Chinese New Year Celebrations ~ Year of the DRAGON

This year we switched things up a bit. Usually we go out to dinner and celebrate with our friends and their daughter Lucy. This year we decided it would be fun to share our girls culture and heritage with those closest to us.   We threw our own party! It was so much fun to share Chinese New Year with friends and family and we hope to continue this tradition from now on! We had over 60 people attend!

On the menu

Teriyaki Chicken

Sweet and Sour Chicken

Fried Rice

White Rice

Dumplings

Egg Rolls

Chinese Chicken Salad

and of course everyone had their own set of chopsticks! 

And for dessert Dawn and I hand made almond & cashew cookies; ordered fortune cookies and this lovely cake

In honor of the DRAGON ...isn't he something!

Chocolate cake with a wonderful cherry mousse filling ...Yummy!

Faith and Lucy

The pose

My sweet little Chinese Empress

 Smiley girl

All dressed up and ready to party!  I love how the flag is in the background.  My Chinese American Girly!

~ Candy Making~

I really don't know what to call these...I originally called the post baking... but no oven, then I switched to candy making ,but they are not really candy? Well what ever they are they are heavenly. I was asked to make some for a baby shower that I was unfortunately unable to attend because it was on my hubby's birthday.

  It's a good thing because I would have eaten them all myself.

Oreo Truffles

for a baby shower





16 oz Oreo

8 oz cream cheese

1 bag chocolate chips

1 TLB oil



Crush cookies in blender mix in cream cheese.  Refrigerate.  Roll into balls.  Refrigerate.  Dip into melted chocolate.  Refrigerate.  There is a theme here :)

~Baking~

This Post I can offically call Baking, here is the Pineapple Upsidedown Cake I make for Jeff's birthday!

Happy Chinese New Year ~ Year of the Dragon :)

Flash Frozen in Seattle

We have had some extreme weather here, but it is beautiful!  I couldn't stop taking pictures of the ice that had formed on everything.  Unfortunately this ice has brought down trees, power lines, carports, and everything else in its path.   One night my son Dallin came running into our room, something loud had scratched against his upstairs window.  After investigation we realized a limb had broke off our tree.  We are so glad the windows didn't break.  We were also very fortunate to have kept power throughout the week, and our children were fortunate to miss an entire week of school!  We were the only neighborhood in our area that kept power and had a few extra guests throughout the week too :)   Here are a few of my favorite pictures straight from the camera :)

Japanese Maple Tree in front of our house

Snowy Urn

This is a picture of the tree before it broke :(

another angle

Fountain in the front

Loving these pics!

The cul de sac tree

Flag :)