Bear Valley

I joined Kim, Brian and Sucio at Bear Valley to celebrate Kim's birthday. The weather wasn't ski friendly so we went snowshoeing and built a fun sled run instead.

Christmas Crabfest and More

A few days before Christmas we feasted on dungeness crabs at Andrea and Ferg's house (who got engaged over the holidays!!!).



Cheers!


Kevin, Yari, Tater Tot and I opened presents Christmas morning. Kevin got me a fiddle, gypsy music to come this summer!



Erik, Ari, Tony and Joanie came over later. Kevin cooked up a ham for Christmas dinner. And Erik brought the real shocker of the evening...



Over the weekend we took a hike in the Berkeley hills at Sibley Volcano Park. Yari met his first cow.

Another Dirty White Elephant

Kim and Brian hosted another dirty white elephant party in Woodland. We wore our "new" Christmas sweaters. I unknowingly beat out Andrea and Mandy's co-worker, Shannon, on Ebay for Kevin's santa bear sweater!

The chin-dong was definitely the dirtiest present. Tony's sexy fruit sculpture was the most creative. Penis Pokey, Cast-a-Willie, and the Poop log were amoung the other presents.

And Yari of course was the horny humping dog, poor Sucio and Joanie!

Thanksgiving weekend

Jiri hosted the 2nd annual deep-fry fest a couple days after Thanksgiving. Surprisingly no deep-fry food pics! The winner of the evening was the deep-fried pickles. Mmmmmmm. Kevin and I also went to Healdsburg to pick up my wine shipment and saw a bunch of rainbows on the way up. We also saw a cool "bait ball" of birds over the vineyards.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Yari Pilgrim Turkey

Once again we celebrated Thanksgiving at Tony's house. The turkey was too big to fit in the pot so Tony cooked the drumsticks first.



Here's Tony about to deep-fry the turkey.




Heather and her veggie pot pie:

Sparky's Reunion

Many of us, plus a couple of new additions, made it to the restaurant after a several year hiatus. It was great to see everyone together and hard to believe we used to meet up every Tuesday for over a year!

UM - UW Tailgate

Unfortunately, in the only game that matters, Michigan lost to Wisconsin to add to it's dismal season.

Here's the passing of the clock to Kevin for Wisconsin's win. Hopefully Erik can claim it next year.