Thursday, January 01, 2009

Happy 2009

Here are some pictures from our New Year's Eve. We had a pretty relaxed night with the kids and the Castletons--some old friends from San Antonio--who came over from Illinois.

The girls helped themselves to the spread.


The kids wanted to stay up until midnight. Charles made it to about 10:30 p.m., when he succumbed while reading about sturgeon and gar.



Joey crashed about 15 minutes later, when we heard Tori say "Joey's asleep!" She, of course, was wide awake and playing.

And posing for the camera.

About 10 minutes after that, she turned to us and said, "I want to go to bed." The most surprising news of the night was that Liz actually made it to midnight, for the first time in something like 6 or 7 years.

We wish everyone the best in 2009.


Bonus Picture:
Here's an inner-city grocery store I found during a quick trip to Richmond, VA on 12/30-12/31.

8 comments:

Liz said...

Whatever Joe, I fell asleep like three or four years ago before midnight only because I was very sick and would have passed out if I stayed up a second longer.

Anonymous said...

Happy 2009{:) Glad that ya'll had a great time with good friends!

jane Cobber said...

Sounds like tons of fun! Reading about sturgeon and gar would have put me to sleep to though.

H said...

Haha Liz. Don't you love it when they change history like that? And he isn't even a democrat. tee hee.

I agree with Carol, that would have put me to sleep as well.

Happy 2009!

Anonymous said...

love the bonus picture. however, it makes me think that James' new profession may be a little more dangerous back there than say...Provo/Utah County. What do you guys think? We know some people in Utah in law enforcement bro...could get you guys a transfer.

Becca Queen of Chaos said...

THANK YOU!! For a wonderful night! I have been trying to print my 2008 and haven't posted this night yet - I gotta get to it! Thank you, it was wonderful to see you!

Anonymous said...

Looks like fun...and speaking of a spread, thank you guys SO much for sending us a very good one, I might say. We are still enjoying it.

Bryant P. Castleton said...

We had a great time and THANKS again for having us over!

It was great to see you guys again and hope we can get together again soon.

I loved the New Year's Eve spread! Mmmmmm!