Happy New Year!

Thursday January 1, 2009!!!

Good-bye to 2008, Hello to 2009! We woke up this morning and Meg was going to make our family breakfast. Meg really enjoys cooking, baking and helping in the kitchen. Adam and I gave her a Paula Deen's Children's cookbook, which Meg was so excited to get. (I love how each item has a picture for kids to see, plus the instructions are very simple) One of the recipes was for Monkey Bread. This was a breakfast item that my mom used to make for special occasions, so I was excited that Meg wanted to make it too. (Monkey bread is dough rolled in cinnamon and sugar, then butter and brown sugar dripped on top, then baked)

Meg rolled the dough into balls, then rolled them in the cinnamon and white sugar mixture, then into the bundt pan.

I supervised and used the knife to cut the dough into pieces, everything else was done by Meg.

While breakfast was baking in the oven, Katie paraded around in one of her new fairy outfits we gave her for Christmas.

Meghan opened up her new Hannah Montana hair brushes and accessories.

and Peyton enjoyed her new book.

Meghan set the table and asked if 'we could use the Christmas plates so it would be special'.

The McGary's on New Years morning.

Breakfast was good, Meg did a great job. She can't wait to try other recipes!!!

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Later that evening we all went over to Adam's mom's home for the annual 'Chinese New Year meal' (homemade Chinese food on New Years Day)

Adam and his mom making the egg rolls.

April and Taylor making fried cream cheese won tons...yummy!

Adam made chicken egg rolls and plain egg rolls. We also had fried rice, egg flower soup, chow main and a chicken/vegetable main dish.
Dinner was great and then we had store-bought fortune cookies for dessert.

Happy New Year Everyone!!!