John in his own beginner cooking adventures, decide to substitute plain macaroni noodles when the recipe called for rice (or so he thought)... When he wondered why there was no flavor, it was because the recipe was actually using the ingredient below. Cooking Fail.
I sent my sister a picture of this dress to confirm if it had her stamp of approval. Too bad when I actually wore it my strapless bra was ever shifting towards the visible center and kind of ruined the effect of looking nice/classy. Underwear Fail.
Bret and John had birthdays YAY 29!
The Royals haven't been doing so hot, but the weather was fabulous at the game and the beer was cold. No fail in my opinon.
I made a trip back to my alma matter for giving out an alumni scholarship, and I got to see my godfather and my favorite furniture store ever!
Alisa was hands down the classiest, most sophisticated girl in her entire school's prom. Obviously I'm biased, but some of the others have visible underwear lines and so much tacky bling it would blind elton John. She was in brown strapless with some silver sequin pattern. Take my word for it, beauteous!
I also saw my BFF from high school..... in all her glory.
Got some MONSTER bananas from sam's club.
And went to Baltimore for work. I sat outside staring at the harbor at sunset at M&S Grill, and my life was complete! Holy scallops in butter!
The strawberry/spinach salad had nuts with some sort of SPICY seasoning. Yummy flavor combo. I nixed the red onions though, bleh)
The waiter talked me into the tiny dessert which happened to be a miniature version of McCormick's chocolate box. I died and went to heaven. Best decision I ever made.
While working, I had some of the food that was provided. This particular conference was environmentally friendly and therefore had organic and healthy food AWESOME! Below is some sort of roast beef on polenta, grilled vegetables, and chicken/bruschetta. Yum.
We went out one night and had steamed muscles.
Not those muscles. Oh brother.
We sampled the local beer (the brother, above, is a pseudo local there). It was he kind of beer that had riddles in the cap..... we couldn't get any of them. Clever fail.
On my way out of town I got a tuna steak at the airport. EPIC Fail for every reason you can imagine.
The high school graduate, looking aloof and disiniterested. Good preparation for college and her early twenties.
The parents had 50 people in town for my sister's graduation (sorry no crowd pictures, I didn't steal any photos from Dad's camera like I usually do). Food aunt Anne prepared some YUMMY meals! P.S. that Sam's club chipotle slaw is phenomenal. I'm bringing that the next time I go anywhere and plan to claim all creative rights to it.
Aunt Theresa made her fabulous and creative cookies... matching all of Alisa's activities. FFA, FCCLA, lifeguarding, pigs (eye roll), Relay for Life, and other delicous additions. It pays to stay in school.
I was waving all of my Alisa flair, cheering, and attempting a photo with no zoom. She's the tiny one on stage in white.
And last and definitely least... the photo I sent to my sister yesterday as she had her first day of interning in my brother's office in DC, and I was attempting to recap to her the terrible acting/singing happening at the LLanview Prom over my lunch break (that's One life to Live for those of you without Soapnet or with lives).
Leaving for Los Angeles in T minus 4 hours!
I also tried to sleep in it when we got home. That got vetoed. Fun hater.
A DIPLOMA! Now my graduate and undergraduate ones can be best friends next to each other on my wall. Hooray!
In honor of her visit I made a YUMMY blueberry french toast bake that the iphone helped me find. 
It was basically pouring sugar down your throat at 8 in the morning.... but like that's a bad thing.