well it turns out that it recently has been becoming more and more difficult for people in china to access xanga...so i'm going to really focus on emails instead...since they will have a MUCH harder time taking that away from me next year. however i wanted to give all of you a heads up about this. if you want to get on my email list to get updates come july just send me a message or something and i will be sure to keep in touch! please do this soon...come a couple week i'm going to be shutting down my xanga. i want to keep in touch with you so be sure i have you email! :)

  and once again it seems i have become a slacker in the xanga world. i'm not sure if people even read this anymore, or if they have just given up on me. but i'm back again. lets see whats going on in my world. well i've graduated and its truely amazing how many hours are in a day when you dont have classes and studying and homework to think about. so i've been enjoying learning things for fun. :) i keep myself busy working on china support raising, studying for the GRE, brushing up on my chinese, teaching myself piano, reading for fun, watching movies, spending time at the local YMCA, teaching 1st grade sunday school, working a few hours a week in the retail world, finishing up a class to get my substitute certificate, and of course spending time with my family. i want to leave you guys with a few pictures from Christmas.

this was a family picture...well minus grandma....after uncle jim and dad found a package of disposable sugical gown type things in the dumpster...the package had never even been opened so of course we had to put them on....yeah my family is a bit crazy.

me, jenny, abby, grandma, julie and sarah....we are only missing jodi and maria otherwise we'd have all the girl cousins with grandma. yay!

julie and i both graduated this semester...and cant you tell we're excited!

charlie's first time to Hungry Hobo! and she's getting so big... she'll turn 1 in just a month!!

one afternoon charlie and i took a nap together...and with her hippo too of course!

then abby and i helped teach some of our little cousins how to do 'ugly' faces(as mallory and erin have taught me to call them)

me, lydia and abby just being silly....this picture makes me smile

alyssa, me, lydia and abby...and from this picture you would think we always acted normal. ha!

well thats an update on me. let me know how all of you are doing...if any of you still read this. ha. talk to you later!

why cant i learn to freeze time?

my time here is wrapping up quicker than i am prepared for.

i'll be updating tomorrow...but heres a glimpse at the story to come. :)