The Chens: park

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Memorial Day

May 26, 2008

Happy Memorial Day!

http://www.history.com/minisites/memorial

We are so grateful for those people who have fought for our country, The United States of America, and for those people who are still fighting now. They help us maintain our freedom. We have recently been reading in the scriptures about Helaman and the Stripling Warriors. It was a great way to explain to the children about people who fight for liberty, and for fighting only for good purposes.

We went to Friendship Park in Oviedo this morning. The children enjoyed playing on the slides and other things that were at the park. Nalani also took her rollerblades are skated for a while. It was hot, but the sun kept hiding behind the clouds so that helped us keep a little cooler. We also took peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, carrots, and apples to eat if we got hungry.

This evening we had a delicious dinner. Jason barbecued pork ribs (on our indoor electric grill), Carmel made baked potatoes and corn on the cob. Mmm! For dessert we had dutch apple pie with cookie dough ice cream. . .also wonderful!

Monday, May 19, 2008

Chili Cook-Off

May 17, 2008

After Chinese school (on the west side of town), we drove across town to the Oviedo Ward Chili Cook-Off (on the east side of town). The cook-off was at Lake Mills Park in Chuluota, which is still 10 minutes more to the east than our house is.

There were so many different types of chili and they were all delicious! I'd say there were 15 or so pots of chili. We enjoyed trying the different varieties, but the children just stuck to mommy's. Other people also made cornbread/muffins and cobblers and pies. Mmm!

Hokulani received a long bubble tube from her Chinese teacher, and enjoyed playing with it at the park. Here is a picture of Jason and Hokulani playing with the bubbles. Other children later joined in the bubble-popping fun.

Carmel used her mom's chili recipe, and won the chunkiest chili award. (Everyone who made chili got some kind of award.) We weren't sure why it was called the chunkiest, but Carmel thought it was because there were kidney beans, corn, and tomato chunks from the stewed tomatoes (as opposed to just tomato sauce).