Thursday, November 29, 2007

My brother's wedding

On November 17th, my brother Chad got married to Angelina in California. Ben and I got to go and be with all of my family in Napa Valley. I've never to been to Napa, so it was a lot of fun to visit and see all the vineyards and wineries.

I was one of the bridesmaids and here is a picture of the bridal party.

(Me, Angelina's 2 sisters, Angelina, Chad, Ryan, Eric, Chad)


Then we went to San Francisco for half of a day, visited Fisherman's Wharf. Ben and I want to go back and visit again and see more of San Francisco. But while we were there, we got to our faces sketched. We were going to do a character one, but decided to do the serious one (which is more pricey).

What do you think?


Tuesday, November 6, 2007

7 Random Things About Me

1. I have tetanophobia (fear of lockjaw). Every time I yawn or open my mouth wide, my jaw pops when I close my mouth. It doesn’t hurt, but I’m scared that one of these times I won’t be able to pop my mouth closed!

2. Back in April (right after Ben and I got engaged), we hiked the Grand Canyon with his family. We went on the South Kaibab trail to Phantom ranch, which descends 4,820 feet in total, although we actually traveled about 7 miles down. 7 miles doesn’t sound so bad, but since it pretty steep most of the way, it was difficult! Going up (after spending a couple of nights down there) of course was harder than going down, especially since I was sore from the days before.

3. I was going through all my pictures and childhood stuff, and I came across my 2nd grade journal that I kept for my class. I died laughing after reading it all. One of the things that I would do is repeat all my sentences at least once or twice, for example, I would write: “I like my brothers. I love my brothers. My brothers like me. My brothers love me!”

4. I am late to work 5 – 10 minutes every day. It doesn’t matter if I say that I’m going to leave 5 minutes earlier so I’m on time and don’t, or I actually do leave 5 minutes earlier and I get stuck in traffic. My supervisor isn’t fond of it :-[]. I heard a quote a couple of weeks ago that say basically this: “The more in hurry you get, the more behind you get.” I hate that its so true!

5. I hate returning items to stores, especially Target! And for this, Target unfortunately will not be getting my business for a while. I’m sure most of you know about receiving wedding gifts and unfortunately having to return a few things (whether its because you got duplicate gifts, or you change your mind about certain items, or you simple don’t like the gift.). Well, Target decides to change their mind about how they’re accepting returned items. Apparently, if its over $20 and you don’t have a gift receipt (which most of my gifts did not come with one), you cannot return it, not even for store credit!

6. After I got engaged to Ben, my two older unmarried brothers (I have 3 brothers total), got engaged within 4 months. All three of us, when all said and done, will be married within a year (my poor parents! Although they don’t have to do much for my brothers).

7. Whenever someone ask me about my favorite book/movie/music/etc, I completely forget about what I read/watch/listen so it takes me like 5 minutes to answer (but most of the times I don’t/can’t answer).

I tag all my blog friends:
Becky (you've already done it)
Camille
Erin
Kelly
Kelsie D
Kelsie O
Laura
Meredith

Friday, November 2, 2007

My Photographer - Jana Miller

This is just a quick blog to say that my professional photographer posted some of my wedding pictures on her website:

http://photographybyjana.blogspot.com/search/label/Wedding (take a look!)

Her first wedding was for my sister-in-law (Erin, Ben's sister), which is towards the bottom of the page from the link above.

She was awesome! She worked well with Ben and I, she asked what we wanted and was able to work with it. I think she took some great shots and also put very nice effects on some of them. I definitely recommend her to anyone that needs a photographer!