I'm a little late on this blog {big surprise} but a couple weeks ago was Norooz, aka Persian New Years. My dad's side of the family is 100% Iranian, so naturally this is a very BIG day for our family. We always spend the day celebrating together with a big dinner at someone's house, the whole house decorated with all the appropriate settings to bless everyone & the new year to come. It's pretty special to be apart of something unique and I always get excited to have a "New Years" in March. It's like a second-chance to start fresh if I haven't held up to my New Years resolutions since Decemeber.
Random fact: In Iran, this new year puts them at year 1392! Pretty nuts!
On the day of Norooz (March 20) we went to my grandma's house for dinner with the family. She decorated her house and really wanted everyone to come see her table setting (In Persian culture you decorate the whole table with each of the main blessings for the year to come, you decorate it early on in the month and leave it out until Norooz arrives). The whole family went over to house for Pizza & Cake for a true "Persian Cuisine" LOL! No, really we had the big celebration scheduled for the weekend so we just had a quick dinner while we could get together at her house.
Sunday we went to my cousin & his wife's house and had a FEAST of food. All my favorite foods and dishes and the whole family! Couldn't ask for more!
I cannot wait until Gunner is older to explain all these things to him. Rick always asks my dad and uncles and grandma about the culture and everything - he's really curious about everything since it's all so different from American culture. So I'm really excited for one day Gunner can ask those same qeustions and learn about it too. It's really nice that he'll have different cultures to learn about from Rick & My families :)
Here are some pictures from both celebrations & Gunner's FIRST Norooz
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| Gunner got some money in his little pocket! lol! |
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| His new thing is passing out at the most random times! |
Here are the pictures from Sunday's celebrations. There aren't a lot because Gunner passed out early into the party and slept the rest the time. Pictures are definitely worth a thousand words.. (lol)
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| Passed out while being bounced! (It got really hot and he gets fussy if he gets hot so.. off with the shirt!) |
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| This about sums up Gunner's celebrations.. tuckered out! |
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| Ethan sure does love his little cousin<3 |
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