Birthday Bash!

Well this is a belated post! Thanks to all to you who came to celebrate James' 25th birthday, he felt so loved! (And thanks to Katie for the great pics- as you know my camera died mid evening!) We had plenty of food and good fortune to go around @ Pf Chang's. We topped off the evening with ice cream cake and games back at our place. It was so nice get the evening going a little earlier, we fit a lot in before starting to feel tired - it was great!

Oh, and I used my chopsticks the entire evening!

In my party planning efforts, I found this neat site where you can learn to write Chinese! Just look up your word in the dictionary and click the green box to see the artsy translation.

it's cookie time, it's cookie time!

For those of you who grew up on the comedy Troop Beverly Hills, the title will hold a special place in your heart! Moving along, I'm hoping it's not too late to be posting about all our wonderful Christmas fun... We did go 'home,' both of our families are out side of Chicago - but we had no snow! Not a flake in sight! Since we couldn't go sledding we had to come up with some other things to do. We spent Saturday with both families baking cookies and other treats and enjoying gourmet soup compliments of chef Grafton. And we finally learned how to play Settlers of Catan!

Then started the Christmas extravaganza! Christmas eve with James' dad, Christmas morning with his mom and Christmas evening with my parents! It was non stop! James flew home early Tuesday moring and I stayed the rest of the week with my family. Stacie and I did a lot of shopping :) and we took a beading class at La Beada Loca. And last but not least we laughed and laughed as we strolled down memory lane while watching, you guessed it, Troop Beverly Hills!

(Moms, if I ever get around to it I'll post the pictures from our other Christmas stuff!)