Tuesday, July 26, 2011

happy birthday ben! (last year....)

6/27/10, ben davis's 3rd birthday.  i was there.  it was fun.  i just scanned the pics today.  more than a year later.      really sorry it took me so long, josh and janet!  i didn't even get the film developed until 5/15/11.  such a slacker. 
anyway...ben is a cute kid, running around and doing kid things.  i took some shots of him winter of 2010 when we all got together over at josh and janets and he was killing it on the beatles rock band.  he was one with the mic.  
so here are the shots from his bday party!!







for some reason, i didn't make it to this years party.  even though it was only a couple of months ago, i cannot remember why i couldn't go.  huh...NEXT YEAR!!

Monday, July 25, 2011

Thursday, July 21, 2011

mojo's 10th anniversary, part two!

a couple of months ago morgan and joseph had their 10th anniversary party.  i put up a previous blog post about their party with my digital pics.  now that my scanner is working like a dream, here's my shots from my kowa six that i took.

this is the view from where the party was at:

it was right by the aurora bridge in fremont.

then the next day, they treated to everyone to a cruise around elliott bay:



it was a fun time!!!

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

christmas in july...

i finally got my scanner working well (first time since i've owned the damn thing) so i scanned in the photos from christmas last year.  maya was at her mom's for christmas and morgan was in portland, so joseph, the ging, alistair and i all went over to joseph and morgans.  it was a great day.  i'm so glad that the pics came out well.  











all taken with my kowa six medium format camera. 
now i have 5 more rolls of film to scan and then get all 10 rolls from vacation developed and scanned.  i will not be bored...

Sunday, July 17, 2011

it's sunday baking day...

well, it's maya's birthday tomorrow (13, already!!!) and i'm also going back to work after vacation, so today was baking day.
i figured that maya's mom will get her cake and she'll probably be caked out when she gets over here, so i made her some mini tarts instead.  blueberry strawberry ones to be exact.
i randomly got this cookbook from the library and i liked it to much i got a copy off of amazon.  $6 bucks new!  (grace...you should get this cookbook, you will LOVE it!):

so i made the mini-tart crust and put it in 6 muffin tins:

filled it all up:

and 18 minutes later...
these smell really good.  i hope they taste as good as they smell.  i'll stick whipped cream on top before we eat them.  i'll see if i should have browned the edges more or not after i shove one in my face.

i also made myself some chocolate chip granola bar thingies to eat at work.  i gotta cut down on the sugar so....
oats, choc chips, dried cranberries, pecans, cashews, condensed milk and butter!!

i wasn't sure how hard these were going to be after they cooled down, so i didn't roll them into the pan with a rolling pin, i just pressed down with a spoon.  if i make them again, i'll roll them in. they're pretty soft.  but pretty good!!  i'll share with people at work.  yes, jane....this means you!!

and the baking was all made better with tea that i got from this great shop in eureka, ca.  
so far i like the plum berry white better than the peach.  we'll see which i like better when i make iced tea again.  y'know...for summertime.  when it's hot out.  hopefully that will happen this year.  yeesh.
but this song is why i wanted to go to eureka...this is for you sally!!!






oh em gee!!!

so i got a new to me computer (thanks alex!!!) and my old keyboard didn't work with it.  so i HAD to order a new keyboard.  what's that  you say?  did i order the hello kitty keyboard i've been coveting?  YES! yes, i did!  and a hello kitty mouse with 3 different mouse covers.  i went on vacation with my mom and came back to a nice big box waiting for me! 
i haven't been so excited for something i bought in a long time!!  HELLO KITTY!!!


my new computer space is excellent now!!