I'M IN CHINA!: recent outings&happenings

i feel like the days and weeks are passing by fast and faster as time goes on!!

we hit our halfway mark this week... it does not feel like i have been here for 2 months, not in the slightest. the days are starting to mush together.

if i didn't have pictures to look back on, i'm not sure i could tell you which day i did what.

i'll take it as a good sign that the time is going by fast.

but sad at the same time... 4 months is not long enough!

we got our hair washed again! shocker right? this is like our...6th time? 7th time?

it surely will not be our last. this salon was pretty good.. but the back massage killlled me.

i think my eyes started to tear up a bit...shh... the shampoo smelled super duper good tho.

on sunday after church we decided to try to go to wal mart to find some butter because we were unsuccessful the past 3 times :( we were waiting at the bus stop for about 30 min when this man came up to us and told us that it wasn't the correct bus stop for the wal mart bus! he was from Singapore and spoke english really well. he was actually getting a taxi to go there and offered us a ride! so nice. after we'd arrived to wal mart i realized how crazy it was that we so readily hopped in a taxi with a stranger we'd never met before trusting him with our lives... the people here are just super nice and helpful.

sometimes i feel tall here.

oh and that is my special dress that makes me look prego.

this bike taxi guy was waiting near where we were waiting for our van. his friend later joined him, and his friend asked me if i was pregnant... yep. that was great.

i gave him the stank eye tho, no worries.

aaaaalright. we might have the yellow fever a teeensy bit..

but we think one of our guards is super cuuuute! he has the smile of a champion.

i may or may not get nervous when we ride in the

gate and he says something chinese to us...

words can't really describe this picture. so i won't try.

i held up my camera in our elevator, said "smile!", and this is what came out.

on a recent episode of modern family, one of the girls wears these shoes...

her sister called them lesbian shoes. whatevz, me lovez dem.

this is the cuuute old man that lives in our complex!!! he likes to hang out at the convenience store right outside our gate. i simply adore him.

we made burritos!!!!!! april's mommy sent her refried beans and tortillas...pretty much one of the best things i have made...it was so good! we were all definitely in heaven. and we all may or may not have got the tootz...what?

not sure where we were going...

but we ride our bikes errrrywhere.

all tha time.

errday.

we found nomnom dumplings at a little tiny shop in our town!!!

you get 10 dumplings for 3 yuan.. a.k.a. a crate of goodness for 50 cents.

oh man, such a good find!! they are delicious, as you can see from the joy on my face.

p.s. only one of those crates is mine. although i could have eaten 500 dumplings.

we started decorating for halloween!!!

the kids were SUPER excited when they saw us putting everything up.

it makes me think back to when i was a kid and how the little things would get me so excited... we definitely want to make halloween the very best it can be for them :)