Joys of Life with Lucy: Birthdays

Continuing on the life update via pictures....

Here are some pictures from Christmas & my birthday

Again, I'll try to keep my commentary to a minimum. I've decided that when you're this far behind on life updates, you have lost the privilege of good commentary and must let the pictures speak for themselves. Or something like that.

ANYWAY....

Christmas in public was amusing again this year....

{just like last year}

This hair salon sure knew how to do things real classy.... at least it's all spelled right.

These littles were selling apples for PingAnYe (Christmas Eve here).

We hosted a little get together for all of Adam's classmates....

Where I won this fun little Muff in a friendly game of White Elephant.

This little one LOVES her GeGe MingYu {older brother Adam's East Asian name}

And was really excited to see what he got her (Christmas window clings as she tried to convince us to give her all of ours a week earlier).

For Christmas Eve we celebrated a little differently than last year. We got together with a lot of the foreigners here for a big potluck dinner...

and another stingy game of white elephant. Hannah won this sweet like emo girl piggy bank.

And we all won with lots of time with this chubby little snuggly boy.

Then we sang some carols by the fire....

with folks dressed up like eskimos.

I made a quick stop by the fish restaurant to wish my little buddy "Little Fish" a Merry Christmas.

Then it was to the roof for fireworks. Someone is frequently looking for any opportunity to shoot them off, and Christmas clearly makes the cut.

While we were up there, we saw these lanterns floating off in the distance.

I also took this from the roof- it is our friend's building where they live, but it kind of gives a good idea of what our apartment building looks like.

Christmas Morning

Grady got a new super cool parking garage

We had a delicious lunch with imported Ham. So delicious.

Nicole made this incredibly divine peppermint chocolate cake.

I can't begin to tell you how delicious it was. I'll try to get the recipe and share it with you.

So stinkin good.

And finally, Santa stopped by.

This kid couldn't get much cuter!

You can see how we celebrated last year here.

Then a few weeks later, we celebrated my 27th birthday before heading to Thailand.

Hannah made some awesome posters for me. I love a "Tender Tennessee" anything... not just Christmas. So she created a Tender Tennessee Birthday for me.