Merry Christmas Eve

This is Grace's face when she saw her daddy pulling into the driveway with one of their Christmas gifts.

He is doing some work for a friend and our friend has been offering to sell us this certain thing. So... instead Clayton is doing the work for a trade. Clayton was trying to hide it last night until this morning but Grace saw him pull up. Then after everyone went to bed Clayton and Grace rode it and Faith heard them so.... it was a secret to 3 out of 5 kids this morning. Here are the pictures....

Even mommy got a turn... after seeing mommy pull away on it Joy asked me when I got back if she can ride with me next time. I have a confession, I have a wild streak and a need for speed! Shhh, don't tell anybody!

Here is our 7 month old puppy, Mei Li. A sweet golden retriever that is her momma's baby, can you tell?

We are also so excited today that our friend who teaches Chinese at a local school is coming with one of her friends that doesn't have anywhere to go for Christmas! She said she was excited to see a normal American family Christmas... that's probably the first time we've been considered a normal American family but it'll be the way we do Christmas anyway, maybe not normal but us nonetheless.

Merry Christmas! Praying that Christ would be the center of all our families this year and that we would see MANY children get forever families in 2011!