Busy weekend....

On Saturday, Sam took the girls shopping at a toy store because Annie said that she would like to find something for her little brother.  They were gone quite a long time, but they had fun.  Then, later that afternoon, our friends the Jorgensens came over for dinner.  Dru Jorgensen is a student here, studying Mandarin, so he was excited to get to try his Chinese out with some native speakers.  The girls told me that he speaks Chinese pretty well!

So, I decided that it would be appropriate to make something Chinese for dinner.  Not that I know how to make very many Chinese dishes, but I do make very good potstickers (Jiaozi).  I don't know how authentically Chinese they are, but they are a family favorite.  When Ryan was leaving to serve as a missionary, he asked me to make them before he left.  He ate about 50 of them!  Yesterday we made 140 potstickers for nine people, and we ate them ALL.  I don't have any pictures, but Selena was so amazed that I was making something Chinese, that she took a lot of pictures of the process.

Today is Sunday, and the day that we gather with our close friends and have dinner together.  After cleaning up the potsticker mess from last night, I didn't really want to cook and the girls love hot dogs, so we cooked hotdogs on the grill. It gets a little crazy around here when everyone is here, but they all just fit right in.

After dinner, our friend David and his son Duncan gave the kids all an archery lesson.  We have hay bales set up as targets behind out house.  Sam told me that all three of our Chinese students did very well once they got the hang of it.  They must have really enjoyed it, because they were out there for a couple of hours.