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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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Hosting a Super Bowl Party

February 2nd, 2009 · 4 Comments

Super Bowl 43Originally we were going to spend Super Bowl 43 at Jen & Chad’s house, but Jen and Quinn are visiting relatives in California and Chad was traveling on business and got stuck there longer than he’d anticipated. So Dallas and I volunteered to host the party at our house.

It ended up being a fabulous food party. Dallas made 4 pounds of slow cooker pulled pork and blue cheese cole slaw to eat on the sandwiches or on the side. I made cocktail wieners and guacamole. Loden made cheesy potato casserole and mini football-shaped brownies. On each one there were the frosted football details. Kristin made cornbread and chicken fingers. Jill made pumpkin cake and chocolate chocolate chip cake. Liz made cookies. And everyone brought beer and wine. So much food and drinks. So delicious.

The game? I thought it was ok. Everyone keeps saying how it was such a good game, but I don’t think any of us really got into it until the 4th quarter.. and specifically Brian and Loden were just cheering for their numbers at the end (they both won money). I don’t really even remember any of the commercials. They weren’t that great this year. Some were even old commercials that were already playing on TV. We did like the Cash4Gold commercial, though. It sparked a long discussion about Snuggies and ShamWows.

Killian and Liz brought their new dog, Sandy, over to the house. She’s only about 6 months old and they’re still training her so they couldn’t leave her at home the whole time. I thought she was going to be a crazed puppy, but she was really relaxed and listened very good. .. and no accidents! Sandy is the 4th dog (Maggie, Milo, Jackson) to visit our house and we’ve only lived there 3 months. Guess that means we have a dog-friendly condo. Jill and Brian brought their extra Wii controllers and the Mario Kart game. After the football game we all played Wii.

Abby and Phil’s wedding was Saturday night (more on that later) and I was so exhausted that I couldn’t bring myself to take any photos yesterday. I know. Crazy!

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Before Rob & Colleen’s Wedding

August 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment


Wedding Program


Colleen’s Parent’s Home in Harpswell, Maine


String Orchestra


Water View


Ging signing the guestbook.


Wedding Seating


Ging, Billy, Dallas


Rob & his Groomsmen: Bill, Phil, Rusty


Rob’s parents and sister Sarah


Rachelle & Dallas

A few photos from before Rob & Colleen’s wedding. I took a TON of photos since they didn’t have an “official” photographer.

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Battery Steele

August 28th, 2008 · 7 Comments


Battery Steele, Peaks Island


Dang Peaks Island hoodlums!


Rob and Ging going into a dark tunnel.


Emily going into a dark tunnel.


Rob in a narrow side hall.


Freaky!


Graffiti everywhere.


Didn’t know Phil was there til my flash went off.


Back side of the bunker area.


We climbed up a tiny wooded trail to the topside of the bunker where we found this air vent.


Dark now. Standing on the top of the bunker.

During World War II, a large military defense installation was built on Peaks Island. There are bunkers and batteries and observation towers and more, I’m sure. Phil told me that there were observation areas out in the water, looking for submarines and then guns on the island that would shoot. Or that was the plan. When they tested the guns windows all the way on the opposite side of the island shattered. He said it was not used after that. Some of the ruins are privately owned, and some are just there and you can go in. Maybe those are privately owned, but the owners don’t care? I’m not sure.

We went to the Battery Steele area. It is in this overgrown woods and almost all the way covered except for the entry ways. There are long tunnels with rooms and halls going off this way and that. You couldn’t see a thing in there. You couldn’t see your hand in front of your face, which was scary. Scarier was the fact that there were some small votives lit in the tunnel. The kind that don’t burn long, so someone had been in there just before us. Even scarier was when Ging and I were stumbling along in the dark and Billy and Dallas jumped out of somewhere and started yelling at us. Ging and I just started screaming. So spooky. Rob had two tiny flashlights, but most of us were just wandering around in the dark trying use our cell phones or cameras to see. It was creepy that we couldn’t see anything but when I’d light up a wall with my flash it would be covered with graffiti or we’d see one of our friends walking that we didn’t even know was there. Everything was all strobe-y, which added to the scary factor.

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Walking Across the Island

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments


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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