March 20, 2005

Ashley and Amber Owen hosted a small get-together with several of the Johnson Hall miscreants, including a couple of out-of-town guest appearances. Leilani (Ackerman) Maloney drove up from Santa Fe (with 2 kids -- I'm in awe!), and Jeremy Holm was in from Brooklyn.

There was plenty of "Remember when..." and "Whatever happened to...", but also lots of learning who's doing what now, and oogling over people's kids (buncha' great genes in this group, I tell ya!). And I have to say, what a fantastic thing that we got together without the catalyst of a wedding or funeral. Let's not wait so long to do it again!

Eric Lentz brought his lovely wife, Jill, and Carter, who is already the envy of some of our more hair-deprived friends. :)
Jeremy Holm, Leilani (Ackerman) Maloney, Jaxon Maloney and Amber (Cowan) Owen, part of the kitchen conversation circle.

Tiffany McNeil and Jeremy, listening to one of the evening's many quips.

Lisa (Hart) Pere and Leilani, early in the evening (Farty, we know that grin is in there -- another glass of wine should pry it out)

Amber, Jeremy and Ashley Owen, poring over some remarkably embarrasing photos, I'm sure!

Leilani's Jaxon flashes those big blue eyes at us - I'll bet he gets his way a lot. ;)

Kurt Muenstermann, chuckling at someone's witty repartee (with this group, it coulda' been any one of us!)

I'm not sure what the topic was, but it clearly called for just the right gesture.

Kurt adds his hand to the InfoPlate

(see, we didn't find a piece of paper to capture all this, so Eric grabbed a plate...hence, the InfoPlate)

Leilani drafts a note to Nick Stabile's guestbook online (several of us added our sentiments) -- next time, maybeNick is one of our out-of-town guests!
Jaxon takes in the scene from the comfort of his blanky.

Lisa, enjoying some comraderie (no grin yet, huh?)
Zach and Kurt Muenstermann -- know it's a little blurry, but you can still see that Zach has gotten Dad's grin.
Jeremy, Leilani and Lisa -- smiles on one and all!
It's too bad none of us are photogenic....
There's one of Tarnti's 2 kids (Jaxon). Logan, Ashley & Amber's boys Zeke and Cooper, Kurt's Zach and Cody, and Lisa's Ethan were too busy having their own fun to be caught on camera.
Thoughtful and pensive...

Alright, you can have one photo of me, but only because Jaxon was being so darn cute.
Ashley sure makes a strong point!
Warren joined the party (with some colorful admonitions by Jeremy) just in time to say "Hello-Goodbye" to a few who had to scoot early.

Amber, also looking thoughtful and pensive.
The whole gang, before people had to skip out - what a great-looking group we still are!
As the responsible ones headed home, most of the rest of us headed for the hot tub.

As I had to head home to be a responsible doggy-parent, this was my parting shot for the Crass Menagerie.

The InfoPlate, as it is today -- let's see if we can't add a few names to it next time, huh?

Yup, good times, alrighty. Let's head back to the home page