• Hi There!

    Hi, my name is Jonni and I am Mommy to Sofia (5 years old) and Samantha (6 years old) and wife to John. We reside in upstate NY. Our daughters are 5 mos. apart in age and a whole lot of fun. Sofia is from Jinchang City, Gansu and she turned 11 mos. during our trip to bring her home from China in 2007. Samantha is 5 mos. older but was our 2nd adoption. She was 3 years, 4 mos. when we brought her home from China in 2009. She is from Yangzhou City, Jiangsu.

    I love blogging about our girls, photography, fonts, printables & crafts and I also have a slightly obsessive John Mayer addiction. Thank you for stopping by. :)

Monthly Archives: May 2010

Mother’s Day

I completely forgot to post Mother’s Day pics. I try to keep this blog up to date since I want to save it for the girls when they are older so here is my super-late post. Upstate NY is known for crazy weather, this is what we woke up to on May 9th…SNOW! Luckily it…

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*Overflowing* - You got snow?? That is soooo crazy! What a fun surprise on Mother's Day!

Natalie - Jonni, a lot is going on since I have been for a visit!
It has been fun catching up a bit.
The girls are so adorable and Samantha is getting so big! How'd that happen?!

I am mostly on FB now but really miss blogging.
Look me up if you think about it.
I'm under Natalie Rivero Walsh

your mama! - I have to wonder, how do you get them to pose so perfectly? May there not be a little treat involved?

A Few Decorative Papers For You

I have been working on creating seamless patterns for my new photography blog and I applied the seamless tiles I made into patterns in Photoshop and created the papers below. I wanted to share them here in case these are helpful to anyone. You can download them here. There are 6 total papers included in…

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CBH - Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 4 post on May. 31, 2010. Thanks again.

CBH - Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 6 post on May. 31, 2010. Thanks again.

Sue - Jonni, I'm madly in love with your new blog photos (header) OMGosh, they are crystal clear and darling!

Good Job, your so talented!

ps. I finally figured our our Sekonic 308s. thank you for the help!

Monica A - How gorgeous! I love them
thank you!

melliel - Thank you for the very lovely papers!

Snowflowers Mum - you are a force to be reckoned with girly.

CraftCrave - Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave in the DigiFree category today [27 May 02:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria

Faith Hope Love Photography - I love them!! I downloaded them…thanks! I hope I can figure out how to download them to the background on my blog…

GGHadden - Those are very nice, think I'm gonna save me some :) You are really on a roll with your Photoshop and Photography stuff girl.

Hugs

Some Blogging Changes

I am super stoked to be setting up my new photography blog and I have spent the past 2 nights talking to the wonderful people over at BlueHost about transferring my domain names and they have to be one of the best companies ever when it comes to customer service. For only $6.95 a month…

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*Overflowing* - Jonni,
I'm so proud of you! I have watched you hobby turn into an amazing passion and true gift. Can't wait to see your new blog! HUGS, stacy

Half Gaelic, Half Garlic! - How exciting!! Can't wait to see what you do with the new blog!! Congrats on the new business…..so happy for you!! I know you will be a great success…..you are ULTRA TALENTED!!!

xo,

Lisa

Faith Hope Love Photography - Fun!! I can't wait to see what you do! I have been thinking of changing also but haven't had time to even try yet! Good luck on your adventure…it sure is busy, but definately rewarding:)

Sue - You go girl!! I cant wait to learn from you!!!

Happy Birthday Samantha & 1 Year Referral Anniversary

The last couple of days have been exciting around here. Mom arrived late Thursday night and Thursday (5/6) was also the official 1 year anniversary of us receiving Samantha’s referral and today was Samantha’s 4th birthday and the first time we have been able to celebrate her birthday with her. She loved that it was…

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Denise Olson - Wow, one year!!! Happy Birthday Samantha!!!

Orchids and Ladybugs Boutique - We are all wishing Samantha Happy Birthday and the family Happy Anniversary…Everyone looked like they enjoyed the day and you can see that the girls are truely Blessed by Sisterhood. Glad your Mom could be their to celebrate with you. Lil Orchid stills loves to sit on my lap and read about the girls! Happiness Always.

The Road To Zen - Oh My Gosh, they are both so darn cute. Please tell YuPing that Zen was so happy to see the pictures of her birthday. Seriously, she was in heaven. She has a birthday soon too. May 25th she will be 6 years old. It is mentally and physically exhausing but it is worth it. Zen doent want to leave my side ALL DAY! Sometimes I have to keep remindiong her about "personal space" as of right now, there is NONE! Please tell Sammie that Zenb said Happy Birthday! You are a great mom!

redmaryjanes - Your princesses are beautiful!

Jewels of My Heart - Happy Birthday beautiful Birthday Girl!
Happy referral day to your family!
Sooooooooo happy!

Half Gaelic, Half Garlic! - Happy Birthday Samantha!! It looks like you all did some serious celebrating…… your two princesses are just PRECIOUS!! Love the matching jammies and the plaid dresses……OH MY WORD…..they are so darn cute!!

Hope you are well Jonni!! Life has been completely nuts…. hoping things will slow down soon:)

Take Care~

Lisa

Sue - Happy Birthday Sweet Sammy!!!

Amy K. - Ok, it's official. You have two of the cutest girls on the planet:) Happy Birthday, Samantha…and happy 1 year referralversary! Ha!

Susie - Happy Birthday Samantha!!!

Joy - Happy Birthday, Samantha. You look so cute in your plaid dress. I got Taylor one in China too. I hope you have fun playing with your new toys.

Joy

Video of the Girls Talking About Grandma C.’s Upcoming Visit

I learned a very important lesson this week. Don’t try to edit pictures when you are tired. I looked at my blog yesterday and quickly removed the images from my practice session when I saw what I did to them in Photoshop. YIKES! I am reprocessing them and hope to have them finished and back…

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norie - happy birthday!!! sammy…love your friend cecelia

Carol - Sweet! Emily says "Happy Birthday!!"

Bobby - Jonni, your babies are beautiful! I spoke with Grandma C and she can hardly wait to get there..love to all Aunt Bobby.

Roberta - Too darn cute – 2 adorable sisters! Love how Samantha kept right on eating through the "interview"! Have a fun birthday weekend. Happy Birthday Samantha. Sofia, you'll be 4 years old soon enough! Roberta

Sue - Jonni,

That is just too adorable! Jadyn enjoyed it and now she wants to see Grandma C
Sue

Hi Sammy & Sofia
love Jadyn

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