Utah Slades got together today to celebrate. We made To's spring rolls, ate broccoli beef and enjoyed each other's company. Honestly, any event is pretty much an excuse for us to get together and eat, so in that regard it was an overwhelming success. The kids made masks with Holly to represent their Chinese astrological animal, and we all got presents. Yay! Presents!
Also, there was this:
You know, since beating up on each other is a traditional Chinese New Year's thing. The most hilarious part was Linnea doing the 'hug' and completely failing to do a thing to Adam. Apparently the boys in her class are skinnier and more cooperative than her brother.
There might have been a little mocking thrown in with the beatings.
To work off the consumption of oh, so very many spring rolls, my brothers and sister went outside and shoveled snow. The mailbox, which I have only been able to use once since all the storms started, is now cleared of snow enough that the mail delivery person can once again place mail into it instead of my bucket. I think all the boys were impressed with my neighbor who just bought another mailbox, mounted it on a 2x4 and stuck it into the snowbank. Totally efficient. And totally a Red Green worthy idea. To finish off the day we ate birthday pie and sang to No, the oldest of the fire pigs. He wasn't so sure about the candles, but did an admirable job of finishing off his cake.
It's been a good day.
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