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* Music From Guangzhou *: Celebrating Cousin Jamen's Birthday!!
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Music From Guangzhou *. Saturday, October 30, 2010. Celebrating Cousin Jamen's Birthday! Jamen turned four on the 23rd of October and we were able to be there to help him celebrate! My sister, Mandy, made this great fire truck cake! Then she let the kids have at it anyway they wanted! By the end of the weekend, the wheels, lights, and hoses were gone.and the frosting was smeared by little fingers! Not much actual cake was eaten, but Mandy Rose and Jamen were in heaven! Covered in red icing! Celebrating C...
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* Music From Guangzhou *: July 2010
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Music From Guangzhou *. Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Gotcha Day".Two Years Later! Two years ago, Gary and I realized our dream. We became parents to the most amazing child! Mandy Rose stole our hearts in an instant. Each and every day since we have been awe-struck by the incredible blessing we were given when we were given this little girl. This year, I must admit, I planned the pose on purpose. I decided I had a nice tradition going! We found some great "treasure" according to little Miss Mandy Rose! Mandy...
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* Music From Guangzhou *: Riding a Horse for the First Time!!
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Music From Guangzhou *. Saturday, October 30, 2010. Riding a Horse for the First Time! To round out Jamen's birthday weekend, we took the kids for horseback rides on Sunday! The little ones rode a pony named Zeus! Although, he seemed a bit tame and tired for that particular moniker! They were both pumped about riding! All loaded up complete with helmets! Mandy Rose chose the blue helmet and Jamen chose the pink one with flowers! We got our exercise by walking around and around and around the arena! Campi...
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* Music From Guangzhou *: Guangzhou Travel Group Reunion
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Music From Guangzhou *. Monday, August 1, 2011. Guangzhou Travel Group Reunion. Mandy Rose and I took off on Thursday afternoon and drove 500 miles to meet up with 5 other families at a beautiful bed and breakfast just north of Colorado Springs. Thursday was our actual 3 year anniversary of "Gotcha" Day! Unfortunately, Daddy had to stay behind because he was scheduled to work. Mandy Rose was in tears as we took off (which made Daddy sad.but also helped him know that she does LOVE him! One thing that all ...
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* Music From Guangzhou *: August 2011
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Music From Guangzhou *. Monday, August 1, 2011. Guangzhou Travel Group Reunion. Mandy Rose and I took off on Thursday afternoon and drove 500 miles to meet up with 5 other families at a beautiful bed and breakfast just north of Colorado Springs. Thursday was our actual 3 year anniversary of "Gotcha" Day! Unfortunately, Daddy had to stay behind because he was scheduled to work. Mandy Rose was in tears as we took off (which made Daddy sad.but also helped him know that she does LOVE him! One thing that all ...
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* Music From Guangzhou *: March 2010
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Music From Guangzhou *. Monday, March 22, 2010. Mandy Rose got to spend the morning with her cousin, Olivia, today! Olivia is 5 years old. Even though she is only 9 months older than Mandy Rose, she towers over her! They had not seen each other in quite some time, but dove right in to playing like they were the best of old friends! They spent alot of time playing "Big Sister/Little Sister"! They are both only kids.suppose they are hinting? It was fun to see the girls play together! It was so precious!
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Raising Sunflowers: June 2014
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014. 50 years, work, vacation, chores. Now that I have your attention.50 years! That is a very long time. Especially when you have been married to the same person for all of those years. Nope, Mark and I have quite a few more years to catch up to that many years! However my half brother Jim and his blushing bride Maxine have been together for 50 years! The girls have their red belts in Taekwondo now. Next up is red decided and then red recommended. Then the BLACK belt! I have taken a P...
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Raising Sunflowers: February 2015
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Monday, February 23, 2015. The red thread that connects us may stretch and tangle but will never break.). December 30, 2002. The call came in at 2:10PM. I said "Is this THE CALL? And she said, "This is Patty and Yes this is The Call! I am a Mommy again! Her name is going to be KaeLynn FengHe VanCamp. I think my feet were not touching the ground! I was going to hook up the video camera to get everyone's expressions when we first saw her face. Daddy said, "She looks like a keeper! My Dad and I took a day o...
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Raising Sunflowers: January 2015
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015. So I asked him how could we sign up for this? He gave me the name of the person who is in charge of the program. Mark sit down that night and emailed him. Next thing we know there are three Chinese students arriving in Topeka January 10th. They wanted to stick together, would we be interested? They said that they were really into Cheeseburgers and French Fries. So we took the to Conrad's in Overbrook cause we love their FF's there. They are only going to be here for one semeste...
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Raising Sunflowers: October 2014
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014. Had a few photos taken this last weekend. When we first bought the M&M's T's we did not know that Mars was moving to Topeka. I just happened to run across the shirts in Wally World and thought.we have five girls, there are five colors.jackpot! So the photos were taken before we found out. Then Mars moved to Topeka and they had a M&M's store in downtown Topeka for a month. That store was hopping busy! The girls were real excited to have Royals shirts. Wednesday, October 8, 2014.