New Year's Eve Close By

Well, I got a little ahead of myself. I jumped into my New year's resolutions before I even talked about the actual night!

We had a beautiful New Year's eve and morning... although it was totally different than the last 3 years. Actually, this was the first time Jon and I didn't go downtown since we've been together.

Our first New Year's Eve (2005) was spent downtown just the two of us. We had the best freakin' time and ended up running into Jon's good friend Chad later that morning. We partied all morning and got to be safe as we stumbled back to our gorgeous hotel room.

Our second New Year's Eve (2006) was the best New Year's of my life. It was that year's that Jonathan proposed; we went out to dinner with friends, had some drinks at our hotel, and then went downtown. He tried to wait until midnight but ended up asking me at 10:30 p.m. at Shakespeare's Pub. It was the sweetest thing ever and the absolute happiest day of my life. Chad, Jason, Jennifer, Amy, and AK were all there with us for our incredible night. AND on top of it all, I beat all their asses in a game of poker before we went downtown. Awesome.

(Right after their Texas Hold'em beat down and right before we got engaged!)

(Downtown right after proposal.)

(Back at the hotel and beaming.)


(I'm engaged! SO excited!)

Our third New Year's Eve (2007) was pretty sweet, although lacking a very important person... Chad was unable to attend for the first time since Jon and I had started dating. We still had a blast because Ran and Tony were able to come downtown with us for the first time and Jen and Jason came again! We got to meet up with Mr. Babb and had a neat little experience with the hotel security... 3 times. It was super crazy and we loved every second of it. Everyone piled into the hotel room early morning and passed out while Ran and I had a very deep heat-to-heart. Ha. It was a damn good night.

(Starting the night out with a few drinks at the hotel as usual.)


(Downtown mid-New Year's action.)

(Reunion with our engagement spot- Shakespeare's Pub.)


(Met up with David and got kinda silly.)

(Says it all. Thanks David.)

And this New Year's eve celebration was spent close to home and with our amazing friends and family. It was just an awesome time. Jessica, Charlie and Brenda threw a bad ass party at their lovely new home. They had plenty of alcohol and some yummy food! The people made it so incredible- Jonathan, Jess, Charlie, Brenda, Jer, Mark, Tony, Lisa, Sam, Amy, Celia... and the list goes on and on. We partied until 2 a.m. and then went home and chilled at our pad on the first morning of 2009.

HAVE AN AMAZING 2009 EVERYONE!!!! IT IS GONNA BE FANTABULOUS!!!!