February 2012

February was full of celebrations.  We had Valentine's Day with some dinner and homemade raspberry sorbet heart sandwhiches...

And we had Jason's 26th birthday.  We threw Jason a party this year and it was a great success.  At least we thought so.  The Wall Street theme went over better than I expected and it seemed like everyone had a good time.  We decked our house with Wall Street-y things such as the Wall Street bull on the door and a crepe paper stock chart on a wall...

Also green streamers and a collage wall of investing and business articles, ads, charts, and pictures from Jason's collection of magazines and newspapers...

The guests dressed up in business attire...

Or as the poor 99%...ha!

We've got great friends.  The apartment was jam packed and everyone was kind enough to roll with the small space and have a good time.  

We invented a stock game that everyone really enjoyed.  We picked about 15 companies that existed in 1986, the year of Jason's birth, and everyone got to "buy" shares of up to 3 of those stocks.  Throughout the evening Jason gave quarterly updates on the stocks as to how they did in the year of 1986.  When the 4th quarter was announced everyone calculated their earnings and we had a winner.  It was fun to see people's reactions and get into the game. Here's the list of companies, you can't see it that well (click to see larger) but a few of the companies were Microsoft, McDonald's, Exxon, Apple, and Nike.

Which do you think did the best?  I know I guessed wrong!

On Jason's real birthday he got to relax and have some fun playing Zelda with some snacks.

And what did I give him this year for his birthday you may ask?  

A calculator watch!  Now he can calculate stock prices/earnings anytime, anywhere.  Do I know Jason or what?!  Boom baby!

PS - Want to know the company? Put your guess in a comment below and I'll let you know!