Christmas Playlist

I am trying to put together a Christmas playlist and there are too many good ones. Classic ones from Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Amy Grant, Anne Murray, James Taylor, Mannheim Steamroller, Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack, the 1994 Mariah Carey album (Nick Cannon at that time hadn't even starred on Nickelodeon yet), Jimmy Eat World, O.C. Christmas v.3, Sufjan Stevens, Elf Soundtrack, National Lampoon's Christmas songs, and the list goes on. Sufjan Stevens has some of the best song titles, for example Did I Make You Cry on Christmas Day, Well You Deserved It! and Get Behind Me, Santa!

Classic clip that Kc has been imitating all week long

Big ole' Thanksgiving

The loooong table in the Mission Home

Family picture

Martha and Ava, looking good in stripes

Football BYU vs nonBYU graduates

Egg toss for our olympics

another game my coordinated cheerleader cousins came up with, I was not a cheerleader for good reason

Kc and I just got back from a really fun reunion with my dad's side of the family for Thanksgiving. I have always been really close with my cousins and now that we are older and have added so many people to the group it is hard to get together. But with a lot of energy from my grandpa and aunts and uncles we did it. We had over 45 people assembled together in Las Vegas and all but 3 were from out of town. We chose Las Vegas so that our Mission President uncle Peter could attend. We had Thanksgiving dinner, played football, tennis, "olympics", went black friday shopping and hungout in a casino to watch the BYU/UTAH game. Good times.

60th Anniversary!!

Molly and I have made it a tradition each year, back from when we even first started dating, to watching the highly anticipated Warren Miller films that are "the official start to winter". This one, Dynasty, was Warrens 60th and was just like the others: It was GREAT, had lots of powder in it, showed highlights from all over the globe, it had its comedic flare and made me want to set aside some money for a heli trip to the Chugach mountain range in Alaska...soon enough...anyone want to come with me? What it didn't have: Warren as the narrator...he was way better than Mr. Mosely. An awesome segment about the skiing/snowboarding in Utah (which they usually do)...maybe next year.

One of the best parts about this year was that we (because of scheduling conflicts) missed the showings that they were doing in Berkeley and had to run into SF to see it in the Castro. I had no idea that this theater was so amazing. I definitely recommend heading there to see something because of this guy....

We didn't get the camera out fast enough but this old dude sits above this huge organ and it's elevated over the stage and he just plays random stuff as people enter the theater. Before the show started he cranked the thing way up and I'm not gonna lie...I was pumped up by the little organ man. Molly got this shot right before he almost sunk completely into the stage.

Our host, Steven Baker.

Stanford's Big Upset

A while back I was organizing an activity for my school to play a flag football tournament and to get everybody pumped up I used some of my left over budget to buy some tickets to the Stanford vs Oregon game. I can't say I'm a huge fan of either team but we were cheering the Cardinal because they were the underdog and I like watching Oregon lose. We got so into it that we ended up rushing the field because like they say...When in Rome...

Cars daddy was able to meet us there and then we went out to eat with the Orme's after the game. This was right after they won...so our rushing of the field was a delayed rush but it was still fun.

I don't have words to explain the drum major of the Stanford band. He was really sweaty.

We got right up next to the band and the crazy guy as the players were walking off the field. He almost hit me in the head with his baton.

Halloween Time

This was the product of a collaborative effort with the Bakers (the snow bunny couple above) on the night of Halloween to create some good looking pumpkins and more importantly to bake some delicious seeds.

These are a few pictures of the homes on Bay street. These people go all out with their decorations and the street is a huge party. Everyone and their mother (literally) come to see what's going on around Bay street. There were some funny costumes and some great decorations. This house pictured above had TONS of pumpkins all carved and lit on their lawn between a bunch of grave stones.

This guy was at one of the houses and by far the grossest. He was grinding himself up and we couldn't figure out what was actually coming out of the little spout there in the front. It was creative.

Molly and I went to visit this house on Santa Clara street when my parents came into town to visit for the week. It was fun hanging out with them and we stopped by to check out this guys place one night. He does something amazing every year just because he likes doing it and it's always different.

The week before we had Molly's parents in town for the yearly Stanford game. It was a ton of fun hanging out with them and the Packers in SF. Beat Cal...that game is soon to come and hopefully the band will not be on the field.

This was the last FHE that we had with the Rasmussens in their home with the other young married couples. As you can see I was focused solely on collecting every single seed for baking purposes. Molly, like always, was on top of the design and it turned out great.

Down Hill from Here

It's clinic time! I take the entrance exam at the end of this quarter and the beginning of the next and in no time I'll be able to start seeing out patients. An exciting time after a lot of hard work and much more to come.

Three years running

Last year we kept on with the tradition of going to Half Moon Bay in October near Halloween. Last year we learned not to go on the day of the Halloween Pumpkin festival. So this year we thought we would be safe going on the 17th. We were wrong, although we had less traffic this year, we still drove 6 miles in 40 minutes. We made the rookie mistake of just following the GPS turn by turn and forgot to double check the way it was taking us. Oh well! We went last weekend so we could meet up with Anne and Mike and the Packer family, but because of the traffic we didn't get to stay long enough to see them. We parked, walked into the town and stopped at an atm where Kc turned to me and said we have to leave and get to my baseball game. Me being bummed made Kc promise I could get a pumpkin on the way out, and pumpkins I got. Kc almost drove by the pumpkin patch, but as he was driving by I shouted for him to stop. I proceeded to cross a busy highway and grab the first two pumpkins I saw. As Michael Scott would say, "snap judgements." As I paid for them I made the cashier/patch owner take a picture to have proof of our tradition and then ran back across the street to Kc and our car which was still running. It may have been an in and out trip, but we got most of what we like going down there for- pumpkins and a drive through Pacifica. Having a sports fanatic husband I get to go to Kc's softball, baseball, basketball and flag football games which makes me think that I am perfectly qualified for this craigslist job I found today!

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San Francisco City League brings out a handful of wackos, last game a guy on the other team mooned everyone while standing on second base.

8 Years Later

What can I say?...After a shaky first inning it was like riding a bike. I love baseball and I'm glad I get to play again. Just for the record, I struck out Chile Davis' kid.

Oh Cupcake

So I was catching up with some of my emails today and found a website I had never been to, FredFlare.com. They had some interesting accessories that I would never have thought I needed. People really have gone nuts over frozen yogurt and cupcake shops. But now they are converting that craze to wearable items. I personally like the cupcake beanie though. They need a strawberry shortcake version. I think Kc would intentionally get hurt to wear those delicious bacon band-aids.

Seattle times

This last week we flew up to Seattle to hangout with Kc's family and show my sister Josie and her husband Eric around. Josie and Eric had never been and wanted Kc to be their tour guide. I am not sure what they thought of our tour guide skills, but we had a lot of fun. Some of the highlights were:
-Hanging out with Kc's family before his younger brother Mark left for the Army.
-A mandatory Mariners game where during their series with the Yankees they won 2 of the 3 games and we managed to go on the night they lost. Still fun though. Other than watching the game we saw a dance off between Superman and Batman that was pretty hilarious, I think it lasted 5 minutes. (Which is a long time for solo spotlight)



-Eating at Ivar's, shopping at Pike Place, going to the top of the space needle, and visiting Ye Old Curiosity Shop

Seattle made Josie cold as ice

Eric just mild

But Kc on the other hand...

First Starbucks ever. Not like the Mecca for me, but for some of my co-workers- they would worship this place.

Views from the Space Needle, Mt. Rainier in the background

-Visiting one of my best friends, Meka, at her new Seattle apartment (thanks for the pic Meeks)


-Fishing in the Snoqualmie River with four people in a canoe. Eric and I were beginners but Kc and his Dad were showing us how it was done. We were very subtle with our movements hoping not to tip.

Eric casting his line

Snagged a pink


Knee deep in water, we were all fishing without waders because the water wasn't too cold.

Issaquah fish hatchery

Kc really looks like a tour guide in this picture

-We also went on a housing search and dental quest with Josie and Eric, tried to catch a bear, and played with little kittens.