Casey Mullins Turns 21

Members of the Mullins Family gathered in Milwaukee last week to celebrate the 21^st birthday of our nephew Casey George Mullins and had a great reunion with each other and several Jonas relatives.

Mullins family at 21st Bday for Casey (2nd from left).

Casey turned 21 on January 13^th and we celebrated the event at O'Donoghue's Irish Pub in Elm Grove. When Casey was born in 1995, a longtime friend of Casey’s parents--John “Moon” and Linda Mullins--J. Omar Andritch, presented them with a bottle of Jameson’s Irish Whisky, with a special label on it, to be opened by Casey on his 21^st birthday. Which we did.

Casey and Uncle Joe with Jameson on his 21st Bday

After dinner, the party moved to Major Goolsby’s, a sports bar in downtown Milwaukee with a storied history to the Mullins family.  Moon was a bar manager there and that’s where he met his future wife, Linda Dwyer. Casey works there now while he’s earning a degree in engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Bill, Tricia, her daughter Erin, Erin’s boyfriend, Mike Ewing, and I flew from California to Milwaukee for the event – in friggin’ January, mind you—while Kathy traveled from La Crosse.

The Four Moon Men at Major Goolsby's in Milwaukee.

The next day, we gathered again at Café Lulu’s in Bay View (co-owned by Sarah Jonas) for lunch with her mom, our Aunt Teresa, as well as Tom and Jim Jonas. I flew back to California on Friday but others stayed longer to, among other things, watch the Packers-Cardinals playoff game at Tonic Tavern, owned by our cousin Paul Jonas in Bay View. (The bar was more enjoyable than the outcome of the game.)

Aunt Teresa with Mullinses at Cafe LuLu

As always, such family reunions are a great opportunity to stay in touch and enjoy time with the McCorry relatives. Have a great 2016 everyone.

--Robert Mullins