I told Brent that I could probably think of at least 50 more "things about me." He didn't believe me but here they are...
1. i had a fish tank in high school. i loved falling asleep at night with just that light on and the sound of the filter. i often woke up to dead fish in the morning, sadly.
2. i dry myself off after a shower in the same way every single day.
3. i take a shower everyday, sometimes twice.
4. i can be pushy, trying to convince people of things. i've worked very hard on checking myself when i feel this happening. it's a part of my personality to be a saleswoman.
5. i like hugs... alot, from friends, family, brent, doesn't matter. i just like them.
6. i wear REEF flip flops
7. i own way too many purses of all sizes and colors, my husband does not understand the obsession at all.
8. i am a bit obsessive about wallets, just ask my brother or brent. they will tell you that i am very particular about wallets not having cards with "crud" all over them from being in their pockets all day. i also like getting new wallets for me.
9. i don't like carry-on luggage, i think it's a hassle. i would rather check bags and take the time to wait once i get off the plane. it's never really that long.
10. i started buying furniture for myself when i graduated from college because i wanted a more sophisticated room. i've always been really into decorating.
11. i always write thank you notes
12. i am very organized. i like things to have a place and i don't like clutter. my motto is "when in doubt, toss it out". i would rather not hoard... anything.
13. i love the 1970s Porsche that brent drove when we were dating in high school. it doesn't work anymore and brent's mom would really like to get rid of it. i would be sad if that happened. i have such great memories in that car. i used to watch for brent when he was coming to pick me up and think about how cool it was going to be to ride in that car with him.
14. i like the idea of community living... i would love to live in close community with friends and raise kids together, eat together, pray together... really live together.
15. i don't throw up easily when i'm sick, i have a really strong stomach.
16. i like planners and planning, but not the details, just the big picture. i like to know what my whole month looks like, not the day to day little things. i rarely make "to do" lists.
17. i have made the drive between Santa Barbara and LA hundred and hundreds of times in my lifetime.
18. i failed my permit test (when i was 15) two times, finally passed on the third try
19. i passed the driving test on the first try, 16th birthday.
20. my grandparents bought me a brand new, black, honda, civic for my 16th birthday. i was so blessed.
21. kids used to call me "flat face" or "flato" in elementary school. i still don't really know why. i think it was just to be mean. moving to Villa Park in 4th grade was really hard.
22. i had my first kiss in the 6th grade. my boyfriend, jason, kissed me at a Halloween party while we were slow dancing. i stayed up half the night talking to my friend courtney about it.
23. i had my first real kiss when i was 15, first boyfriend, first real date, all that!
24. brent first kissed me on my parents front porch on july 8, 1996
25. i won an iPOD nano at work this year, the red one!
26. i became a christian when i was 5 years old, my mom prayed with me to receive
27. i like worship music the best. i mostly listen to jason upton in my car. he is my favorite artist
28. top three days of my life... 1. wedding day (i know it's cliche but VERY true), i've never felt that "full to the brim" at any other time in my life. 2. white water rafting in Costa Rica with my girl friends from college. 3. sea kayaking in New Zealand, even though my arms were completely out-of-order for the next several days after, it was totally worth it
29. the day after we graduated from college, my friends and i surprised two of our friends and flew to Costa Rica to spend 10 days with them. it was the best surprise we've ever pulled.
30. Costa Rica was my first time out of the country, may 2000
31. i love the look on someones face when you do something out of the blue and nice for them, that quick moment when they just feel overwhelmed and thankful and surprised
32. most people can tell when i am angry or hurt, i seem to wear those emotions on my sleeve
33. i have worked very hard to hide that from clients... i find that my best approach is to get quieter and speak slowly. it works most of the time.
34. i talk WAY too loud when i am excited. i could never count the number of times i've been asked or told to "keep it down." sometimes people think i'm yelling at them. it's really sad
35. as you might be able to tell, i like writing... in all forms. any time there is a form to fill out, name tags to be written, envelopes to be addressed - i'm there and i really enjoy it. it's not a chore
36. i also enjoy cleaning for the most part. i really like a clean house. the only place i really despise cleaning is the shower.
37. i like house plants. i don't have a very green thumb and have gone through a fair amount of nice plants over the last few years, but i really like them in a home
38. i love the beach but don't really love being in a bathing suit much
39. my favorite bathing suit right now is turquoise and i love that
40. my family calls me the queen
41. i love my family. my mom is definitely one of my best friends. my dad and i are the most alike, its a little freaky sometimes. and my brother is one of my favorite people on the planet, he is different than me.
42. i talk to my mom at least once most days, sometimes twice
43. i don't really have a favorite movie. a few i really like are: moulin rouge, 16 candles, say anything, the game
44. most recently i have been obsessed with renting seasons 2,3, and 4 of the show 24. i freaking love that stuff. i've been known to watch 4 episodes in a row and have no problem with it. i had to promise to take the month of august off because brent was tired of them. i could have kept going!
45. i don't like tomatoes on anything, i always order food with those off
46. i am known to fall asleep on the couch easily
47. my friends have always said i am not nice to wake up from a nap, i tend to be kind of a nightmare when i am woken up
48. i played basketball in high school. i quit my junior year because it wasn't fun anymore
49. there is a brick with my name on it set into the ground at my high school. brent's name is right next to mine
50. i went to my senior prom with brent's best friend, phil because brent took another girl... sad!
51. i always put my makeup on in the car in the parking lot at work
52. i never make my bed in the mornings
53. i drink a green, veggie drink every morning
54. i don't try new things (especially food) very easily
55. i don't like spicy food, i feel like my tongue and lips are on fire and that bothers me
56. i get "freeze frame" when i drink too much, or i fall asleep
57. math is not my favorite subject... i am not good at doing math in my head
58. i drink a fruit smoothie for breakfast almost everyday
59. traditional roles did not work in our marriage... i still do a lot of cleaning but brent does almost ALL of the cooking. he likes it. i do laundry, which he hates.
60. more often than i'd like i forget my cell phone at home. brent tries his best to help me remember, it's such a weird thing to not have my cell phone all day.
61. most days i talk on the phone on the way to work and the way home... that's the best time for me to talk
62. i love that i married a musician
63. i put lotion on my legs and arms every day
64. i don't wear makeup on the weekends if i can get away with it. and i don't wear much even then i do wear it. it just takes too much time.
65. i never learned the right way to type so i have my own version. it's probably not as efficient as it could be but it gets me by
66. i am particular about the pens that i will write with
67. i am particular about spelling errors... brent hates it when i correct his spelling (i agree it's annoying but sometimes it happens before i really think it through)
68. i generally look at life as a glass that is half full
69. i love, love, love to laugh... and to make others laugh. i especially love it when i can make brent laugh.
70. i also love to tease... lovingly of course
71. i wear a nametag at work everyday
72. i wet my pants on the front porch of our house when i was in second grade because my mom didn't make it home in time from picking up my brother from pre-school. i was crying and peeing as my mom pulled into the driveway
73. we had a dog named Trusty and a cat named Felix during most of my childhood. they were great pets.
74. i love pedicures but can't afford to get them as often as i would like
75. i never get a manicure because i have oily nail beds and the polish peels off in a day or two. its sad. the polish peels off in whole pieces, the shape of my nail.
8.24.2007
8.23.2007
100 things about me... kim
so brent's cousin ashley "tagged" us to be the next to complete the task of listing "100 things about me..." so i am going to attempt to do so. here goes:
1. i live in southern california, where i grew up (just about 30 mins from my parents
2. i like south orange county much better than where i grew up in north OC
3. but my dream place to live would be santa barbara... I LOVE SB
3. i went to college there and lived there for a couple of years after college, why did i ever move?
4. oh yeah, i met my husband when i moved back to the OC. i am married to a wonderful man whom i am very thankful to our God for
5. i met my husband when i was 13, 8th grade, french class
6. i wish i spoke better french, i really only remember a small amount of vocabulary and that's not really enough
7. i remember numbers and letters easily, like license plates, phone numbers, etc.
8. i have a strange fetish - i like to peel things
9. one of my all time favorite foods is avocado - i could eat one every day
10. same with pineapples, i LOVE THEM... even though they give me canker sores :(
11. i love scrapbooking, i love the artistic part but really don't have enough time these days to do much of it which saddens me
12. i want to have children, maybe 4
13. my husband and i will probably find out the sex of a baby before we have it, but we won't share the names that we like until a baby comes
14. i love working with children, all kinds
15. i love talking to kids and making faces at babies that i don't know
16. i totally have a staring problem and i am not ashamed of it (much to my husbands chagrin)
17. i don't cry easily in movies, but when i do, it's serious... like the time i had to leave the room during "Glory" because i was crying so hard they couldn't hear the movie
18. i am VERY sensitive to injustice, especially towards children - it infuriates me
19. i have been working out 5 days a week for 8 weeks, WOW
20. i like organic things - soap, dish soap, shampoo, fruit, veggies... i think the more natural, the better
21. i wish i didn't have to work so much, but i do love my job, unlike many that i know. it's rewarding and i am using my gifts and talents to the best of my ability. it's a good spot for me.
22. i want my next job to be "mommy" (see # 12)
23. i don't like to see any problems with skin like cuts, burns, gashes, deformities... it really make me queasy (or gives me b.c. for those that know what i mean)
24. i spent almost 3 weeks in New Zealand for our one year anniversary... it was amazing
24. i really want to visit Greece and Italy next
25. i love traveling
26. several of my friends from college and i have gotten into the habit of talking to each other in a makeshift texas accent... we love it, but it really bothers my husband
27. i have one brother, he lives in Redding, CA, about 10 hours from here. i miss him and always look forward to connecting on the phone and time in person
28. we are going on a stromback family vacation in a couple of weeks to Tamarack, Idaho - i can't wait!
29. i am also going to Dallas for thanksgiving this year to visit brent's family and to see our friends cheryl and casey
30. i got married in malibu, a place called calamigos ranch. we honeymooned on isla mujeres, off the coast of cancun, mexico
31. i love our church - vineyard community church in laguna niguel
32. i was a gymnast for 12 years when i was young, then i got too tall and decided to play soccer instead
33. i used to talk in my sleep, my family tells all kinds of crazy stories about things i've said and done in the night. i wouldn't know if i still talk because brent is the hardest sleeper you've ever seen
34. right now we have a queen size bed but someday i would like a king
35. i ate a snail right off the curb when i was two, my friend Annie (who was older than me) had to scrape it out of my mouth
36. i am strong willed and often get my way, i'm a first born
37. i like being a leader
38. i have lots of really good friends and most would say i'm a loyal friend, i think
39. i love to give gifts
40. my favorite treats are peanut m&ms and cheesecake
41. my favorite foods are bbq chicken salads and cheeseburgers
42. my drink of choice is an arnold palmer (half lemonade, half iced tea)
43. my favorite drink-drink is an amaretto sour
44. i never drink much because it makes me REALLY sleepy, i think i might be allergic, especially to wine (which is sad because i like the taste)
45. i don't like coffee, at all. the only thing i ever drink with coffee in it is an "Ice Blended Mocha" from coffee bean and tea leaf.
46. at starbucks i drink a peppermint hot chocolate (not just at christmas, all year around) or a passion tea lemonade
47. my favorite restaurant is Bandera in Corona Del Mar - i love the queso dip, the macho salad, and the cheeseburger there
48. i don't like long waits at restaurants, which makes Bandera tough sometimes
48. i LOVE sushi - crunchy roll, caterpillar roll, and my new fav... the t.n.t. roll!
49. i also LOVE fondue
50. my favorite meal with brent of all time was at La Fondue in Saratoga on a little vacation we took up the coast of CA when we were first married
51. one of my best friends is a missionary in thailand, i am so proud of her. she is so full of joy.
52. i am living in our first home, it's in ladera ranch, i am really enjoying owning a home, decorating, painting, having it the way we like it. it's so much fun.
53. we just bought a new car this summer, a white, chevy tahoe. the car is brent's but i drive it once in a while, it's great.
54. i sucked my thumb until i was 9. i always had my doggy with me at first, then any zipper or textured wall would do(i know, it's strange)
55. i love writing and receiving cards
56. really i like paper, of any kind mostly, and i like correspondense.
57. my favorite store to shop for clothes is Ann Taylor LOFT
58. i like no lights on in the bathroom when i shower in the morning. i like to wake up slowly.
59. i like candles... all the time.
60. i NEED time alone or i can become a real beast. i love people, but i also need the time to myself or i have meltdowns like my dad
61. i am a lot like my dad in many personality traits (my husband is very much like my mom, interesting?)
62. i am not a detailed person (i am much better with large vision and the big picture). the lack of detail gets me in trouble a lot: i forget things easily, i seemingly miss the "obvious", things get messed up because of one small thing that was missed, sometimes it's bothersome.
63. i see a chiropractor regularly and i love it
64. i don't like sleeping with socks and i NEVER do it
65. i also really hate night gowns
66. i don't like wearing skirts much because i don't like my legs to touch together
67. i wear a lot of black, white, brown, and green... a little pink and blue but not much
68. i have a green sweatshirt that i bought on lay-away when i was in the 6th grade, it still fits and i LOVE it
69. i enjoy taking pictures (especially with my new, tiny camera), and i like blogging
70. i love my extended family. my cousins are like sisters to me, really. i have 3 cousins that are all very close in age and we are like sisters. since i don't have any sisters, they are the closest to it. One of them is having a baby any day and another is getting married in october and i can't wait for both events
71. my mom has an indentical twin and i would love to have twins
72. my parents have been married for over 30 years and so have brents
73. i prefer cats over dogs
74. i like frogs
75. (like ashley) i used to collect dolls, and key-chains too
76. i had 12 cabbage patch kids when i was younger (2 were the premies that smelled like baby powder and came with pacifiers, those were my favorite)
77. i also collected strawberry shortcake dolls, in an amazing basket that my mom made for me to keep them in. and my little ponies too, although i didn't have a cool basket for them
78. my brother and i shared a room once for about 6 months, we had red, metal bunkbeds
79. i lived in eight different houses growing up. my parents never stayed in one house longer than 4 years
80. i also attended 11 different school before i went to college at westmont
81. i learned how to make new friends easily when i was young, i had to!
82. i used to bite my fingernails until they bled. i remember going to the nurses office regularly to get bandaids for them
83. i went through a stage when i was young where i was all about "the bars." i did all kinds of crazy tricks, spins, and dismounts during recess everyday
84. i love apple computers
85. i love benefit and arbonne makeup. i really like arbonne, all their products.
86. my favorite time of day is twilight
87. i love warm summer nights, especially when swimming is involved
88. one of my favorite places on the planet is the Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii
89. i love silver or white gold jewlery. i'm trying to get into the yellow gold but it's still growing on me.
90. i loved getting engaged on my 25th birthday. it was amazing, brent surprised me and asked me at our special place - san clemente
91. i wish college had lasted longer, maybe just one more year, i think it was too short.
92. i think the several years when i lived in an apartment in Carpinteria was my favorite time in life so far (don't get me wrong, i LOVE being married and living with brent. that was just a special time for me)
93. brent, my dad, and todd (my brother) are the funniest people i know
94. i can't flare my nostrils but i wish i could. i can, however, curl my tongue in strange ways
95. i love to tickle and i am not ticklish
96. i wish i was a little more athletic
97. i like to be spontaneous, and i like romance
98. i watch hardly any tv and i don't know ANYTHING about celebrity gossip (which my friends at work just can't understand and laugh about regularly)
99. my hands are strange, i can't count with my fingers when i start with the thumb. my pinky always comes up before the ring finger and it looks funny. i am laughed at on a regular basis
100. i've never been to the OC fair or Universal Studios (even though i grew up here).
I "tag" brent.
1. i live in southern california, where i grew up (just about 30 mins from my parents
2. i like south orange county much better than where i grew up in north OC
3. but my dream place to live would be santa barbara... I LOVE SB
3. i went to college there and lived there for a couple of years after college, why did i ever move?
4. oh yeah, i met my husband when i moved back to the OC. i am married to a wonderful man whom i am very thankful to our God for
5. i met my husband when i was 13, 8th grade, french class
6. i wish i spoke better french, i really only remember a small amount of vocabulary and that's not really enough
7. i remember numbers and letters easily, like license plates, phone numbers, etc.
8. i have a strange fetish - i like to peel things
9. one of my all time favorite foods is avocado - i could eat one every day
10. same with pineapples, i LOVE THEM... even though they give me canker sores :(
11. i love scrapbooking, i love the artistic part but really don't have enough time these days to do much of it which saddens me
12. i want to have children, maybe 4
13. my husband and i will probably find out the sex of a baby before we have it, but we won't share the names that we like until a baby comes
14. i love working with children, all kinds
15. i love talking to kids and making faces at babies that i don't know
16. i totally have a staring problem and i am not ashamed of it (much to my husbands chagrin)
17. i don't cry easily in movies, but when i do, it's serious... like the time i had to leave the room during "Glory" because i was crying so hard they couldn't hear the movie
18. i am VERY sensitive to injustice, especially towards children - it infuriates me
19. i have been working out 5 days a week for 8 weeks, WOW
20. i like organic things - soap, dish soap, shampoo, fruit, veggies... i think the more natural, the better
21. i wish i didn't have to work so much, but i do love my job, unlike many that i know. it's rewarding and i am using my gifts and talents to the best of my ability. it's a good spot for me.
22. i want my next job to be "mommy" (see # 12)
23. i don't like to see any problems with skin like cuts, burns, gashes, deformities... it really make me queasy (or gives me b.c. for those that know what i mean)
24. i spent almost 3 weeks in New Zealand for our one year anniversary... it was amazing
24. i really want to visit Greece and Italy next
25. i love traveling
26. several of my friends from college and i have gotten into the habit of talking to each other in a makeshift texas accent... we love it, but it really bothers my husband
27. i have one brother, he lives in Redding, CA, about 10 hours from here. i miss him and always look forward to connecting on the phone and time in person
28. we are going on a stromback family vacation in a couple of weeks to Tamarack, Idaho - i can't wait!
29. i am also going to Dallas for thanksgiving this year to visit brent's family and to see our friends cheryl and casey
30. i got married in malibu, a place called calamigos ranch. we honeymooned on isla mujeres, off the coast of cancun, mexico
31. i love our church - vineyard community church in laguna niguel
32. i was a gymnast for 12 years when i was young, then i got too tall and decided to play soccer instead
33. i used to talk in my sleep, my family tells all kinds of crazy stories about things i've said and done in the night. i wouldn't know if i still talk because brent is the hardest sleeper you've ever seen
34. right now we have a queen size bed but someday i would like a king
35. i ate a snail right off the curb when i was two, my friend Annie (who was older than me) had to scrape it out of my mouth
36. i am strong willed and often get my way, i'm a first born
37. i like being a leader
38. i have lots of really good friends and most would say i'm a loyal friend, i think
39. i love to give gifts
40. my favorite treats are peanut m&ms and cheesecake
41. my favorite foods are bbq chicken salads and cheeseburgers
42. my drink of choice is an arnold palmer (half lemonade, half iced tea)
43. my favorite drink-drink is an amaretto sour
44. i never drink much because it makes me REALLY sleepy, i think i might be allergic, especially to wine (which is sad because i like the taste)
45. i don't like coffee, at all. the only thing i ever drink with coffee in it is an "Ice Blended Mocha" from coffee bean and tea leaf.
46. at starbucks i drink a peppermint hot chocolate (not just at christmas, all year around) or a passion tea lemonade
47. my favorite restaurant is Bandera in Corona Del Mar - i love the queso dip, the macho salad, and the cheeseburger there
48. i don't like long waits at restaurants, which makes Bandera tough sometimes
48. i LOVE sushi - crunchy roll, caterpillar roll, and my new fav... the t.n.t. roll!
49. i also LOVE fondue
50. my favorite meal with brent of all time was at La Fondue in Saratoga on a little vacation we took up the coast of CA when we were first married
51. one of my best friends is a missionary in thailand, i am so proud of her. she is so full of joy.
52. i am living in our first home, it's in ladera ranch, i am really enjoying owning a home, decorating, painting, having it the way we like it. it's so much fun.
53. we just bought a new car this summer, a white, chevy tahoe. the car is brent's but i drive it once in a while, it's great.
54. i sucked my thumb until i was 9. i always had my doggy with me at first, then any zipper or textured wall would do(i know, it's strange)
55. i love writing and receiving cards
56. really i like paper, of any kind mostly, and i like correspondense.
57. my favorite store to shop for clothes is Ann Taylor LOFT
58. i like no lights on in the bathroom when i shower in the morning. i like to wake up slowly.
59. i like candles... all the time.
60. i NEED time alone or i can become a real beast. i love people, but i also need the time to myself or i have meltdowns like my dad
61. i am a lot like my dad in many personality traits (my husband is very much like my mom, interesting?)
62. i am not a detailed person (i am much better with large vision and the big picture). the lack of detail gets me in trouble a lot: i forget things easily, i seemingly miss the "obvious", things get messed up because of one small thing that was missed, sometimes it's bothersome.
63. i see a chiropractor regularly and i love it
64. i don't like sleeping with socks and i NEVER do it
65. i also really hate night gowns
66. i don't like wearing skirts much because i don't like my legs to touch together
67. i wear a lot of black, white, brown, and green... a little pink and blue but not much
68. i have a green sweatshirt that i bought on lay-away when i was in the 6th grade, it still fits and i LOVE it
69. i enjoy taking pictures (especially with my new, tiny camera), and i like blogging
70. i love my extended family. my cousins are like sisters to me, really. i have 3 cousins that are all very close in age and we are like sisters. since i don't have any sisters, they are the closest to it. One of them is having a baby any day and another is getting married in october and i can't wait for both events
71. my mom has an indentical twin and i would love to have twins
72. my parents have been married for over 30 years and so have brents
73. i prefer cats over dogs
74. i like frogs
75. (like ashley) i used to collect dolls, and key-chains too
76. i had 12 cabbage patch kids when i was younger (2 were the premies that smelled like baby powder and came with pacifiers, those were my favorite)
77. i also collected strawberry shortcake dolls, in an amazing basket that my mom made for me to keep them in. and my little ponies too, although i didn't have a cool basket for them
78. my brother and i shared a room once for about 6 months, we had red, metal bunkbeds
79. i lived in eight different houses growing up. my parents never stayed in one house longer than 4 years
80. i also attended 11 different school before i went to college at westmont
81. i learned how to make new friends easily when i was young, i had to!
82. i used to bite my fingernails until they bled. i remember going to the nurses office regularly to get bandaids for them
83. i went through a stage when i was young where i was all about "the bars." i did all kinds of crazy tricks, spins, and dismounts during recess everyday
84. i love apple computers
85. i love benefit and arbonne makeup. i really like arbonne, all their products.
86. my favorite time of day is twilight
87. i love warm summer nights, especially when swimming is involved
88. one of my favorite places on the planet is the Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii
89. i love silver or white gold jewlery. i'm trying to get into the yellow gold but it's still growing on me.
90. i loved getting engaged on my 25th birthday. it was amazing, brent surprised me and asked me at our special place - san clemente
91. i wish college had lasted longer, maybe just one more year, i think it was too short.
92. i think the several years when i lived in an apartment in Carpinteria was my favorite time in life so far (don't get me wrong, i LOVE being married and living with brent. that was just a special time for me)
93. brent, my dad, and todd (my brother) are the funniest people i know
94. i can't flare my nostrils but i wish i could. i can, however, curl my tongue in strange ways
95. i love to tickle and i am not ticklish
96. i wish i was a little more athletic
97. i like to be spontaneous, and i like romance
98. i watch hardly any tv and i don't know ANYTHING about celebrity gossip (which my friends at work just can't understand and laugh about regularly)
99. my hands are strange, i can't count with my fingers when i start with the thumb. my pinky always comes up before the ring finger and it looks funny. i am laughed at on a regular basis
100. i've never been to the OC fair or Universal Studios (even though i grew up here).
I "tag" brent.
8.18.2007
Chicago for Steve & Kim's Wedding
On the night we arrived we took the train into the city from the airport. Then we hailed a cab and it happened to be one of the most amazing cabs you've ever seen... it was decorated on every square inch and the driver was a piece of work himself. The inside was an underwater theme with more lights than Christmas strung all around. This is a sad picture of it, but we tried!
We had booked our first night at a hotel right in the heart of the Magnificent Mile. We got there late, went to a pub around the corner for a late night dinner and went to bed. The next day we spent exploring Chicago... what a fun city!
It was recommended to us that we try Giordano's deep dish pizza... so Friday night we walked from our new hotel, the Standard Club. It was just down the street. We waited 45 minutes for a stuffed pizza. It was okay but nothing to really write home about. It was fun to be out and to enjoy the time together!
After pizza we headed to the Rock Bottom Brewery for the "post rehearsal dinner" party! It was on the rooftop! The city looks awesome from up there. We got to see lots of old friends and had a great time hanging out. Heather and Ryan arrived that night and joined us there. It was really fun to spend some time with them!
On Saturday we headed into the city again... they were filming the new Batman movie downtown and we got to see a few shots being filmed. There were Gotham SWAT vehicles and Gotham signage all over!
Brent used to travel to Chicago with Boeing. Here is their world headquarters building behind him where he used to work.
Brent is, well... obsessed, with maps! He loves them. And I am thankful that he does because he always knows where we are going. I never have to worry!
Saturday afternoon... THE WEDDING!
Chartered buses picked everyone up at the Standard Club and took us to the church. After the ceremony we took the buses back to the Club for the reception...
Craig and Brent
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We had a really great time... the reception was amazing!
Just to appease Heather Brent did some dancing... it was great! Some new moves were born.
"The Bean" is an amazing piece of art found at Millenium Park.
I was just amazed by all the flowers everywhere in the city. Streets are lined with flower boxes, hanging pots from light posts, center dividers filled with color! It was awesome amongst the buildings and streets to see the flowers.
There are several rivers that run through Chicago. And the water was a beautiful green.
Steve recommended we try a fun restaurant for dinner on our last night... Japanaise! It was one of our favorite meals ever. The food was so good, great atmosphere, and good company. We loved this place and hope that they bring it to the OC sometime!
The view from the back of the restaurant was beautiful when we were leaving...
We got up at 4:30am on Monday morning to take the train back to the airport. It was such a fun vacation!
kate's shower
My cousin Kate is getting married in October! Annjanette had a shower for her in Vista a couple of weeks ago. It was a beautiful day and she was showered with love!
We played a game where she had to keep putting Bubblicious gum in her mouth... it was really funny!
The food was amazing!! Annjanette and the others girls outdid themselves.
Aunt Marilyn and Jen came down from NorCal for the big event! She and my mom were twinning it up!!
Grandma June also came down for the shower! It was fun for all of us!
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