2-26ers...

Today, February 26th, is mine and Anthony's birthday! He's a year older, but still way cool to share a birthday with your husband. We celebrated last night by going to Sho-gun Japanese Steakhouse. Our chef was great and we sat by an Iranian family which made conversation and dinner truly memorable.

At Highview Baptist Church it also happens to be "High Attendance Day" for the youth and college departments. We went out after church with our small groups for lunch. My group and Jenny Brown's group went to El Nopalito- Anthony's group has some "outdoorsmen" in it, so they decided to make a quick run to the border then go indoor rock climbing. Maybe someone will have a camera and we can post his birthday fun too.

Tara brought her camera to our lunch. And as it was her birthday on Friday the 24th- the lunch turned into a bit of a fiesta. Muchas Gracias Tara for bringing your camera. Below is the birthday fun at El Nopalito.


From left to right- Lauren, Me, Heather, Lindsay, Jennifer, and Tara. Thanks to Brandon at the next table for being a handy camera man.


Ooey. Gooey. Wiggly. Giggly. FLAN! We told our waiter it was our birthday, but he responded with "So you want chicken quesadilla?" (I'm tellin' ya, this place is AUTHENTIC!) So you'll understand our surprise at the birthday flan. What else could any birthday girl want?!?!


SOMBREROS! I guess I look more like the average Mexican and Tara more the elite of Mexico's upper crust...as hers had sparkles, velvet, and matched her outfit, while mine was made of straw and (if you look closely) had duck tape holding it together at the top. Tis ok though...as they say..."Carpe Manana!"



...and switching cultural gears again... Terima Kasih to Amy for this BEAUTIFUL scarf/wrap/headcovering/kurung from Indonesia. If you can't tell there's some pretty sweetastic beadwork on the ends. I love birthdays!

last USA wedding...

A couple weekends ago our friends Josh and Sarah got married! Unless circumstances change...you know who you are!... theirs will be the last we go to before shipping out. The wedding was gorgeous (if you went to ours you'll know why I was such a fan of this one! Ours had an Asian theme... the reason is more obvious as to why an Asian ambiance was chosen for them as the bride is Korean...mine was more of a 'everyone's already done everything else, and Asian stuff is pretty' line of thinking...but now its just a funny coincidence that we're moving to Asia...) We got to see bunches of friends and laughed a lot. And thanks to the timely 2:00 ceremony start time we were able to get in some good family time too! Congrats to Josh and Sarah...they're close to 2 weeks married...smooth sailin' from here right?

All photographic props go to my lovely best friend Cara...our camera wasn't present that day so was unable to capture any moments...



Anthony and Pete...Pete was Anthony's best man...both looking dapper in their tuxes...

guess who these two are....the newly minted Mr. and Mrs. Reavis....

My groom looking well groomed...

Josh and Brandy Williams... another fine bride and groom... Brandy's probably thinking she'll always have to be the one that smiles normal in pictures of her and Josh... that face is one of many...one of the better ones happened at our wedding when his kidney stone finally passed... perhaps we'll tell that story if we ever post any of our wedding pictures...