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Kelly & Jeff’s Holiday Party

January 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

On the second day of the year 2010, we went up to De Pere (near Green Bay), WI for my cousin Kelly and her husband Jeff’s holiday party. I’d only been to their house one time before and Dallas had never been there so we were long overdue!

Kelly & Jeff

My parents, my brother’s family, Kelly’s mom my Aunt Sue, my other cousin Kelly and her daughter Katie, and my cousin Sara’s family all came over. Jeff made a big pot of chili and cornbread and Sara brought cornbread muffins as well. There were lots of dips and sweets to round the meal out. ha. Here’s a photo of my brother and sister-in-law since apparently I didn’t mention them at all the last time I saw them and it cannot be implied that they were present without proof. haha.

Richard & Amanda

Steph got a guitar for Christmas so she was practicing with a book. My Aunt Sue was also showing her how to do some things.

Stephanie

Margo is only about 3 months old.

Kelly, Katie, Margo, Mom

I tried to take a photo of Jessica and Tessa, but it is hard.

Tessa, Jessica

This always happens:

Tessa, Jessica

Bribed to hold still.

Jessica, Tessa

Charlotte happily posed for a photo.

Charlotte

There was a fierce white elephant gift exchange. My dad got the first pick and opened something nobody wanted. It’s this annoying Packers toy dinosaur that dances and has blinking lights and plays the most annoying song on earth. This has been circling through our family for a while now.

Dad

Dallas got the Bodyguard soundtrack on cassette. ~~Luckily~~ Unfortunately, our car has a tape deck and we had a 3 hour ride home.

Dallas

Tessa really wanted to keep a hold of these granola bars in the swap. She may have cried the first time they got stolen away. I can’t remember who ended up with them. It was either Tessa or Sara.

Tessa

After the gift exchange, we played a lot with the kids. Here’s my cousin Sara’s husband Cam and one of their twins, Fiona, I think .

Fiona, Cam

Intense round of the fish game, except in the princess edition I think they catch jewels.

Jeff, Charlotte, Elise, Fiona

Fiona

Fun day. Wish we could have stayed longer, but we had a long drive home. Luckily there was no traffic and the roads were clear. Can’t wait for next year’s swap. We have some ~~junk~~ lovely gifts to give away!

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Communication Barrier Broken

October 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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The other day I came across this note that my niece, Jessica, gave me.

Here’s the backstory: Eariler this year Dallas and I went to Hawaii. I always buy my nieces gifts while we are there. For Stephanie I got a cool Quicksilver tshirt and some jewelry. Jessica loves Hello Kitty, so I got her a whole Hello Kitty Hawaii themed gift: T-shirt, candy, Post-It notepad, etc. All Hello Kitty Hawaii.

A few months went by before we saw them and gave them their gifts over the summer. Steph loved her gifts. Jess is as shy as ever so I didn’t really get much feedback on whether she liked it or not. Then out of nowhere she passed me this note. It says: “Me and Stephane liecks this Post It note.” The last part was a little hard to read and I remember my brother, Stephanie and I all huddled around trying to figure out what it said. Jess was off to the side and, of course, would not tell us! Finally we got it right and she gave a smile and a nod. I didn’t want to tease her because it was so nice, but I had to say, “I’m so glad you learned how to write, Jessica, so now we have a means of communication!”

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Family Visit to Chicago

August 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This past weekend we had a bunch of my family down from Wisconsin for a visit to Chicago. My cousin Kelly, Jeff, Tessa and Charlotte came on Friday night and stayed over til Saturday. My parents and my Aunt Sue arrived on Saturday and stayed over til Sunday. My brother Richard, Amanda, Jessica, and Stephanie came down for the day on Saturday. We hung around on the roof deck, played bags, had a barbecue, and went to Palmer Square park. After a lot of people left, my dad and I played Mario Karts on the Wii and my mom and I and Dallas played Tetris on the Wii. Sunday morning my parents and my aunt and I went to brunch at Dunlay’s on the Square and then walked through the Logan Square Farmers Market. It was fun to have everyone down for a visit!

These photos are from Palmer Square. Except the last one of Charlotte, who didn’t go to the park. She wasn’t feeling well on Saturday but we did manage to get a few smiles out of her.

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Tessa