Chinese New Year second go round

What a wonderful day we had. FCCH had a Chinese New Year celebration at the International Trade Center. When we got there we were handed a bag with some things in it. Then we watched the girls dance. They were very pretty and did a wonderful job. After, we went and had pictures taken by a photographer. Sarah fell in love with the tigers that were for the pictures. The photographer fell in love with Sarah and asked if she could use her on her website. I will have to check to see if she is there. After, Sarah wanted to go play games outside. She had a blast playing the games. Some of them were; bowling, ring toss, money toss, chopstick race, duck ring toss and many more. They also had finger foods to taste and try. There was a silent auction that went on thoughout the day. They also had lion dancers, and at the end had a lanturn walk with popping bubbles. They gave the kids many little gifts. We took Janet and Wendy and Emma with us. We met up with the Fourniers and the Norris' and went to dinner all together. Craig and I had our family picture taken with all the kids. Everyone was happy and very tired!!

Chinese New Year

What a wonderful Chinese New Year celebration we had. We started in the morning off with Valentine's and sleeping in. Then after lunch we got dressed in our Chinese dresses and went to the Gylling's house to celebrate The Year of the Tiger. There were 7-8 different families there and all the girls were dressed up. When we got there, they were beginning to make dumplings. It was hard to get Sarah interested but once she made one, she made 100. The adults also liked making the dumplings. After dumpling making, we made crafts. Donna had 3 different crafts for the girls to make. There was a take out box to decorate, a mobile to make and zodiac scratch off coloring. All the girls had fun with the crafts.
We went ourtide to take pictures of the firls and some adults with the lion head on and then went in and ate and played the Wii. The girls were playing the guitar, drums and singing to the Beatles. It was a fabulous day. Each girl went home with 3red envelopes. It was a good thing we had Monday off the recoperate from the weekend.

100 day at school

Today was 100 day at school. Everyone was asked to dress as they would look at 100 years old. Russ got up early and painted my face and then I applied makeup so that I would also look 100. I had bought a grey wig at Party City. Russ and I picked out clothes for the day and I had a good time fooling the kids and teachers. I had several want to know if I were a sub or needed help.