Our Valentine's Day celebrations

We started partying early on Friday at Eli's school with an Ice Cream Sundae party! It was Yummy!!

Eli with his creation.

What a lot of loot!

The gummy worms were a big hit. Try it with your friends sometime.

The next morning, v-day proper, we went to Lowe's to do some woodworking.

Adrienne working intently on her heart jewlery box.

Eli focusing on the nail holes, trying to get it just right!

The finished boxes.

Portraits

We took a few pictures of the kids today. Here are a few of our favorites.

Adrienne wanted to be the photographer too.

"Now look at me. Smile!", she said.

Hiroko's Wedding

Here are some photos from Hiroko's Wedding. Hopefully soon, Mom & I will be going for the Wedding Reception.

Sewing

Here are a few of the projects that I have been working on for friends.


Pillows for the couch.

A fancy tablecloth.

With really heavy fabric, I might add.

A bench seat cushion.

Take a look at those corners. Whew!

The kids were invited to a birthday party with a slide & jumpy house. Of course the adults were invited too & we did our share of jumping around.

Look at that hair go flying!

His too!

Look! It's Spiderman!!

Well, actually it was Tony, but he had us all fooled for a minute.

Getting ready to go down the slide.

This is Isaiah. Derrek & Mariah's littlest one for those of you who know them. He's turning 2 soon & he can dribble a basketball, dribble a soccer ball(with his feet), play ping-pong and shoot a basketball. The boy has more athletic ability than I've ever seen. Amazing.


Mariah on the right.


As I said the parents got in on the action & a good time was had by all.

Chinese New Year

We as a family went to the Discovery Center to celebrate the Chinese New Year. We got to make crafts, go on a scavenger hunt, sample food & see a dragon!

Guess who? (See Tony in the background?)

Adrienne kept flapping the mouth open & closed & made it very difficult to get a shot of her smile. :)

Eli in the Dragon costume.

The real dragon dancers.

They came around & the kids got to feed the dragon. So thrilling to have a dragon so close!

And... Eli made it into the newspaper with his dragon creation.