Chinese New Year 2012: Part 1

Posted on January 25, 2012. Filed under: Daily Food, Holidays, Recipes |

Saturday we started the morning with some french toast!

and played with this girl for a bit

before we left for Walmart. We wanted to go and buy as many DVDs of movies and shows that we hadn’t seen yet, since we have the whole week to relax and watch tv from the comfort of our couch!

Snacks were had…

Lucy made it clear that she wasn’t a fan of the don’t-share-any-with-the-dog rule…

Ezra planned on cooking some steaks for dinner, so we opened up some wine with our cool new battery-operated wine opener

a pose with the pup! (Ha, my smile looks creepy…)I foil-wrapped the corn AND made the ~~fake~~ mashed potatoes. Wouldn’t want to overwork myself, I AM on vacation afterall

Perfectly cooked steak

Cheers

Sunday Ez and i both tried to do our long run, and we both failed. I managed to run just over 4 miles…my legs must still be tired from that horrible half marathon.

Lunch was a couscous salad and leftover cucumber salad

and we snacked on some mandarin oranges

Around 4 we headed over to Joe and Ethey’s to ~~play with the baby~~ watch an Australian Open match

Baby AJ was super intrigued by Ezra’s low voice. He kept sitting there with his mouth wide open, just staring at Ez

We all couldn’t decide on plans for dinner (many places were closed or serving limited menus), so we invited Joe + family over for dinner!

I whipped up a broccoli + chicken stir fry

and hung out until 10 or so, then we all walked over to One For The Road for a Chinese New Year celebration! We started with some car bombs…

good thing I didn’t drink that, I stuck with long island iced teas

OFTR had a fireworks show planned for midnight, so we stayed and watched all the chaos. It was definitely chaos…they lined up all these firecrackers on the ground and didn’t tell people to stand back, so everyone was only 10 feet or so away! I stood in the very back because I knew it would get loud, and it was a good thing because the firecrackers flew everywhere and some people got bits of it in their hair!! I learned my lesson and stayed inside for round 2 of fireworks…

We hung out until about 2am, playing darts (turns out I’m pretty good at them) before headed home to crash. We we ordered 3 double cheeseburgers and a fries from McDonalds, and sneaky Lucy decided she would jump up on the table and grab a burger while Ezra and I weren’t looking. Then she promptly walked herself over to her dog house and stayed there for the rest of the night…

Monday we got up and had pancakes for breakfast! We’ve been watching Star Wars all week, so it was pretty funny when I got a pancake that looked like princess Leia…

topped with bananas and syrup!

Ezra wore my new favorite shirt of his

Tuesday and Wednesday were spent sitting on the couch doing absolutely nothing. And I mean nothing…I don’t think I even left the house for about 48 hours until Ez finally made me leave to join him on a walk with Lucy. Good thing, I was starting to get some serious cabin fever!