may recap

here's a guide to our may.

an early highlight was a sleepover w/ my niece laurel. we did a variety of things. included but not limited to- riding in a red wagon, playing on the playground, eating jeni's ice cream and running alot. i got her gardening gloves and we worked in the yard. she insisted i take numerous pictures of her clucking her tongue- which i tired to explain would be difficult to catch on camera.




we also made mean faces.





we also found our house- which our slated date to take possession is june 30. we're very excited.

two of my closest friends had baby boys. oddly, they weigh in at different ends of the spectrum. the diachotomy is a bit funny. phoenix came in at 4lbs 8oz (i think). later, gabe came in at a whopping 9lbs 11 oz. good times peeps. good times!

i celebrated my 33rd birthday. that was pretty good. my favorite celebration was with charles. we went to the old mowak in hopes to partake in their veggie paella. which they discontinued. although i was disappointed- i recovered. we then walked around german village and headed over to the book loft. we wandered through there for a number of hours then got something to drink at cupojoe. the evening was completed by a call from jess and joe that the baby was coming. i went over to be w/ evelyn. i took care of her for four waking hours and had to take a four hour nap afterwards. she is by no means- high maintanance. i just have no idea how much energy kids take.

so here's to my thirty third year- the year of sexual peakness for women.

this past weekend was our anniversary. two years! wow! i can't believe how much my love for charles has grown. it is wonderful to be married- even when it is hard. we went to the annual meeting of the anam development foundation. this is where eveybody living in the US that is in charles' lineage comes together in a host city. we all pay dues and then decide on a project to do back home. it was pretty sweet. as always, the greeting i received was so warm. all of our family is thrilled with just about anything i do to identify with them and are gracious and patient with my language and go to great lengths to make me feel included and like, 'one of the girls'.

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we had a party afterwards that was wonderfully festive. everyone dressed to the nines and we had all kinds of soup to choose from. there was also dried fish that was way good and goat which for some reason made me a little queesy this time b/c the smell was so strong. i usually like goat.

anyways... here is a picture of us at the party: