All Sort Of Celebrations

The months of January and February were filled with celebrations and holidays for our family.

First, we celebrated Doug's 50th birthday. Doug and I started dating toward the end of our senior year of high school - he was 18 and I was 17. It's hard to believe we both turn 50 this year. It just doesn't seem possible.

On Doug's actual birthday, Briana and I baked Doug a cake and gave him gifts and then we took him out to a dinner at one of his favorite local restaurants. We decorated the house up for him...

Our dinner was so good ~ lobster bisque, steak, risotto, charcuterie, fritters...

The next night, we had our friends, the C family, join us for dinner to celebrate Doug some more! We went to another one of our local favorite restaurants...

The following Sunday, we celebrated Doug one more time with my parents. It was also my parents' 53rd wedding anniversary and the first day of the Chinese New Year, so it was a joint celebration. We went to another delicious restaurant...

Dessert celebration time (including baked Alaska)...

Since it was the first night of Chinese New Year, Briana wore her new qipao top to our joint celebration...

I decorated the house for CNY...

During CNY, Briana and I met up with friends Amy, Mary and Imerie for a delicious Chinese food meal...

Amy and I coaxed the girls to do a re-creation of a picture they took back in 2011..

We had a lot of laughs trying to get this shot. It is crazy how grown up the girls are now.

Lastly, it was time to celebrate Valentine's Day. I put out a few decorations for the occasion...

Then Doug, Bri and I went out to dinner at one of my favorite local Italian restaurants...

Everything was so very good!

Whew! It was two busy months of celebrating! Then we decided to also throw in a week long trip to Walt Disney World at the end of February for winter break. Dang we are exhausted!