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| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| I expect you all to wait by your mailboxes ... |
The wedding invitations are in the mail!!
Yes, my life is so boring that all I have to talk about is the wedding. ;) |
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| Saturday, February 25, 2006 |
| it's oh-so-fficial! |
| The invitations are here and will be mailed out on Monday! Whee! |
| posted by Keli @ 2/25/2006 |
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| Monday, February 20, 2006 |
| last time |
Due to overwhelming demand from several guests
the wedding date has been changed.
Please make note that it will be ...
SATURDAY
APRIL 29, 2006
6:00PM
There will be a reception afterwards
- location yet to be determined -
There will be NO REHEARSAL DINNER
so you do not have to be there Friday night.
Invitations to follow |
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| Saturday, February 18, 2006 |
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I haven't really been watching the Olympics much this year, but this is the funniest thing I've seen so far.
BARDONECCHIA, Italy (AP) -- Lindsey Jacobellis had the Olympic women's snowboardcross won, and then -- incredibly, inexcusably -- she made one last move on the next-to-last jump and fell.
She lost.
Coasting to what should have been an easy victory, the American grabbed her board on the way to the finish line. It caused her to fall and while she scrambled to her feet, Switzerland's Tanja Frieden sped past and became the first champion in the strange and wild sport of Olympic women's snowboardcross Friday.
Jacobellis won silver, but should have had the gold. She was well, well ahead of Frieden, and the other two women in the four-rider final had fallen long before.
Snowboarding is about style, though, so Jacobellis decided to show off for the fans in front of the grandstand near the end of her ride. But after she landed from her grab, she caught an edge, then went tumbling outside the blue line. When she recovered, she trailed Frieden over the finish line, then put her hands on her knees and held her palms up.
Jacobellis insisted she wasn't showing off.
"When you grab in boardercross you're trying to get back on the ground as fast as possible," she said. "You try to be stable in the air."
U.S. coach Peter Foley fell onto the ground in disbelief.
He said Jacobellis has always had a tendency to grab her board for stability, but after looking at a frame-by-frame breakdown of the jump shot by Associated Press photos, he conceded Jacobellis probably had gone over the top.
"She definitely styled that a little too hard," he said.
Foley wasn't alone.
"Sometimes it's subconscious, but that was putting on a show," said American Seth Wescott, the men's champion from the day before. "It's one of those things. I did it in my early rides yesterday but you've got to choose your time and make sure you don't miss."
That debate will linger. Either way, it was hard to think the only American rider in the women's finals -- one of the best in the world -- could blow this one.
But she did.
Her flub left the American contingent standing in the bleachers stunned and shocked -- Frieden, as well. She knew she had no business winning the gold.
Thus ended another strange and memorable day on the snowboardcross course, where it's the side-by-side racing that usually causes the thrills and spills.
That was very much the case at the top of the course in the finals. Canadian Maelle Ricker, the fastest woman in qualifying, came off a jump, rotated awkwardly, caught her backside edge on the landing and smacked her back and head onto the ground. She was taken off the course on a stretcher. She was conscious and was being taken to a hospital in Turin for observation.
A few moments later, teammate Dominique Maltais, the eventual bronze medalist, went careening into the netting after a jump.
That made it a two-woman show and it wasn't even a contest. Jacobellis could have practically crawled the rest of the way to the finish line. She probably wishes she had.
During the awards ceremony, she stood on the podium beneath Frieden and smiled, but there looked to be some tear stains there.
Jacobellis came into the Olympics as one of the best-known Americans, a poster child for her sport, to say nothing of the credit card company she endorsed. She'll also leave as a poster child for something much different -- the whole idea of making sure the victory is sealed before you celebrate.
from si.com
Click here to the see the pictures |
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| Saturday, February 11, 2006 |
| wow! |
Big Congrats to Ken and Katie
for running the Hilton Head Half-Marathon!!
I'm so proud of you guys! |
| posted by Keli @ 2/11/2006 |
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| Wednesday, February 08, 2006 |
| perfect makeup |
Mom, I would only do this for you, but I wanted to tell you that I have finally found the perfect makeup. Regular foundation makes me break out, and I've never found the perfect shade. Concealer is even worse. So I saw this on an infomercial and then found out that several of my friends use it and love it, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
Bare Minerals - Since 1976, when we opened our first store in Los Gatos, California, Bare Escentuals has focused on using only the finest ingredients in our products. This commitment led to the creation of our revolutionary mineral makeup called bareMinerals®. Made with crushed minerals from the earth, 100% pure bareMinerals are free of preservatives, talc, oil, fragrance and other potential skin irritants. All ages and skin types can benefit from our feather-light 100% pure bareMinerals, but especially those concerned with skin sensitivities, allergies, scars, blemishes, rosacea, wrinkles and pigmentation.
bareMinerals buff on so light and smooth that you'll forget you're wearing any makeup at all. Better still, bareMinerals contain no oils or binders - which means their all-natural color stays true all day. It's makeup so pure you can sleep in it.
So without further ado, here's my embarassing before makeup face:
And here's my face with bare minerals foundation, mineral veil, and warmth:
The 2nd picture does include eye makeup, but I didn't put on any concealer, blush or powder other than the bare minerals makeup.
Click the links for a larger, more detailed shot of before and after.
It's not a liquid foundation, by the way. It's all powder.
1. Bare Minerals foundation
2. Bare Minerals warmth
3. Bare Minerals mineral veil
And that's it! Also, the very first application took me about 3 minutes. I've read that once you get used to it, an entire application can take less than a minute.
It is worth every penny, and I will never go back to liquid foundation and concealer. |
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| Thursday, February 02, 2006 |
| why Santa Fe? |
Since Chad asked, I thought I'd post some of the reasons for our choice of honeymoon.
The Rio Grande
Palace of the Governors - Originally constructed in the early 17th century as Spain's seat of government for what is today the American Southwest, the Palace of the Governors chronicles the history of Santa Fe, as well as New Mexico and the region. This adobe structure, now the state's history museum, was designated a Registered National Historic Landmark in 1960 and an American Treasure in 1999.
Museum of Fine Arts - The Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1917 as the Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico. Housed in a spectacular Pueblo Revival building designed by I. H. and William M. Rapp, it was based on their New Mexico building at the Panama-California Exposition (1915). The museum's architecture inaugurated what has come to be known as "Santa Fe Style."
The building combines aspects of several Southwestern regional styles including elements of the facades of the Spanish mission churches of Acoma, Laguna and San Felipe Pueblos.
For more than eighty-five years the Museum has collected and exhibited work by artists from New Mexico and elsewhere.
Current exhibit - New Mexico Connections: Who's Who? and What's What? presents sequences of portraits that clarify some of the interrelationships between artists, politicians, collectors, philanthropists, musicians and writers. While neither a perfect chronology nor a comprehensive history, the exhibition hits at complex social and aesthetic relationships that exist within New Mexico art communities.
Georgia O'Keefe Museum
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
St. Francis Cathedral - Built in Romanesque style between 1869 and 1886, this is Santa Fe's grandest religious edifice. It has a famous 17th century wooden Madonna known as Our Lady of Peace.
Loretto Chapel - The Loretto Chapel is a chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico known for its unusual spiral staircase, the construction of which is considered a miracle by the Sisters of Loretto. The staircase has two unexplained mysteries connected to it: the identity of its builder and the physics of the construction. Miracle or no, the resulting staircase is an impressive work of carpentry. It ascends twenty feet making two complete revolutions up to the choir loft without the use of nails or a center support.
Sandia Peak Tramway - Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, it is the world's longest aerial tramway. It stretches from the Northeast edge of the city to Sandia Peak, the highest point of the Sandia Mountains.
Petroglyph National Monument stretches 17 miles (27 km) along Albuquerque, New Mexico's West Mesa, a volcanic basalt escarpment that dominates the city’s western horizon. Authorized June 27, 1990, the 7,236 acre (29.28 km²) monument is cooperatively managed by the National Park Service and the City of Albuquerque.
Petroglyph National Monument protects a variety of cultural and natural resources including five volcanic cones, hundreds of archeological sites and an estimated 25,000 images carved by native peoples and early Spanish settlers. Many of the images are recognizable as animals, people, brands and crosses; others are more complex. Their meaning was, possibly, understood only by the carver. These images are the cultural heritage of a people who have long since moved into other areas and moved on through history. The monument protects them for visitors to see and appreciate for generations to come.
The Rio Grande Botanic Garden (20 acres) is a botanical garden and 10,000-square foot conservatory located beside the Rio Grande and what is said to be the largest cottonwood gallery forest in the world, in the Albuquerque Biological Park, 2601 Central Avenue NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. It is open every day of the week during business hours except for Thanksgiving, Christmas and, New Year's Days; an admission fee is charged.
The Garden's conservatory contains native and exotic plants from desert and Mediterranean climates and a seasonal butterfly conservatory. The outdoor gardens place an emphasis on desert plants.
Rio Grande Zoo - Founded in 1927, the 64-acre Rio Grande Zoo offers visitors a pleasant stroll highlighted by close encounters with more than 250 species of exotic and native animals. Popular species include seals and sea lions, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, elephants, polar bears, giraffes, hippos, camels, tamarins, koalas, Mexican wolves, mountain lions, monkeys, jaguars, zebras and rhinoceros. State-of-the-art exhibit design and eye-pleasing landscaping enhance zoo animal husbandry by creating naturalistic habitats complete with trees, grasses, water features and rockwork. Walking distance through the zoo is 2.27 miles. The Rio Grande Zoo is a facility of the Albuquerque Biological Park .
I'll be back later with more ... |
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