We spent Valentine's Day/Chinese New Year weekend in Cheney with Tina's dad. It was a really good visit.
Shen and Kai are wearing their "Year of the Tiger" shirts in this picture with their Grandpa. It's nice that red works for both CNY and Valentine's day!
Tina's dad, Len, had planned a special Valentine for his girlfriend Joyce. Joyce suffered a fairly severe stroke several months ago and is still pretty impaired by that. We drove Len in to pick up flowers for her then went with him to the assisted living facility where Joyce lives. A bunch of her family were there visiting her too. Len had arranged for a barbershop quartet to serenade her. It was a nice little party, and very romantic. I shot a little video of the quartet singing...
After the Valentine's party we stopped at a really great little asian market and picked up some supplies for our Chinese New Year dinner. It was fun celebrating this with Tina's dad, her sister-in-law Erin and Niece Caitlin. We picked up extra hong bao (red envelopes) so all the adults could them to all the kids after they said the traditional new year greeting of gong xi fa cai, which means "Congratulations and be prosperous". We made rice and long noodles, dumplings (frozen potstickers - still good!) and made Hui-Hui's favorite egg flower soup.
We had saved some of the fancy paper wrapped sparklers on wooden sticks from the 4th of July and remembered to bring them with us, but when it was time to light them they were nowhere to be found. We searched the house, but came up empty. Aunt Erin managed to come up with a box of the little white "popper" things you throw on the ground and the kids really liked these. Then we found one more bag of ours and the sparklers were there so Yay! We had fireworks to scare away the evil spirits and ensure good luck for the coming year!
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