It was great to have a day off part way through the week. I had a whole list of things I had wanted to get done today, most of them in preparation for Brynn's birthday parties this weekend. We did get strawberry cupcakes made for her friend party and part of her cake for her family party baked.
To follow is the main reason I didn't get any of the other things on my list accomplished today. When I was younger, on New Year's Eve we would sometimes go to my aunt Cindy and uncle Carey's house in Bismarck to celebrate the new year holiday. Everyone would pitch in to make Chinese food from scratch and then we'd play Pictionary until at least midnight. It was so much fun. Since both Dana and I had to work yesterday, it didn't leave us much time to make a bunch of homemade Chinese food when we got home, so we thought it would be fun to do today instead. My aunt kindly sent me the recipes last night. We made egg rolls, won tons, fried rice and soup. We are still full....and exhausted. Brynn was into helping and I was hoping to get more pictures of her in the mix, but she was helping cut the onions up with a scissors and sustained a nasty cut. She was out of commission for helping after that. Poor thing. And unfortunately I didn't have any of my relatives around today to get in a game of Pictionary, but it was still kind of like old times. Thanks, Auntie Cindy, for the recipes! Everything turned out great - and Dana said they were the best egg rolls he's ever had!
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| The mix REALLY smelled like strawberry! |
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| Taking an opportunity for a little math lesson in the middle of baking. ;-) |
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| She got it right! |
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| Ms. Supervisor and me. |
To follow is the main reason I didn't get any of the other things on my list accomplished today. When I was younger, on New Year's Eve we would sometimes go to my aunt Cindy and uncle Carey's house in Bismarck to celebrate the new year holiday. Everyone would pitch in to make Chinese food from scratch and then we'd play Pictionary until at least midnight. It was so much fun. Since both Dana and I had to work yesterday, it didn't leave us much time to make a bunch of homemade Chinese food when we got home, so we thought it would be fun to do today instead. My aunt kindly sent me the recipes last night. We made egg rolls, won tons, fried rice and soup. We are still full....and exhausted. Brynn was into helping and I was hoping to get more pictures of her in the mix, but she was helping cut the onions up with a scissors and sustained a nasty cut. She was out of commission for helping after that. Poor thing. And unfortunately I didn't have any of my relatives around today to get in a game of Pictionary, but it was still kind of like old times. Thanks, Auntie Cindy, for the recipes! Everything turned out great - and Dana said they were the best egg rolls he's ever had!
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