Kayla & Sam 6.23.12

my cute friend Kayla got married a few weeks ago (i'm a little behind...).

Kayla is just one of the cutest, most caring, funnest girls i know. she's such a dork, and i love it, because i'm such a dork with her :)

she married her sweetheart, Sam, and i'm so glad i got to be part of their special day!

we had a lunch at Joy Luck (can we say tangerine chicken??) and then a lovely outdoor reception complete with little bride and groom decorated strawberries. oh, and we can't forget about the chocolate peanut butter bars......i had SO many. yikes.

the beautiful bride! she was just all smiles all day :)

three cakes!

this amazing girl did all the food (and there was a lot of it!).....she freakin rocks. go Petrice.

hand-decorated. i mean, come on!

 

i know i'm a bit late in posting this, but i'm just so happy for you guys!!

love you, Kayla dear.

blood & certificates

{i give you fair warning: this post is somewhat dull and boring, but for my own documenting purposes, i must include. it was a serious amount of my time and effort and something i probably won't be able to forget even if i didn't blog about it. but i am blogging about it. so yeah.}

starting this past december, we had a major, huge, detailed, very involved blood product audit at work. it was nasty. and expensive, to say the least. the problem was found months before i was ever around, but i got the pleasure of being front and center by the time the actual auditing of the 2000+ accounts rolled around.

anyway, i won't bore you with all the ridiculous details of this, but i will say it took us months to get through this and it was more than enough to give you a headache and a half. like, every day. we've finally finished it (well our part, anyway, it's not in the hands of others who have to deal with reimbursements and charges and money stuff...thank goodness it's not me!). so a couple of weeks ago, we had a little shindig to celebrate it ending. we had cafe rio and my boss handed out a few awards. i was one of the lucky few who got one!(although, honestly a piece of paper hardly seems sufficient for the pain we experienced doing this, but the pork burrito helped the pain a little bit ;))

my award:

you see that?? my boss thinks i have outstanding determination, teamwork, and leadership!

i won't comment on whether or not i or my co-workers would agree with her.

just go with it.

happy friday {the 13th} friends.

go team.

{never stop}

this is my love song to you.

let every woman know i'm yours.

so you can fall asleep each night, babe,

knowing that i'm dreaming of you more.

you're always hoping that we make it. 

you always wanna keep my gaze.

well you're the only one i see, love,

and that's the one thing that won't change.

i will never stop trying.

i will never stop watching as you leave.

i will never stop losing my breath

everytime i see you lookin back at me.

and i will never stop holding your hand;

i will never stop opening your door.

i will never stop choosing you, babe,

i will never get used to you.

and with this love song to you,

it's not a momentary phase.

you are my life, i don't deserve you,

but you love me just the same.

 and as the mirror says we're older,

i will not look the other way.

you are my life, my love, my only.

and that's the one thing that won't change.

you still get my heart racing for you.

i'm just feeling some extra love for my husband lately, and this song seems to keep popping in my head.
he is my one and only, and nothing will ever change that.
i love you Jae.

ice {the shaved kind}

so it's a really bad picture (bad quality, bad lighting, glare, my eyes look like they're buggin out of my head...) BUT i had to hurry and document the true start of our summer...before it all disappeared into our bellies.

if you've ever had shaved ice, i think you can understand  ;)
Jae got his usual - blue raspberry/tiger's blood/mango
i got tiger's blood/pina colada.

when Jae ordered a large (all for himself) the guy said "have you been here before? you know how big that is right?" Jae's like, umm yeah....trust me....i can handle it.
and handle it, he did. in addition to a small leftover portion of mine.
i should add, this picture was taken after we'd already been eating them for a good 10 minutes. 
my husband's a real man.


(sidenote: i cannot believe it's the middle of July & this is our first shaved ice of the season! shame on us.)

independence day

i know i posted a little blurb on the actual 4th of july, but i wanted to throw in a few more pictures from our day. it wasn't too exciting, which makes me kind of sad, because the 4th of july is one of my absolute favorites! summer, sun, bbq's, fireworks, sprinklers and sparklers...does it get any better? we were really low-key this year, though, which i guess i can't really complain about.

*fireworks
*more fireworks
*out to breakfast
*lunchtime bbq with family
*kiddie pools/water balloons/lots of wet dogs
*afternoon naptime
*Jae to work (boohoo)
*visit to the mother-in-law/more puppy playtime
*Jae got off work early (yayy)
*trying to get to sleep with a million fireworks still going on outside

Zoey hates baths, so we were interested how she'd be in a big pool. at first she wasn't so sure, but pretty soon (after we kept putting her in the pool against her will..) she was ok in it. she'd swat the water & make bubbles & try to eat them!

she loves grandma's yard - she runs & runs & runs like a wild child (or dog)

Zack, Clara, & Hana. is Hana good at striking a pose or what?

that's all the pictures i took. kind of lame, i know. (and they were all with my phone....i finally got the actual camera out to take better pictures and turns out it was dead! lovely.) it was a good day though, and a wonderful reminder of this great country we live in.

happy birthday, america!

happy 4th!

a quick hello on this lovely 4th of july!
we've been taking it pretty easy this year, but enjoying the holiday just the same.

hope you're having a wonderful day!

even my nails are enjoying the celebration :)

happy 4th of july everyone!

sweet summertime

i feel like this summer is going soooo quickly.

it's already almost, it IS july.

as in, we'll be celebrating the 4th of july this week.

what??

that is craziness to me. we've already had almost a full month of summer, and i feel like we've hardly taken advantage like we should. and that makes me sad.

there have been so many weddings, bridal showers, baby showers, more wedding receptions, family get togethers, and then some more weddings.

holy summer wedding explosion!!

{speaking of which - i have a wedding from a couple weekends ago to blog about as soon as i get pictures off my camera...}

it has been busy. anyone else feel that way? busy busy.

Jae and i gotta get going on our summer fun and not just be so 'busy'. ya know?

this picture was taken on the beach in Maine the summer/fall of 2009.





and this picture was taken on another beach in Maine the summer of 2011.

can you tell we like Maine? and this summer we'll be missing it.

what fun things have you done thus far this summer?