Walk Now For Autism

Today Carolyn and I 

were the photographers at the

It was such a great turnout and I love going to events like these. Carolyn took the candid shots and I captured the team/group shots. We loved hearing who the teams were walking for and hearing their stories. I have such a special place in my heart for this organization and such respect for all the walkers. I even saw some of my past students... I loved it! The best part was that they raised $360, 000 for Autism Speaks!! 

Fluffy White Frosting

I love this fluffy frosting! It is so good on chocolate cake or even angel food cake. 

-2 egg whites

-3/4 cup sugar

-1/3 cup karo syrup

-2 Tbs. water

-1/4 tsp. cream of tartar

-1/4 tsp. salt

Put all of the ingredients in a double boiler with water in bottom pan. Heat water in bottom pan before starting the cooking process. Using a hand mixer, put on high and beat until soft peaks form. Take from heat and add 1 tsp. vanilla. 

And just a small note: don't use beaters in a teflon pan... it ruins the pan (and I'm not speaking from experience:)) 

Wedding Bells

Wow, it is a miracle. My baby brother finally did it... he's engaged and getting married in August. Congratulations and I can't wait to meet Angela! 

Moving On

If someone were to ask me, "What is the worst thing ever?" I would say moving... with no hesitation. I HATE IT! But the best thing Cameron has ever said was the day after the move. We were with Brooke and Jason and Cameron says, "I was bounding up those 3 flights of stairs like a gazelle. " I love that he compared himself to a gazelle. He actually moved most of our apt. by himself (I was conveniently at work) and he seriously did an awesome job! 

This is a fake cleaning picture. I left that for the cleaning ladies because apartments somehow never return your deposit even if you do clean. 

Brooke was such a good slave this weekend. I love you Brooke!! 

Oh the memories we left behind... 

but looking forward to making new ones! 

Love Maui

I'm finally getting around to posting about Maui... this was a trip with Cameron's company and we had such a great time. It was way fun getting to know the other administrators. Cameron works with such fun people. Here are the highlights: 

How cute are their airport bathroom signs? Maybe California should have hippies on their bathroom signs? You may be wondering why I had time to take pictures of bathroom sings... well, because lucky for me my bag didn't come through in Maui. Our driver told us to just keep waiting because it might be on the next flight. Two hours and two flights later my bag appeared... thank goodness. 

We stayed in the beautiful Grand Wailea in Maui. It has the most AMAZING spa!

and laid out during a rainstorm the first day.

Who's to say you can't catch a few rays under an umbrella, towel, and rain cloud?

Heres the annoying bee that stung me... bee stings seriously hurt.

We had lots of game playing and team bonding... I'm coaching my windup frog across the pool. I lost. 

Here's our team... the Gladiators. We thought we chose a winning team name but turns out we lost every game except for water balloon dodgeball. My arm was definitely sore after that game. 

And don't forget the grape throwing contest... Cameron amazingly caught 2 and I got pegged in the lip. Go figure. 
And we can't forget ping pong... we definitely brought our A game to Maui (thanks to all our Friday night practices at Club Sport).

Here is Molokini where we went snorkeling and saw awesome fish and eels.

And of course photo shoots at all moments... Cameron loves this part of vacation!! 

Celebrate

It's house buying time... the Halls, Hendersons, and us are all new homeowners. We decided to celebrate last week at Outback before we become too house poor!

Me and Cam
The Halls (still recovering from their sleepover on the street the night before)
The Hendersons (They also slept on the cold hard street... poor things!)
After we went to the mall and Brooke decided to open her big mouth to the straight iron guy in the middle of the mall. Next thing you know he is putting curls in my hair and trying to get me to buy a straightener. It was such a great deal... "I give you red straightener for 175.oo, best I can do for you. Give you red for same price as black." Um.... no thanks, that is not a deal. Thanks Brooke!

Top 5

Top 5 reasons for leaving the apartment: 

5. No more climbing 3 flights of stairs to get to my front door- although I think my glutes have  benefitted from the daily hike 

4. Heat rises... just another great benefit of leaving on the 3rd floor. So when it is 60 degrees outside, its 70 degrees inside. Seventy degrees outside, 8o degrees inside.... you get the point. Summer is a great time to be on the 3rd floor (good luck Morleys :)) 

3. No more smelling smoke from our awesome chain smoking neighbors below. 

2. No more smelling curry from our awesome curry cooking neighbors below (and I really do love curry, just not smelling it 24-7). 

Drum Roll... 

1. No more smelling the combination of curry and smoke in the same breath from our neighbors below. I have deemed that a VERY toxic smell. 

Changes...

So... because I don't have enough going on I thought I would get a third job. You are looking at the new employee of 

I will admit it was a bit scary to interview and fill out a job application... I haven't done that in forever!! I had to answer all these questions about my strengths and weaknesses and why they should hire me. Um... for the discount?? It will definitely come in handy as we try and furnish our new house.... 

We are moving this week and we are super excited!! We paid extra for the trash cans :) 

Aloha!

We are off to Maui for a week... and we are so excited! I hope the weather is not scorching like it was here this last week. What was that all about? 

I Never Said I Was A Foot Model

Are you kidding... look what is for sale at Target right now. Oh the childhood memories... 

Cameron Graduates

I'm a bit late posting this... but I'm documenting our life. Cameron was part of this years Leadership Pleasanton class. It helps "develop community leaders" which I'm sure it does, but I think he loved it because once a month he got to tour Pleasanton, skip work, schmooze with a bunch of people, and eat good food. Anyhow- there was a graduation party at this fancy house where he got a plaque and a medal. This little party was a bit stressful for me because I had to talk to all these big wig Pleasanton people and I was not having a lot in common with them (except my husband). Good times. 

We have his medal in our medal case now: 

Cans

I'm thinking can projects are pretty cute these days... for Mother's Day a few of us girls got together to make a can of memories for our mom. We decorated the outside with scrapbook paper and then Nicole had this awesome tag cutter and we filled our cans with tags. On each tag we wrote a memory of our mom... thinking about all those memories made me miss my mom!! 

I really like the idea of putting flowers in cans... what a cute gift!! (thanks Catherine) 

And then Brooke posted about some other fun can projects awhile back and I thought this lantern idea was cute. I'm going to make some of these in red, white, and blue and decorate for the 4th. 

Move Over American Idol

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this show... I can't wait for May 22nd!! 

My Greatest Accomplishment

I BEAT HIM!! I finally did it, I beat Cameron in one game of ping pong. 
We have been having some weekend dates at Club Sport lately... it doesn't get more exciting then playing ping pong and working out on a Friday night. That being said... I have become very competitive in our ping pong games because he beats me so bad EVERY game. And after he wins there is this annoying gloating session where he reminds me how good he is at ping pong. So on Friday night I beat Cameron... in only one game... but I'll take it. Cameron claims he was taking it easy on me. You know what I have to say about that... yeah right.  

Crabs

There is just something about looking at a bunch crab legs that just seems so unappetizing. Not to mention watching them boil in a pot... such a weird delicacy. 

But thanks to our friends Carolyn and Andy... Cameron and I tried crab legs last Sunday at dinner. They even came prepared with a backup for me if I didn't like it... how nice are they!! But much to everyones surprise... I found them to be quite good. Please look who is wearing the oven mitts to crack open their legs. 

Chow down baby!! Dinner was awesome... thanks Carolyn and Andy! 

Picture Blocks

So here's a follow up to the wooden blocks... add a picture. Brooke's sister made these (what a shocker... she's creative too). 

I think she uses these as a decoration... but I think it would be super cute to mod podge pics of your baby on them and let them stack away. 

Baby Wooden Blocks

I just love these blocks... I'm thinking this little project is in my near future (craft night girls.. what do you think?) I love the idea of making a customized vintage block set.

Get the directions and watch a "how to"video here. 

Just Another Weekend

We were a bit on the dull side this weekend... Friday night our YM/YW from our ward had their roadshow. Brooke and I did the girls makeup and Cameron hauled around props. I must say... the YM and YW did a great job. 

Saturday I realized how bad I am at serving in tennis. By the end of the lesson my instructor had me basically just serving the ball over the net with a high volley. Can you even learn a new sport at age 28? Oh the frustration... 

Uh, Oh.... 3-0

It's true... Jason is 30!! Brooke planned a surprise party for him at the A's game.  We had a super great time and Jason was surprised to see us all show up. Good job Brooke! Despite the A's losing (I think that is what happened... I didn't watch any of the game), and freezing our butts off... it was a way fun night!!  

Our birthday boy

Jason, Nicole, Becky, and J.T.
Me and Cameron
Brooke (the party planner), April, and Matt 
Of course Brooke would have handouts for every inning... so cute! We learned all about the year Jason was born, his favorite things, his least favorite things, and his most embarrassing photos (which happened to be my favorite handout). 
And of course there were gift bags with baseball game treats. 

And the best part- she hired us a private band. Just kidding, because I would have killed Brooke if she hired them. You know those people that feel its necessary to bring their own instruments like whistles and drums to the game? And then they feel it necessary to toot their whistle and bang their drums the entire game? Um, that was them. So ANNOYING!! The best part was listening to the chants that they created and then watching them try to get the whole crowd involved. Go A's!!