Wow...it's been a while. I haven't been very good at keeping this thing up-to-date this summer, but I'm going to try to be better about that. Let's see...what has happened since the beginning of June? Well, I started my new job. I'm working for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Monica, and I'm the Volunteer and Community Resource Coordinator. Basically, I get to take care of everything dealing with volunteers - interviewing them, screening them, scheduling them, loving them, etc. And I also get to create and maintain all the club's partnerships with outside organizations and individuals. Basically, it's the greatest! And I get to hang out with kids - kids who are around ALL day during the summer! It's so fun!
I think I might have mentioned it, but if you didn't know...the Lakers and the NBA completely re-modeled our Reading and Learning Center. They came in and tore everything out and replaced it with all new stuff (and by they, I mean I...and some of my co-workers along with a few NBA PR people). Both the Celtics and the Lakers chose one organization to do this for, and we were it for the Lakers. Tey had a press conference and a ribbon-cutting ceremony with David Stern (President of the NBA) the day between Games 3 and 4. The kids absolutely loved it!!
Here are some pics:
All the kids got shirts for the big event
That is the brightest purple carpet ever!
Pretty fancy... 
Laker Madness!
That's $10,000 worth of books baby! 
Just hangin with some of the girls before the players arived
These kids were on National Television during Game 4
Coby Karl (a rookie player for the Lakers) played Laker Monopoly with the girls 
Derek Fisher played too!
What else? Oh...Jordan went to Idaho for Andrew and Megan Pelsma's wedding. I couldn't go, because it would have been too much time off work. But it just so happened that Nicole came down here that very same weekend for a wedding...so I got to see her, and she even stayed with me one night. We took one picture, but it's pretty bad of both of us, so I'm not sure I'm going to post it...
Then, I went to KT and Peter's wedding in Portland a few weeks after the Pelsma wedding in Idaho. Jordan didn't go with me for the same reason i didn't go with him - he had to work. Boo work. But their wedding was sooooo fun!! All the good pictures I took are on facebook, but I may post some here later...
After I got back from P-town, I worked for three days and then took six days off and went to Mexico with Jordan's mom's side of the family. There were 40 of us, and we went for his grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary and 70th birthdays which are all this year. I don't have any pics of that yet either, because Jordan took all our pics with his camera and he has to change them into jpegs before I can put them on here. Soon, though.
Since getting back from that crazy trip (around the 4th of July) we have pretty much just been working. Our weekends have actually been really busy, but we've just been having fun. We went to San Diego to see Patrick and Taylor when they were there for a few hours on their way back from a mission trip to Mexico. We also saw my brother (who lives there) and I FINALLY got to meet his Lauren....she used to be his girlfriend like two years ago for two years, and then they broke up, but now they're sort of seeing each other again - it's complicated. But I never met her the entire time they were dating (seriously, they dated for like two years and I never met her...what's the deal with that?)...Anyway, she's great and it was really fun hanging out with Eric and crashing at his place in San Diego.
The following weekend, we helped Janee and Gib move from their place in Hollywood to their new place in Venice. They now live about seven blocks from the beach - those jerks! Jk...their new place is really cute and in a really great neighborhood with a good mix of people. We know we'll love having them much closer: it's about 8-10 minutes between our houses, as opposed to 30-60 minutes between our old places. Also, this past week, Jordan's aunt Nancy came to visit and we had the best time! She stayed with us a few nights and it was so great to catch up and just chat with her! She's such a great person with a great perspective on life - very well traveled, with many stories...we had a blast!
Ok, finally...this weekend we went to Solvang, CA for our 1st anniversary! It is a tiny little Danish town about 35 miles north of Santa Barbara, and we stayed in the cutest little hotel. It's also right in the middle of Santa Barbara wine country, so we spent the weekend wine tasting (which we have never done before, but really enjoy). It's litereally a town that's 5 blocks by 5 blocks, so we walked everywhere and tasted wine in many tasting rooms. We also drove out to the actual wineries and tasted there too! It was fabulous. Tomorrow is our actual anniversary, and we're planning on a nice dinner somewhere...I dunno exactly...
At one of the tasting roomsThats all I got.
1 comments:
Thanks finally for the update :) Cute hair by the way!!! Talk to you soon!
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