Last night my family gave in to my coercion. They all agreed to do the Rockin' R triathlon with me in Gruene (pronounced like my favorite color), Texas! It's in four weeks and one day from now. I'm so excited that they're going to give it a shot. I ran 2.3 miles today and 2.6 miles yesterday. The run distance on this triathlon is just 3.3, so it's doable. The bike is 13.5 miles and the swim is 400 meters. Now the question is do I try to redeem myself from the awful stats I had last year by shaving off at least a half hour of my pathetic finish time or do I play mamabear to my cubs if they're needing some encouragement?
This picture was taken at church a few days ago while Kelly was on his way to the US for work this week. We have some wonderful news to share. We are adopting 7-year-old Yeh Min Yu, who has been in our home off and on the last couple of months. There's a lot that goes into making this official, dealing with US Homeland Security to arrange for her immigration visa, Taiwan courts and Chinese documents, getting a home study done by a licensed, qualified person, applying for a passport. You have no idea. I'll be glad when it's all done, but I couldn't wait to share this bit of joy with everyone. We will name her Hannah to go on her new US birth certificate. She's excited and nervous to go to America with us. She can say more than 100 words in English so far. Some of her favorite things to say are "small dog, butterfly, apple, pig." She says it more like pig-uh. We love her and feel this is one of the reasons we came to Taiwan....
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I think this is awesome. I can't wait to hear how it goes, and to see lots of pix!