at three

Today's sounding sweet. It's 1:40 pm and I'm heading to coffee with my dear friend Lydia at three. I love coffee. The smell is most irresistible, and probably one of my favorites ever. Starbucks will be cozy, what with rain dripping down the windows and a big, comfy chair to sit in and a friend to talk to. I think it'll be lovely. I'll pop on my jacket and gloves (and I might just throw on my new, red hat) grab an umbrella, and head out into the grey.

Oh Suzhou

Listened to this amazing song as well as this one while writing.

I find this picture rather hard for my eyes to look at. Hope YOU like it though. It's the view from our living room window.

This song has been my constant companion for the past few days; I'm kind of in love with it. What do you think about it?

Oh man... this post :)

And this is happening in our little home town New Castle!

I love you all.

Love, a

Flowers and a forest that needs photographing.

We have an e-bike. My sister's and I love to ride it around the neighborhood or outside our neighborhood and onto the park. Anyway today Beth and I went out and I took some pictures of some flowers or of the "pink hill."

There are these really little pink flowers everywhere. On most of the hills and such, and so that's what I mean by pink hills :)
I only wish you could see how magical the forest looks. There are trees scattered throughout the forest, and the ground is covered with the pink flowers. The trees cover the sky so it is a little darker in there but the pink brings a shimmer-y light!! It is so pretty and it's always so calm and beautiful (and magical!).
Whenever I take any pictures of the place they just don't show how pretty it is or what the lightings like or anything else. So... you need to come... if you want to see the forest.
                                                                  
Oh and if you thought I was going to put up a picture of the forest... I will soon, and for right now I'll let you imagine it :) Oh and the daisy's in my backyard are lovely too!!!! Daisy's are so gorgeous.

                                                                            I love you!
                                                                               Love, A

Really cute, 2 qui notebooks!

Yesterday was the baby diaper shopping day. It was successful! At Aushon, there are the cutest little notebooks! They have lots of different styles and have really cute picture's or patterns on them. I bought one for my friend Leah and two for myself yesterday :) Aren't they so cute?!

On the front of them they don't make any sense. It's whats called "Chinglish" here and we laugh about it all the time! Sometime I will do a post about some of the ones we've seen. But anyway the chinglish on my two notebooks go like this: "Mathematic's is a useless waste of energy on what a complete waste of time to learn why". What??? Next is this: "Beautiful life, As long as you pay attention to things around, everywhere will find a better life". Yep its pretty funny! :) 

By the way, did you like my balloon pictures? 

Love and sweets

I am about to finish my day.
I had a day full of sweets from the USA.
My little sister got a wonderful birthday package from our best friends in Colorado and it had Sour Patch candy in it for Becca and I. Sour Patch is such an awesome candy! So thanks to my friends~
Chinese lesson... I learned how to say lots of things. Here are some... Wo xi huan kan shu dan shi wo bu xi huan kan dian shi. Means "I like reading but I don't like watching TV". Which isn't necessarily true. We don't have a TV but we do watch lot's of movies which I love. I learned how to say phone which is translated into "Electric conversation" basically! I like Chinese.
We had our youth group over like we do on all Mondays, which is always a fun night! We do a short lesson and my dad leads us in some music. Then we play games! We also eat. Tonight we ate French Twists a.k.a donuts which are really good, although I shouldn't of eaten that much because I had only had candy and lunch so far ;) Tonight I kinda felt like taking pictures of something sweet and colorful and rich. Or a picture of a baby or something (we got this forward email about this Mom taking pictures of her baby in different scenes, and its really cute). Tomorrow I will be going with my youth leader Brittany, friends, Lydia and Leah and my sis, Becca to Auchon, our huge grocery/anything store (110 cash registers and very busy at times!) to buy baby diaper wipes, haha, for the orphanage.
I hope tomorrow will be a nice day :) I love everybody that looks at my blog and those of you who just "Follow" me around (kinda creepy). Goodnight and goodbye to Monday, February 28th 2011 whom I will never see again.

P.S.  I wanted to end this blog with that last sentence but I also wanted to say something about it.
It's interesting thinking about never seeing that exact day again! Its kinda sad and I might not want to end a post like that (although I like the way it sounds and I do like having it close the post!)

Taeya

Taeya is like my little sister. For the last two and a half years I have grown very close to Taeya and her Mommy Megan. I go to swim lessons with Megan and watch Taeya while Megan teaches.
I babysit Taeya and go shopping with them and were very close. The last day I saw her was hard because she probably wouldn't remember me that well (thank God for skype so she can see us and remember us better!) I think she was probably confused about us leaving. She's SOOO cute and says the cutest words and calls us three all "Becca" because I think its the easiest to say. After we taught her Annie and Beth then she would call us Annie for a while. She still knows our names and loves to show us her new things on skype and i'm very thankful for getting to see her and Megan! Megan just had a baby and now we can see him on skype too! He's super cute too and watching Taeya with him is sweet. Since we wouldn't be able to stay and see Brecken when he was born Megan took us to her ultrasound to see him.

At the end of the road where I said goodbye to everybody. Look at my eyes...
I love you Taeya and will miss you until I see you in the Summer time! I love you Megan and it will be so nice seeing you all again! Love, Annie