New Year's Eve + Kristi's 30th Birthday + Obama!!!

Charlie, Hunter, and I celebrated New Year's Eve at Karen and Kevin's house with their boys, Aidan and Sean, and some of Kevin's O'Malley siblings. Was a lot of fun! We stayed over the night so we didn't have to worry about driving..... check out the cousins the day after on the sofa together watching cartoons! Awwwww.

Then, Charlie and I got the grandparents to babysit so we could celebrate Krista's team teacher and good friend Kristi's 30th BIRTHDAY with her! We went to a couple of bars in Reston Town Center; was loads of fun... we hadn't had a night on the town like that in a good long while! (Usually when we get a sitter, we do dinner out and that's all we have energy for... besides, we sorts prefer to chill at home when we're sans baby! Does that make us old!?!!)

Anyhow, last but not least, Krista was able to "play hookie" from school to do something very cool! -- That is, I taught my 1st period seniors from 7:25-9:00, and then was able to put in offical leave and not get a sub b/c my awesome team teacher Kristi covered the junior classes the rest of the day (thanx again, Kristi). The very cool thing I got to do was to GO SEE PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA SPEAK IN PERSON at George Mason University! My dad, Tom, a.k.a. the cheif-of-staff @ GMU hooked us up and put myself, my sister Karen, and my nephew Aidan on "the list"! There was an amazing amount of security and his speech was rather short (20 min) for the all the "lead up" (Poor 7-yr-old Aidan was like, "What?! We have an hour to wait until Obama comes on stage?" ~ but it was an amazing experience, one that I will not forget soon. Obama spoke eloquently about both hope and our current reality. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. THANKS, DAD!

Enjoy the pix, and have a great rest of January!

Hugs,

Krista, Charlie, and Hunter