Tag Archives: Party

Photo-A-Day

1st Photo-A-Day of 2009 – Happy New Year!

11 Comments
1st Photo-A-Day of 2009 - Happy New Year!
Photo-A-Day #1364

A little while after the clock struck midnight I took out the XShot and took the first Photo-A-Day of 2009. A look at how I’d like to spend 2009, surrounded by family and friends having fun.

We had a very nice New Year’s party and thank everyone who braved the snow and ice to come to the house and celebrate with us. Allison made a delicious White Chicken Chili or White Chili with Chicken, I can never remember but I know it is really good. I went out and got a bunch of extras like mozzarella sticks, pizza bites, mini tacos and potato skins. We had plenty of food and the house had plenty of people. My parents, my sister Tara and my Brother-In-Law Erik, Meghan and Russ, Mike, Neil and Andrea. We even made it to midnight tonight, and so did Neil and Andrea. Everyone else went home early. We were even able to crack the champagne that we bought for last year’s New Year’s Eve.

During the night we talked, watched the ball drop and played some Wii games like Mario Kart and Guitar Hero. It was fun and we were glad that we charged the batteries earlier that day.

Today was a nice one with church in the morning followed by some lazing around. I read some of Brisingr and took a nice long nap. It was a nice day that got even nicer with a delicious meal with Mom and Dad. They made a Prime Rib Roast that was so good. Tara and Erik had dinner with us too and Eva loved all the attention, of course. Eva’s been expanding her vocabulary every day and she picks up and repeats words so fast. Fast enough that she caught us say “Crap” and immediately tested that word out. Great. Welcome to 2009.

Photo-A-Day

Edward G. Lambert Insurance Christmas Party

2 Comments
Edward G. Lambert Insurance Christmas Party
Photo-A-Day #1349

Allison has been doing some working three days a week. She works for my best friend Neil at the Edward G. Lambert Insurance Agency. Ed passed away nearly a year ago and Neil has taken over the business. A couple of months ago Allison was brought on to help out with a large data updating task. I think this has worked out very well for all parties involved.

Tonight was the company Christmas party which we celebrated at Cafe Porto Bello in downtown North Attleboro. It is important to keep things local, support local businesses and the local economy especially in these ever increasingly difficult economic times.

We had a wonderful meal. I actually got the same dish I had the last time I was at Cafe Porto Bello which was chicken wrapped around prosciutto and mozzarella in a mushroom sauce. It was delicious and Allison got the same thing. We also had great conversation and many entertaining stories about everything. Stories about Ed, stories about finding boats in insurance salvage yards and so many other things. It was a very nice evening.

The Sears Gift Card promotion is in full swing. I cannot believe how many people are entering this contest. I thought that BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome! (winner to be announced tomorrow) was a big contest but this Sears one is a BIG contest. And so many people are entering with such great things that they would do, even people who have fallen on hard times themselves are looking to help others. They are really getting the spirit of the season as well as spirit of the contest.

The Nokia Chronicles folks asked for my feedback today. Oh I had feedback to give. Be on the lookout for a thought provoking post on that subject. Weigh in and let me know if my statements yesterday were based in reality or not.

Here is another shot I took on the way out of the restaurant.

Lights and Statue

I was playing with the lights again.

Also I read this interesting article on LifeHacker today about an Easter Egg on Flickr where you can add a note to someone’s photo that adds a Santa beard or Santa hat. All you do is create a note on the image that says ho ho ho hat to get the hat, it is resize-able and ho ho ho beard to get the resize-able beard. I did this to two of my photos from this past weekend. One of me and Transformers, and one of Allison, Eva and Santa.