Katie and Baby Hall's Baby Shower

The delicious jungle themed cupcakes :)

Mom and I hanging out in Isabelle's nursery...

Mimosa's :)

Katie and I

Macare and I hosted the shower for Katie...

All the ladies and their babies!

Anna and I with her adorable son Griffin who is getting so BIG!!

Jenna and Elyse

Huge thank you to Brian's family for helping out with the shower!!

Two generations of McClatchey women, now 3 :)

Though the sex of the baby was not know at the time of the shower, she is a GIRL!!

Welcome to the world Isabelle Wynn Hall, the Howe's can't wait to meet you!

Todd and Mike's adventures in snowmobiling

While the ladies were at baby showers all weekend, Mike and our brother-in-law, Todd made the best of their time :)

Need I say more? Looks like it was a beautiful day!

New Years Eve

For NYE this year, we had another low key evening, given that we all pretty much had to work the next day. Those of us assigned to work the 5 days over New Years still made the best of it :) We had a great game night at our house, playing the famed, "Telephone Pictionary."

It was so fun to have Pete in town for a visit from Columbus!

Shreya and Laura

Kunjali and Alicia

Happy NYE 2010!

New York City: December 26, 2010

The day after Christmas, the Howe's headed to NYC to explore....

We took the train and it was super easy to get there from CT.

First stop: Rockefeller Center to ice skate...

Then we did some shopping followed by a warm up at a cute pub.

It was the same day the huge blizzard hit NYC. Thankfully we got out safely by train (but had to skip out on dinner in NYC). We were also fortunate to get out of CT without delays back to work on time....

Can't wait to go back. My first trip to NYC was definitely a success, but would love to go back when it is warmer someday :)

Christmas in Connecticut

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas from the Howe's

A month of Holiday Parties...

This is a picture from one of the many fun holiday parties this year, the Internal Medicine Holiday Party.

Dexter Holiday Hustle 5K

Mike and I really enjoyed running a local 5K in Dexter, MI called the "Holiday Hustle". It was a cold afternoon but a fun run, and we are both hoping to sign up for a few more runs in the next few months, including the Dexter-Ann Arbor Half Marathon!

Thanksgiving 2010

We spent Thanksgiving with the Nichols side this year. We went up to Hessel (in the Upper Peninsula) to my Aunt Julie and Uncle Steve's beautiful new home. It was great to see family and spend time with Christine, Todd and the kiddos.

We also were blessed to spend lots of quality time with friends...some of the most memorable moments were: Trivial Persuit at Mike and Lindsay's, Watching "Jason (Todd's brother's band) and Nick" play at Crystal Mountain, drinks at Minerva's (seeing Jenna and Ben for the first time since Elyse was born!!) and cozy fires at the Annelin's.

We were also thrilled to spend a few hours with adorable Quinn...she is growing up so fast!!

Fall in Ann Arbor

Fall brought a lot of exciting changes for us. We became home owners in Ann Arbor. It was a long but exciting process. After a few dissapointing inspections, we ended up switching our focus to a different area of town, and I think we ended up in the perfect place for us. I think it really was meant to be....in fact the house we ended up buying was the very first house we looked at when we started the house hunting process!



In late September, we spent a long weekend in Kiawah Island with the Howe's and Steve's girlfriend Lisa. The 6 of us had a great time...perfect weather, great walks/runs/bike rides daily, and lots of relaxation.

We were blessed to have visits from both sets of parents, and they were very willing to help us do work around the house and teach us a thing or two about being home owners. We are SO appreciative of their time and help! We also enjoyed football games with both sets of parents.

We had a great time at the MSU/U of M football game as well. We were so lucky to have so many great friends in town to visit. The TC crew came down in the RV and we all had a blast.

In November, we went to Chicago to visit Steve and Lisa. We also had the chance to see Nancy for dinner too...and ran into a few other TC/AA friends while we were there. We had a great time and are so happy Steve and Lisa will be in Chicago for the time being. We love visiting them!!