Happy Chinese New Year!

Mason, Andrew and Brandon in their Vietnamese outfits Grandma Quach bought for them in Vietnam.
Bailey, Simon and Taryn's arm cutting out the cookies.

Levi being a goofball.

Bailey thinking hard on what to write on his fortune for the cookies.

Taryn came up with some good ones!

Simon predicting the future.

Chinese New Year happened to be on a Monday and the kids had off of school. We invited the neighbors, the Nicklas', to come play, eat take out Chinese food and have some fun. We even made these fortune cookies.

Donna's 50th Birthday

Our wonderful friend, Donna Smith, turned 50 on January 26th. We surprised her with a party and dinner at Aki, the new Japanese restaurant in town. Donna ALWAYS has a good time wherever she is and lets just say, she had a blast on her 50th!

Her husband, BG, on the right displaying his appetizer. Craig is on the left and I think he has his fork ready to attack anyone trying to get to his sushi!

Thinh's appetizer and he ordered a meal, where does he put it all?

Love watching the hibachi chef's cook!

Brandon's Stage Debut with Mimi and Papa Too!

Mom and dad got picked to participate in "Password" at the show. Although they did not win, they still won a night's stay at a Holiday Inn in Harrisburg!
Brandon thoroughly enjoyed participating in the elementary chorus at the Capitol Theatre. He is singing, Hey Hobo Man here.

I think this is Your are Never Fully Dressed without a Smile. You could just see how much he loved being on stage and just sang away!

Andrew's Off Broadway Debut!!!

Andrew and Brandon were part of a Chambersburg Community Theater in January. Andrew sang in the Kiddie Korps and had a great time. He sang, Toe, Knee, Chest, Nut and Are You Sleeping and If You're Happy and You Know It...The top pic is of him doing "all 3" in the last song, good air Andrew!

Monday Morning Fun

After Brandon went to school finally from his 2 hour delay, Mason, Andrew, Thinh and I loaded up to go to the YMCA. Mason is fine going into the child care room as long as his big brother Andrew is with him. We stopped at home quick, after the Y, and picked up Tazzy to go along to the McD's drive thru for the boys. Tazzy needed to get out of the house. Doesn't take much for us to have some fun!

Movie Night

Space Chimps, the movie, very cute and kept their attention, well, most of it anyway.
Tonight, Thinh decided to get take out from Red Lobster, he had a gift card and then have movie night. He took Andrew and Mason with him to pick up the food and Brandon and I got busy preparing at home. We set the table and then...made homemade tickets, money and signs and set up the "snack bar". Brandon was very excited to say the least. After dinner, the boys took showers and the fun began. B handed out "money" to each of us. $5.00 for the movie ticket and $1.00 bills for the snacks. Andrew went first. Brandon was set up in the hallway. He purchased his ticket, bought some snacks and then had to go around to the steps for B to take his ticket for "entrance" into the movie theater a.k.a the family room. Next was Mason, who actually followed suit as if we did this every night, then Thinh and I. Brandon had price tags on little bags of cookies, little drinks set up and even the popped popcorn in which he put it in their new plastic popcorn bags they got in their stockings from Santa. What a fun night!

Broken camera!!!

I was taking some pictures of the ice storm the other day, when Mason begged to take some pics. Nothing new, he has done it before, except this time, he dropped my camera!!! So, I called Circuit City who directed me to call Sony and now it is somewhere between here and Texas to be repaired! I told all 3 of them not to do anything too cute until I get my camera back.