thanks

This year we were in Shanghai for Thanksgiving. It was wonderful so let me tell you about it.

We headed down on the fast train on Thursday morning. When we got there we went to my sister's apartment and ate lunch near there. She lives in the middle of Shanghai and I love it. It's fun visiting my big sis. Also we saw Hannah (cousin) again. After that my cousin Aaron had a basketball game, so we went to watch it. Personally I love watching basketball and hanging out around a bunch of high schoolers!

We planned to do our big dinner on Friday night so the next day was spent cooking and enjoying everything. That night a bunch of people came over and we feasted! My family (extended and immediate) is the best. I had lots of fun with my cousins and I continue to be thankful for them all.

 Thank you Lord for a lovely thanksgiving.

I guess I already did my Thankful list so, Happy Thanksgiving friends and family, I LOVE you all and I'm so thankful for you.  

                                                

Love, "thankful" a

p.s. Another Christmas post coming up ;)
p.p.s. You definitely want to look at THIS!

                                                

Let it rain baby!!!

Today was fun... I sat on our balcony reading as it poured. I was sitting there reading when I saw my sister running through the gallons of rain. I put down my book and ran outside. The rain was coming down so hard and it immediately drenched me and I started laughing :)
I love it when your just running through the rain and it's making your face wet, then it runs down your lips. :)

I ran in and got the camera and an umbrella and took a couple pictures, (I could hardly take pictures without getting the camera that wet.)

After a while I got cold so I came back in and took a hot shower. Then we headed for Secret Recipe for dinner and cake. It was cozy and warm.
                                                   Enjoy my rainy pictures friends!
Please if you read this do tell me how your day has been and what the weather has been like for you :)

                                                                          Love you!
                                                                           Love, A

Today

Da Jia Hao! Lately I have not been taking many pictures. Probably because the camera battery needs to be charged but also because I haven't been outside much and there's not anything right at this moment that I want to take a picture off. So... Sorry but this blog post will just be short with no purpose other then doing a blog post! Has anyone ever heard of a thing called Pearl Milk Tea? It's tea with milk and sugar and then the fun part of it is they put these gelatin balls in the tea and you have a big straw and you suck them out, and it's really good! If any of you ever want to come to China I will buy you a milk tea, cause there really good...
Today I had Oreo ice cream! Then I had Haribo gummy bears! Food... I played two games of one of our favorites right now, called Settlers of Catan. Sometime I need to take some of the hard things here and turn them into a post. Because you know the Jones family is not just going around having fun and loving every single thing about life right now :)
Right now i'm still reading Narnia and love it! I am starting Voyage of the dawn treader today sometime, and only two more to go after that! I'm excited about the Last Battle!
On facebook I just saw a video of my friends doing a scene from there play Cinderella and it was so good!
I wished I was there watching it though.
Yesterday I learned to say my birthday and all the month's which are super easy once you know your numbers. January is Yi Yue which means 1 month! (Yi is one, er is two and yue is month) February is Er Yue which means 2 month's and so on!
My birthday is Yi Jiu Jiu Liu Nian, Sir yue, er shi yi ri. Oh yeah! Chinese is hard but worth it (I think).
Andrew (my brother) and I are writting/ playing several songs right now! Fun!
Okay these pictures are of this rainbow thing I have and I took some pictures of it. Aren't they sweet? And random?
I love you all and thanks for keeping up with me :) Love, Annie.

By the way Da Jia Hao means Hello Everybody :)