Celebrating seven years of marriage today! Which means that, toddler and baby willing, we will eat something resembling our wedding cake, sip champagne, and watch what video we have of our wedding tonight! (Though, this year, I’m really feeling like revisiting the one from our honeymoon.)
After we got married and came home from Thailand, we basically had one week at home in Los Angeles to do little things like graduate from medical school, wrap up graduate school, and pack, before we drove all of our things across the country to New York City. We ate the top tier with plastic forks in the front seat of the U-Haul while listening to Bill Clinton’s audio book and looking out at rows (and rows) of corn.
So, on our first anniversary, we baked a cake to resemble the top tier of our wedding cake. It’s become a favorite tradition.
Looking forward to celebrating mother’s day this weekend, along with my dad’s birthday and our wedding anniversary (7 years, no itch)! Here’s hoping it’s a great one, with lots of time spent out in the sunshine!
If you’re in the mood for some web browsing, however, here are some Friday links…
I think I want to be that girl who wears a blazer. (Bought a cheap one to wear around Paris last spring and loved it.)
For those looking to add to a Northern California to-do list: a San Francisco newsstand that offers 200 varieties of chocolate in addition to the news, including one that tastes like “red coconut curry in a bar.”
This might be one of my favorite attempts at a family picture. I laugh every time I see it. It’s the best worst picture! Ever!
And as long as Aron’s arms are, I don’t even know how we’d fit Skyler in a selfie. So there’s a simple little trick we’ve been using lately to get some good family shots: a remote!
All of the photos below were taken by setting our camera up on a flat surface, tripod or, as is often required, in the crook of a tree. I loved them, and really loved taking them, too. In fact, it’s a pretty fun way to take photos, because you can just snap away without having to coax children into awkward poses and you’re still likely to end up with something good. And you don’t risk accidentally moving the camera by hitting the shutter, the way you do with the timed-exposure button.
