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Long overdue San Francisco pictures

Nick — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:17:37 +0000

It has been over a month since our trip to San Francisco but here ya go…the best of san fran.

If you can’t view the slideshow above follow this link.

Violet’s a party girl!

Kim — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:31:49 +0000

So I’m feeling very thankful tonight for lots of things. We recently had a lovely shower for Marisa (Bryson) & Baby Violet. It was really fun, and for sure got me even more excited to meet the little one. Baby items are just so foreign and funny when you aren’t used to them. Example: a bucket thing specifically to cover their head when you wash the shampoo out (okay maybe that’s more a little girl thing than baby). Baby V will be very stylish. I can’t wait.

I had a fantastic bday. Thanks everyone! I’ve been a little leary of 24 because I’ve always considered myself more of an odd number girl, but it’s starting out to be pretty solid. I think it’s so funny how I change what “old” is. My mom just recently mentioned that one of my elementary teachers was in her late twenties & I was like, say what?! She always seemed like a grown up to me! It’s almost like they were the sneaky ones. But now I’m just in the club, in on the secret that we act like grown ups even though we’re really not. I had a similar revelation at The Sound of Music the other night when it clicked that Leisl is sixteen. Yes. “I am sixteen going on seventeen” should have done the trick years ago, but somehow it just sunk in that I’m almost a decade older than Leisl, who still seems like such a woman to me. (On a sidenote: check out trappfamily.com to see the real Trapp Family Lodge in Vermont and maybe stay up far too late reading about the true family history…)

Okeedoke, I’m spent from making 144 cookies, & the banging on the wall from the other room leads me to believe that I should go check on Nick. I think he’s hanging a shelf.

P.S. we’re taking a brief one night hiatus from Christmas tunes and jamming/dancing (…nick too) to John Mayer…I’m really liking it. One sounds so much like Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, but I don’t care. It also reminds me of talking each song to death with Amanda & driving to the food bank at 5 a.m. back in colegio.

The Buckets @ Mardi Gras

Nick — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:43:00 +0000

Here are a few of the photos I took from the Mardi Gras ultimate tournament in Baton Rouge last weekend. The Buckets were unfortunately plagued by injuries to some of the team’s key players, including Walch, my good bud and amazing ultimate player. Although they walked away with a disappointing 3-5 record we all still had a good time. It was great to catch up with everyone I hadn’t seen in a while. The drives there and back with Mikey, Ryno, and Walch alone made the trip worth it.

I’m going to Mardi Gras!!

Nick — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:29:00 +0000

I’m going to Mardi Gras!! Well, I’m not really going to THE Mardi Gras in New Orleans but I am going to the annual Mardi Gras ultimate tournament hosted by LSU every year. I’ve been the past 5 years straight and am super pumped about making my 6th trip to Baton Rouge for one of the biggest ultimate tournaments of the year. Unfortunately, my college UPA days are over and I’m no longer eligible to play with the Texas State team (The Buckets) but it will be good to reconnect with the guys and watch some good college ultimate. When I showed up to my first Mardi Gras tournament my freshman year our team was inexperienced and had yet to win our first game since becoming an official UPA team. However, just three years later we had built a strong team, athletic and experienced enough to walk away with third place (out of 50+ college teams). My 5 years as a Bucket were easily some of the best years of my life and this weekend I get to take a step back and relive the glory days of college, friends and ultimate. Here’s to being picked up on I-10 by a couple of vans full of college kids on their way to Louisiana.

Here are a few pics from Mardi Gras ‘07

Me and my roommate Colin playing against the Aggies

Me cramping during clutch time

The Buckets

For all of our Mardi Gras ‘07 adventures check out this photo gallery.

Scoober’s 1st (and only) Race

Nick — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:11:00 +0000

So this was over a year and a half ago but I wanted to share with you guys some photos of Scoobs’ first and only dog racing experience at San Marcos’ annual Mutt Strutt. Scoober easily won his first race (the other dog just stood there…what a noob) and barely lost his second to a dog who’s owner obviously pushed him/her to hard. Scoobs won and lost like a champ and he made his pops proud.

Scoober & Chocolate…not a good mix

Kim — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:32:00 +0000

Well, it’s been a long time since we’ve posted anything, but it’s been anything but slow around here. Last weekend was a much anticipated girl weekend at Amanda’s new apartment…naturally, chocolate was in abundance. We thought it would be a great idea for Scoober to stay with the girls as well, because he loves us. When we first got there, we even had a conversation about dogs eating chocolate. However, that wasn’t enough to make us think twice about leaving Scoober alone at an apartment with a bowl of chocolates on the coffee table. A bowl of dark chocolate Dove’s actually. We returned from a late night Walmart run to Scoobs tap dancing around the apartment with seriously bloodshot eyes. The best part is that the bowl he ate from had a mixture of Dove’s & Hershey’s kisses. Only the Dove’s were missing though! Seriously! Like mother like son, I guess. To avoid killing you with suspense and possibly grossing anyone out with details, I’ll just say that he’s a-okay now! But man, it was a scary night!! Aside from the drama with Scoober, it was a wonderful time with some of my best friends! I just love how comfortable we are together, and I love to be reminded of how much time we always spend laughing together.

Nick and I also celebrated our 6 month-iversary on February 2!! We had a delicious dinner at Carabba’s & topped it off with ice cream after the poor waiter ran through our options about five times. oops! It was topped with glazed pecans, and they reminded me of the glazed almonds in Disney World!

Here are some photos Nick took on our exploration pit stop on our drive home. Luling, Texas made for some good exploring, but the smell of oil made it almost unbearable!

Scooby Love

Nick — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:38:00 +0000

We figured Scoobs needed some more traffic on the blog considering his name is in the title. Sooo check out these pics from a recent trip we took with him to our local park.

Park with Scoobs

Cabo Honeymoon

Nick — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:10:00 +0000

If you haven’t been to our place since the wedding you probably haven’t seen these pics from our honeymoon. We went to Cabos San Lucas, Mexico and enjoyed seven wonderful days there. For those of you who don’t know where that it is it’s on the tip of Baja California (that little strip of land under our California).

Cabo, having the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Sea of Cortez to the east, is well known for it’s marlin fishing. So well in fact that we couldn’t go and not spend at least half a day out on the open sea. I mean everybody was doing it and everybody was catching something. That is except for us. We spent 7 hours at sea with Captain Cezar on a 12 footer with no luck. Our only bite was by the jaws of a sealion which luckily didn’t get hooked. No fish but a memorable experience nonetheless.

Follow the link to see the rest of our Cabo adventures

Honeymoon Pics

Om nom nom

Nick — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:09:00 +0000

Mmm…that was a good turkey leg. Considering it was November when we actually went to the Renaissance festival with Taylor and Callie I’m just a little late blogging about our trip to…what town was it again? I honestly don’t remember. Anyways, we had a great time walking around watching all of the crazy old men wearing nothing but kilts and flinging around swords. Not to mention the half naked, not so attractive women. Here is a slideshow of our escapades.

Renaissance Photos