"Good Bye" Q Party

Sadly one of our good friends Mike, better known as Q is moving to CT on October 2nd. This weekend he and his girlfriend hosted one last bash to celebrate him moving on to bigger and better things.

The night was like pretty indicitative of most nights spent with Q...., good food, video games, drinking, which eventually turned into taking shots.

8/15/09 Harvey Dog Day

We have no idea when Harvey's Birthday is, so we decided that each year we will celebrate the day we rescued him- which is August 13th. We figured this was a good enough excuse to have some friends over for a cook out. We also made Harvey dog cupcakes and plenty of dog treats and ice cream for the four-legged friends. Everyone was so generous and brought Harvey plenty of tennis balls and bones. We had beautiful weather so spent the night outside grilling, hanging, and playing bean bag toss. Dog friends Jayda and Stone came for the party too. Overall a great 1st Harvey Dog Day celebration!

"Hangin' with the Hansens" 5.30.09

We decided, since the weather was finally warming up, our schedules were opening up, and our new place has a decent sized deck, it was time for a little grill out.

Well, not so little, but we had a good group of co-workers old & new plus friends & significant others. About 25 - 30 people showed up for some beer boiled brots, chicken & plenty of sides & deserts (cookies, cupcakes, chocolate peanutbutter balls & orangies - yum). Even Harvey got to have a couple new friends over.

Jill concocted a "Summer Brew" her co-worker had told her about -- cheap beer, lemonade mix, lemons, & vodka; sounds gross but was great -- others brought plenty of beer and stuff for mojitoes.

Stu had worked quite a bit over a couple weeks before the get together constructing some bean-bag toss ("Corn-hole") boards (Jill helped paint them). Of course he didn't mind the work as it was an excuse to pick up a few new tools and now it's just one more fun thing to do at the Hansens'. They turned out great; Stu was happy to see they didn't wobble or sit crooked.

We were very happy with the turn out and our Dollar Store purchases of small & large tiki torches paid off because it provided plenty of lights for the bean bag toss & smoke to keep bugs away. The weather held out for us, everyone appeared to have a good time, there was plenty to drink for everyone (the hosts included) and everyone made it home safe so we think we pulled of a great shindig.