this past weekend i spent time with my dad, his new girl friend and my two brothers. my dad came down to glendale/phx for his birthday. i threw a big bbq feast. i carefully planned out my meal the day before he was to arrive. we barbequed rib eye steak, t-bone steak, brautwurst, hotdogs, corn on the cob and i made some homemade potatoe salad and fruit salad. i also bought a birthday cake from the fry's mercado. it's sorta in a ghetto neighborhood, but i love the way that they make cakes. they are almost like the ranch market and also the prices of their cakes are very reasonable. we spent most of our weekend playing with the wii. i love mario kart! well, i best be getting to bed. i've been running my ass off these couple of weeks because my family in korea fed brian and i so much that i gained 7 pounds in 2 weeks!!. yeah, freaking disgusting so i've been really watching what i've been eating and trying to stay really active. i'll leave you with pics of my aunt's wedding. she did traditional and korean.

Happy New Year!


brian and i didn't do anything for the new year. we were planning on going to his cousin's house, but i think we intentionally kept delaying it until we both fell asleep. i woke up way past 12 am. It was 2:30 am and the new year was long gone. i think partying until we puked our guts was not on our agenda this year. the problem is that we've had family come into town two weekends in a row. so there was a lot of cooking, shopping-which required hours of walking from one store to another and staying up late with the family. i think that two weeks of doing this really pooped us out and made us want to spend time by ourselves relaxing and sleeping.

For christmas, my dad and brother's came into town. it was really nice spending time with my family again. i bought a honey baked ham this year. it was so delicious. if you never tried it i suggest that you do. it is worth the money. I also purchased some of the sides that they offered. i got the mac and cheese and i'm thinking it is a sweet potatoe casserole. i'm not sure, but it was so delicious! i would have secretly eaten this all if no on was looking....haha!...

brian's family came on december 28 and stayed until new years eve. that was another aerobic workout! we went from one store to another shopping like crazy. we ended up at ikea by the end of the day pooped out, hungry, and tired. brian's mom babied us. she cooked most of the meals. she brought a lamb leg from teec nos pos and boy did we have some good lamb stew with fry bread. yum! she threw in some dumplings and added a few squash and carrots. it was full of carbs, but i really didn't give a crap. so because of all the bad eating from the holidays i did some extra running on the treadmill tonight.

well, i better get ready for bed. good night. i'll leave you with a crappy cell phone pic of my dog coco in her hot pink coat. she has practically no hair, so when i go back to the rez we have to put this on her so she can run around outside.