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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Year of the Tiger

Now some of you may have celebrated February 14th with some sappy hearts, flowers, or chocolates- but not us! No sir- we didn't celebrate some Hallmark holiday- we celebrated the Chinese New Year! We had tons of food and lots of friends over. Happy Year of the Tiger!

We got lots of decorations and food- I made that awesome Dragon above.

Our little Buddha shrine - including the paper money

Oranges and bamboo- apparently traditional New Year's decor

I went crazy with a pack of red construction paper- decorating on the cheap

Peeps at the party- including 5 little ones running around

We had dragon masks for the kids to color

Everyone got to try on the traditional farmers hat

A tradition- burning paper money for your ancestors. The kids REALLY liked being allowed to light things on fire. The paper money below.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Go Red Wings! A Detroit Tradition!

We got a chance to go see the Red Wings play the other night. It is HUGE here and a lot of fun. They are a great team.

We met up with our friends Courtney and Jamie down in Greektown after the game. Fun times!

Christmas Time Is Here

I love Christmas time and couldn't wait to decorate our little home. We graduated to a full size tree this year and even have a mantle to hang our stockings with care.

Merry Christmas!!! Detroit pride!

At Lisa's work Christmas party- very fun!

Monday, December 7, 2009

Turkey Time

Rick and I got to escape to California for Thanksgiving time- it was wonderful fun and sooo warm! I was seriously like sweating from the 80-degree weather- not that I'm complaining though!