Friday, December 31, 2010

Year in Review 2010

Hello readers! This is the first time I’ve actually managed to keep a blog for an entire year. So, before we enter 2011, I thought we could take a look back.

JANUARY

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Locations: Provo

Included: According to my blog archives, all I’m gathering is that I took an insane amount of credits (don’t do it!), started an internship on top of it and work, watched Chuck, and went on an adventure to the Sundance Film Festival (picture above).

FEBRUARY

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Locations: Provo, Las Vegas, St. George

Included: Just the normal school and work at The Daily Universe, plus my first roadtrip to Vegas with Annie! Above, a picture of the cold at Utah Lake.

MARCH

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Locations: Provo

Included: I can’t really find any evidence that I did anything this month. But I did turn 21!

APRIL

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Locations: Provo, Washington D.C.

Included: This is when things got interesting! After school ended, I headed straight to Washington D.C. for my internship at WHERE Magazine, where I got to explore a new city and make a lot of friends at the Barlow.

MAY

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Locations: Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York

Included: Despite the fact that I only blogged three times, this month was pretty action packed! Everyone in Washington Seminar squished into a bus for a roadtrip to Philadelphia for a weekend, where we were able to enjoy history and Philly cheese steaks (this also made for one of my favorite blog posts of the year picture-wise). I also went up to Baltimore with Sweeney for work on a day trip. And of course we were working, enjoying D.C. (including national’s baseball games, finding new restaurants, mount vernon…) and doing homework all at the same time! Oh, and we went to New York City for memorial day too! No wonder I didn’t have time to blog.

JUNE

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Locations: Washington, D.C.

Included: At the end of Washington Seminar we actually joked that we had no idea what we did in June. Seriously, none of us can remember! I’d say it’s safe to say that we were still working at our internships. And I know I went to the Newseum and watched the world cup, if only because of the date stamped on my photos. The most random thing we did? Probably the free 7 a.m. Jonas Brothers concert before work.

JULY

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Locations: Washington, D.C., Gettysburg, Ocean City, Md.

Included: Possibly the best month in D.C., if only because the Fourth of July on the mall was so awesome! Seriously, look at the pictures for evidence. July also featured a lot of classic summer activities, like going to the beach, riding a rollercoaster, watching outdoor movies, going to markets and eating lots of hamburgers at Good Stuff and Ray’s Hell Burger. With a bonus trip to Gettysburg.

AUGUST

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Locations: Washington, D.C., Portland, Provo

Included: My adventures in D.C. ended strong. I definitely took the latest flight home I could, and used every last moment I could! Now I just need to go back. Being home for a little bit before taking Amber to college was really nice too.

SEPTEMBER

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Locations: Provo

Included: Life was back to normal at school in Provo, still working at The Daily Universe, but in a nice new apartment. Oh, and I bought a record player. Wonderful decision.

OCTOBER

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Locations: Provo, Las Vegas

Included: We celebrated Halloween and James Bond, and I even escaped back to Las Vegas for a journalism conference.

NOVEMBER

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Locations: Provo, St. George

Included: This month was great because it included Thanksgiving, where I got to see Kasey while staying at her grandparents’ in St. George for a few days.

DECEMBER

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Locations: Provo, Portland

Included: Christmas Break! That is the most important part. And I don’t want it to ever end…

Happy New Years!

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Haunted Pizza

Some fun at Old Town Pizza from tonight.

Note how you can see both of us twice in the photo (2nd in the back mirror), even though we aren’t sitting next to each other?

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Sister should have more pictures of our shopping adventures later tonight at dropletsofamber.blogspot.com.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

A Rainy Day

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My family wishes it would snow, but ever since I’ve been home I’ve really been enjoying the days it has rained.  It doesn’t happen enough in Utah.  I am a sun addict, but there’s something so refreshing about the rain.  I especially love the sound of rain on my window while I’m trying to fall asleep…  It’s so soothing it just relaxes me like nothing else can.  Everything looks beautiful when it rains too, with all of the lights reflecting off of the water.  The moral of the story is that it is nice.

A few of my favorite friends from home decided to embrace the rain today and head downtown.  The original plan was for us to go shopping on 23rd, but when it was still raining so hard we decided to stay right off the max line and shop at Pioneer Place’s H&M and Forever and the Calendar store.  I’ve been struggling to decide which calendar to buy so I made them pick one for me.  The verdict?  Surfing dogs.  A new classic, I’m sure.

These pictures are a little blurry because I had my camera on the wrong setting… but they’re still cute.

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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Still Counts

I know it’s after midnight…. but I hope you had a very, very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

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Love you all.

Friday, December 24, 2010

The Real Deal, Christmas Tree Style

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One of my (many) favorite things about Christmas is the tree. And the best part of it was always going out to the tree farms to cut one down ourselves. One of the wonderful things about living here is Oregon is that while downtown Portland is less than 5 miles away, so are the tree farms (just in the other direction toward the beach). Apparently Oregon produces most of the Christmas trees sold in the states, so the one in your house might be from here.

Every year we would pick a day at the beginning of December and head out to the tree farms in search of the perfect tree. Sometimes we would stay out all day and even go to multiple farms, while others we would luck out and find one quick.

This year even though Amber and I weren’t here to help, my parents went and scouted out this beautiful 11” tree.

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My mom found a large sample of the millions of photos we have from tree farms in preparation for this post, such as there are too many for me to include in the body of this blog. So, if you are a fan of tree farms or my childhood, feel free to click through the expanded collection.

And here, for your Christmas enjoyment, are moments from tree hunting past! As many years as we could find.

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1993

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1994

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1995

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1996

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1997

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1998

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1999

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2000

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2001

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2002

2003 --- This picture is being evasive.

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2004

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2005

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2006

Also… in case you doubt that buying a real tree is better, the New York Times has my back. Well, at least in objective way where the facts still seem to point in my favor. Apparently cutting a real tree every year is more environmentally friendly than getting a fake one. Plus, real trees smell good. I’m kind of a fan, if you can’t tell: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/business/energy-environment/18tree.html?hp

Merry Christmas Eve!

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Home for the Holidays!

It’s been wonderful being back home. I was only here for two weeks during the summer, and it really just wasn’t enough. And my bed here is so comfortable. Every day I’ve been sleeping in for ridiculous amounts of time. I keep thinking eventually I’ll be all caught up on sleep and start waking up at normal times, but there’s no sign of that happening yet.

This whole week the saturday market is doing the festival of the last minute, meaning it’s open every day until Christmas, so we went down to catch it today. Here are some pictures of the holiday downtown magic:

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Amber said she wanted me to start a photo company so she could have the official job title, “Amber the Poser.”

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Santa was selling chestnuts at the market.

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Oregon love.

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We bought some Portland ornaments. Not the bald eagle one.

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And there were even some carolers to bring the Christmas spirit.

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More market stuff I’m too lazy to write captions for.

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I just really liked this for some reason.

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There were lots of other peoples holiday shopping.

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We went into (the new, three story) H&M when it was light outside…

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and came out when it was dark. Took the traditional umbrella man photo, naturally.

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When dad got off work he joined us for dinner at the Rock Bottom Brewery next to his office, where I continued my mac & cheese quest.

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Night night night.

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Amber completed the trip with some Christmas window wishing at Tiffany’s.

Being home is nice.

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