Braham Fam: 2011

Friday, December 30, 2011

Dinner with Amanda & Tine

I went to dinner with Amanda & Tine at Hubbard Inn. We always have so much fun catching up. I see Amanda often, but Tine lives in NY during the week so we never see her. She will most likely be moving back soon and we are very excited.

Monday, December 26, 2011

Vegas Trip

We had a 6:30am flight the day after Christmas for Vegas to visit Craig's family. It was a quick last minute trip so were only there for three nights. The first night we took his whole family to dinner at an Italian restaurant. We had a great time seeing his family. We were so exhausted from our early flight so we went back to our hotel (Mandalay Bay) after dinner. We started to watch a movie and I pretty much crashed. Craig went gambling for a little bit and won some money.

Craig's Aunt Barbara, Aunt Mary & Aunt Violet (she has our old dog Daisy)

Craig's parents - Richard & Julie

Craig and his aunts

Craig and his brother Steve

At our hotel Mandalay Bay

The second day Craig went gambling with his Dad at the local casino while his Mom & I went to the movies. We saw The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I read all three books so I was so excited to see it and it was really good. I can't wait for the next movie to come out. Afterwards we went to dinner with Craig's parents and Aunt Violet. Then we went home and changed and went out for drinks, but I forgot to take pictures.

The last night we went to dinner at Jaleo, which is in the Cosmopolitan. We met Craig's client/friend Matt and his wife Kim, Kim's sister Tiffany and her husband Colin. They all live in Chicago, but Kim and Tiffany's parents have a house in Vegas and they are there part of the year. It was my first time meeting Kim, Tiffany and Colin and they were all so nice and fun to hang out with. It was great seeing Matt again too. We've been talking about getting together forever so it's funny it happened in Vegas. We had dinner and then had a few drinks in another bar in the hotel. We hope to see them again in Chicago soon.

Kim, Tiffany & I

Craig, Matt & Colin

Craig was taking our picture and some old lady started taking our picture too...it was funny so Craig got a picture of her

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas at Tim & Mindy's

Craig, my Mom and I opened presents at Tim & Mindy's. We missed the rest of the family. John, Sue and Tommy got my Mom a Keurig Coffee maker and a very pretty necklace. She was so surprised and excited!

We got her a David Yurman necklace for Christmas and for watching Julia for a week in Dec and she's going to watch her for another week in March. She did so much for us while we were gone. She drove her to school and picked her up everyday, took her to the doctor, to Allison's house for tutoring, etc, etc. She was terrified of driving in the city, but she did a great job! Thanks, Mom! We love you!