so tonight we’re gonna party like it’s

Gotcha Day one more time…I don’t know, it’s got the right number of syllables, but it’s missing something.  I’ll keep working on it.

Want to see a video of our Gotcha Day in China–the very first time we meet Annabelle?  Our friends posted it on their site!  It’s mostly their family, but our moment is about halfway through the video.  A-mazing.  Click here.  Listen for Annabelle’s first words to us!

Seriously, how would you celebrate the one year anniversary of Annabelleness?  Annabellooza?  Birthday/Christmas/New Year to the tenth power?  Rent the Goodyear blimp?  Hire a clown to do cool balloon animals?

We played it a little more low key than that.  In fact, we’re holding out celebration for a few more days, choosing to wait for Kim’s birthday evening to kick the tires and light the fires.  Here are a couple of highlights from the day, just to make you feel a little jealous of the party that rages pretty much all the time at Camp Sublett

• I accepted an invitation to join Dan Saxton’s network at linkedin.
• I decided that it was time to remove the screen protector from my phone’s screen.  It’s been peeling off since day 1, and the screen is glass anyway, so off it came.
• 2 auditions for musicals, 1 musical rehearsal, 2 girls to basketball practice, 1 Chinese tutor, 2 girls babysitting, a team meeting for the folks who teach children at midtown, and a long-overdue Skype session with one of the families we went to China with.

Yeah, it was a little crazy around here tonight.  That Skype session was pretty cool, though.  It was great to catch up.  Their baby has grown a LOT of hair!  What a great family…if only there weren’t so many miles between us.

The Chinese tutor (Miss Ruby) comes on Tuesdays and Thursdays to work with Josie, and they’re actually from the same city (Shanghai).  She went back to Shanghai over Christmas break, taking some photos, gifts, and news from Josie to her teacher.  The teacher sent Josie a nice letter in return.  That was pretty cool, too.  And Josie did ask her new tutor if she knows Jesus!

Thursday night is the night we have set aside to eat Chinese food and spend some time celebrating.  We’ve got so much to be thankful for…including Dan Saxton’s invite!