What a night. I'm convinced now that making no plans for New Year's Eve and letting it all fall into place at the last minute is the way to go. That way the night isn't built up into something too big. Krissy had us over for pre-party snacks and drinks to fill our bellys with food and kill those awkward evening hours before the real party started.
Lovely Ladies.
Short tie.
Photographer pose.
Tie lessons 101.
Carboy brought all the necessary supplies.
I spent a lot of time at this thing.
Now it gets fun!
Ben trying to deploy his umbrella indoors.
Why, you might ask. This is why.
That girl in the far right of the background yelled at me about champagne getting in her hair. I told her to look around at all of us being soaked. She demanded that Dave pay for some clothing that she thought was ruined and Derek saved the day by telling her, "you're too pretty to be mad." Good team effort.
Brandon scooped this real high tech camera.
Koerners.
Carboy getting fired up.
Dave, looking good.
Of course Lovejoy was picking up girls.
Party Lovejoy was out.
I included this just because of all the champagne on the ceiling.
Get 'em Nait.
The Boss was blasting.
Amy shakes her booty.
Dear Mark, you were not roofied. You just did this.
A couple notes before we get into this 1. First of all, the incriminating (or awesome, depending on how you look at it) New Year's Eve photos are still forthcoming. I'll save all my friends the embarrassment of the close ups that we did for fun on the TV last night (Dave and Lovejoy know what I'm talking about). Secondly, this and the NYE post have some collabo work from Dave. Rather than double up on a party we were both at, we combined forces. Dave's photos are more square than my long photos. They'll all be mixed in together. Here's to another year of everyone getting dudebarned!
Dave was really happy to be back in Portland.
Go back to Sellwood!
TG showed me and Molli the best video of his nephew Felix Bacon.
Hey Brandon, open your eyes!
This is my only photo from Christmas day. Kyle's awesome apple pie.
Derek came back a couple days after Christmas and we felt it was only right to pull a bit of a prank on him. After tossing out the ideas that were too ridiculous or destructive we settled on balloons.
We started with Steve's air compressor.
This is what the room looked like as we got started.
And 400 balloons later this is what ended up with. We all thought that many balloons would go a lot farther, but the goal was accomplished.
Then it was off to pick up Derek at the airport in Verg's sweet van.
Derek laughed at first and then remarked, "this is the meanest thing anyone has ever done to me."
