Chinese New Year Celebration, Part 3

Last saturday, January 28, we went to yet another Chinese New Year Celebration... this time, it was an event organized by ECHO (Education For Chinese Orphans) a non-profit organization started by a family here in Bend that we have known for almost 10 years. They have 4 children, 2 of them adopted from China. We won quite a few of the silent auction that evening... one of the items that Calvin personally paid for was a gift for Anna for her birthday... you'll see it on my next post... it was a beautifully decorated bin of cake pops.

The girls enjoyed dancing and we enjoyed having another reason to celebrate our girls' heritage and an excuse to dress them up in their Chinese outfits!

Here's a link to the article about the event.

http://www.echoinchina.org/pdf/2012%20chinese%20new%20year%20bend%20bulletin%20article.pdf

Getting ready to go to another Chinese New Year Celebration(Selah was really into wearing these glasses)

Anna & Selah making dragon masks

Time for Chinese Food

and a little dancing...

Getting ready for the dragon dance

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