Happy Halloween

Love, Batman and the cutest pumpkin ever.

Fall Break-Getting there is half the fun!

    We don't travel light.

Getting settled. We flew with friends who were
heading the same way!

We headed to Phuket for our Fall Break. We had been before and knew it would be relaxing and fun with children. Our fist adventure was traveling on the new A380 airbus. A double decker plane-Hoyer and all of us really, were impressed and enjoyed the ride to Thailand.   We met up with friends, the Flores Family, for fun in the sun. The Flores' moved to Singapore right before Charlie was born and we have enjoyed traveling together! The kids always have a great time! 

  

Thumbs Up!

Hoyer and Jake hit the pool and enjoy a treat.  

Kyle and Charlie in the pool too!

Happy to be in Thailand! 

And lookie lookie-it's another baby elephant! This is Lucky! 

I would say we were the Lucky ones- so much to take in in our first day! The baby elephant was a lot of fun for all of us. Even Charlie took a ride- More beautiful pics to come.

Circle Time

A snapshot of Hoyer's class. They are making moon cakes in celebration of the mid-autumn festival. Hoyer is seated to the right of the teacher.

Meet Yaya.

Meet Yaya-a 2-year old Asian elephant calf. Yaya makes his way around the beach and gives kisses among other talents.

We have been having a blast in Thailand and there's much more to come!

Thailand Time

We're off for a week vacay in Thailand.
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Hiking Season-Tiger's Head

It is social, it is tough, it burns calories and it is right behind my house-The Tiger's Head trail kills me-I mean leaves my feet bruised, leaves me sweating for hours, even after a shower-but I like it. Last week it took us 2 hours {mostly due to me asking for breaks....} but this week, we will beat that time. 

Ahh, what a feeling once over....peace and pure exhaustion. I'm coming for you Tiger's Head. 

 Remember to breath.

 It's all down hill from here, right? 

 Views 

 The Tiger's Head- see the ears? 

 Break please. 

The tippy top.

A Fantasy

Now-before you get all freaked out- this is family blog and all- but I just had to share- anyone with kids will get this.

Happy Valley Racecourse

We went out with friends to the Happy Valley Racecourse last Wednesday with friends. I won a few bucks, but quickly bet with my winnings on a horse named Benefactor. Wouldn't you?!?
Well, he lost!  But,  we still had a blast!

Brothers Benefield

Hoyer 12 weeks

Charlie 20 weeks

Six Months already?

Charlie is 6 months old now. That time is so precious to me. I've enjoyed it all.


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Hiking in Hong Kong {as a family of four}

 Hiking in Hong Kong is wonderful this time of year. We even ventured out with both kids this past week.   Charlie slept the entire hour, {can you spot him?} happily situated in the backpack. Hoyer goofed off with his friends and enjoyed exploring all the way up. They were tuckered out {that was the point} and all had smiles and rosey red cheeks at the end.  These are the mountians behind our apartment. What a view!

  

Turtle Men

Kyle and Hoyer met up with Chris, George and Hugh to feed the turtles recently. It gave the  moms a good idea...

We made turtles the following day after researching thier habbitats, diet and species. {Hoyer was not too thrilled to have his picture taken-but you get the idea!}

God Bless Brad and all the troops

Kyle's first cousin, Brad, made it back from his second tour in Afghanistan.  His son, who is a few days younger than Charlie was there to greet him, along with he beautiful wife, Anna. Brad is Hoyer's Godfather and an inspiration to all he meets.  Thanks to all the service men and women. Thanks to Brad and thanks be to God for bringing him home.

Last Days of Summer

The Hong Kong Summer is winding down and we are approaching our last days poolside. Hoyer and Kyle took full advantage this week, swimming until the sun went down. 

Charlie is enjoying watching big brother and daddy!

New Look

Thanks for your patience while I try out a new look for our blog! Going for a cleaner feel-those gray scales just screamed Dragon to me and are oh so Chinese- as this is the year of the dragon and all...I am working on uploading quality pictures {big ones} from my iphone and the Blog Press app. Whats the big secret to bigger/better pictures?? Anyone?

The breakfast of champions

Now that it's officially fall (or mid-autumn) football is on tv! We had friends over for a great football brunch!
Monday an Tuesday are public holidays here-one for mid-autumn and one for Chinese National Day.
We celebrated with football, food and dressing up.









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Mid-Autumn Festival

A breeze has started to cool things down in HK as Autumn rolls in. In celebration of this and the biggest moon all year-we gathered for the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival.


As usual we got together with friends on the beach and watched the moon rise as the kids played and lit the night with lanterns and glow sticks.


The festivities begin!


The moon rises and the kids shine!


A wagon ride home lit by Hoyer's strawberry lantern.
(Charlie stated home with pink eye)

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