?!" he says. Helen, having an overprotective mother herself was very helpful to my dad and came to see me first thing in the morning to tell me to call my daddy. So any way that was our first 24hrs in China and Helen's smile and awesome personality made it great! I promised her I would email after we got home....well 10 months later and I finally did it! It was great to hear from her too. I hope she'll still be doing it in about five years from now.

Summer Vacation

The 4th of July is coming up and this is the first time in years that we have made no major plans. On one hand I'm itching to get outta here, on the other, a week at home catching up sounds good too! We might drive to the beach a couple of days, but that's the extent of our vacation this summer. William wants to spend Christmas in Gatlinburg, we'll see about that. Anyways I'm really missing China. Not the long monotonous plane ride.....but the sights, sounds, and yes even the smells. Weird huh? It would be awesome to go back in a few years....maybe a homeland tour with our travel mates (hint, hint) I know we were there for two weeks but at that time it was all about what Sophie needed and touring, well it won't it! I'd like to spend more time in Beijing and Guangzhou. Maybe we'll get to do that when we go back to get Sophie's little brother:)