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When 2010 was just around the corner we took the opportunity to get ourselves out of Dodge—and into a weekend of homemade log cabin lounging. 

Supplies needed:

1 homemade cabin

5 99¢ pizzas

3 cameras

7 people

1 typewriter

Games were played, dranks were drank, and Kumbaya was sung by two men with their eyes closed; all before our first proximity alarm went off. Luckily it was just an 11 minute warning, which gave us plenty of time to prepare for midnight. Per Katie's request, we then put everything else into fast-motion. By the time '010 rolled in we were knee deep in champagne, and pictures of champagne.

Soon after, I was knee deep in snow, which is a nice way to start any year. Then I decided to leave my camera in my left angel-hole over night. I know waking up New Year's morning without a camera seems like something I would have done already, but I don't think it was. Whitney experiences losing a camera in a novel way—Oh Ten! 


It was a bittersweet moment when I spotted it still sitting in my angel sometime the  next afternoon; saying goodbye can be so hard. But it turned out to be a classic win-win-win situation when it came back on: I won, my camera won, and the succeeding jumpshots definitely won!

Capping off the night at Hammertime, Crandon, WI's premier sports bar LLC, was the only thing left to do. So we did. And by capping I mean drinking beers out of caps. And dancing the polka to that AC/DC classic, Highway To Hell.

Rating: 9 Ws, out of a possible 10 Ws

A New Year; A Gaggle of New Sweaters

The Barnebey's convened in Huntington Beach, CA for Christmas this year. And by Christmas, we mean New Years. Taylor couldn't leave his new post at Total Wines during the year's biggest week of liquor sales, so we came to him. Afterwords. By yesterday, we still hadn't gotten around to opening the pile of presents sitting in the living room. I was informed that it was important for me to open a couple of mine though. It being Thursday. News Years Sweater Thursday!

Here I am modeling a new winter themed brown half-zip sweater picked out by my mother. I think everybody was suprised by exactly how awesome this sweater is. Then there's that argyle number hanging onto Roxy and I. It came from Evan, and didn't even begin to coidinate with Roxy's gift. A nice fitted plaid button down.

This realization caused the crowd to goad me into putting them both on, with a stripped tie. Here that is, with my new winter sweater and our homemade demi-glace. Have you ever made your own demi-glace? It's a process. First you have to make your stock. Then your Espagnole, and that's not one of the Mother Sauces for nothing. Finally, you get your demi-glace. Don't worry, it's worth the day you spend making it.

Here we all our on our rooftop deck on New Year's Eve. In 1 minute this blue v-neck will become the first sweater of Sweater Thursday 2009.

And finally, after dinner all 14 of us gathered in our sweaters for a family photo. Don't we look insulated?