George and Ruth Family: June 2009

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Post Beijing Trip and George's Graduation

We bought the older grandchildren "Chinese Silk Pajamas". They were soooo cute. The boys looked very "manly" in their Red dragon paddy jackets pants (lost the picture). In June we enjoyed going to many activities for George's graduation. It was an interesting experience for me....hard to see your last child leave home. Ruth and I are on a new adventure now!

6 Grandkids in the Tub! (They're not going to be happy with me in 15 years from now!!)

Kate and Gigi in their new Chinese Silk Jamies

Kate, Gigi, Bella, and Eleanor

Gigi and Kate, "primping"

Jackson helping Grandma in the Kitchen

Ward Graduation party at the Alvarez's home

George and Ruth at Graduation

George "Squared" at graduation

Beijing Trip - May 2009

My employer, Lenovo has asked me to take a two year assignement in Beijing. I was not sure that I was quite ready for this much of an adventure yet. Since I was hesitant, our CFO asked me to bring Ruth over to Beijing for an "assessment" trip. We took our assessment trip in mid-may. We very much enjoyed our trip. For a city of 17 million people, we found Beijing remarkable clean and beautiful. We loved the "sites" and the "people" that we met. So we decided that we would accept the assignment. We will move to Beijing later this summer to start our assignment. We are excited for the adventure to begin.

Ruth watching "Leo" do Chinese Caligraphy (Leo was a college student we met on the street)