July 2024

 

Hez' favorite place-Pineapple Park

Judah and his ice cream

Okuma Beach

Had a great time staying at Okuma

Hot pot and Korean bbq for the win

Extra day in Chengdu=touring a nearby monastery

We saw 20 pandas!

Panda sanctuary

Sichuan style opera in Chengdu

We were served A LOT of food

In the same Jinan hotel as when we adopted Lexi

Jinan orphanage

Visiting a local family in their traditional hutong

Enjoyed our rickshaw ride

Great Wall

Hez at the wheel

Calm day on Lake MI, but cold water

Hez and Steph

Siblings

Hez loved watching his cousins on their Switches

Family cookout

Cousins visiting Julia at Dutch Village

-Nate, Stephen, Lexi and I went to Asia on July 6-20. We visited Beijing, Jinan and Chengdu for a week. We then (eventually) flew to Okinawa and stayed with Steph's family. I am only putting a few pictures on the blog as we are making a separate photo book. It was a fantastic trip and we are so grateful we could go! Tim/Jenny's family stayed at our house with the older 3 kids while we were gone and that went smoothly as well. 

-Tim/Jenny were in MI for a month and Steph and her boys flew back to MI with us from Okinawa so we got some fun family time. 

-Julia did a WO vball camp and Isaac did HC's soccer camp

-Julia took a health class over the summer and tested out so her schedule will be more open her junior year