really?

i feel like this

about this.

how we celebrated

kneaders all-you-can-eat french toast for breakfast. so good.
parker got the smart phone he wanted...it is all he has been doing the past 48 hours.

Seven peaks with our free entrance passes (gotta love those val-paks)

Brian and marcies wedding bbq for dinner.

it was a fun low-key day to celebrate parker.

tatum is married!

May 21, 2010. Tatum and Mike got married!

seriously isn't she the prettiest bride ever?

tate, charlene, me, sidney

oh mesa. she was also the bell of the ball. as if you can't tell.

we begged them to smoosh. why doesn't anyone smoosh anymore?

when tatum threw her boquet, it literally landed on charlene's feet. she was so embarrassed. she tried giving it away. she finally decided to keep it :)

happy 27!

parker turns 27 today! isn't he cute? hope i get a little boy half this cute someday.

happy birthday park! you are the best friend i ever had! i love you!

roomies

parker has been out of town a few weeks this summer for work. and since I watch too much Law and Order and freak myself out at night, Charlene has been staying with me while P is out of town (also it was just really fun to have charlene staying with me and pretending like we were roomies again). I'm always amazed how nothing ever changes with charlene. since the 7th grade, our friendship has always been easy and we always pick up where we left off. I know people always say that and it sounds cliche, but seriously, that's how it is.

{ insert really old picture of charlene and me here...i don't have one since my computer crashed...anyone know a good place to have your computer diagnosed and virus' removed? }

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in lieu of some older pics, here are some more recent or not so recent ones.

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tatum's wedding last monthclassic california beach trip... 2007.

don't ask me what we are doing in this picture. taken in seattle in old navy dressing room

salad spinners and hematocrits

I got one for my birthday a couple months ago and have been loving it. I hate wet lettuce. I heard this story on NPR a couple days ago. How cool is this?

"Doctors in developing countries need a cheap centrifuge to test blood samples for anemia. Some university students think they have one. It’s a salad spinner tricked out with test tubes. The students are taking it out for field tests in Ecuador and Swaziland."

How to pleat Steam Bun -done by pro

so I made chinese bbq steamed buns (sio pao in the philippines) yesterday and I was watching videos on how to close the buns... if you would have seen what I was doing and then watched what it was supposed to look like (see video below), you would have laughed. at least they tasted good.



reminded me of something a little more depressing. A few weeks ago, i pulled out my violin to practice a little...something i should and wish i did much more than i do...Anyways I pulled out the last song I was working on seriously with my teacher and practiced for a while then thought I would youtube it and listen to it a few times to remember what it was supposed to sound like. again you would have laughed at me practicing.... I can probably play this at about 1/10th the speed itzhak does. doesn't even sound like the same song. Really depressing... I haven't pulled my violin out since. don't worry, as soon as my pride mends a little, I will.



"Although we don’t know all the reasons why we have differences in degrees of talents or attributes, the important thing to understand is that we are individuals moving along our own individual roads. When we stop competing with others, we can actually increase our progress. We won’t be so discouraged—and we will be able to be more productive. We can try to be better than we were yesterday, last week, last month, or last year"