Throwback Thursday: New Years 1987!

It's been awhile since I have done a Flashback picture, so I figured this one would mesh nicely with a New Years post. From 1987 to 2009....weird. I thought I might try to squeeze into that frilly navy frock, but alas, it wouldn't have matched my shoes...and mom wasn't willing to pick me up and hold me! So blame her.

New Years Eve went differently than expected to say the least. I spent most of the day on the couch, having done something atrociously horrid to my back (which is slowly morphing into a tailbone issue), but manned up enough to go to my parents for the traditional NYE hors deurvs dinner, which, as always, was fully of sinfully tasty foods. Followed by a game of Scrabble, where my father spent the length of the game trying to spell Shaqtus. And I was left with the world's WORST set of letters....
Kenya kept trying to get dad to spell "hardboiledeggs" And then I bucked it up even more, donned the dress I had spent way too long shopping for (forgive the poorly framed picture) and headed out for NYE festivities...with -1 on the thermometer outside. Strappy shoes and below zero temps do NOT mix....
Happy 2010!

Night One of Graduation Weekend!!

My brother graduates from High School this weekend. Yes, somehow they are letting him on to the real world...but he turned out to be a pretty decent kid. Loves working out, loves hanging out with his girlie girl, and is just a nice guy all around.

But as much as this weekend is about him, its not. Its about the massive gathering of everyone he has ever known. My parents have been preparing the house on weekends for the past two months, and for the past two weeks its been a daily task list. But the time is finally here! The preparing has ended and the festive itinerary has begun.

Tonight we were joined by Chris' girlfriend, as well as the first of my dad's relatives, one of his sister's and her husband, who are hilariously loud and know how to have a good time. So after a delicious Brown Bottle dinner on the patio, what else is there to do but Apples to Apples!


Here's the newcomers Aunt Carol and Uncle Michael!