Just shy of thirty

Erin T is 29 next year so she's got one more year before we get throw her an over the hill bash and the last year that she gets a normal birthday party. This year we took to the city for some kick'n food at beetlenut. If you know me you know I hate greens but I will scarf a whole plate of string beans from beetlenut ther ain't nothin greater! We ate so much and even tried (the over rated) punch bowl - next time we'll stick with our own drinks... Never the less we had a blast.
That weekend Aaron and his brothers and dad headed up to Reno to celebrate James' 21st birthday though they ALL lost their money, forfeited their hotel room, and came home the same say they left. I wouldn't exactly say they had fun, but a good time bonding on the 3 hour ride up and back.
Super fun... But I can't wait until next year when we get to celebrate the big 3-0... Rumor is we may be celebrating in the big apple!!!!

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Muah Muah - kristin

A Christmas tradition Kip. style

Every Christmas season mike and jos throw a homemade gift white elephant party. Since they started this 8 years ago the gifts have gotten more and more creative. Last year Aaron and I decided what we would do for this years gift and for once we rembered what we were going to do when the time came around. Aaron and I love watching 30 rock on NBC, there's this guy in there that wears a hat that has an ever changing phrase on it so Aaron made his own version of that hat, it ended up being one of the most sought after gifts. Mine didn't do too bad either. I made a version of my late grandmother's half aprons, one I even sewed panties in to ha ha ha ha!
Jos made a movie poster from the Halloween Broke Back Mountain picture that Aaron and Paul took , to say the least it was hilarious!!!
Here's a look at some of the gifts - I ended up with the beer bong made by erin .

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Benefit Beauty Bash!

Back in the fall, I entered my first facebook contest. It was for Benefit cosmetics. Well believe it or not, I won! The prize was a private party for me and 8 of my friends at the Benefit store in Berkeley. So I rounded up the troops from Nor Cal and So Cal and we all marched in for a fabulous time this weekend!

We were each given a service of our choice- eyelash tinting, eyebrow tinting or eye brow waxing/threading. I was a bit overzealous and went for both the eye lash tinting (I now have eye lashed that you can see!!!! I don't really have to wear mascara! woo hoo!) and eyebrow tinting (yay! no more eyebrow pencils!!!). We then got a full makeover along with enjoying wine (haha heather!!) and hors d' ouerves (spelling?). We had such a blast! (see pictures by clicking here)

Afterwards we headed out to dinner at a cute little american bistro called Venus and then on to a Dance Club in Walnut Creek called Vice.

Heather and Shauna took off after dinner to get home as heather was a little under the weather ;), but didn't end up getting home so quickly because they ran out of gas about a mile from my house!!! After numerous calls to only a handful of people they knew in the area, they finally tracked down Aaron, who came out and "saved them". Quite a night and one that we all remember for a very long time!

Muah Muah, Kristin