We are Parents…

of Bunnies!!!

  

Meet Ying and Yang…

Ying is the cute little girl (we think) and Yang is the fun bigger male.  I guess we’ll really find out what Ying is if we start to find other little bunnies…but for now, just her sweet personality screams girl, while Yang is speedy Gonzalez and all over the place!

They are the first (and most certainly not the last ;) to

join our little Hastings family.

Y & Y are hopefully baby dwarf bunnies (our apartment is great…but a little on the small side for BIG bunnies). Cleaning up after them is helping us practice for real parenting positions…and we LOVE them!

 

In other news:

• We’re slowly getting our apartment put together.  We’ve finally figured out where to get the good stuff on the cheap, have a couple of rugs for the living room, found my dream bed set and pillows at silk street in Beijing (that place is worthy of a whole other post!) and are gearing up to paint our wall either a bold red or a bold teal.  We’ve also started decorating for the holidays, which really helps to feel more at home!

Trick or Treat!!!

We’ll see how many kids we get this year! Happy what?!

(I had to dig through the gourd section at the store, but finally found one that somewhat resembled a pumpkin!)

• Cooking.  Good old fashioned American (or anything close to it) cooking is hard to find here.  BUT…we’re also figuring that out…slowly. ;)  We got an oven, so that helps since almost everybody here only fries things on hot plates (blech). After bartering for some imported powdered sugar from the relief society pres. in our branch, I made a batch of home made cinnamon rolls that turned out pretty dang good!

• Work = chaos that is getting better.  We’ve had a crazy busy first month…but I guess that’s what you can expect with a change in management, especially if you’re the new management!  It’s already gotten better though and I feel like the company’s made some real progress.  I have a great team of teachers and love how the Chinese receive our school and our marketing. Here’s a picture of a party we threw for marketing…

• The Chinese love fireworks…we see them every night from our apartment…but we had our own little pyrotechnic show in our apartment this month.  Jordan was lying down with the laptop on his stomach (and more manly parts), got up and less than 2 seconds later…BOOM!!! His battery exploded and started a fire in our room.  I was in the living room and heard this huge bang, looked around the corner and saw flames under the door.  We put it out but it kept exploding like a firework fountain.  Everything but our floor left with a nasty battery acid hole was fine…but I’m pretty sure HP is getting a few phone calls. ;)

These are the charred remains of J’s battery!

• I’ve passed my first language test and it was the same one I took in Brazil…TMI, I know, but you know you are on your way to independence in a country when you can go to the pharmacy and get your birth control!  Sort of sad here though, they didn’t really know what it was and kept trying to hand me the abortion pill. Mmmm…No thank-you.
• My sweet dog, Corkey passed away.  He was the best dog ever (yes, J…even better than Shasta!) and lived to the ripe old age of 18ish.  My mom said he got really sick and started having what seemed like strokes the day that J and I left for China.  I feel like my favorite dog stuck it out one last time for me.  Thanks Corkey.  I still remember picking you out at the pound, growing up with you, you barking at old boyfriends you never liked and our many trips around the block as you pulled Nic and I on the scooter  or our roller blades (you were one buff ten pound pup).  So many good memories and many more to come, as I’m sure my two grandmas upstairs are taking good care of you.  Love you Cork.