We've been busy lately!

Here are a few of the Family Fun Nights that we've had in the last week:

• On Thursday we celebrated Chinese New Year. We had a great Chinese dinner of homemade lemon chicken, crab rangoon, egg roll, and fortune cookies. I made the lemon chicken. It is so delicious, tastes just like Chinese take out and is so much cheaper. Chuck picked the rest of the food up from China Road. The kids had Chinese New Year coloring pages, it is the Year of the Tiger, and we talked about China.
• On Friday we celebrated Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Many years ago we celebrated both Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays separately, but now we lump them together on President's Day. Well since I believe that both of those men are extremely important to the history of our nation and if Christopher Columbus and Martin Luther King, Jr. get their own days, then in my house Lincoln and Washington will have their own days! For Lincoln Day we read a book about Lincoln and then reenacted the Civil War. It was great fun, but unfortunately The South won and we are all in a very different situation!
• Sunday we celebrated Valentine's Day and had a remembrance day for my grandma. For breakfast we had heart shaped waffles with strawberries. The rest of the day was pretty crazy. We had a tea party at my mom's with tea sandwiches, scones, cheese ball, sugar cookies, and brownies, and of course TEA! It was yummy. The kids then went with their aunt and uncle to the Lippanzaner (sp) Horse Show. The kids had so much fun and loved watching the horses. Chuck and I went out for a quick bite to eat and then watch Four Christmases.
• Up next, on Saturday will be George Washington Day, we will definitely be having a cherry pie! We also have been having Olympic Days here and there and I hope that we can wrap it up with one big final Olympic party.