Perfectly Pipkin

Friday, July 6, 2012

America the Beautiful

This year Daniel and I were more patriotic than usual. I volunteered to sing in:

the Stadium of Fire

Choir-- or as I affectionately nicknamed it, the Stadium of Choir. It consumed a lot of my time (about 20 hours), but I get to hang out with my good friend, Aaron, sing back up to Alex Boye, and score tickets for Daniel and Louis.

We also had some cool visitors last week, they flew all the way from Hawaii to hang out and play games with us. Scott also pulled out his "treasure" a Hungarian gold coin he inherited from his grandfather that makes him look uncommonly similar to a leprechaun.

Daniel and I also spent a good deal of time in the sun. First while playing tennis with our Canadian friend and then volunteering at the kids' activities in Provo. I got to help kids make marble art. Daniel helped me for about ten minutes before he got wrangled into watching the bounce house.

Kids + art = fun

Eating Shabu shabu

Alex Boye.. I mean, Aaron Carson

Three heads are better than none

We are sunburned, but loving it

Free Ice cream

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

한국어 배우기

자! 우리 남편분 한글 사티커 사줘서 다시 한글 배울수있어!
완잔 행복해! 드디요 한글 브로그 할수있어.

응 ^^

Friday, June 22, 2012

A Parade of Pipkins

Daniel and I have been working on getting our house in order,we have purchased our first few pieces of furniture: projector, Billy book case (can you tell that we think reading and movies are very important?).

To help give us inspiration we have been attending the Parade of Homes. We found a lot of neat ideas:

books with hidden insides

personal gyms

secret rooms

lots of jar containers

cute owl pictures

reading nooks

indoor slides

telescopes

Monday, June 11, 2012

Exciting Things

I have been working on my internship up in Salt Lake and a couple of weeks ago was told that I would be writing a request for a grant. I walked into a meeting a little late and was informed "Rebecca will write the grant for the community capacity building." It sounded like a great idea.

Until I found out that it was due two weeks from the then and I didn't have any of the information for it and I would have to coordinate intensely with the KCU (Karen Community of Utah) board which is something I had yet to do.

But after 20 hours of work, it looks like it's coming along.

Cute Karen family that I am working with

Daniel and I might go to Korea to teach English for a year starting next January (2013).

Korean wooden sculpture

We are now the proud owners of a real, live (well, not technically living), Japanese rice cooker! We haven't used it yet though, because it needs a transformer.

With our newest addition

Proud father

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

The next frontier

On Saturday, May 19th, BYU hosted an Astro Fair in celebration of the upcoming Solar Eclipse. Daniel and I indulged ourselves by attending a Physics demonstration, movie in the planetarium, making rockets, and so forth.

Next goal: finish watching the Battlestar Galactica series.

Making Rockets

Watching the sky

Making them fly!

Monday, June 4, 2012

Lunchtime

adorable little owl

Daniel and I have been pretty busy lately, with school and work and internships and trips to Salt Lake. But a couple weeks ago we made one of our best purchases yet in our new marriage-- LUNCH BOXES. I have used mine everyday for lunch ever since, and Daniel uses his too, sometimes.

see no evil

hear no evil

speak no evil

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Wedding

Daniel and I were married on April 27, 2012.

It was a beautiful day, and even though the winds blew and the rains fell, they couldn't pull down our spirits. All of the fourteen O'Bryan siblings were in attendance and so it made for a great photo opt and lots of crazy fun interactions.