New Years Party

We went to our friends', Dave & Cara, house for New Year's this year. It was low key and casual and so much fun! We drank, played games and counted down the New Year together.

I'm slightly terrified about giving birth to this bucket head's son.  He broke the hat to get it to fit on his giant head!

Thanks for hosting Oeshsleins!

Dave, Steve, Ben, Glenn and Alex

 



One of my new favorite party/group games- Left, Right, Center. I need to get this game and play with my family next time we are together- even my nephew could play. Plus winning a little money is always a good time!

Happy 2013, love. It's going to be a crazy, wild and exciting year.

Happy New Year!

Hopefully most of you who read this, received our Christmas card this year. If not, please send me your mailing address! 

Part of me thought I should just wait until February and send out Christmas cards/baby announcements, but I just love the tradition of Christmas cards too much. I've taken down all my Christmas decorations except the Christmas cards that line the wall. I like hearing from all my friends and family and seeing their picture hanging on my wall.

I hope you are having a wonderful 2013 so far!

Happy New Year #2!

Glenn and I landed in Minneapolis right on time even after a 45 minute delay out of Chicago. Cheryl was at the airport waiting for us! Home at last! How did we forget how cold MN is?! We dropped our bags off at Glenn's sisters, brushed our teeth and got back in the car for Glenn's friend's house.

 We were barely there for a bit before it was midnight...again! This time change thing really messes with your body. I was exhausted, but not sleepy. It was mid-morning Japan time.

So even though we had flown 14+ hours and traveled ~7000 miles we were ready to party longer than some of our friends! It was great to catch up with Glenn's friends/wives/girlfriends. Some of which we hadn't seen since our wedding in 2007!

It was great to see you all! I wish I had gotten a picture of all the boys together! Who knows when that will happen again. Hopefully less than 3 years this time!

Happy New Year from 32,000 feet...

Glenn and I seriously spoiled ourselves on this trip home. We upgraded ourselves to business class. OMG, it was the greatest thing we've done in awhile. Access to the Admiral's Club (which has a self serve open bar in Japan!), champagne before take off, real meals that aren't served in boxes. It was pretty amazing and for those of you that are wondering, worth every bit of the 50,000 miles and $700.

 Happy New Year #1 (aka Japan time)!

Lastly, I would have paid extra just for the noise canceling Bose headphones. How did I not know about these?! I think I need some for every time I fly. I loved the horizontal bed/chair as well. I think I got 6 or 7 hours of sleep on the flight.

I think we might have to upgrade ourselves on our last flight home from Japan as well. It made getting home and heading straight to a NYE party pretty easy!

2010 Highlights

January: Tim & Cheryl visit Japan

January: Baby Brooke is born!

February: Dave and Jen visit Japan!

February: Lady Gaga concert from the 8th row!

March: Trip to Guam

 March: Visit Hillary in Fukui, Japan.

April: Anniversary trip to Singapore

July: Amazing trip to Bali

 July: Continuing amazing trip to Lombok and Singapore

 August: Climb to the top of Mount Fuji!

 October: Trip to Thailand

 November: Glenn returns from deployment!

Happy New Year 2011!

Glenn and I hope you have a wonderful start to 2011! I'm looking forward to starting and ending 2011 in America with a few more trips and adventures in between! We hope you have a wonderful year ahead of you as well!

Happy New Year!

A few New Year's Eve pictures from the past!

 2005-2006

 2007-2008

 2008-2009

 2009-2010

2010-2011 (ok, so this is an old picture, but we'll be on an airplane this year on NYE)