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 :)

Shanghai/birthday's/fun/yay!

Hey everybody! Sorry it's been awhile! I've been in Shanghai with my family since Wednesday night so yeah! Let me tell you of my week...
Becca my sister turned 12 on March 10th! So we headed down to Shanghai from Wednesday night to Saturday morning which is now.
My little foster baby cousin and my other cousin Aaron have the same birthday so we celebrated.
Maggie is just so cute and so much fun! We played lots of games of Settlers of Catan and had lots of food!
Becca's birthday consisted of this: Foot massages! We went to a professional place and got 1 hour long foot massages each for about 105 qui (american 16 dollers). It was lovely with the big comfy chair's and its dark and theres trickling water and soft music playing and they rug you back and shoulders and feet!
It is a little hurtful at times but nice. It was a fun week and Shanghai is such a great place! I'll do another post soon! Love you all! Annie.

P.S. Sorry for "No" pictures.
P.S.S. Sometime I will do a post about some of the harder things in life here in Suzhou (there are quite a few things that are a little bleak and such :)

Photo's of the fam.

I suppose it's always fun to see more photos of my family :)

Everybody except Rachael and Andrew, (so not everybody :)

Bethy on the morning of her Birthday with her brand new "Kanani"

Finally a picture of my parents! In front of Royal Peninsula (our compound)

These are some good ones! Enjoy!

My, oh so good looking siblings!!! Andrew and Rachael.

Oh such bright bubbly balloons!

Here are some more pictures of balloons I took. I do love balloons right now (there really pretty in (pictures). If you keep up with my blog, thanks! I enjoy writing and posting pictures! Wo Ai Ni! (a.k.a I love you)

My 13 hours, in my city

Today was kind of full, and kind of not. Here is my day according to my mind :)

1) I woke up and ate breakfast like always.
2) Read... I have started Narnia and am on Prince Caspian so far and I like them (of course?!) I have read a lot the past few days :)
3) Just more getting ready stuff and such...
4) An "Ayi" came, which is a lady who cleans our house (it was her first time today)
5) I fixed myself a plate with a hunk of cheese, bread and orange juice and went to my room and read and ate, nice combination of everything!
6) My Mom and us three girls headed to our big neighborhood center shopping place, where there's a fresh market and a Vanguard (a grocery store) and a coffee place and bakery's and stuff and got some things.

(Just so you know the actual place isn't amazing but we know it quite well now and the "Cafe Ti Amo" is nice!)
7) We got home and decided to go out to dinner. We get on bus #156 and head to Times Square to Secret Recipe, where I got a Soup and french fries!
8) Get on the computer and do a blog post!

So thats my day, leaving out things here and there obviously (who could say every single little thing they did that whole entire day?) And it rained/drizzled tonight which was nice! I am headed to Shanghai on Wednesday until Saturday for Becca's along with my cousin Aaron and other (hopefully) cousin little Maggie's birthday! Maggie is the cutest thing!!!! It will be Super fun! I love you all and miss you too!

                                             <3, Annie Rose

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? 

How do you like my new balloon's?

I just took some picture's of Bethy and I with her balloons, and I thought that instead of a post I could put them as a gadget and be able to see them more often! This one though, I want to be big :) Hope you like bright balloons! I do :)