Holiday Party meeting recap.

[Frick]

I want to thank you all for coming out and bringing the families. There was far more people than i expected. Thank you for buying the raffle tickets and supporting the club.

We had $480 for the club this morning and now it is up to $1318. :bounce1: This money will go to bring in speakers like Tony Vargas in February and help pay for club expenses.

Now that we have a formal club board let's give congrats to our winners.
President: Frick (Me) :D
Vice President: Aquainus (Shane)
Treasurer: Weyrman (Roy)
Club Secretary: Pescado Racing (Greg)
Corresponding Secratary: CoralReefDoc (Joshua)

This new board will help make the decisions for the club so it is no longer just my choice. This election will be annual for now on. But you don't have to be a board member to help out. If you are willing to help in anyway let us know. AZ FRAG is a all of us and the more we have people involved the better this club will get.

I also want to thank our sponsors that got us the goods. Thank you David at Kessil for the A150W. Thank you to James and Dave at Aquatic life for the LED fixture and shirts. Thank You to Amanda at Seachem for the additives. Thank you to Shane for the SpectraPure unit and media. Thank you to Bob for the Reef Stew ad tshirts. And Thank you to the crew at JBJ for the cleaner kit and the live rock.

Post up the good stuff you got at the meeting and if you have questions about it post em up.

See you all at PROP in January. :wavehand:

[Frick]

I also want to thank zibba for taking some photos of the event. This will help make our web site purdy, and get us better loot for our raffles. :D

And thanks to Ryan (Ryan's wife) and Bugs for the cookie. They were delicious.

Also a few people asked about our facebook page so here it is.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/332119380216009/

[jporter]

Great meeting today. The raffle had some excellent items and there were great deals in the room. Who ended up with my secret Santa Lobo?

[82ndengineer]

Not me, I got straight jacked for it. But oh well. :(((

[bugs713]

I would like to make a suggestion for our meetings - go around the room and everyone introduce themselves with their name and forum name(s). This will make it easier for everyone to not only find someone, but for a whose who.
I know some, including myself, had problems finding people for reserved frags.

Besides, its nice for people to know that I am not the person in my avatar...:facepalm:

Great meeting today!
:beer:

[82ndengineer]

Can whoever got the lobo post a pic so I can at least see what it could have looked like in my tank.

[NaClH20NMYVEIN]

You did a great job putting this together Jason! Best attended FRAG meeting I have seen in years.

[zibba]

I want to thank people in advance for letting a random person take their picture and putting up with me acting like the paparazzi. There were a lot of pictures that didn't turn out due to user error, but I've posted some pictures below of the event. If you don't want your picture posted, let me know who you are and I'll take it down.

Feel free to check out the full album here: AZ FRAG 2012 Holiday Party (http://s190.beta.photobucket.com/user/zibba02/library/AZ%20FRAG%202012%20Holiday%20Party). I made this folder public so you can browse around and if there's a picture you'd like in full resolution -- just send me a pm and I'll send you a copy.

Here are some of the highlights:

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z187/zibba02/AZ%20FRAG%202012%20Holiday%20Party/DSC_7931_zpse463d6ce.jpg

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[zibba]

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[zibba]

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[zibba]

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[zibba]

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z187/zibba02/AZ%20FRAG%202012%20Holiday%20Party/DSC_8048_zpsbce82c2c.jpg

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[bugs713]

Cool pics zibba, thank for your effort!
:thumbsup:

[reefstew]

Great event. Last years x mas party was small & this year standing room only. Jason has really turned this around & has the clubs support.

[Frick]

I would like to make a suggestion for our meetings - go around the room and everyone introduce themselves with their name and forum name(s). This will make it easier for everyone to not only find someone, but for a whose who.
I know some, including myself, had problems finding people for reserved frags.

Besides, its nice for people to know that I am not the person in my avatar...:facepalm:

Great meeting today!
:beer:

Yes i might start calling out new faces at meeting for now on. Good suggestion. Also i am going to get name tags going again. They will be $2.00. So if you will like one PM me. i will get them going by January.

You did a great job putting this together Jason! Best attended FRAG meeting I have seen in years.

Thank you. And those cookies were delicious, up to the point when i saw the plate said poison on it. You would do that. LOL :beer:

Cool pics zibba, thank for your effort!
:thumbsup:

Zibba, you did an awesome job. It's things like this that will make this reef club great for everyone.

Great event. Last years x mas party was small & this year standing room only. Jason has really turned this around & has the clubs support.

We are just getting started. I couldn't of done this with out every ones help. Thanks you Shane for helping me out especially with the raffles tickets and coordinating everything. Thank you again Zibba for the pics. And thank you bob for the donation. I always prefer our raffle stuff to be local.

[Rippinfrags]

Another great frag event! I want to thank everyone who put in time and effort to make this holiday extravaganza happen! My wife and I had a great time and walked away with some amazing raffle prizes. We won a gallon of reef stew and a spectra pure rodi filtration system! Here is a picture of our new system:
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h334/Rippinfrags/F1CF77FE-B8D0-409C-9B42-1E3C430F999E-7825-00000397B5E80299.jpg

[jimlundborg]

Great meeting today. The raffle had some excellent items and there were great deals in the room. Who ended up with my secret Santa Lobo?

I stole it! I ALMOST felt bad about it too. :lol:

I'll try to take a picture of it tonight when I get home.

[jimlundborg]

Can whoever got the lobo post a pic so I can at least see what it could have looked like in my tank.


You may not want to see.

[82ndengineer]

as long as you didnt kill it

[jimlundborg]

Crappy cell phone pic. But here you go.

http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af223/saltcreep/IMG_20121217_170730_zps2d64d3ec.jpg

[82ndengineer]

Boo hiss , i call shennanigans

[jimlundborg]

I told you you didn't want to see it. :)

[evolved]

That's not even a lobo! But better yet, a trachy!

[jimlundborg]

Crappy cell phone pic. But here you go.

http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af223/saltcreep/IMG_20121217_170730_zps2d64d3ec.jpg


My Clown fish is now trying to host in there.

[Frick]

Awesome! Do you have any pics of that?

[jimlundborg]

Thing is, if I get near the tank to take a picture he thinks I'm going to feed him and races to the top of the tank. I did sneak a picture of him sleeping in it this morning but the quality from my phone is just plain awful.