Updates! (December)

Officially in holiday season, we continued to spend time with family and friends and do some traveling in December. Including...

-a holiday party with Megan's dinner club at Rachel and Elizabeth's
-a Christmas-themed anesthesiology holiday party at Kristin's









-a Three Floyd's brewery tour with the Winters









-and a wonderful week-long trip to Florida for Christmas with the Hoods/Buersmeyers that included a 4-day trip to Captiva (including a wild restaurant called the Bubble Room), and 3 days in Marco Island/Naples for the holiday


















To sum up, we had a stellar 2011! 2012 will bring some interesting changes, with Ryan finishing residency and moving to Houston in July. A good sign that we have a good year ahead, though, is that we have daily calendars for Ryan's two favorite things...

Updates! (November)

November, or should we say "Movember", was another wild month...

-You likely know about Ryan's support of prostate cancer and men's health via facial hair growth if you received an email asking for donations, or received a Christmas card from the Markeys this year. The month started furry (see Ryan with Dan and Rob, some of his anesthesia co-growers)...









and ended even furrier...












And in between we had lots of fun times:
-exploring dive bars with the Contes









-traveling to DC for the ND-Maryland game to hang out with ND friends, family, and generally having Claire show us around one of our new favorite cities

















-and who could forget our amazing Thanksgiving with the Markeys, who kindly came all the way to Chicago to celebrate the holiday and check out the city with us? During their trip, we also attended the 3rd annual Hood/Beach-Schaefer Thanksgiving! Which involved some active games...

















-We also had multiple fun celebrations of Brooke's 30th birthday, including making brunch at our house and getting 2nd place (of 7 teams) in a chili cookoff

Updates! (October)

This is a very belated series of posts, but our excuse is that we were busy doing exciting things over the past few months! So here is a brief update on what those exciting things were...

October:
-Bucktown 5K with Brooke and Mike









-On the field for the Notre Dame game with Pribaz and Flynn!









-Foote wedding in KC, a trip that let us get to see both sets of parents :)









-Notre Dame vs USC night game with lots of Buersmeyers/Hoods and many of our ND favs












-John and Lauren's wedding, leading to a SLU Psychology reunion