Flash Back to 9-14-09

It was one year ago today that we met Miss Madison for the very first time in person in a steaming hot Civil Affairs Building in Guangzhou China!!!!

Here's two links to our thoughts from last year:

http://rothclanjourney.blogspot.com/2009/09/additional-pictures.html
http://rothclanjourney.blogspot.com/2009/09/meeting-madison-91309.html


HAPPY FOREVER FAMILY DAY SWEET GIRL!!!!

Flashback to 9-13-09

Here's the two posts we did from last year on this date while in China: 

http://rothclanjourney.blogspot.com/2009/09/meeting-madison-91309.html

http://rothclanjourney.blogspot.com/2009/09/heres-few-more-pics-from-9-13-09.html


We hope you enjoy revisiting our time in China!

Flash Back to 9-12-09

Here's a link to our post from last year on this date!  http://rothclanjourney.blogspot.com/2009/09/were-in-china.html

Flashback to 9-11-09

It was exactly one year ago today that Dale, Samantha and I began our long awaited trek to China to finally meet Madison Marie Lvfen!  What an adventure it was! 

Over the  next two weeks, as time permits, we will revist those two weeks in China!

The Green Queens

Samantha is playing soccer again this year.  This year her team is comprised of 5 six year olds and they decided to name their team "THE GREEN QUEENS".  Dale is coaching her team again this year.  Soccer season began the middle of August this year and will run until the middle of October.  We've had practices twice a week through Labor Day Week and then we'll drop down to one day a week.  We've had one game so far this year and our next game is this coming Saturday.  Games are each Saturday afternoon from 12:00 - 1:00.  They have a fall Jamboree coming up on Septembe 18th, where they play 3 or 4 games in one day.  Looking forward to that.  We are excited for a great soccer season!  This is one sport Samantha loves to play!

First Day of School - 1st Grade

Today Samantha started school ~ it was her first day of 1st Grade!!!  Wow, I cannot believe my baby girl is a big first grader already!  It really seems just like yesterday that Dale and I boarded a plane bound for China to meet our first child.  Where has the time gone?

In any event, on Monday evening at bedtime, Sammie was pretty nervous; she said her tummy hurt.  I explained to her that was normal and she would be fine.  Well low and behold, come Tuesday morning when her alary went off and I went in to turn it off, she bolted up in bed and said "I'm gonna get dressed now".  I told her to go out in the living room and wake up a bit.  She ate breakfast, brushed her teeth and got dressed all in under an hour and had her coat and back pack on by 7:00 a.m. (we didn't have to leave for school until 7:45 a.m.)  She was bouncing off the walls with excitment and kept asking me if it was time to leave yet.

I did manage to take a couple of pictures of her at home (see below) and was going to take the camera to school, but had forgotten it as we were leaving and then she said she really didn't want me to take pictures at school and said and I quote "You know, dad can't take pictures of me when I go off to college".  She's really too funny!  Thus, no actual pictures of her in school, but she had a wonderful first day of First Grade!

Open House @ Samantha's School

This afternoon we had open house at Samantha's school.  She got to meet her teacher; we brought her school supplies in and she put them in her desk (with the exception of a few items that had to go in a special place), and went on a small treasure hunt around her classroom.  Her teacher seems really nice and we are looking forward to a good school year!!!!