Book Club Christmas

Our book club had its annual book club/white elephant Christmas party. Everyone has to look for fun items from home to re-gift and we have a lot of laughs.

one that made the rounds this year was a head scratcher/massager (seen here with Julie)

then Amanda

and Lucia

Brooke got a nice White Trash cook book that was truly AMAZING!

then Sara had to get in the head massager action

ahhhhh

and finally Kari

Supper Club Christmas

Goal is to be to January by the end of the week, so here come a string of December blogs.

We got together with our Supper Club for our annual Christmas party/dinner. Of course we needed to do a group picture...below is the process:

Lincoln helping to see how well the stairs will show

the group loading on the stairs and Bri giving another amazing photo opp

settling in

and AMAZINGLY the first photo we took EVERYONE, including the babies, was looking at the camera!

we do a white elephant exchange and decided to do one this year for the kids as well, so we each wrapped up something we had at home and then the boys opened each other's gifts

Eli with his new ring stacker

Isaac in his Elmo suit

baby Helland couldn't quite participate, but got in on the Santa hat action

then it was time for the adult exchange, Ben was very excited

Cohen helped me out

squishy face

Brittni got the chicken that has made its way around for a few years

but did NOT want to touch it

or have it near her face!

Jesse in his new hat

Fun times had by all!

Zoo Lights

We hit up the annual Boo at the Zoo with the Fudges this year

 some blurry but fun lights

 Fudge and Grace

 we had prepared Cohen that the train would not be running at night because it would be so disappointing to him if he was thinking it was working...WELL what do we hear as we enter the zoo?! the train whistle! He went nuts, so of course we had to ride the train.

 here we are waiting for the train

 and when looking for the train you REALLY have to lean in to be sure to see it

 FINALLY on the train, covered in lights!

 we snuck in a carousel ride as well 

We also got to see the giraffes while waiting for the bathroom

Company Christmas Party

My first week of work also happened to be the company Christmas party. The whole family was invited, so Cohen got dressed up for the event.

He was very excited about the little gifts he got (a light up snowman and a santa for his door) and had a lot of fun dancing.

my cute little man!

New Job

After a little over 7 years with GreekBill, I have decided to start a new job. The decision was difficult as I have had a wonderful 7 years with GreekBill and have seen so much growth during that time. The biggest draw of the new job was getting to be back in an office setting and be around people again. It has been a long 5 1/2 years working from home, and being downtown is very exciting. 

My new job puts me in the heart of downtown Denver on Market St. It is fun to go out to lunch or just walk around downtown during lunch time.

This is the view from my new office, can't complain about that!!

December Birthday Celebration

With 3 siblings with December birthdays we have made it a family tradition the last few years to do one big party for all 3 of them. This year we were missing Kate who is living in Texas, but went ahead with the two little ones of the family, Lin and Scott.

 Cohen likes to be in on the action

 and based on this pic knows he has his auntie and uncle wrapped around his little finger

 and his grandma and grandpa too

 their cake

 again, a big helper in Cohen

 ready, set...

BLOW! As you can see even uncle scottie was ousted by the little blower.

Happy birthday to a great brother and sister and auntie and uncle!