Tet Party

This past weekend was a busy one! two birthday parties and the annual Tet party hosted by Mary - we had fun! which is good because it looks like this weekend will be a quiet one at home with the kids all battling sickness.

Somehow I persuaded a friend of mine to help make another dragon cake for the Tet party ;) it seemed like a great idea at the time, and no better year than the "year of the dragon" to tackle the project, but I doubt she'll be in a hurry to "help bake" any time soon ;) Thanks friend!!
We had 2 - 6 month olds, 3 - 3year olds, and a 4 year old home for a P.A day and we still went ahead with the cake! call us crazy but we managed to somehow get the job done! It took 5 hours to decorate and we only called in backup help for the last hour! My friends husband stopped by after work to help keep the kids busy and out of the cake. We could have used more icing but after the 5hour mark and decorating the cake while carrying Grayson in the Ergo - I was more than done. I'm convinced that If I didn't have such a good friend help me out there would have been some tears shed!

The finished project- piped stars, orange slice gummies, red color mist, and red sugar sprinkles!



Owen - dressed for Tet! I wanted all of the boys to wear Ao Dai's this year - I'm afraid that as Owen gets older he may not be so willing to dress in the traditional clothes, and I wanted some photos of the three of them together.


Noah - Dressed for Tet! at first he mentioned that he didn't want to wear his "pajamas" but he quickly came around.


Grayson - dressed for Tet! the smallest Ao Dai we have is this one and it's a size1. The boy was swimming in it - but he still looks like a cutie!




Owen kept asking if he could help decorate the cake and at first we entertained the idea, by the end we were yelling "get away from the cake!!" and so his "job" was to place some chocolate coins on the cake board at the party :)


Grayson posing with his little friend in their matching Ao Dai's. Too cute!


Who wants cake??


Bev organized this awesome dragon craft for the little kids.


The dragon parade was put on by the younger kids this year! what a great job they did - amazing that they've been home long enough and are old enough to participate in this special part of the evening!


Video of the Dragon parade