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Jen & Chad’s New Years Eve Party

January 1st, 2010 · No Comments


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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Warming the House

May 18th, 2009 · 5 Comments

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Killian gave us these awesome aprons for a housewarming gift.

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Killian watching the Cubs game.

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Eric is our friend and Realtor and hadn’t seen our place since we purchased it.

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Out on the deck: Sophia, Dallas, Cousin, Meghan, Kristin, Chris, Paul, Kate, Alden, Jess, Scott, Trent, Ed, Eric

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Paul & Alden, chillin’

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Cousin & Dallas

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Trent & Ed

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Ed & Eric

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Kate, Meghan, Sophia, Scott, Paul

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Dallas & Sophia

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Jess & Rachelle, greeeeeen

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Jen & Chris

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Quinn & Kristin

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Alpana, Charles, Alden

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The apron went back on at about 1 a.m.

Finally, six months after we moved in, Dallas and I had a housewarming party. We had between 25 and 30 friends over for tons of food and drinks. Some people came over in the early afternoon to watch parts of the Cubs game with us. After that we spent lots of time on our deck above our garage because it was a gorgeous sunny day. When it got too cool we headed inside. There was a short round of Rock Band. Others started a card game that lasted well into the morning hours.

Thank you to everyone for helping us celebrate our new home. We are thankful for having such great, fun, generous friends and for being able to spend time with you all.

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Roundarch Holiday Party, Take 2

December 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments


Ryan, Rachelle


James, Adam, Dan, Adam, Dan, Jaivin


Karen, Toby, Saurab’s Date, Saurab, Colt


Sushi Chefs


Anjum, James, Rhaz


Ryan +1


Bartender, Blue Water Grill, River North


Paul, Mark, Linda


Ben +1


James, John, Rhaz, Tony


Garrett, Keeley, Adam, Dan, Jaivin


Frank, David, Sanjay


Getting blurry! Kidding. I was messing with John’s external flash.

Thursday night was our Roundarch client team holiday party and Friday night was our company holiday party. The company party was at Blue Water Grill, where Dallas and I went once for my birthday. We thought it was good, but overpriced. But when you’re company is paying for you to eat and drink for free all night, you kind of just concentrate on the yum factor. We had a full dinner, but I really liked the free maki station they had going on. I could have skipped the dinner and just eaten that all night! They also had the largest shrimp cocktail I’ve ever seen. So delicious.

Dallas is in West Palm Beach for work this weekend so I made a pact with my coworker Ryan that we would leave early. He had another party to go to and I wanted to call it a night at about 9:00 p.m. because the cookie party was on Saturday. The pact didn’t really work out. I think we were drinking too much and having too much fun to leave. There were secret ninjas refilling my wine glass when I wasn’t looking and we didn’t end up leaving until 12:30 a.m. I don’t know how long the party went on, but that was 6 1/2 hours of free booze and I had way more than my fair share!

- John’s photos of the Roundarch 2008 Holiday Party
- Dave’s photos of the Roundarch 2008 Holiday Party

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