Welcome to My Website
Welcome to my new website Hopefully this will be the last change and I’ll actually get to start writing again. The previous site simply wasn’t what I was looking for and had some security...
Life Overflowing Blog
Mid-Winter Swim (Inside!)
The Mass Winter Exodus Now that Josh and I are living here as students with a company we have encountered a new kind of expat. Unbeknownst to us before, most Westerners leave the country...
Travel By Airplane
Discussion: Jaden traveled from Texas to our new home in Xinjiang by taking 3 different airplanes. It took him 30 hours to get here. That is more than one whole day! On the plane,...
What to Bring When You Move
Discussion Topic: A few months ago, Jaden moved to a brand new house in a different country. Since it was so far away he could only bring a couple suitcases. He had to go...
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! I can’t believe how crazy it got around here. Since y’all got our newsletter I won’t go back over it all but I will go into more detail on some of...
Seeing Old Friends
We ventured out of U-town this weekend. We took the four hour trip north to the city where we lived during our first stint out here in XJ. It was great and exhausting at...
Rainbows After the Storm
Here is an excerpt I wrote as we were moving here. The Father has continued to provide and it has become easier but I wanted to share with you the thoughts I had amidst...
Recap on Our Arrival to U-town Part 2
After moving into our second hotel, Josh started taking steps to begin classes. Surprisingly, we arrived during one of their holidays. So we had a few extra days to get settled before we...
A Recap on Our Journey to U-town
Dallas > 4 hrs >Los Angeles >13 hrs> Taipei >7 hrs> Urumqi Its quite a journey to get to the other side of the world. Its truly a journey when it entails a 1...
Welcome Y’all
At last, I’ve finally been able to find a venue for my thoughts and pictures. This site isn’t quite how I envisioned my site to look like but it will due for now. What...
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