Hannah loves singing in the kids choir at church even though she gets quite nervous before they sing on stage. I love to watch my girl sing praises to our Lord and King!!
The kids first sing one song during the 2 morning services
and then in the evening the children present an entire musical. They work on this each Sunday evening for a number of months and their hard work sure pays off. Great job Hannah!!
For a while I’ve wanted to do a DNA test with Hannah to see if I could find out any new information for her. I ordered a kit for her and she was excited!
I had been concerned about what I would say to her but I need not have been concerned. She saw the box and exclaimed, ‘I’ve wanted to do this!’ LOL – and we were off!
Part 1 was filling the tube with spit. LOL – my girl did great! She was on a mission.
Afterwards we mixed it up; sealed it up;
And mailed it off.
Her results were ready in about 2 weeks and I remember my heart beating quickly as I prepared to open them. I said a quick prayer as I knew what I read there could change things as we knew them.
In the end the results were wonderful and I learned so much! Not a huge surprise but I found out that she is 100% Chinese. What was interesting was to see what parts of Chinese ancestors make up my sweet girl.
The health portion was great as it was a way to find out more about Hannah. I laughed when it said things like she likely had a Photic Sneeze Reflex. This means she is likely to sneeze in the sun and she does – just like me – and her Grandma! LOL! God gave us all similar traits!
Something new that was recently added (they are constantly updating their website and things tested) and it say she is more likely to be bitten by mosquitoes. Sadly that’s true.
Some results were also off by a bit like the one that says she probably has light skin pigmentation. Umm, nope. I wouldn’t consider her to be light.
All in all I am so very thankful that we did this!! As of right now there are 514 other DNA relatives related to Hannah that have also completed the testing. To date the closest DNA relative to her is a third or fourth cousin but this can change as more people participate.
For those considering doing this I would highly recommend it! If you are interested in ordering a kit, please let me know and I’m happy to send a link to you.
It was wonderful to get together with family to celebrate Uncle Tim and Aunt Chris’ 50th Wedding Anniversary. What an amazing time of celebration!
It has been a long-time standing joke that Aunt Chris can find loose change anywhere! When they arrived at the party we welcomed them with a ‘red carpet’ of loose change. Too funny!
Uncle Tim is Dad’s youngest brother. It was great that all 3 brothers and his sister were together.
Aunt Chris’ sisters were there too. Neat to have a picture of all of their brothers and sisters together.
Happy 50th Anniversary Uncle Tim and Aunt Chris! We love you!!
We enjoyed a wonderful 4 days off together during the long Easter weekend. It’s always such a treat to have 4 days in a row where neither of us has work or school!
As we prepared for Easter, we enjoyed our annual visit to a local market to visit the baby chicks.
We went to a Steve Green concert. Oh how I enjoy his concerts. Such a time of praise and worship!!
We also prepared for the weekend by decorating eggs. This year I heard of a new way to decorate them using whipped topping and neon food colouring. It was a neat way to do them, enjoyable for my creative girl and oh so pretty in the end!
She left the eggs out for the Easter Bunny.
Easter morning
Easter egg hunt at Grandma and Grandpa’s
It had been a while since my brothers and I had a picture taken together.
Off to church on Easter Sunday.
(Starting tomorrow…..Disney posts!!)
