Christmas 2008

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas Party

What's better than food, family, and friends at Christmas?

First ... the food (and wine which counts as food!)

Family

Friends

Oh - and it's warm enough to sit outside and enjoy the evening on the front porch!

I hear that Santa may have been spotted in Savannah Quarters. We will find out and report soon!

Eagle, Birdie, Par

What a great day for golf. It was just a little windy - but because it was sunny and warm no one cared that there was a bit of wind!

No one had a perfromance worthy of quiting their day job to try for the tour -- but no one wanted to quit after the round, either.

Everyone is getting ready for the Christmas Eve party that starts tonight at 6PM. It will be a fun time - and it's warm enough to have some of the party outside. Yippie.

Late night antics

We weren't looking for or waiting for Santa last night - but we still managed to get into a crazy mood. An exercise ball fight, wrastlin, and ice throwing ....

Who knows?! Today is golf at 11AM. It is currently 57 degrees F with a high of 74 degrees F. That is golfing weather for me. Merry Christmas Eve!

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Here's Lookin at You Kid

This picture just suits the title!

*notice Lou on the fridge!

What an awesome dinner! Here are some highlights.

After dinner we went on a cruise around the neighborhood!

Whooo ... what a long day! It is time for a good night sleep! Goodbye ... until tomorrow.

What a fun filled day in Georgia -- well after I finished with work it was a fun day.

The afternoon started with a run! My first run since the cast has been off of my broken foot. It was about a 2.6 mile run, and felt just great. I can't wait to start going even longer. Here I am post run in the Georgia sun.

After the run, Lori and I headed to downtown Savannah for some shopping! We went into a lot of fun stores and saw a lot of cool things. Thirsty from all of the shopping, we stopped at the River Front Huey's for happy hour drinks! Here we are with our Miller Lights.

After our fun girl's outing, we headed to meet the guys at the Distillery. Lori and I got there before the golfers (who braved what the girls consider to be cold temps). The bartender took a liking to us and kept offering us samples of the various draft beers. Here we are all together.

Tonight we have a seafood buffet! Last year Corey and I gave Derek a gift card for Legal seafood (a great seafood place in Boston). He ordered some seafood that Lori is going to prepare and we are going to eat. Yumm!

Tomorrow is calling for warmer temps which means golfing for me and the rest of the gang.

Work Work Work, All Day Long

Working "from home" today -- well really from Georgia. It's not too bad though, considering that it is only 40 degrees outside and that is too cold for golf or for a walk/run. So, I will work on my year end self assessment today and frolic outside tomorrow (when the temp is going to be 73 degrees F!)

Corey lost the bet that was discussed in the last blog entry - it was only 34 degrees F this morning. And sadly, I lost to Corey in Fantasy Football this year. The Bears defense only got 7 points last night. I am still up in the series 2-1 ... we'll have to see what next year will bring.

Monday, December 22, 2008

Party in Pooler

Party tonight in Pooler. We got our luggage! As soon as we got to the airport the bags were just coming off of the carousel. Perfect timing.

Tonight we went to Jalapenos for a Mexican fiesta (and 32 oz. beers on special!). This picture makes me look like I am 4 ft tall! And here is Corey as Cousin Eddie ...

Big game tonight on Monday night football - I am routing for the Bears!! If their defense gets 20+ points tonight I will beat Corey for the third year in our fantasy football league! Go defense!

Christmas vacation movie it playing upstairs .... but I am planning for bed soon because I have to work tomorrow AM (working from home because of the shutdown).

Corey and Lori have a bet going -- the high tomorrow in the Savannah area is 60 degrees F, while the low is 25 degrees F. Corey has bet that the temperature at 8AM will be 39 degrees F or higher. Lori believes that it will be 38 degrees F or lower. I am betting that Lori will win! There is a beer at stake - so this will be a good one to win.

Goodnight for now!

In the Peach State!

We made it! We got a great workout in Hotlanta running from concourse A to concourse C to make our connection to Savannah. We got to the gate as they were finishing boarding - perfect timing! Unfortunately, our luggage wasn't so lucky. It was put on the next flight out of ATL - we should get it tonight by 7PM.

Here is a picture of cousin Eddie ... I mean Corey. Check him out, and then the movie clip of the real Eddie. Scary resemblance.

Delayed

It is freezing cold in Indiana - 5 degrees with wind chills lowering the "feels like" temp to below zero. It will be a nice relief to get to Georgia for some warmer weather.

So far we are only delayed by 30 minutes out of Indy. However, this means that our layover in ATL is now only 35 minutes. Fingers are crossed that there are no more delays and things go smoothly. A bad surprise at the airport - Delta lets passengers check one bag for free and charges 50$ for any additional bags. Bah-humbug. Southwest Airlines keeps looking better and better!

On a good note, the new Indy airport is awesome!

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Christmas Came Early!

Santa made it to 1712, and delivered many good times and great presents.

Here is how the day started ... I think most of us wished that we had a few extra hours for a nap.

After a game of euchre (Corey and I were slaughtered by Dad and Mike), things started to pick up. I think Mike and Dad won because Riley was helping out.

A gift card exchange and a yummy dinner later, we all opened Santa's presents. S.C promised a "light" Christmas but delivered way too many gifts!

Corey should look into a career in modeling!

Time to finish packing for Georgia ... and it's time for a good night of sleep to recover from the fun start to the Christmas season. Thanks to everyone for a WONDERFUL Christmas!

Petry Rich Wedding Part 2

Where to start?

It was such a fun night - and the slight headache I have now keeps reminding me of all of the fun had! All good parties end with a trip to Taco Bell ...

Today is Christmas for the Trueblood's and the White's! We still have to do some shopping before the festivities.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Christmas Wedding Part 1

Another fun way to start the Christmas season - a wedding! Katie Petry and Nathan Rich got married today. It was a really nice, and long, catholic wedding that started at 2PM. We are waiting to head to the reception which doesn't start until 5:30PM.

Here we all are just after the ceremony.

Here is the Christmas tree! Look at all of the presents : )

More later for Christmas Wedding Part 2.

Christmas Heartache

Today is a very sad day during my Christmas vacation - taking Louie to camp (aka the kennel).

He has plenty of Christmas goodies packed to take with him and we are letting him take his bed ... he will probably eat it or pee all over it, but at least we know he has it and he will be a bit more comfortable. Cousin Riley will join him on Christmas Eve! They better be good boys or Santa won't come!

Louie modeling his bed prior to leaving for camp.