Best of 2011

Reflecting on 2011, I can confidently say it was not a dull year. Many introductions, many new beginnings, many reunions....here are some of the highlights...

January - birth of my godson Tristan Cash

my thirtieth birthday including my anniversary with my Celeste-pie celebrated with a day at the races. No broken horse legs, and no money won...

March - birth of the teratoma Reginald. Best weird story I could never have imagined on my own. And a great excuse to take a month off work.

April - Reunion with Juston, Dad and Celeste in a snowy weekend in Sonora.

June - 60th birthday party weekend with some of the best people I know and lots of oysters.

On the Port Townsend weekend grandma mentioned she would like a revival of the Angle Calendar, and I got to work. Teeth pulling project as it was, I did enjoy it. Especially the discovery of the pictures like these.

July - Reunion with some of the Rechenmacher girl cousins in Vegas. Xela, Valerie, Ginger, Katherine and Malea.

August - Wednesday nights become much more fun since we started going to trivia with Dana and Stacey. So far we have won 4 buckets of love at South, and placed third twice at the King's Head.

September - Conrad and I became real Jews. Judaism by Choice and Sinai Temple have introduced us to so many new and fantastic people

including Frances....

October - RB sent us all to New Jersey even though they kept trying to brainwash us into believing we were in New York. The best part of NJ was meeting up with my cool coworkers like Bradd, Erica, and Thomas.

Since I am new to the Halloween dress-up scene, it can stress me out a bit. For that reason I was so grateful to the Radman for putting this little outfit for me the day of the Eighties Halloween party.

On our little jaunt down to San Pedro for a baptism and stumbled upon this fantastic little park which turns out to be in a few scenes in the Usual Suspects, one of Conrad's favorite movie.

November - Thanksgiving at Sarah's house, where I finally got to introduce Conrad to Sarah. Nothing like having two favorite people in the same room to make my day!


and on to Ohio to introduce Conrad to the nieces and nephews....

...and to meet one of them myself. Truman Rex as it turns out was well worth the wait!

Pajama party at the Angle house. I might make this the Christmas tradition....the pajama part at least...

As it turns out all the nieces and nephews love Conrad as much as I do. Not a shocker.

December - A little trip to Reno for Christmas with the Hitchcocks to wrap up the year.

I can not wait to see what 2012 will bring. If it turns out anything like 2011, I can not complain!