This Girl Friday

August 9, 2010

One Year Ago

One year ago... we were on our honeymoon.

We went to these places... Hearst Castle, Justing Vineyards & the Santa Barbara Mission.

We saw... Elephant Seals near Cambria, rode bikes in Santa Barbara

and went to every beach we could.

One year ago I became a step-mom to this lovely boy.

One year ago, seems like a few months ago.

My how time flies!

April 25, 2010

Well for the record I have been BUSY, but who isn't BUSY? (If you aren't busy give me a call... I have some projects for you.) And I do realize that my last post was about Halloween, I should show off our costumes but that will have to wait until a later post. Today's post is about HAITI!

My husband is in Haiti right now with a group of 12 other volunteers. They are in the town of Jacmel at an orphanage called the Hands & Feet Project. You can read more about the Hands & Feet Project here. I have been fortunate enough to hear from him twice already; he is absolutely in love with the orphans and has seen some unimaginable devastation. He is already talking about a return trip.

Since their first day in Haiti, Mark & his brother Cameron have been teaching Karate to a group of eager young boys. A few days later he made them Karate Kid headbands out of one of his t-shirts.

I can't wait for him to return so I can hear all about the trip.

I WILL keep you posted.

December 5, 2009

* wedding photos *

Check out Rebecca Stark's Blog for more photos from the wedding.

October 12, 2009

I LOVE Halloween! I love costumes... I love candy...

and I love pumpkins!

I am lucky that my husband loves Halloween as much as I do. Yesterday we got to work on our costumes, (stay tuned for photos at the end of the month). I'll give you a quick taste of what's to come... ALICE IN WONDERLAND. I'm planning to be the Queen of Hearts and Mark is working on his Caterpillar costume. Our friends are working on their costumes too. The cast of characters includes the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter & of course Alice. We are accepting applications for a Cheshire Cat, a playing Card, and Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum (or both). Yesterday, we also put up some spooky purple lights and carved our pumpkins.

This is my Cat Pumpkin, notice the scary fangs.

This is Mark's Cyclopse, it reminds me of Monsters Inc.

September 14, 2009

* marriage = sharing *

I feel as though I have returned to preschool, learning a lesson about sharing toys or crayons with my fellow students. Instead, I am learning to share all sorts of things with my beloved husband. And it doesn't make it much easier to share just because I love him.

Things I have to share with my husband:

* the couch
* the remote control
* closet space
* chores (I think I'm ready to switch, I'll empty the trash & recycle, he can do the laundry!)
* socks (when aforementioned laundry has not been done in a timely manner.)
* Adidas sweat pants (I'm not sure we share anymore, he wears them all the time now.)
* space in the medicine cabinet
* the camera
* holidays with eachother's extended families
* the bed (why does it feel as though he is always sleeping in the middle?)
* a toothbrush (occasionally when we travel... its better than enduring the morning breath.)

But today my husband tried to make me share something new...
my contacts!
After my shower I went to put my contacts in so I could see the world clearly and to my surprise my contact case was EMPTY! This normally wouldn't be such a big deal, except I am now using my last pair of dispoasable contact lenses. I checked my eyes just to be sure I did not sleep in them last night. Then I found Mark's contact case.... low and behold his contacts were still there but he had already left for work. I called him to say he was "wearing my contact lenses".

M: "Are you sure?"
G: "Can you see clearly?"
M: "Well, do you need them?"
G: "YES, I need them. They are my last pair. Can you come home to return my contacts and put in your own?"

Thank you husband. What's mine is yours... except for my contacts!