Happy New Year 2012!

I realize I'm a little late with this, but here's wishing you all a blessed year in 2012!

May it be filled with lots of

LOVE

and

LAUGHTER!

These are the hanboks Bethany's foster mom sent in the famous Holt blue bag. It fits her perfectly now. :)

Austin's hanbok was a bit too short on his arms and legs, so this will probably be the last you'll see of him wearing it. :(

My parents came over for brunch and we did the traditional seh-beh with them. 

We didn't have to ask Austin twice because he knew what was coming. 

 

Cha-ching!

 

 Bethany had no idea what was going on, but you know her. She wants to do everything her big brother does. :)

Cha-ching!

Good thing my parents only have two grandchildren. :)

And yes, even Sam and I took part. Anything to increase our cash flow! :)

 Hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's Day!

December Recap

After my thirty days of posts back in November, you'd think I'd have this blogging thing down.... but no. December has come and gone, and I can't believe I have zero posts to show for it.

Lest you think our December was a dud, here's a recap of some of the things our family did during my month long absence.

We started the month off by participating in the Children's Hunger Fund's annual Toy Wrap. According to their website, there were over 2500 volunteers that day, and we wrapped about 86,500 toys!

Later that afternoon, Austin had his last soccer game and party where he brought some Mommas to tears with his goodbye speech. 

That evening (yes, it was a crazy busy day!), we attended a Christmas gathering for Korean American adoptive families through an organization called MPAK. Austin met his first Korean Santa Claus, and I got to meet some of my KA Facebook friends in person. :)

The rest of the month wasn't quite as jammed packed as that one Saturday, but it was full of good times. 

Austin had another piano recital, but boo on us for not taking pictures of him (we only took video). Instead, we have this cute picture of Bethany and her friend, and a handful of pictures of our friends' kids playing the piano. 

Chef Austin made some delicious pizza in his camo pjs. 

We had our final preschool meeting of the year where we made cute nativity sets.

Sam and I went on our second food tour with Sixth Taste. This time, we did the Santa Monica tour and had so much fun eating that we barely took any pictures. You'll just have to visualize the two of us scarfing down a variety of food for four hours. :)

We had a wonderful Christmas season celebrating with many family and friends.