Making some special Valentine's cards

Chinese New Year part 1

We had our school friends over last Friday night to celebrate the Chinese New Year. We all ordered our favorite Chinese food and then we shared which was fun. Lia and I made seven dozen sugar cookies (the gluten free kind from scratch for our family) to make Chinese moon pies. You put jam between two sugar cookies so Lia helped me and we "frosted" all the cookies into jam sandwiches.

Lia, Chloe and I also made some really cool Chinese dragons out of brown paper bags for the occasion. Chloe adored putting the bag over her head and growling like a dragon.

This Saturday we are going to a Chinese New party with several of our friends so I'll have lots more pictures to post after that : )

We'll always have Paris.....

Well the reason I haven't been blogging much in the past few weeks is because I was busy getting ready to go on vacation and then I was away on that vacation. Dan and I took almost nine days away and went on a cruise!! We went to the Eastern Caribbean to the Dominican Republic, St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands and to the Bahamas. We had such a fabulous time!!! It was so nice to be somewhere where it was sunny and warm and no one needed us to do anything for them : )) We saw some hilarious shows on the boat and just a great laugh! Unfortunately now it's back to the reality of cold and snow and work. Oh well.....we'll always have Paris right?

Christmas joy!