Dragons and Elephants: Joy is...

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Joy is...

Spending Christmas with your family

Your favorite present (puppy slippers)

Spending time with your father who
lives 1,656 miles away from you

Ditto

Sitting on Santa's lap

3 comments:

Flamingo said...: hi heather! i hopped on over here from the other heather's blog. your cooper is beautiful! i think we share the same PA date!!

your family is beautiful!!; December 26, 2008 at 9:31 PM
Unknown said...: It looks like you had a wonderful Christmas! Great pictures! Happy New year to you all!; December 27, 2008 at 6:09 AM
Kristin said...: Such cute pictures!

Roll Tide!; December 29, 2008 at 7:47 AM

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In Chinese mythology the dragon is a divine creature that brings families abundance, prosperity and good fortune. The Chinese often consider themselves "the descendants of the dragon." As for elephants, well, we happen to live in the deep South and met while studying at the University of Alabama - Roll Tide! Alabama's mascot is Big Al, a rather friendly-looking pachyderm.

But the dragon and elephant have merged in a most unlikely way. You see, in addition to having two biological children, we have adopted three amazing children from China. Now we are a family of seven, our experiences chronicled on these pages. Read on to hear the day-to-day ramblings of this Southern family...