Help Meghan and Win!

Hi Everyone,

I know many of you are sports fans and though I may be aggravating some of you Yankees fans, I couldn't pass up sending this to you all!

Sport in Society is holding a raffle and as of today you have INCREDIBLE ODDS to win tickets to a Boston Red Sox Game in the owner's box! I would love your help in either spreading the word or snatching up some tix!

Prize includes four (4) seats in Theo's luxury suite, some of the best seats in Fenway Park, fully catered with food and drink and an opportunity to meet and greet Theo.

The raffle will be held tomorrow, Jan 31, 2008 and 9 a.m. sharp!

As of this morning, we have sold 54 tickets. That makes the odds of winning extremely good! As of now, if you were to buy 10 tickets ($500), your odds would be 16%. If you buy 20 tickets ($1,000), your odds would be 27%. The street price for four tickets in Theo's box is thousands of dollars. Smart buyers would jump on this deal. Spread the word!

If the raffle tickets are not draw enough, know that all money raised by this raffle will support the incredible daily work of our staff and volunteers here at Sport in Society as we work to promote social change through sport, education and healthy development programming.

For those wanting to buy tickets, go to https://www.sportinsociety.org/raffle.php. If you do buy tickets, please send me a note, as each ticket's sales go directly into the budget area of the staff member responsible for selling the ticket. Fortunately, I fall under the umbrella of the entire organization and my work directly relates to every area of the organization!

*Not valid for Yankees games, inter-league games or Opening Day. 2008 regular season game only. Date dependent on availability. Must be booked by April 30, 2008 and used by September 1, 2008.

Northeastern University is a non-profit 501c3 organization.

1 ticket: $100

3 tickets: $200

10 tickets: $500

For those wanting to buy tickets, go to https://www.sportinsociety.org/raffle.php .
Thanks for your time and please help spread the word!

Meghan

YAY !!!!

I think I am on FINALLY........someone let me know !

Love
Marybeth

I trying this for the" second time"
Hope it works, thanks for including me


Love,

Sue

Just because we didn't take any pictures, doesn't mean that we didn't have a GREAT time!

After not having our parents together since our wedding (which amazingly, was a year and a half ago - jeeez does time fly), The Leonard's and the Zimmerman's celebrated a slightly belated Christmas together in Los Angeles and had a wonderful reunion. With neither set of parents having seen our semi-furnished apartment, we were thrilled by their excitement (and maybe surprise?) at how put together everything looked (and you didn't think we would grow up!). With a packed schedule we cooked, exchanged gifts, played the best game ever, dined at KOI, went to 'tea' that Kevin hated, shopped, watched an ok movie in an amazing house (with a private screening room), ate out in Culver City, enjoyed a GREAT football game with cousin Erin, Chris, Gary, AZ, and yummy pizza, shared the best stories about our past and laughed, and laughed and laughed! It was such a wonderful trip and we miss everyone already (kinda...KIDDING of course!) and we can't wait to do it again.

Happy 2008 to everyone.
May this year be filled with only good things!

Love and kisses,
Rachel & Kevin

Grandma Loves Me Best

alright... maybe she loves us all the same but different...but isn't she perty?

The Burrows Family Christmas

Make a scrapbook - it's easy!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!

"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice." -- T.S. Eliot

How did everyone celebrate and with whom? What are your New Year's resolutions? What do you hope the New Year will bring? DISCUSS! Post Pix!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALFONSE!!!

I don't have any great pics but wanted to wish Al a very happy brithday!
The Martins

Mahoney Christmas 2007

Make a postcard - it's easy!

Christmas is Coming....Hanukkah is past...

and no doubt more than the goose is 'getting fat' ...

it was so wonderful to see everyone's Thanksgiving posts and to enjoy sharing the various celebrations across the country!

Hopefully we can do the same for Christmas and any Hanukkah celebrations that were captured on film!

As various family members jet back and forth across the country to be with loved ones this Christmas...please again take pictures, videos etc. and post these along with narrative descriptions of special moments so that, in this way, we can all again share the holiday together.

Thanks! I look forward to seeing all of the great and special moments large and small!

Oh....and don't forget NEW YEAR's Celebrations too....(how will everyone celebrate?)...and, of course we want photo records of all those Festivus celebrations!

Merry Christmas to all...and to all a Good Night!

Belated Birthday Wishes, Jeanne!!! Birthday +2 and counting...

Happy Birthday, Jeanne!

“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” Emily Dickinson

Wishing you an amazing year full of wonder, joy and new discoveries!
Hope you experienced your birthday as a marvelous celebration of YOU!

See, Rachel...you're not the only one who's "slow as molasses"....sorry about the delayed post...been out of commission with a cold....but you and your birthday celebration have been in my thoughts.

Happy Birthday Michael!

Happy Birthday, Michael!

Hope you're enjoying a wonderful day that's as special as you are!

The 'slow as molasses' daughter in law finally gets Thanksgiving video up :)

Please forgive my delay in posting, hopefully the cuteness will make up for my lack of punctuality - ENJOY!

Happy Birthday, Caitlin!

California Girl at heart.....





"human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves..." Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Wish that we could take credit for the marvelous young woman you are...but you've done too much of the creative work yourself...challenging yourself....opening yourself to new experiences...beautiful soul...amazing spirit...YOU!

"...I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different....we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around". Kurt Vonnegut

...sometimes ya just gotta dance! "Dancie" sends her love....(should be a picture here of you in your tights and tutu...but all of a sudden my 'puter got cranky and won't let me access any more pix)....


"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
Kurt Vonnegut "Knowing What's Nice", an essay from In These Times (2003)

You are compassionate...and mindful of the simple joys...the extraordinary wonder of life......today...celebrate YOU....we do!

Happy Birthday! (now go dance and fart around....and thoroughly enjoy your day!).
WE LOVE YOU!!!

Leonard/Martin Turkey Celebration

As you all can see:
1. Kevin and Jerry spent some time discussing how to cook a turkey
2. Ashley kicked Rachel's butt in Wii bowling
3. Mary Beth channeled her inner rap star
4. Finally, after 5 days together, we were all going a little nutty!

Hope everyone had a great time together (we did!)

my california christmas...err... thanksgiving

A co-worker was out of town and let my friends and I use her nice big house (complete with swimming pool, hot tub, and outdoor bar) for our dinner if we took care of her giant newfoundland dogs.



We had two turkeys. One we deep fried. It was delicious.


The other we cooked in a meat smoker. That one tasted like smoke. We also had a ham. And all sorts of other stuff, but I'm not gonna list all that. You get the idea. If you are really dying to know, think about what you had. It was probably a lot like that. I will mention the pie. There was pie. Lots of pie.

It was a great time and everyone ate lots of turkey and ham and pie and other thins and had a fun time. The end.

This is a time lapse video from my Thanksgiving in L.A.:

Tomas Hoffman - Timelapse - Thanksgiving 2007

Mahoney & Friends Thanksgiving 2007 (East Coast Contingent)

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder

Mahoney Thanksgiving 2007 was wonderful. Though we missed Devin very very much (but YEAH, he'll be with us in a few weeks for Christmas!). We were blessed with the presence Caitlin and Meghan, Dave, our talented official T'day photographer, Kaya and Michael and Suzanne and Jonathon. Sadly, Tibi and Luke did not make their now "traditional" appearane with the fam. :~(

Definite highlights to the day, in addition to the marvelous cuisine (compliments of head chef, Meghan....Pastry Chef, Dave...and well, EVERYONE...we had TONS of amazing dishes...including Southwestern Cornbread stuffing in honor of Luke...his stuffing made it though he was in absentia) included:

• Turning the fitness center back into the dining room;
• The assemble the new table/football spectator challenge;
• The first annual "Love Onion" toss (ed. note, I am corrected by Meghan in this, to wit, "It's the "Onion OF Love"..not the Love Onion...what, do you think it's the spawn of some hippie?") ;
• The first annual "Turkey Joint pull";
• Cowgirl bucking event;
• Touch football (the home team showed good etiquette by throwing the home court advantage);
• The Great Black Friday middle of the night shopping adventure;
• and last, but not least, the liesurely and most enjoyable post feast day brunch to close the festivities....a good time was had by all.....Did I forget anything, Team?

Thanks to all who joined us to make the day so wonderful....and love to all of our family and friends with whom we were not able to share this day...but who were ever present in our hearts and minds.

Caitlin, Kathy, Kevin & Meghan (we all missed Devin VERY MUCH...he couldn't make it this year!)


(above right) first annual T'day Turkey Joint Pull bottom right: post dinner cowgirl acrobat show







Top left: no leftovers for Simon J. Bear! (and before the comments start about how i love Simon best 'cause his photo is at top, I'm not that conversant in how to work all the posting bells and whistles....and apparently the last photos loaded appear at top....so that's why!...and NO, cOm I do NOT love Simon best...lets review our reading comprehension (reference above)...have we had our heads stuck in the dissertation mire for too long?...though Simon IS very sweet).





Hope EVERYONE had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving!

Erin's Cali T'day

Sorry, I wasn't able to take any pictures! However, I went with Chris to stay with his sister in Bakersfield. It was awesome, lots of family, he has a huge family with lots of nieces and nephews. It was busy but very nice! It was beautiful weather and delicious turkey, although the stuffing had nothing on my mom's stuffing!Love Erin

Busch/Cinquemani Thanksgiving 2007

According to Sue:
"We had a great time ,Alfonse andSuzie cooked the dinner,made "Holiday Drinks"..Al's Mom Carmela was there tooAKA Nonna.I have a photo but don't how to send it. DUH.I think we need to get" Joanne's" stuffing for the next timePlease send..

Happy Holidays,

Love to all,Sue

AKA Sixth Sister"

Thanksgiving request

Since we'll all be scattered hither, thither and non across the country for T'day....it will be great if everyone takes pictures of each Thanksgiving celebration and posts them here on the family blog...along with a written "narrative" of how you celebrate the Holiday....where...who....whatcha do....etc. (OMG...I sound like Daddy quizzing us before we went out anywhere! LOL). It will be a great way to bring us all together when circumstances and geography preclude a big family gathering....and exactly what this blog is supposed to be about...SO Share away!!! Thanks!

Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Love,
Kathy