Our Family

Last Saturday we celebrated a belated Chinese new year with folks from church. A Chinese couple from our church arranged for the preparation of a ton of Chinese food, made a presentation about Chinese new year traditions, and arranged for a beginner Chinese orchestra to perform. It was a lot of fun. Here are a few pics:

A couple weeks back we celebrated Gary's birthday with some cake and ice cream on Saturday, mongolian bbq for lunch on Sunday, and bowling Sunday afternoon. Lisa was the bowling champ. Jonathan brought up the rear, even losing to most of the kids. Here are some photos and a couple videos:

And if that isn't enough pictures, there are a bunch more here (and I've started uploading photos to the Picasa web album at high enough quality that they should print well and you can order them from Shutterfly...just click the order prints button).

Elliot needs to recruit a new partner in crime. Sunday evening the boys and I were at home while Lisa was out. I was riding the stationary bike in the basement, and the boys went upstairs for a while. Later on in the evening, as they were getting ready for bed, Finn said to me out of the blue: "We didn't eat any chocolate." Of course, it didn't take us long to interrogate Elliot and find out that he and Elliot had managed to get into candy they received at a birthday party Saturday night. Then, when I came home for lunch on Monday, Finn met me at the door. He said, "Smell my breath." I did, but I didn't smell anything. "It smells like sugar," he said. At first I assumed he had eaten some candy. Instead it turns out that, while Lisa was showering, the boys got into the sugar bowl and enjoyed a pack of artificial sweetener.

On Saturday evening we attended a birthday party at the gymnastics center. Here are some videos: