NBIA Christmas Party

Tonight was the annual NBIA Christmas Party! We followed tradition and did a big round of Irish Car Bombs. Last year, Cheryl was unable to attend the party, but she is the fastest car bomber I've ever seen. Randy was the champion at the party last year, and we were all excited to see who would win since they were both in attendance this year.

Cheryl was the winner!!

I have retired from racing for the most part. I've won my fair share, and this way I can actually enjoy the car bomb and also not get as much of it on my outfit! So there's me, totally losing:

Father daughter picture!

Megan and Bob!

Billie and Bob!

Ben was going crazy playing this little handheld video game!

Yay! Party! That must be a really fun video game.

Whee, Presents!

I wrapped presents last night!

Happy Birthday, Suzanne!

Today is Suzanne's 30th birthday!! Welcome to the club, Suzanne! To kick off the celebrations, we met up at Jackie O's for a surprise birthday lunch. Look at the adorable little baby irish car bomb cupcakes that Summer made!

Suzanne's reuben freaking matched her sweater! That is the sort of thing you can expect from a sophisticated 30-something.

For dinner, we got together at Zoe. Look at the gorgeous necklace that Yumi got for Suzanne!

Then we headed to the Union for a Bettie Page tribute night.

Yay, unicorn pegasus!

Yumi bought a hairpiece at the show!

BUBBLES!

Little Holiday Peanut

The annual Wellworks Winter Gathering was tonight, and Baby Kate was there in a little holiday outfit!!

Even though there was tons to see and do downstairs, Kate preferred to be upstairs where there was a really long hallway that she could run up and down.

WHAT A LITTLE PEANUT!!!!!

Birthday Bonanza

Today is Mer's birthday! We celebrated with a birthday dinner at Mom and Dad's. Mom made an awesome cake.

Blowing out the candles!

Oops, missed a couple. Looks like Baby K8 will have to help!

YAY!

YUM.

Kate was MESMERIZED by the cake.

She was staring it DOWN!

Mmm! Devil's food cake!

After dinner, we headed to another birthday party! This time it was for Joey. Mr. Studlyhunk showed up with a birthday card for Joey! Of course, it featured one of Ralph's heroes.

Joey borrowed our shufflebug for the party. It was a big hit!

Kelly made an AMAZING owl cake!

Yay, happy birthday!

Tree

We got our tree put up over the weekend, and LOOK at how cute Charlie looks underneath it. He looks like a little PRESENT!!!

Thanksgiving Leftovers

Tonight we headed back up to Mom and Dad's to work on the Thanksgiving Leftovers. Baby Kate has developed a new game where she helps Grandpa eat his dinner! He picks out what he'd like to have a bite of, and she prepares a bit and feeds it to him.

Proud because she's a great helper!

After dinner, Kate and Mr. Studlyhunk hung out in the kitchen for awhile.

I don't know what they were talking about in there, but he had her cracking UP!

Then she took her baby and Mr. Studlyhunk on a ride in the stroller. I swear, he'd do anything for that kid!

The last event of the night was a game of "Find Grandpa!"

Then it was time to go home.

This year was the best Thanksgiving ever!