Dinner at Las Tablas with Limey and Danielle

Liam, Quinn, Makai, Dallas, Biran, Trent, Fitz, Conor, Todd, Jill, Danielle, Limey, Me, Jen, Jamie

Dallas, Biran, Trent, Fitz, Conor, Danielle, Limey

Liam, Quinn, Makai

Liam, Quinn, Makai, Dallas

Limey was still in town from Singapore and Danielle in from Korea, so we met up with a bunch of the kids for dinner at Las Tablas. Fun to see everyone. Trent also came in from Kentucky! The food at Las Tablas was decent but the service was not good. Maybe because we were such a large group!

New Years Eve 2017

 In the past 12 years there is only one year that we didn’t spend at least part of New Years Eve at Jen and Chad’s house. This year, like last year, Makai stayed awake until midnight and even later. He had so much fun running around with all the kids and eating snacks and “partying.” I barely even saw Makai the whole night. This year was special because Herm and Tebbe were in town to celebrate with us! I miss them a lot, but am glad that they get to visit on a pretty regular basis!

Jen and Chad hired babysitters, like other years, and this year they also had two bartenders. It seemed unnecessary at first, but by the end of the night I was ready to kick in for babysitters and bartenders every year!

Halle helped her dad put his protective gear on so he could go in the backyard and act foolish while he popped the corks on the champagne.

At midnight Makai got ready with his sparkling apple juice. He took an early sip, though, and did not like it at all!

Midnight kisses.

And hugs!

Somewhere nearing 1 a.m. we had to drag this bleary-eyed, video-game-playing kid out of the house and home.

How fun to spend the new year with many old friends.

PS. If you were wondering, Dallas did wear The New Years Eve sweater!

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New Years Eve 2016

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This is the 11th year that we’ve gone to Jen and Chad’s house for New Years Eve. This year we celebrated in Jen and Chad’s new home, still in Roscoe Village. Makai made it all the way through midnight before he totally started crashing! Jen and Chad hired two babysitters who wrangled all the kids in the lower level and in Quinn’s room, much to Quinn’s dismay. All of the adults enjoyed cocktails and an enormous spread of food. I barely even saw Makai the whole night because he was having so much fun playing with the other kids. Jill brought some coquito that her coworker made, making this the second time this season that I’ve had this delicious Puerto Rican coconut eggnog. The first time I ever had it was at our office secret santa. So delicious! I really did not drink too much, though. I think two drinks all night. The effects of Wednesday were still too fresh in my mind. How fun to spend the new year with many old friends and several new ones.

fullsizerender-30fullsizerender-29Speaking of Wednesday, this was the last time we’ll see Trent, Loden, Ellyza and Sydney for a while. They are moving to Louisville in a few days. Trent and Loden brought over any booze they hand hanging around and didn’t want to move, including this giant bottle of champagne, which was almost as big as Sydney! I thought they’d never get to the end of it, but it was before 10 p.m.

fullsizerender-28fullsizerender-32Just before midnight Brian and Chad headed outside. Brian stood in the yard, wearing safety glasses, in front of the garage and Chad stood on the deck, shook up the champagne we’d be drinking at our midnight toast, and shot the corks at Brian. Kids, don’t try this at home.

Just before midnight we also enjoyed watching the Mariah Carey screw up performance three times in a row!

img_1416-1At midnight we had a family kiss to ring in the new year. As always, Dallas wore his same NYE sweater that he always wears.

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Trent’s Surprise 40th Birthday Party

img_0851.jpeg img_0856.jpeg On Saturday night we celebrated Trent’s 40th birthday at O’Shaughnessy’s. His brother, TIm. came to town on Friday and they were hanging out a lot. For dinner they went to Spacca Napoli and Trent was surprised by his parents being at dinner (they live out of state). After dinner Trent’s parents offered to babysit if Trent, Loden and Tim wanted to get some drinks. Trent wasn’t sold but they finally talked him into stopping by O’Shauhnessy’s. I think he was genuinely surprised to see us all standing there yelling “SURPRISE!!!”

img_0874.jpeg At some point I was talking with Caroline, Jill, Jen and Kristin about all the times we drank Irish Car Bombs with Trent. I realized it had been a couple years, probably, since I’ve had the drink. I said I’d drink one if they would. And then we realized all the husbands would want to… and Trent… and his brother…. and the other guests at the party. Pretty soon we were calculating that we needed about 20 Irish Car Bombs! That’s a lot, but it had to be done!!!

img_0966.jpeg Selfie Time!

img_0953.jpeg The Blue Man Teal Woman Group showed up! I wonder if that cost extra!

img_0936.jpeg Trent blowing out his candles.

img_0965.jpeg I was at the bar at one point and I thought Chad and Trent were doing shots of Bailey’s and I called them out on it. Turns out they were doing more Irish Car Bombs, so I got in on that. Somehow I finished mine before Chad and then we were somehow convinced to compete, best of three. At the end I had four Irish Car Bombs in a row! AHHHH

img_0967.jpeg More selfies with Tim!

img_0945.jpegLoden printed out a bunch of Trent’s childhood photos and then a bunch of him with friends through the years. They were hung up like posters. I think everyone agreed that this was the best photo posted!!

Happy 40th birthday, Trent! Welcome to the club!

New Years Eve 2014

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This year’s New Years Eve looked very different than previous years, as you can see. Makai’s daycare had the popular children’s performer, Mary Macaroni, in to perform and do a countdown to the new year at noon. Then the kids were all released early.

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Later on we went to Jen and Chad’s house and stuck it out as long as Makai could make it (until about 9:30 p.m.). Maybe next year he’ll make it longer (or we’ll get a babysitter). This was the 9th year we’ve spent New Years Eve at Jen and Chad’s house!

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