Monday, November 17, 2008

Happy Birthday, Leah!

Tonight we celebrated Leah's birthday at Casa Nueva! The special for the night was French Onion Soup. Five of us wanted to order it, but they only had enough for THREE!!! I was one of the ones who ended up getting it. When they brought out our dinners, they had made little BABY french onion soups for the people who didn't get to have it. LOOK at how cute that little baby soup is!!! AW!!!!!!!!

Casa  Nueva

I also had the Autumn Salad, which was delicious.

Yumi got Leah some SUPER pretty earrings!

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Tapas Cooking Club

Tonight, Valerie hosted a tapas-style Cooking Club at her house! We all made an appetizer dish, focusing on presentation, and served them with a wine pairing. Everything was so amazing, better than a restaurant! After hours of eating and drinking, we played several rounds of Balderdash.



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Friday, November 14, 2008

Poker Night at Summer & J's, Featuring Marco

Summer and J hosted poker in their barn tonight! Ben and I tried two new beers, Pyramid Snow Cap, and Leinenkugel's Fireside Nut Brown Ale (not pictured). The Snow Cap was good, the Nut Brown was AMAAAAAAAAAAAZING!!!! It was so nutty, and mapley, and caramely.

Rose took off with my camera and took the rest of these photos! Mmm, Snacks!!

Tom and Angela were at my table.

The other table.

After I lost, I played euchre with some other losers. At one point, I headed up to the house to go to the bathroom, and when I got back, Aaron and Marco were giggling like little girls!!! And they would NOT tell me why!!! The next day, when I looked to see what pictures Rose had taken on my camera the night before, I discovered what had happened. Marco had decided to take my leather vest, wear it as a top, and pose while Rose took pictures!!

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Bell's Winter White

Tonight I got together with some girls to have a little poker practice at Broney's. They had a brand new beer on tap, Bell's Winter White! Doesn't it look like grapefruit juice?!?! It was DELICIOUS!!! I loved it. I had two.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Lucky Boy

Look at how lucky Ben was tonight! It's fun enough to play video games in your jammies, but to also get to have a lapful of fuzzy, marshmallowy Charlie?!?!? LUCKY!!

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Baby Kate's First Birthday

Baby Kate turns one this coming Tuesday, and Mer threw a birthday party today to celebrate! There were babies galore, and an amazing spread of snacks. Kate had a blast playing with her helium birthday balloon, and really got into opening presents! She got a lot of really fun toys that are sure to keep her busy.



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Sunday, November 02, 2008

Throwing Pumpkins

Our pumpkins were starting to look a little strugglin', so Ben took them out back and threw them! Whee!!!

Saturday, November 01, 2008

Halloween Spooky Bike Race and Uptown Fun

Joey and Atira hosted a spooky bike race at their house this afternoon. Riders had to ride around to the cemetaries of Athens to gather clues. At the end of the race, there was a big burrito and pie feast!! And beer! Summer and I went for the feast, to cheer on the riders.

After the bike race, we headed to the Uptown Halloween party, to do a walkthrough and check out the costumes. It was a great time!



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See below for a movie of Baby K8 poking Friday.

Friday, October 31, 2008

Fifteen-Dollar Six Pack

Ben and I stopped by the beer store on our way over to Dan and Amy's tonight, and there was this six pack of Bell's Cherry Stout. It was $14.99!!!!!! I have never seen such an expensive six pack! I was intrigued though, so I bought it. It was a good way to celebrate Halloween! Luckily, it turned out to be DELICIOUS. What a treat!

Happy Halloween!

Everyone at work dressed up for Halloween! Yay!!

Ha hahahah, TJ went as Tracy.

I was a satyr.

We went Trick-or-Treating in everyone's office. DING DONG!

When Tom is alone, as opposed to with a group of other folks in costumes, he sort of looks like a bathrobed looney wandering around. Especially up here at the Ridges.

We all went to Broney's for lunch.

Leah and me!

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Moku 2

Today I met Tom for a coffee drink at Moku before work. There's Tom with his mocha!

We sat upstairs so we could enjoy the view.

Latte for me, mocha for Tom!

The view is great!

Moku makes really good foam.

Halloween Step Aerobics

This morning was our annual step aerobics halloween morning! Our instructor Kay brought in popcorn balls and puppy chow, and Summer and I dressed up! She was an aerobicizer, and I was a princess!

Glamor shot!

Kay taking Summer's picture!

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Hocking Hills Canopy Tours Zipline

This morning, a group of us headed to Hocking Hills to check out the Canopy Tours Zipline. I was super nervous but I did it!! It was FUN. They gave us a tutorial, and outfitted us up, then we headed into the woods for the Zipline course! The course was about two hours long. We did ten ziplines. The whole experience was amazing. After we zipped, we headed to Millstone BBQ for lunch and beers.

Check out the photos, and my zipping videos below! The guides helped us to harness our cameras into our gear, so we got to have them on us the whole time.



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