Happy New Year!! Yes, I realize Christmas was a week and a half ago... we needed time to decompress!
We traveled to the mitten for the holidays this year for a short and sweet trip. After a red-eye flight with a three hour delay right in the middle, we landed in Detroit at 8am just in time for the 2.5-hour drive to Grand Rapids. Yay! So after more time in planes and cars than we've spent in the last year combined, I didn't leave the house much. :)
As per usual with this family, there was a lot of eating, drinking, laughing... more drinking... more laughing... with some presents mixed in. I took a lot of pictures, so this post will read more like a family album. Enjoy!
December 23rd
My usual post
That night we all headed to Bar Divani in downtown GR for the much-anticipated Lime Green Shirt reunion. Lime Green Shirt, what is that?? Musical worlds colliding as DJ Elijah (aka Elliot), Archangel and Sylock (better known to most of you as the two rad dudes who DJ'd our wedding) reunited for an epic set.
December 24th
Christmas Eve! Of course after excessive imbibing the previous evening, we all rolled out of bed late morning and proceeded to lazily hang around the condo all day. Just like the three cats that live there as well.
December 25th
This should come as no surprise, but Paul decided rather than one big Christmas dinner, he would roll out food all day long, sorta like tapas. Eating all day long? Yes please.
Erica, Grandpa Horvath, Grandpa Mayo, Marshall, Grandma Horvath and Grandma Mayo - potato peeling party!!
What better way to conclude a perfect Christmas than an impromptu piano concert from Lauren's boyfriend Dan?
It was a wonderful holiday, albeit short. And just for fun, here's a little stop-motion video of Erica and Elliot throwing down.
To anyone who made it through this entire post and is still reading... I also have some news. The day we left for Michigan, I was offered a position at Jive Software, a super awesome software company in Portland that I have been hoping to work at for forever! I applied for a job with them before we even moved here, and finally the time is right. Starting January 11th I will be Jive's newest Sales Support Specialist. While this is a fantastic opportunity and I am so excited, it is bittersweet as it means I have to leave my beloved Veritable Quandary. I was so lucky to get a job at the VQ only two weeks after moving here (thanks for taking a chance on an unknown!), and it's been such a wonderful year and a half since then. It is truly like a family, and it's gonna be tough to leave all the awesome people I've had the privilege to work with during that time. I am happy and sad and nervous and scared, but I know it's going to be great. Wish me luck!
Love,
Jenny
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A big thank you to Joyce, Tom, Paul and everyone who helped make it a wonderful day. The food and company were equally enjoyable!
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