New Year Activities!!

Since the New Year Ayden and I have been able to get out a bit in this chilly NC weather we have been having. We have been able to take the light rail uptown to Charlotte and enjoy an afternoon with great friends, Melissa and Clare, at the Imaginon Library. We have also been to the YMCA swimming with Melissa and Clare just yesterday, it was Ayden's first time and he loved every minute of it. I wish that I could have taken more pictures but seriously watching Ayden was the goal :) The ones I did snap are fun though!!
Melissa and Clare are friends that we have met through mutual friends! We have really enjoyed hanging out with them and enjoying new adventures together! Clare is one month older than Ayden and they are so close in age and play so well together it is really fun!! We are thankful for their lives and look forward to many more fun play dates!!

Christmas time is here!!!

We had a wonderful, quiet Christmas with just the three of us! Ayden had his first cold the week of Christmas but thankfully it was not bad and was over by the end of the week! We were so thankful for the gift of Jesus this Christmas and reminded again to remember His gift of salvation not just on Christmas day but everyday of the year!
We had a fun morning opening presents and stockings, watching the Christmas parade; I cooked and baked all afternoon which was really fun for me, and we ended the day with a yummy dinner with Danny and Jacqui and the Nativity Story movie afterwards!

Oh my, Oh my, has it been a long time...

Updates and more updates, that is my goal as I post this!! I am SO sorry, to all our friends and family that regularly look at our web page, that we have taken a vacation from blogging and updating you about our lives. We have had some really busy months with Ayden's Birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. I hope that the pictures themselves will bless you as you view them! We are continually being blessed by the Lord and reminded daily that He alone is in control of our lives, finances, needs, health, etc.
All these pictures are from Christmas and Ayden's birthday! We were very blessed to have Min's mom come and stay with us for 10 days! She cooked amazing food and just had a wonderful time together with us and Ayden too. She loves loves her grandson, as do his other grandparents; it was a great time together!

Baking with mommy!

Time as a family at the Billy Graham Library celebrating Christmas!!

Our Christmas tree!

Ayden learning how to decorate, and to not take ornaments off once they are on the tree! He did a really good job!!!

Seeing the Christmas tree for the first time all lit up!!

Sweet baby boy!!

Thanksgiving days with family!

Playing hoops!

Ayden's actual Birthday night, celebrating Korean tradition!

Our 1 year old!

Getting all ready in his outfit!

Playing with Uncle Danny and Elizabeth at his party!

Ayden's party!

Singing time :)

New and fun toys!

Friends and Family!

Friends!!

Cake...

and more cake!!

Fun Boy!!

We hope that you enjoyed those picture and the short update... I am going to do another post, which will be above this one for what Ayden and I have done in the New Year!! We have had some fun adventures!! Until then, may the Lord bless and keep you!!

Pumpkin patches and Fall Festivals

Hello all,
Happy Fall to each of you once again! The leaves are really changing here lately and can I just say that I LOVE Fall! Except for the time change situation; anyone who has babies or kids knows that they do not observe the whole time change concept therefore getting up an hour earlier than usual and being hungry an hour earlier as well. This I have found does not iron itself out for a few days... but they are still FUN days together :). Min and I too have really felt the day light savings this year; we are both ready for bed at 9pm! Maybe we are just getting old; who knows :)
We are enjoying the Fall days together and the nice chilly weather too; I cannot speak for Min as he is out in the elements daily but for Ayden and I it is really nice to be all cozy warm in the house when it's cold outside. We were able to take Ayden to the Pumpkin patch for his first time last Sunday. We left our house as the sun was going down and got there in enough time to pick our pumpkins, take bunches of pictures and have lots of fun before it got dark. Ayden loved the pumpkins and most of all he LOVED riding in a wagon; that is what we used to pick and pull our pumpkins around. We were just happy to have family time together and laugh in the beauty that God has created!

We carved our pumpkins mid week and Min and I did ours one night and then the next day we did Ayden's little one. We introduced him to pumpkin guts and he was not very fond of them at all. So we didn't force him to do anymore with the pumpkin, except look at the cool pictures once they were all carved! He liked that part :)

We took Ayden to our church's annual Fall Festival on Oct.31st and it was a great night! He really enjoyed just being around people and having the freedom to walk anywhere and everywhere. Our son loves to walk around! We are blessed with a wonderful church family that puts on events like this a couple times every year to encourage family time together!

We are planning a small trip to the mountains this weekend to see the beautiful wonder of the Lord in the Fall colors. We are traveling to Virginia and we are very excited about the beauty that awaits us. I also am very excited to take some great pictures of our little boy in the leaves!! Pictures to come! For now enjoy everyday and may we each be blessed right where the Lord has us!!
Love from our family to yours!

Walking and words!

Hello all,
We have had some fun and busy days in our household lately! I cannot believe that it is already October 20th. Where has October gone already. I told Min last night that I feel like yesterday should have been Oct 1st. I think that as Ayden's 1st Birthday draws near the time in our household seems to fly by even faster than usual... this makes me happy yet sad that our baby boy is turning one! Happy in many ways but sad that the first year and all the fun milestones; I have been told though time and time again that it gets better with every day, month, year... and we anticipate that very much!In the last month and a half or so, Ayden has grown bunches. He is now walking, as of the last two and a half weeks, and has began to mimic us in words and sounds, actions and giggles!! He is too funny when we are laughing about something he will just break out in laughter. :) His personality is continuing to develop in ways that we just love and he is beginning to learn more and more the word no-no; for the most part he is a very good listener, and we are thankful for that... but we know the two's await us. :)Ayden loves to walk!! He loves to hold toys or really anything in his little hands as he walks in circles around our couches and kitchen! He lately has become obsessed with our bedroom because Daddy's computer is in there and he loves to play with the keys on the keyboard and mouse. His room is straight down the hall from ours and when we leave his room he 9 times out of 10 makes a MAD dash for our bedroom, even if the door is closed he will attempt to push it open in hopes for some computer time :) I love these moments because we see his personality even more.Last week because of the rainy weather conditions Min was able to be home early from work a few days and this was really a fun time for the three of us! We are so thankful for God's timing and just the ability to take time together!! We are hoping to make it to the pumpkin patch this weekend, weather permitting, so that Ayden can discover pumpkins!! I am very excited about the pictures that will come from this adventure!!In the next few weeks we have some fun things to look forward to:
1) The Fall Festival at church on October 31st; this is Ayden's first time and it should be fun!!
2) Grandma Ho is coming to visit on November 17th!! We are so excited for her to come and see Ayden and our home!
3) Ayden turns ONE on November 19th!!!! Wow how time has flown and how thankful we are for Ayden's life!!
4) Ayden's Birthday party on November 21st!! First taste of cake and ice cream coming your way Ayden James!! :)
5) Thanksgiving! One of my favorite holidays of the year!!!Okay so lastly I will share some of the fun words that Ayden came now say... some better than others!
mama, dada, baba, night night, uh-oh, dog, star, stinky, and lots of other babbles and giggles!
He can makes the sounds for a doggie, snake, monkey and make a fishie face... now he is forsure not a pro at these things but these are the fun words and mimics that we have had so far :)
May you be blessed in this week as you seek and serve the Lord right where He has you!!
Our love sent your way :)

Williamsburg, VA and new jobs...

Hello all,
It has been about two weeks from our return from Williamsburg and we are so blessed to reflect back and thank the Lord for our mini vacation spend with greats friends and family! We traveled to VA in six and a half hours, the drive was great and Ayden slept like a champ!! We were blessed to stay right in Colonial Williamsburg, which was neat because everything was really in walking/shuttle distance. The first night we just hung out and had pizza; we walked around the shopping part of the area and came back pretty early so Ayden could get a good night's sleep. We had not slept with Ayden in the same room as us for a long time and we were not too sure how hw would be and if he would lay down. So we laid him down shut out all the lights and laid down ourselves until we knew he was asleep. He did okay and we were able to put lights back on while he was sleeping. He was a trooper the entire weekend!!
Saturday morning we had the bet continental breakfast I have ever had, it was quite the spread, and I went to watch the kids from the Army Retreat for the morning, while Ayden napped and Min hung out in the room.
It was a really neat experience for me to meet kids from different families; there was one family with nine children. I spoke with them and their mom (dad was deployeed) and found out that they were believers!! It was really neat chatting with the kids, and playing games with them. There were a total of fifteen kids and four adults. We were with them both Saturday and Sunday morning and I had a blast meeting them as well as the other ladies who were watching them. The Chaplin that was holding the retreat for the families was a Christian and had the couples/spouses watch Fireproof and even send them home with a copy. I was encouraged at the retreat knowing that they were learning Christian values for their marriages and families!
Saturday afternoon we met up with our friends Harry Howard and Katrina! It was such a blessing to see them both again. We saw them during our time in DC last year as well and times with them are always fun and full of laughs! Harry was in our wedding and has been a good friend since high school to Min and I, and we are thankful that we have met Katrina through Harry! We also loved that Ayden was able to meet them!! He loved hanging out with them!!! :)
Sunday after watching the kids once again we headed to Jamestown to watch them blow glass and to maybe finds an adventure there. :) We enjoyed our time there; saw the water, ships and some other neat things. After that we ate some lunch and traveled home. We were really blessed by the time away and the weekend that was provided for us with the retreat. I look forward to more opportunities like this maybe in the future... who knows.
Min began his new job two days after we got home and it has been going well for him! He is learning new things, meeting new people and I think overall he is very thankful and blessed by this job that the Lord has provided for our family!
This is just a side note but our good friend Brian Douglas had been deployed in Iraq for the last four months and his wife Kimberly and I are in a weekly Bible study together; he just got to come home for tow weeks and a little r&r. We were so blessed to see him and spend time with him!! We are hopefully going to have them over for a Korean meal this weekend! I will take pictures then and post them later :) We praise the Lord that He has kept Brian safe in a distant land and that He has given him strength to fight well for our country!!
A little update on our growing boy... I took him to the doctor this past Friday 8/28/09 and he is 29 inches long, almost 21 pounds heavy. Min and I were convinced that he would weigh more but we were wrong. :) Ayden is doing well he had a wonderful checkup and the doc said that his top gums were swollen so that means we have more teeth on the way shortly!! He is growing physically and in personality everyday!! We just are so in love with this little boy of ours!!
We pray this finds you each doing well and thanks again for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers!!!

Love,
Kimmy and the boys :)