Diane & Limey
Casey & Quinn (fancy hairdo!)
Limey, Rachelle, Jamie, Paulie, Diane, Eric, Lynn, Laura
Because not everyone could be at Limey’s going away pub crawl (namely Diane and the kids), a going away lunch was organized for the end of November at the Village Tap. The Packers were playing and won, so I was happy with that, if not sad to be attending another event on Limey’s Going Away Tour!
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Jen & Chad
Dallas, Chen-Je, Paul
Jen & Halle
Diane, Quinn, Kristin
Chad & Jen with their new niece Halle
Rachelle & Cousin
Family Photo: Brian, Jill, Halle
Phil, Abby, Ed. Baby Jonah is in the bjorn!
Meg & Chad
Jill & Halle
This was the 5th year in a row that we have gone to Jen and Chad’s house for New Years Eve (2008, 2007, 2006, 2005). The party there has become very family friendly as many of our friends have children now. It is nice that there’s a place for our friends with families to hang out that is nice and relaxing and has other kids to play with. It was fun to see everyone and to meet Abby and Phil’s baby Jonah for the first time. He was the youngest at the party, only 6 weeks old! Kristin made a ton of food, plenty of pupus and some roast beef sandwiches, so we went to the party for dinner and stayed til about 10 p.m. before heading to our second party of the night.
Like last year, we gave Quinn his Christmas gift at the party. It was a tool box with tools in it and a book about a monkey with a tool belt. Quinn loved the tools and wouldn’t even open the book once he saw them. Then we finally got him to open the book with the use of the tools. Pretty funny. Now he can help Chad with “projects” around the house. Quinn also got to help open our gift for Halle, which was the Friend Brigade. I saw these for sale at Renegade and bought a set from their creator on Etsy.
Quinn excited to have a gift to open
Tools!
Using the tools to open the other gift
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Billy, Dallas, Jessie, Diane, Ging, Lou & Rob waiting for the group to gather so we can begin the walk.
Lots of people travel by golf cart around the island.
Jessie & Josh sitting in a tree-ee. Just kidding. They are married and have 2 kids.
Dallas, Ging, Billy, Rob. Phil and his wife and baby in the back.
Rachelle & Ging
Sail boat off Peaks Island.
Killian & Dallas
After Rob & Colleen’s barbecue lunch most people left. Colleen even left to go stay at her parent’s house the night before the wedding. For the most part, the people that were left were Rob and some of his friends. Rob decided to take us on a walk across the island to the “backshore”. It was a relaxing, scenic walk… maybe the fact that we took our beer “to go” helped with that. We started out on roads and then went to gravel and through the woods until we met our final destination: A World War II-era battery and bunker (more on that to come).
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