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January Fun in Greeley

We’ve been having some fun times so far this January. For New Year’s Eve we went over to our friends Matt and Jamie’s house and played the Xbox Kinect which is the newest virtual reality game similar to the Wii that is very active. We were sweating and laughing and in general enjoying ourselves, especially as we played against a three-year old with boundless energy.

Britton and Matt playing Kinect on New Year’s

We stayed up until midnight and watched the re-run of the countdown and ball dropping in New York (since we are two hours earlier here in Colorado) and toasted to the new year.

Earlier that day we took our niece, nephew and my cousin Tommy who was in town out to lunch as part of their Christmas present. We decided to go to Pho Duy which is a new Vietnamese beef broth soup place in Greeley. Britton and I love going there so we thought we would show the kids. Plus, it was really snowy and cold, a perfect day for soup!


At Pho Duy in Greeley

Then this weekend we were invited to a re-wrap your crap party, AKA white elephant party at my friend Kelly’s house. We love these parties and have even had one at our house! After Christmas you always find stuff you really don’t need anymore or that is just plain silly so it’s a great way to have fun with the excesses.


Party

We ended up with a tea timer -for people who can’t remember to take their tea bag out of their cup! lol And another glass chicken/rooster. I am starting to amass quite a lot of weird chicken paraphernalia thanks to my love of our real chickens I suppose.


With some friends from work

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Happy New Year 2009 Planet Earth!

We rang in the New Year with friends and it was pretty fun. It started out later than we had planned and a lot of people canceled last minute for various reasons. It didn’t feel like much of a year to celebrate, but it was still fun and I am glad that we had a nice group of people to spend the first few hours before and after 2009 with. We played the game Catchphrase with everyone and that was fun, hung out, made Pina Coladas and other drinks, then we did the white elephant gift exchange and some of them were very funny and strange gifts. We ended up with a Kebob-It 1970-80’s infomercial cooking device. Other memorable items included a couple of ponchos, a 2007-2008 used planner, a lovely Snoopy belt thing, and much more! 🙂 Britton had an even more memorable night (or not), but that’s another story for another time.

Table of Food
Table of New Year 2009 Party Food

We made 7-Layer Bean Dip, Guacamole, a cheese and cracker tray, cookies and had a little olive bar.


With Friends
Me, Sandi and Chris

Our New Kebob-It
Britton with the New Kebob-It Food Thingy

Poncho and Clock
G with A Poncho and a Clock

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