Our homemade costumes for this year. Maybe we've been playing too many video games?
14 years ago
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Happy Halloween!
Our homemade costumes for this year. Maybe we've been playing too many video games?
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Kickball!
This summer a group of us law grads joined an adult kickball league here in Portland. That's right, a bunch of weekend warriors busting our butts to run around bases and hopefully catch those fly balls. You should all officially move to Portland so you can join our team!
Anyways, my real motivation in posting about our kickball team is to gush over how much I love the team names. Some of my favorites (and keep in mind they provide beer to all the teams, so it's a very jolly time): "Booze on First", "Socialist Kicktators", "Where My Pitches At?", and possibly the best team name ever: "Ricardo Montalballs"
Our team name: New Kicks on the Block
Anyways, my real motivation in posting about our kickball team is to gush over how much I love the team names. Some of my favorites (and keep in mind they provide beer to all the teams, so it's a very jolly time): "Booze on First", "Socialist Kicktators", "Where My Pitches At?", and possibly the best team name ever: "Ricardo Montalballs"
Our team name: New Kicks on the Block
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Post-Bar Celebrations
We finally finished all that bar exam junk and we got out of town ASAP! We visited Genaro's family in New York and Maine and had an absolute blast. Here is a photographic rundown.
Hanging out on the raft anchored in front of the cabins in Maine.
The best glass of all time, although we didn't play any tennis, we played corn hole!
The photos below are on the lawn of one of the cabins right on lake Alamoosook.
For those unfamiliar with the game, you play on teams of two and try to through the bag of corn throw the hole on the board (thus "corn hole"). 1 point for any bag on the board, 3 points for a corn hole.
Ambushed by photographers on our way to the lobster feast!
Lobster boat of the coast at Acadia National Park.
A shot of downtown Bucksport, the small town lake Alamoosook is by.
A shot from Camden, Maine.
NEW YORK! Pizza! Yay! This was a place called Lombardi's. Absolutely delicious, although I still prefer Portland's Apizza Scholls.
We spent a lot of time at museums. We made it to the Met, MOMA, the Natural History museum, but when we walked up to the Guggenheim we learned it was closed on Thursdays. Someone else had already written that note and left it on the closed sign. We detoured to Central Park and walked almost the entire length of the park. Phew.
Water reservoir in the park.
A castle in the park!
A photo for the legal nerds. This is the edge of the Brooklyn bridge--is Genaro stepping on to the bridge, or just preparing to step on to the bridge?
A shot of Manhattan from the ferry ride across the Hudson.
Below are some favorite pictures from the art museums.
Hanging out on the raft anchored in front of the cabins in Maine.
The best glass of all time, although we didn't play any tennis, we played corn hole!
The photos below are on the lawn of one of the cabins right on lake Alamoosook.
For those unfamiliar with the game, you play on teams of two and try to through the bag of corn throw the hole on the board (thus "corn hole"). 1 point for any bag on the board, 3 points for a corn hole.
Ambushed by photographers on our way to the lobster feast!
Lobster boat of the coast at Acadia National Park.
A shot of downtown Bucksport, the small town lake Alamoosook is by.
A shot from Camden, Maine.
NEW YORK! Pizza! Yay! This was a place called Lombardi's. Absolutely delicious, although I still prefer Portland's Apizza Scholls.
We spent a lot of time at museums. We made it to the Met, MOMA, the Natural History museum, but when we walked up to the Guggenheim we learned it was closed on Thursdays. Someone else had already written that note and left it on the closed sign. We detoured to Central Park and walked almost the entire length of the park. Phew.
Water reservoir in the park.
A castle in the park!
A photo for the legal nerds. This is the edge of the Brooklyn bridge--is Genaro stepping on to the bridge, or just preparing to step on to the bridge?
A shot of Manhattan from the ferry ride across the Hudson.
Below are some favorite pictures from the art museums.
Monday, May 18, 2009
A little adventuring!
Since we have a little bit of free time (and some early graduation gifts) we decided to take off for the weekend.
We took off from Portland, headed up to Victoria, British Columbia for a day and then over to Seattle for a Mariners game. Getting to and from Canada we took ferries and enjoyed the beautiful sights of the pacific and the San Juan islands. Lucky for us, last weekend was the best weather of the year thus far!
Crossing the Straight of Juan de Fuca. Those are the Olympic mountains in Washington state, and on the water is a submarine!
The parliament building in Victoria.
Victoria herself, well, in statue form at least!
Inside the parliament building.
Gretzky, not just for Hockey anymore... :) We didn't try his wine, alas.
English and French as official languages leads to more exciting cereal boxes! Vive le Capitaine! (Although I'm sure even in French, Captain Crunch still cuts up the top of your mouth...)
On the way back to Washington, traveling through the San Juan Islands. Everyone who had a boat was out enjoying the water.
More San Juan Islands. The water was so calm and glassy!
Yay! Safeco field and the Mariners game! Mariners v. Red Sox! There were actually a lot of Oregon State jerseys around the stadium since the center fielder for the red sox, Jacoby Ellsbury, went to OSU. His hometown is actually Madras, Oregon, so he was a local favorite all around.
The amazing view from the stadium, the spaceneedle is to the left of the second light post.
One of my good friends lives in Montana right now, but she's a die hard red sox fan, so she was in Seattle for the series and we got to see each other for a bit! Yay! I'm sure one day the Red Sox will play in Missoula...uh huh...yup...
We took off from Portland, headed up to Victoria, British Columbia for a day and then over to Seattle for a Mariners game. Getting to and from Canada we took ferries and enjoyed the beautiful sights of the pacific and the San Juan islands. Lucky for us, last weekend was the best weather of the year thus far!
Crossing the Straight of Juan de Fuca. Those are the Olympic mountains in Washington state, and on the water is a submarine!
The parliament building in Victoria.
Victoria herself, well, in statue form at least!
Inside the parliament building.
Gretzky, not just for Hockey anymore... :) We didn't try his wine, alas.
English and French as official languages leads to more exciting cereal boxes! Vive le Capitaine! (Although I'm sure even in French, Captain Crunch still cuts up the top of your mouth...)
On the way back to Washington, traveling through the San Juan Islands. Everyone who had a boat was out enjoying the water.
More San Juan Islands. The water was so calm and glassy!
Yay! Safeco field and the Mariners game! Mariners v. Red Sox! There were actually a lot of Oregon State jerseys around the stadium since the center fielder for the red sox, Jacoby Ellsbury, went to OSU. His hometown is actually Madras, Oregon, so he was a local favorite all around.
The amazing view from the stadium, the spaceneedle is to the left of the second light post.
One of my good friends lives in Montana right now, but she's a die hard red sox fan, so she was in Seattle for the series and we got to see each other for a bit! Yay! I'm sure one day the Red Sox will play in Missoula...uh huh...yup...
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
First glimpses of summer fun...
This is what over $2,000 dollars in books and a summer full of preparation classes for the bar exam looks like. Pop can for scale, and remember Genaro and I each have our own pile -- twice the fun (unfortunately not for the price of one though! hehe!)
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Finals
Busy working away, trying to finish up those last few classes before graduation. Still finding time here and there for cupcake design and this year's autism walk-a-thon here in Portland.
Sunflower cupcakes! Oreo centers, frosting petals, m&m ladybugs, and fruit roll-up leaves.
Autism Walk-A-Thon 2009
Star of the show!
Attack Kenzie!Can't tell we're all related with the super pale skin and same exact hair color! :)
Cassandra loooooved the matching shirts.
Happy face and happy pose!
Sunflower cupcakes! Oreo centers, frosting petals, m&m ladybugs, and fruit roll-up leaves.
Autism Walk-A-Thon 2009
Star of the show!
Attack Kenzie!Can't tell we're all related with the super pale skin and same exact hair color! :)
Cassandra loooooved the matching shirts.
Happy face and happy pose!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
off on spring break...
Lots of work to do, but some fun family visiting too over spring break next week!
In the mean time, two fun things to put on the blog:
1) Perhaps not strictly "fun" but I enjoyed the point it makes.
All credit to the Cartoonist Stuart Carlson
2) And another fun thing to put on the blog: the coloring book for lawyers!
Uncle Bob actually gave us a copy of this. One of his patients is a lawyer and when he mentioned a niece in law school they insisted he give us a copy and brought one in to their next appointment.
Here's a link to the fun coloring book:
http://officespam.chattablogs.com/archives/Coloring-Book-for-Lawyers.pdf
In the mean time, two fun things to put on the blog:
1) Perhaps not strictly "fun" but I enjoyed the point it makes.
All credit to the Cartoonist Stuart Carlson
2) And another fun thing to put on the blog: the coloring book for lawyers!
Uncle Bob actually gave us a copy of this. One of his patients is a lawyer and when he mentioned a niece in law school they insisted he give us a copy and brought one in to their next appointment.
Here's a link to the fun coloring book:
http://officespam.chattablogs.com/archives/Coloring-Book-for-Lawyers.pdf
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Lincoln City Trip
Our family has a favorite little motel at the beach, and mom, dad, Genaro and I escaped there for the weekend. Genaro and I brought along a lot of law text books, but we enjoyed some walks on the beach and the amazing view too!
Lincoln City, the beach city, has an awesome tradition of placing glass floats out on the beach for people to find and keep. My dad is an avid beach comber and has been trying to find a float since they began placing them out. He wakes up early and spends hours walking the tide pools and combing the dunes. I sleep in and stroll on the beach leisurely. Dad has found zero floats. I have found one, and Genaro and I found a second one last year. Now certainly my dad deserves a float, right? Well Genaro and I got him an early birthday gift and gave him a gift certificate to make his own glass float. Here are some pictures (and video) from the glass float making!
After getting molten glass onto the blowing tube, you roll the molten glass over chips of colored glass that will melt into your project as you warm it up in the super hot ovens.
The different colored glasses melt at different temperatures and you need even heating so you have to slowly spin the molten glass mix in the furnace, it gets so hot it is almost dripping off the end of the pole.
Here is video of dad twisting the glass to make swirled patterns of the colors. You can see how hot it is by the glowing color and how it droops from side to side when it is turned. Oh, and you can see the pug who hangs out by the warm furnaces hanging out on a chair in the background.
The pole the glass was on is hollow. A tube is attached to the end of that and you slowly blow air into the mass of molten glass to make a small bubble and then work all the way to the full float size. Here is the float after my dad blew enough air into it to make it the right size. The worker actually detached the float pretty easily, and then put one last chunk of molten glass on the bottom to make a foot for the float to rest on. (They also stamp the year and the name of the studio on the bottom of the stand, which is kind of cool!)
The final, amazing product. Craig Chapman glass works? Sounds good to me!
Lincoln City, the beach city, has an awesome tradition of placing glass floats out on the beach for people to find and keep. My dad is an avid beach comber and has been trying to find a float since they began placing them out. He wakes up early and spends hours walking the tide pools and combing the dunes. I sleep in and stroll on the beach leisurely. Dad has found zero floats. I have found one, and Genaro and I found a second one last year. Now certainly my dad deserves a float, right? Well Genaro and I got him an early birthday gift and gave him a gift certificate to make his own glass float. Here are some pictures (and video) from the glass float making!
After getting molten glass onto the blowing tube, you roll the molten glass over chips of colored glass that will melt into your project as you warm it up in the super hot ovens.
The different colored glasses melt at different temperatures and you need even heating so you have to slowly spin the molten glass mix in the furnace, it gets so hot it is almost dripping off the end of the pole.
Here is video of dad twisting the glass to make swirled patterns of the colors. You can see how hot it is by the glowing color and how it droops from side to side when it is turned. Oh, and you can see the pug who hangs out by the warm furnaces hanging out on a chair in the background.
The pole the glass was on is hollow. A tube is attached to the end of that and you slowly blow air into the mass of molten glass to make a small bubble and then work all the way to the full float size. Here is the float after my dad blew enough air into it to make it the right size. The worker actually detached the float pretty easily, and then put one last chunk of molten glass on the bottom to make a foot for the float to rest on. (They also stamp the year and the name of the studio on the bottom of the stand, which is kind of cool!)
The final, amazing product. Craig Chapman glass works? Sounds good to me!
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Cupcake designing!
Some Spaghetti and Meatballs (noodles = piped frosting, meatballs = ferrer rocher chocolates, sauce = strawberry jam, parmesan = shaved white chocolate)
Turkey place settings for thanksgiving (made with help from Welshie boys!)
Cupcakes to celebrate friend getting U.S. citizenship!
I bought a really cool cupcake decorating book called "Hello Cupcake!" at powells last year and since then, we've also made christmas tree and snowmen cupcakes, christmas light and christmas ornament cupcakes and cupcakes decorated like pool balls, I just don't know where the pictures for those ones are! :)
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