Journey to our Mei Mei: Chinese New Year

Yesterday was the start of the Chinese New Year. To celebrate a part of Mei Mei's culture we decided to take part in a Chinese New Year celebration. We had some dear friends of ours over (also known as our framily) and celebrated the new year.

We started off our evening with a little Origami. We successfully made hearts and not so successfully made dragons.

We then after spending WAY too much time on the dragon decided to make dinner. Had to play some Chinese New Year music to continue in the celebration. A little dancing while cooking never hurt anyone right?

We ordered out some Sweet and Sour Chicken, and egg rolls from the local Chinese restaurant. Then I made some homemade Chicken Fried rice and Melanie whipped up a batch of Longevity Noodles. A custom Chinese dish that says the longer the noodle you get, the longer life you will live. Our noodles were pretty long! The food was delish!

We also attempted to eat all of our food with chop sticks. It was quite entertaining!

Our meal wouldn't be complete without fortune cookies. We attempted to bake homemade ones. Carter was the master chef but unfortunately I fear I had given him a bad recipe because they failed miserably and tasted nasty. Oh well we tried. We DID have fun writing fortunes for our cookies. This fortune seemed appropriate, we mine as well dropped it on the floor because the taste was so horrendous.

Luckily Jordan didn't know we were making homemade fortune cookies so he picked up a bag at the Chinese restaurant. So we shoved our homemade fortunes into the yummy tasting cookies and had a blast opening them, eating them, and reading the fortunes.

After the meal I gave all the kids their red envelopes filled with Gold Coins, dollar ones and chocolate ones too! We had Oranges on the table and HiChew candies.