• 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. :)

Category Archives: Day-to-Day

Dentist Appointment for the Girls

Still catching up with posting pics from the past few weeks. The girls went to their 2nd dental appointment on Monday 6/14. They both had their teeth cleaned. They did great and earned lots of stickers and Sofia proceeded to wear hers on her forehead during the appt. That’s definitely a Sofia move (lol). No…

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Norah - Oh my goodness, are they not the sweetest little girls?!

Fliss and Mike Adventures - I am loving this… thank goodness that I only have to deal with 4 teeth so far and Shauna has already got her own little toothbrush :)

Mea - These pictures are so good. It's not just about how cute the girls are- the photos are soooo great.

Kristy - Oh Jonni I just can't get over how grown up they are, tell them to STOP!!!! I am so proud of them for doine so good!!!! You are such a good mommy!!!

Love and blessings, Kristy

ps Jonni how do you get your pictures so big??

Anonymous - This definitely look very different from the dentist that I went to when I was little =p

Your girls are gorgeous, and your photos are beautiful.

God bless.

~SoulPath (Malaysian-Chinese)~

"M" - your photos even make the dentist look great! The girls seem to handle it well.

*Overflowing* - They did soooo well…could you please have them call Cana and persuade her to do just as well????

Too cute mama!!!

My Quote for Today

“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction”-Winston Churchill

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Colleen - I totally agree! Wishing you all the best and very excited for you. Can't wait to hear more details!

Amy K. - How funny you should post this. Jason and I were just talking about a possible change with his job as well…not sure where it will lead us or if it's just some frustration that will pass. I'm so glad you guys feel at peace with your decision. Here's to new beginnings!

Half Gaelic, Half Garlic! - Change is good……and it sounds like you are both feeling great about the decision you made!!!

Cute pics of your day at the festival…..the girls are just adorable….and getting so big:)

We are getting so close to our referral…..I am almost in denial, but I need to snap myself into reality quickly….thinking we might see her face in August or September!!!

Hugs,

Lisa

Getting Ready For Sofia’s Surgery Tomorrow

Sofia has surgery scheduled for tomorrow to fix an ear tube that has slipped and to have her frenum (the muscle under her tongue) cut. We are hoping this will give her tongue a little more mobility and help with her speech. Her surgery was originally scheduled for 1:30pm tomorrow but the issue I had…

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sierrasmom - I hope everything went well!! Jonni
I love your pictures!!
Kathie

Heidi - My daughter (3) had her tongue release two weeks ago! It literally took only a minute to do (one suture) and she was talking and eating a popsicle when I was allowed to see her just moments later. Her tongue was sore for a day and she just needed liquid ibuprophen (and lots of popsicles). She really is speaking more clearly already. Sofia will do great!! Good luck!

Karim Scharf - Hi Jonni, thanks for your visit on my blog! You have beatiful kids!!

Kristy - I am sure all went just great! I hope your weekend is just awesome!!

Love and blessings, Kristy

kerri - Sending our love and best wishes for a speedy recovery!
Glad you were able to bump up the surgery time!

Sue - We are hoping all went well with Sofia.

Were thinking about her.

Sue & Jadyn

Faith Hope Love Photography - Thinking and praying for her today…Taya had the tongue clipping done at 6 months and it was a breeze so hope that parts goes as well for her. It didn't blead or she didn't notice it even had happened. Keep us updated!

Colleen - Lots of good wishes and prayers for tomorrow even though I know everything will go just fine for Sofia.
I have been meaning to email you forever! Such a busy time right now with the end of school. Will catch up soon and keep us posted on how everything goes!

Anonymous - God bless little Sophia. Be brave little one.

Amy K. - I'll be thinking of you guys tomorrow! Hope it all goes smoothly.

Hugs to Sophia,
Amy

GGHadden - Oh Jonni, you have become such a good mommie. I can remember the days when a bit of blood would freak you right out and look at you now :) Good luck to Sofia, she will do well…..she is such a trooper. Gosh I will be glad (and you too) when little "Sof" is all done with these surgeries. Smooches from me!

Anonymous - We'll all be thinking about you, little Miss Sofia – hoping for a speedy recovery. We know she's in good hands, just like Helaina always is with her surgeries. With Helaina's last surgery we were actually in the nurses' station in an area the size of a closet, so hopefully you'll at least be more comfortable in the new hospital! Roberta

Half Gaelic, Half Garlic! - Best of luck tomorrow! I will say a few prayers for your sweet girl!! So glad that you were able to move her surery up so she doesn't have to go so long without food…..that would be so hard for such a little one.

Give us an update when you can!

xoxo,

Lisa

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

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