Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The accident

Finally, this is the last post about the birthday party. Before the start of the party (6pm) at around 4 o'clock some men cutting trees on the slope up the hill from our house accidentally dropped a large tree branch on our gazebo breaking it in several areas. It took everything in my mom to not break into tears. She was so ahead of schedule and prepared she had started to wash the windows. Luckily my dad and brother took charge and had the gazebo dismantled in less than thirty minutes and the entire mess was cleaned up within an hour. The party went on without the gazebo and with tree branches all over the hillside because when they heard we were having a party they decided to just come back and finish the work the next day.






Cheesecake

Yes, more about the 50th birthday party. For dessert I made five cheesecakes. It's unfortunate that you can't taste cheesecake through photos.
Fudge brownie cheesecake
Key lime cheesecake
New York cheesecake
Pumpkin swirl cheesecake
and Oreo cheesecake

50th birthday party

Okay so September 20th was a long time ago but my Mom keeps telling me I need to post something. Here is my Dad and Uncle Richard's 50th birthday party.

My Dad eating, intently listening to someone and wearing the lovely hat that Jan made for him.

Drew
Emily and I (I always forget to un-zoom the lens)
Jan is in the chair on the left, my Uncle Richard in the middle and Jan's husband Richard on the right.
Andrew
Uncle Ted
Dad, the bear and ? (I am drawing a blank on the gentleman's name)

Dad and Mark

Uncle Richard and his work buddies
My Aunt Johanna, my Mema (my moms mom), and my mom's best friend
Emily
Me talking to a guy (Okay so my cousin obviously thought this was a big deal because she "borrowed" my camera and stationed herself in different areas of the back yard taking photos of David and I. None of them were any good and had she just asked we would have been glad to smile and take a photo. Instead the flash kept going off in our direction and we both got a kick out of the whole thing.)

And lastly, this is John. He is one of my brother's best friends and he found it amusing to make fun of me most of the evening because I have a blog. So I took a photo of him to blog.




Saturday, October 4, 2008

Dinner and general update

Jenny, Kameron and I went out to dinner last night after setting up our game plan for one of the many projects we have to complete this quarter. Kameron prefers to eat just the cheese from the inside of mozzarella cheese sticks.





In other news, this quarter I am enjoying my OB rotation. Last week I got to spend my clinical rotation in the newborn nursery having fun with babies, I got to touch a recently removed uterus (sounds gross, but it was actually pretty awesome). I have been attending child birthing classes. Made a trip to San Diego with my mom to meet with Jody, Elise, Laura and Daniel for teen camp 08' evaluation and 09' planning. Other assorted stuff as well but mostly studying and schoolwork.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Happy 50th birthday dad


Love you lots! Have a great day.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Kern County Fair

Jenny, Kameron and I went to the opening day of the fair. It was free to get in between the hours of 3-5 and Kameron was really excited about the animals.
I don't know that I would agree with their statement of the "best in the west" but whatever
Jenny knew the girl who owns this cow so Kameron got to go under the rope and pet her. Unfortunately after this he wanted to pet everything which isn't always possible.

I am not sure what he said but I love Jenny's expression

Fighting fire.

An elephant foot
Waiting to ride an elephant
Riding the elephant





The Budweiser dog. The Clydesdale's were there too but I didn't get a photo

Petting the snake. Relax Jenny he is going to be alright.