Friday, January 6, 2012

New Year's Eve 90s Party




Pulp Fiction* 
What your in-laws don't have an annual themed New Year's Eve party?  Mine do!  We usually opt to spend NYE with friends but after being persuaded back in July we happily obliged. The party contains mostly family with a few close friends (sadly the Mantel's returned to their "new" homes outside of Ohio a day earlier) and a lot of food, with the key ingredient being cream cheese.  Past New Year's themes include; 80s and TV characters (that one even produced a much watched video).  This year was 90s themed and we went as Pulp Fiction, even Marg the Margaritaville dressed up!  Andy had some trouble keeping his wig where it should be but you get the picture.
Clarissa Explains it All 
Marg as Jules 
       Costume Winners (my personal pick)
Just like Sharon!  

Mike & Miss as my in-laws in the 90s



The Game

The game of the night was Left, Right, Center if you have $3 and love excitement 
this is the game for you!  I'm proud to report I won, a great way to start 2012!  
$$ Center $$
(please note in the right hand corner the "hillbilly wine glass")

Mia, Wayne and some LRC thrills!

*I have no intentions to ever wear my hair like this...ever.  That is all.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

2011 Year in Review

Winter - Started off the New Year with the flu so bad I had to drive myself the ER.  Upside - found out our local wellness center has an ER that is clean, fast and efficient!  D was able to finally wear this adorable tuxedo onesie and he was able to eat food made in my baby food maker!  (Very uneventful I know.)










Spring - D's first opening day, Easter, my first mother's day and Memorial Day which included matching shirts with his cousin.  D and I took our first road trip together to Columbus for a baby shower for his future girlfriend(s).
Maggie & Jane's mama



 
      
Mother's Day










Summer -  It sadly started with a large part of our family moving to Houston, leaving a hole in my heart.  D got to meet my Dad's side of the family at our annual 4th of July reunion.   We all took our first trip to Wyoming with my husband's family, all 20 and a half of us.  (Take that Modern Family we did it first!)  Andy and I got a night out to go my cousin's wedding.  D attended his first Canal Days which is my hometown's summer festival.  My sister in law turned the big 3-0.  And it ended on a high note with my roommate Megan (and Jim Thome) coming home from NC to remind us how old we are and that we started college a very long 10 years ago.
                           
KSU 10 years later
WY or Bust
April's Birthday
A lot of great-grandbabies!  

Fall - Began with our sweet friends getting engaged and the last baseball games of the season.  D got to cheer on the marathon runners.  Our Texas family headed home for a fun filled weekend of birthdays, a baptism and a meet & greet with our newest niece.  I started blogging!  And we kept busy with D's first birthday , Andy's dirty thirty, a first haircut by Aunt Missy, our 5 year anniversary,  and multiple football games.  Keeping true to our baseball roots we were taught to do as much as possible (i.e. have babies, get married) in the offseason and our family never disappoints in the fall!  
Go Runners Go

Take me out to the ballgame

The happy couple


Hope you had an amazing New Years and only great things are waiting for you in 2012!