Happy Chinese New Year

No, we're not asian, but we get a kick out of celebrating the holiday anyway.  A couple friends of ours introduced the holiday to us several years ago and we love reasons to celebrate.  Their celebration was much more authentic then ours, it helps if your asian, but we still love to get out the chinese food and chopsticks, and everyone is happy.  We had stir fry for lunch.  Then we googled fortune cookies and decided to put a bit of a twist on it.  We found scriptures with blessings and wrote those out and put them in our home made cookies.  Our first attempts weren't quite right but eventually we got it.  Then we worked together to make orange chicken, won tons, and egg rolls, those were from packages (we did make our own sweet and sour sauce).  Unfortunately, dinner got interrupted with a trip to the emergency room.  All is well now.  The trip wasn't because of the food.  :)  The dessert was fun because we had to improvise.  When we made the cookies I didn't have any almond flavoring so we used banana flavoring.  I thought it added a nice flavor.  The girls got to dress up in their asian clothes from our dear friend, Ms Lien and all was well.  Hope you enjoy the pictures.  Have a blessed day.  Alicia

Searching for blessings in the Bible

our first attempt

still working on it

much better

Latisha's happy

cute outfits

dinner almost served

the finished product