New Wheels

After church today we picked up Ryan’s new wheels:

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t Mess with Etiquette!

It’s been a long week of Daddy having crazy hours.  Like 3:30am to 8:15pm tonight.  I feel a little guilty that I am going to go out for the afternoon with a friend tomorrow since he is exhausted, but this girl needs to get away from her kids!  The upshot of Daddy missing dinner tonight was that I got to bring out the Mac ‘n Cheese for dinner.  Only bummer was the lack of Spam!  (Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it!) 

So I’m a big believer in writing thank you notes.  I know, I’ve said it before.  For some reason this last Christmas I had a really hard time getting thank you notes out.  We got Ryan’s out but each of mine was like pulling a tooth, no offense to any of you that were kind enough to give me something!  By the time I got down to the last couple it was already well into January.  Hmmm, since one of them never sent me one themselves I was thinking maybe I could get away with skipping theirs this year.  Well, it kept bothering me but as long as my mailbox was empty I was willing to risk it.  Now it’s February and it was still on my mind.  Guess what I got in the mail today!  Now I feel like a big dork sending one in February after I just got theirs.  See what happens when you fool around with proper etiquette!

Hot Pot Time!

It’s the year of the bunny!  Happy Chinese New Year and Happy Korean New Year too!

 

  Once again my decorating skills stretched to their limits!

 

 The Chinese have some pretty good traditions…like getting together and sitting around a table filled with yummy food for the hot pot to celebrate the new year.  Don’t worry Tessie, the raw food is all cooked in the pot of hot broth.  We had a wonderful time with friends and enjoying all of this wonderful food with them.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  The kids enjoyed a cute Chinese New Year book.  I tried to find one for Korean New Year, but I couldn’t find one in the store.  I need to go online I guess.

 

  Pretty sure Erik didn’t miss the Korean book this year!

 

 

 

 Picking out the right nose!

(we all have our favorite M&M colors!)

 

 

 

 Another fun tradition (for the kids, not the old folks giving up hard earned dollars) is getting red envelopes with money inside.  Each of the kids got an envelope from our friends.

 

I have my limits!  I did not clean our house from top to bottom (or from side to side for that matter.)  Seems like a good tradition, but I’m going to risk it and get ready for school instead.

 

Snow After All!