First Day Flowers

We made it!!

After three months of salsa lessons, Chris and I auditioned for ADP's Open Dance Salsa Team and we made it! We are pretty excited - I love learning new steps and choreography!  The intermediate/advance salsa patterns class is challenging but I love it!!  I am so eager to get it down, that after practice I have Chris practice with me some more after dinner!  You can tell how excited about salsa dancing by my excessive use of exclamation marks!

Anyway, school has been going pretty well; I really like my class and it has been less stressful than last year.  No fights the first week of school - yeah!!!  That is always a good sign.  :-)

Yan Can Not Cook Today...

I got up super early today since Buddy's meds have to consistent every day, and since normally I would be up by 7am, I try not to on the weekends but now I don't have a choice.  Good-bye sleeping in, hello afternoon naps!  ;-)  I haven't taken one yet today, but I'm a little tired from working at school.

So since I was up, I decide to make blueberry zucchini bread - FAILED!  I wrote down all these suggestions of substitutions and...well...I got a VERY mushy center.  I am thinking it was the extra cup of zucchini that one person suggested made their bread more moist...yes, mine was very moist as well, so moist that even though I cooked it for almost 2 hours, the center was still MUSHY!

I really tried to make it "healthier" and somewhere in the recipe I messed it up - apple sauce instead of oil, sugar cane instead of white sugar, used 1/2 wheat flour....and that extra cup of zucchini........made mush......  :-P

Waitressing all week....

Wow, have my legs have gotten a workout this week!  I have been working at the cafe last Friday and all this week - on top of that, I have been doing my regular exercise of Turbo Kick twice a week and salsa once a week.  My legs are TIRED!  The cafe has been pretty busy this week - I try to keep moving and be on it since there is no busser during the weekend.  I absolutely hate when customers sit on dirty tables.  Not only do I feel bad for them sitting at a dirty table, sometimes I cannot tell if they were there already and finished eating or if they are new!  I am just getting the hang of the weekday menu and punching it in the computer.  Yesterday, my big mess up was calling a lady a "sir."  Oops.  And then today I punched in "open meatloaf" when I wanted an "open turkey" but it is not called that in the computer.  I just quickly saw "open" and clicked it.  Darn.  But luckily the kitchen staff is quick to fix my mistake.  My bad.

So I am glad I have tomorrow off...sort of...we got a letter from the HOA about our trees so we have lawn work tomorrow.  BLAH....all part of being a homeowner, I guess...

Weddings!!

July was full of WEDDINGS!  My friends Amy, Stephanie, and Jennifer all were married this past July.  Unfortunately, I was only able to go to 2 out of the 3.  Stephanie's was in CT but I was able to see some great wedding pictures from her photographer!

First wedding of the month - Amy (photography by ME!) at the Denaina Center:

Walking Down the Aisle With Parents

Amy and Josh

Rose Wedding Cake

First Dance

First Dance

Then it was Stephanie's wedding the following weekend - these photos are from Pobke Photography - you can view these fabulous wedding photos at Stephanie's blog.

Then Jennifer ended the month of July with her wedding at Crow Creek Mine - also photos by ME!:

Beautiful Bride and her Stepfather

Going in for the kiss!  Photoshop: Poster edge

Going in for the kiss!  Photoshop: Fresco

The Peacock Wedding Cake

Cake Topper

Groom's Cake

Peacock Center piece

Cake Cutting

Party Tables

Bride's Bouquet

First Dance

We danced all night long thanks to salsa lessons!  :-)  Thanks ladies, for the fabulous wedding parties!!!