Back to Beijing

Despite how nice it was to be home with our families and in America, it's nice be back in the good ol' Beijing. It's good to be back in our regular routine and be back in our apartment. Will especially missed all of his toys and was knee deep in them pretty much as soon as we walked through the door!

We had a really great holiday in the States and a super fabulous week in Mexico over the break.

Joel's awesome fish!

Will got lots of much needed cousin play time.

This beach bed was really fun until.....

It broke!

Our time in Utah with our families was especially nice. Because it was winter for this visit, we weren't as busy out doing things and were able to spend more time just playing at home with our loved ones.

The car was parked!!

Joel and I went to Rodizio's for our anniversary. Delicious!

Both of our families had presents for us and Will and so we were able to have a late Christmas. It was so nice!

We did a lot of flying this trip and thankfully each flight went really well. We are lucky that Will is happy to play by himself with his cars and stays content for most of the 11 hours on the plane.

When we made it back to Beijing, we hadn't realized that there would be a shortage of taxi's at the airport because we came back during the week of Chinese New Year and it had been snowing which means a lot of taxi drivers aren't out because they are afraid of driving in the snow. The waiting line for a taxi was SO long and it was freezing outside. Luckily, we found a nice guy who was doing some illegal taxi driving with his own car and he took us home so we didn't have to wait in the middle of the night and the freezing cold for a taxi to take us home. That was definitely a blessing!

Since we've been back, we've been pretty lucky to have mostly decent air quality and have been able to go outside most days. Yesterday was an especially nice day and Joel had a half day off work so we headed outdoors!

Will was so excited to be able to see clouds in the sky!

Hopefully we'll have more and more nice days as spring gets closer. I am getting antsy for warmer weather so we don't have to spend as much time inside!