Perfectly Pipkin

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

the Dream of the 90's

Daniel, Anna, Louis, Mom and I traveled to Vancouver/Portland this past weekend. All summer long I have been living off the fact that we would be able to go on a vacation before school started. We visited with Josh and Katie, as well as some cousins and a friend of mine. It was great fun.

I got to carry Vivienne. Check out that baby.

We went on a hike up to the top of this waterfall. It's called Multnomah falls. Last time we went was a few (like 6) years ago. My mom kept saying it would take us all day. We were to the top and back in 45 minutes.

Daniel was squishing my head previous to this snapshot.

This is how I support my husband.

We went to a rose garden. Left to right, back: Hunter, Becca, Daniel, Louis; front: Mama, Anna, McKay, Katie, Vivienne (the baby)

Daniel has a cutie face

Daniel at the rose garden with some man in a hat.

Sushi is delicious. So delicious that Daniel has it conveyed directly into his mouth.

I just use my chopsticks.

At Powell's bookstore, it's a massive place and as you can see, Daniel is awe struck. I happened upon some great Korean kids books here for pretty cheap, so Daniel and I can brush up on our Korean!

I thought this was priceless.

This is a group text that my mom attempted to send to me. Anna was on a paddle boat and had lent my mom her phone and during that time I had tried to call. I guess this explains why no one ever picked up, I particularly like the second recipient in this group text.

Friday, August 3, 2012

Celebration

Proud of my Olympic rings

rubber band arhcery

foam basketball shotput

In celebration of the London Olympics, we hosted a bit of Office Olympics. Every agent selected a country, then participated in one of three sporting events, and now the scores are being tallied.

I am also working with the Karen in Salt Lake still and met with some great families recently.

Daniel and I have had a lot of fun -- visiting Salt Lake, stopping by IKEA, driving to the moon, and so much more.

Friday, July 20, 2012

Playing Around

Don't let my appearance deceive you, I'm really only 8 years old on the inside. Which is why I was so excited and surprised by the 8-bit art displays on campus and the yoda plush pillow in Target. If they made Star Wars bedsheets in King size, Daniel would have seriously purchased them.

I wanted to bring her home with me

Taller than Daniel!

petting the wildlife

Monday, July 16, 2012

Fortunate Circumstances

7-11 Man

Tradition, that's what 7-11 free slurpie day is all about. I had almost completely forgotten about it, however, until my coworker came into work and announced it. So I hoped on my bike and headed down to get my free piece of tradition (along with 711 other people who were all standing outside the joint.)

how fortunate

Thursday Daniel and I decided to act cool and take public transportation up to the U of U where we had a great lunch with his sister, Sarah. I felt super lucky when I got a fortune cookie that announced I would be "showered with luck" the next day. Little did I know that I should be careful what I wished for.

Pipkins believe in safety

public transit is hot

Friday the 13th was a lucky day--- bad luck. It was raining on my way home from work and as I was on the last leg of the journey, I got hit by a car while I was crossing the street. Miraculously I was okay, not even a scratch or bruise or anything. My bike, on the other hand, did not come out with such good results.

Thankfully the man who hit me was very responsible, and so hopefully his insurance will pay for the damages that were accrued on my bike. Also, this helpful officer helped me take my bike home.

Then on Sunday we got to go visit some of Daniel's mission friends as we went to his mission president's home coming.

Monday, July 9, 2012

Birthday Bash

Daniel turned 22 on Sunday and in celebration we invited some of his mission buddies over for pizza on Saturday night. Because we all know, that's the favorite of every Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. They then went to the Nickelcade and proceeded to dominate on the TMNT video game.

On Sunday, I finally got to give Daniel the lab coat I have been working on. This was my first, and probably last, attempt at embroidery. Daniel and Scott made some origami and then Daniel had a lot of fun icing his Tetris birthday cake.

Also, check out this sweet Sweddish Fiddle man that I found while doing the Provo Art Chase.

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.