Thursday, October 25, 2007

Stephen's 80's Birthday Party



Heidi truly out-did herself this time. To celebrate my 40th birthday last weekend, she threw an awesome 80's birthday party. 10 couples were invited from Church and dressed up in their best 80's gear including mullets, bangle bracelets, super tight Izods with collars flipped, scrunchies, catheads, laced gloves, teased hair, and more! Fake mullets simply don't look as good as the real ones. Take these two below for example! My buddy Pat wears that mullet oh too well!


We asked to bring at least one picture to the party. The kitchen table was covered with annuals, prom pictures, senior pictures (you will see in the pictures below). Heidi did a fantastic job decorating - finding old albums, disco balls, lava lamps and making a ton of food.



My close friend Adam was in charge of music and games which turned out to be a great hit! Take a look below and you can see me doing best to "moon walk."


And, to top off the night, we had Karaoke with songs from the 80's. You really find out how bad of a singer you are with karaoke, but hey, you have to at least try it, especially among friends.
Heidi and Juliet singing something from Madonna.

Erin and Greg singing to eachother. Greg is doing his ritual mating dance.
Adam and me singing "Ebony and Ivory." Not sure which one was which.


People absolutely loved it! They were all talking about it at Church on Sunday - so many people came up to us and said, "we heard about that 80's party you had on Friday night!" Heidi has gotten several calls from people saying, "I just can't stop thinking about the 80's party...we had so much fun!" The party brought back so many great memories for everyone! To top it off, Adam surprised us all by creating a DVD with a bunch of pictures of me over the past 40 years that Heidi smuggled to him. It was a great gift! In addition, my mom and Heidi collected a bunch of t-shirts and made him a blanket with the t-shirts that included pieces spanning most of his life. It is truly a work of art.




Group shots of the guys and girls!
























Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Mark Church's Visit To "The Ohio"

Yes, I am WAY behind on keeping this blog updated. The following photos are from a visit by Mark, Alex and Christopher on their way back to Connecticut from a family renunion back in July. They were able to stay with us a couple of days. It has a been a LONG time since we have seen them, so it was great to reconnect.

Here are some random shots of our visit to the pool. Please notice all the mermaids I was able to catch!








Some other random shots of from their visit.