Rewind to December 19th

This was our second annual ice skating trip to the Embarcadero skating rink in San Francisco but this time we had more company. Thanks to Mike, Melissa, Katie, and Anne we were able to play a rousing game of tag until our ankles were too sore to skate anymore. Right as we were leaving some guy proposed to his girlfriend and she said NO!!....just kidding. Last year we went because Mike was having his Christmas work party there but this year we had some tickets courtesy of San Fransisco Magazine where Molly has been doing some freelance work. They were one of the sponsors of the rink so here is Molly giving thanks by their sign.

What can I say? We were having fun!

Christmas festivities

Christmas has come and gone, and of course I didn't remember to keep up to date on the blog. The week before we left to go to Seattle I was lucky enough to go down to visit my family and work for a week. My parents were nice enough to let me come work at Zerorez, their carpet cleaning company. It was a family affair, My mom, dad, sister Josie and I were working together all week. While I was down in Corona del Mar we went to the famous Roger's Garden Center and the Laguna Beach Sawdust festival. Both put you in a very Chrstmasy mood. I also hungout as a third wheel with Martha and her boyfriend Jeff. We went to a family home evening night in Huntington and Martha likes to try and trick her friends into thinking I was her.

After returning to Alameda I started making a chocolate snowman cake for our seminary students Christmas Breakfast. Our student like sweets and random dinner food for breakfast. Last Christmas I got a cake mold from Kc's Grandma Oliver so I tried it out and lets just say it wasn't a home run. The kids still ate it though.


Propping up my special needs cake wearing my new Christmas apron from Josie

My first attempt at the snowman standing cake. It toppled over due to excessive frosting and moist cake. I think it would look better with no frosting just powdered sugar sprinkled on top.

Roger's Garden Christmas decorations- amazing nutcrackers.

Seashell tree my mom purchased to decorate the doghouse

My hot date with Bret

The political part of the show was by far the funniest!!

Good old John McCain next to the one who can see Russia from her back yard!

So on Saturday Molly was unfortunately out of town so I got to go hang out with Bret and the rest of West Coast Novelty at their Christmas party. We got to go eat some good Italian food in the city and then walked a couple blocks to go see Beach Blanket Babylon. It's a play write written by Steve Silver who does a brilliant job at portraying the current events in a very funny way. I guess it's one of the hot spots in San Francisco when people come in town to visit. I've never heard of it but I'm glad I did because it was a great show. If you come to San Fran...I would recommend seeing Beach Blanket Babylon.

Since we don't have a real tree...

I decided to make a table top forest of eco-friendly Christmas trees. The trees on the right were made at my family's Thanksgiving reunion out of lots of felt circles. And since I am not currently working at the magazine companies I used to be employed at I decided to shred a few magazines and make a tree. Merry Christmas!! You got to celebrate for at least half the month or more.

What happened to November?

November has already past- it went so fast. After voting I went down to my parents house to work and visit a few people. Then I started working freelance for San Francisco Mag. It was pretty crazy because I was working for my previous boss's twin sister. That is right one laid me off and then I started working for her twin sister in the city. They look and talk exactly the same.
Kc and I also went to the always motivating Warren Miller movie, which made us really excited to go to Park City, UT and touch some snow. We had a great time at my parents condo for Thanksgiving-but there wasn't much snow. We watched movies, ate lots of food, crafted, and saw lots of my family. My sister Josie was the designated photographer, so I will post those later.

Warren Miller Show

Advertisement for Utah at Warren Miller- UT here we come.

Taking two of my nephews to the park in the middle of the outlets.

Trying to entertain the kids while shopping.

That's what he said.

Some of you probably received this same email from Prop 8 organizers, but I thought this excerpt was great to hear and reminds me that not everyone is jumping on the band wagon to appeal something that has already been put to a vote. I was not planning on posting about Prop 8 again after the election, because I was treating it like when you are on summer break you don't say the S word, (school) but I liked this statement.

Elton John: Heterosexual Couples Have Marriage, Same-Sex Couples Have Civil Partnerships

USA Today published an article yesterday in which Sir Elton John spoke about his position on Proposition 8. John clarified his position on Prop 8 while attending the annual benefit for the Elton John AIDS Foundation. He was accompanied by his longtime partner David Furnish, whom he joined in a civil union in 2005. John was quoted as saying, "We're not married. Let's get that right. We have a civil partnership. What is wrong with Proposition 8 is that they went for marriage. Marriage is going to put a lot of people off, the word marriage."

John went on to emphasize that civil unions grant same-sex couples the same rights afforded to married heterosexual couples. He stated, "I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership…the word marriage, I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships."

Apartment living

Today I realized how living in an apartment is like sharing a house with strangers. I was working on my computer designing a marketing piece for my Dad when all of a sudden some Fergie song starts blasting, literally 30+ on the volume control. Our neighbor beneath us is very eccentric. He loves his 70's music, Night at the Roxbury soundtrack and now Fergie. Not to mention our neighbor that shares our master bedroom wall- we can hear every night that he snores. But it is very funny and unpredictable at times.