Handy phrases in Chinese

Ni Hao 你 好- Hello
xie xie 谢谢- thank you
hen gui 很贵- too expensive
duoshao qian 多少钱- how much money
zai jian 在建- goodbye

This is our new home

So many of you want to see pictures of our house so here you go. The furniture in the photos is not mine however, mine does look similar. It is hard to find things to decorate with here unless you want to go all out Chinese. I have a tailor coming over to make slipcovers, painters coming over, etc. Labor is cheap here so I am taking advantage. I will post more pictures when I get the house done. By the way, the pictures are just our living area downstairs. Upstairs we have another family room, 4 bedrooms , three fancy baths, a den for Mike and the house also has another dining area. We love it but it is really big and right now, with no rugs, it echos our loud children like crazy. This is by far the nicest place we have ever lived and we are excited to make it our home.

Cutest Kids EVER!!!!!!

While we were in Utah we had our friend Jessica Coronado who runs Bellarose Photography, takes some pictures of the kids and they turned out SOOOOOOOOO CUTE!! Thanks so much Jess.

Chech out our NEW CAR

We bought a tuk-tuk so that we can get around until our car gets here (many months from now.) It is so fun to drive.

Our First Outing in Beijing

Our family has been in Beijing for one week now. It has been a crazy week learning the ropes and most of all where to find everything but we are getting the hang of things. At least we are over the jetlag. On Saturday we took our first trip into downtown Beijing which is about 20 minutes away. We visited the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. It was really neat to see however the whole time we were surrounded by people taking pictures of us and wanting to touch the kids (especially Zach). Mike kept saying "this is what the animals in the zoo feel like." It was wild! Close to the square is a street market called Wangfujing where we sampled some of China's yummy treats like, scorpion, sea horse, star fish, snake, silk worm, grub, etc., etc. Our kids were so brave, check out our photos and stay tuned...