December 2016 – nolimitseasternshore

Thank You Hermitage on the Eastern Shore!!

For the past several holidays, the residents & staff of the Hermitage on the Eastern Shore in Onancock have adopted No Limits!

Every year they donate wrapped gifts for the men and women of No Limits Eastern Shore.

Here is Amy opening her gift. Thank you so much to everybody at Hermitage on the Eastern Shore (www.hermitageshore.com). — Here is Amy opening her gift. Thank you so much to everybody at Hermitage on the Eastern Shore (www.hermitageshore.com)!!

David was really happy with his calendar.

Now Christmas is over and here we are cleaning up & getting ready for the New Year - HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! — Now Christmas is over and here we are cleaning up & getting ready for the New Year – HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

The No Limits Bell Ringers

Here at No Limits we love to participate within our community as much as we can. Annually during the Holiday season we volunteer for bell ringing shifts for The Salvation Army. Check out our awesome bell ringers!!!

100_3279-2 — Brandon & CL

dscf8315-2 — DJ & Diane

dscf8512-2 — Brandon, Maryann, & Zel!

dscf8513 — Zel, Emma, & Brandon!

***Not Pictured – Mr. Adrian Carpenter! Hey yo, Adrian! You were so busy taking pictures that you forgot to take one of yourself!***

“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen

Ho, ho ho and Merry Christmas from No Limits Eastern Shore!

Christmas Party Blogging

dscf8378 — The cooks makin’ our traditional Christmas punch!!!

dscf8382 — It looks like Santa came early for No Limits! 🙂

dscf8391 — Wow! We didn’t realize just how many gifts we had to share!

dscf8393 — Rachel got everyone a super cool No Limits Eastern Shore Tote from the zazzle.com/nolimitseasternshore/ store!

dscf8397 — DJ showing off his new tote! We think they turned out great.

dscf8404 — Our favorite “elf” getting ready to hand out all of the gifts for our annual Secret Santa exchange! Keep reading to see all of our friends opening up their gifts!

dscf8464 — Thanks Faith!

dscf8423 — Eva’s reaction to Zel’s present was priceless!!!

dscf8420 — Very nice shot Amy and CL!

dscf8477 — Room shot – what a wonderful turn out! Thank you to everyone who joined us for our party!

dscf8498 — Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from No Limits!

dscf8487 — Aren’t these so cute?! Brandon says “Maryann brought lots of Santas to watch over all the kids!”

dscf8488 — They were yum, yum, yum!

dscf8497 — Maureen and Adrian

dscf8476 — More punch please.

dscf8484 — Daniel posing with our special musical guest, June Bailey!

dscf8494 — We love singing tunes with June!

dscf8496 — Brandon showing everyone how to boogie woogie!

dscf8501 — Group shot take 1!

dscf8504 — Take 2! What a great celebration we had!

Friday Blogging

dscf8340 — Cookie making is the bomb!

dscf8342 — We were assorting cookies into bags to be delivered to our friends at G.F. Horne Assisted Living Community!

dscf8359 — The final bagging of the cookies!

100_3275 — Maryann and Denise wrapped aloes to give them a Christmas-y vibe! Wrap on ladies, wrap on!

dscf8369 — On their way to deliver cookies! Take one = silly!

dscf8368 — Take two = serious! We hope everyone at G.F. Horne likes the treats!

dscf8355 — Two nice men doing our monthly safety inspection of our building.

dscf8346 — Nice job Zel! We think he was helping to organize the aloe plants.

100_3273 — Brandon at the Barrier Islands Center last Friday for a free workshop on berry growing! Thank you to the Eastern Shore RC&D and the Virginia Cooperative Extension for hosting this workshop!

dscf8361-copy — We would also like to thank Shine & Rise Farm in Painter for donating blackberry bushes for our pollinator garden! Here we see Amy planting one of the bushes in a pot so that it can live in our indoor garden until spring! I think I can, I think I can! Right Amy?

Friday Blogging

dscf8288 — We decorated for Christmas at No Limits this week! Amy was gettin’ down with her bad self in the spirit of the season!

dscf8291 — Amy & Brandon did a great job decorating our fridge with a Nativity magnet set.

dscf8294 — Y’all did such a great job!

dscf8302 — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

dscf8303 — A perfect new home for the No Limits “Christmas Village” for the first season in our new building!

dscf8310 — Brandon putting the finishing touches on the Nativity set in our foyer. Nice work!

dscf8315 — We had our first bell ringing session of the season this week! Ring on DJ and Diane, ring on!

dscf8316 — Diane havin’ a good old time ringing for the Salvation Army!

dscf8324 — These 3 Musketeers were thinking really hard on this puzzle!

dscf8326 — Jump on Adrian, jump on! We think Maryann was saying “watch your step!” The sign looks awesome by the way!

dscf8330 — These decorators were hard at work.

dscf8331 — Outreach Cooking! We baked cookies for our friends at G.F. Horne Assisted Living Community.

dscf8332 — Amy is the best at keeping us on track ingredient-wise!

dscf8337 — Beautiful job on the sign everybody! Happy Holidays from No Limits!