Next! Shabbat Dinner

Recently we hosted a Birthright NEXT! Shabbat Dinner!   What fun we had!   Jaime and I both tried making some new dishes, that all turned out rather yummy!   The menu was: 

Apps:   Apple & Brown Sugar Baked Brie along with spiced Apple Cidar

Dinner:  Mushroom Barley Stew & Homemade Manicotti served with NW Wines

Dessert: Double Chocolate Mouse Cake served with Port

It was a quite a yummy fest!   The cake had many steps, but I guess they were all needed since it tasted so good in the end.   

Group Pictures Are Up

Hello Sachlav!

I know I have let you all down,--I'm sorry!  Since coming from from the Middle East, life has gotten busy, but in a good way!   My new job at the photo studio is going great, but also keeping me real busy.  Once figured out HOW we wanted to do things, we have been busy every since!

And then there were the Jewish High Holy Days!  WOW!   Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur were filled with many new & old faces.  I hope this New Year is filled with sweetness and wonderful-ness for all of you!

I made an album on Picasa ONLY for Group Photos.  The album can be found HERE.   I realize I don't have as much time as I had hoped to edit all the photos, so instead of editing everything, I am going to put them up as is and if you WANT anything edited, just let me know and I will do it!  I will continue over the next week to put photos up from the rest of our wonderful adventure together.

Sach-LOVE to Bus 337!

Underwater!

Yesterday Jaime and I developed our underwater cameras from the Middle East. The photos are fun and blurry in a film quality kind of way! Now I have no reason to not organize all of my Middle East photos---soon, I promise!

Pillowcases

Yesterday Steve & Lynn came over for dinner. They brought us a gift in honor of our first anniversary--- hand knit pillowcases! I think they are just beautiful! The pattern has hearts interwoven throughout. I think handmade gifts are by far my most favorite, I mean who wouldn't love art like this! I just had to share photos of the pillowcases, because I love them.

Our One Year Anniversary!

Can you believe it's been a year already? We've been married for a whole year! Our first year of marriage has been filled with lots of love, new adventures and FUN! Being married ROCKS!

For our first year anniversary we went back to where it all started----- SKAMANIA LODGE! Rabbi Brad had us write letters to each other before our wedding and they were given back to us to read for the first time on our anniversary---we choose to read them on the exact site we said our vows. We had a feast of a dinner (just like at the actual wedding!) They served us the same amazing roasted vegetable torta and the same buttery Chardonnay, everything was wonderful! The only problem was there was WAY to much to eat!

After dinner we came home and had a slice of cake from our wedding --- still moist and incredible! And we opened a bottle of champagne (a gift from Steve & Lynn) and watched our wedding video. It was a great feeling, watching our wedding video and thinking to myself how amazing that day was, but even more important how it was just the START of this incredible journey Jaime and I are taking together.

Thank you to everyone who made our wedding so incredible. And a continued thank you to everyone who wished us a happy anniversary! It was just the first of many wonderful anniversaries to come!

Photo Requests!

I know many of you have asked for photos from The Middle East Adventure!

Well don't think I have forgotten--but the photos are taking longer then expected. I am still working on them, so check back soon!

Until then, check my facebook profile---I posted some of the photos Jaime took on his camera!

Home At Last

Last night around 11:30 PM we arrived safely home. It was a wonderful feeling to come home. The trip was filled with many adventures, but Jaime and I both learned how much we love where we live.

I'm sorry I was unable to blog while I was away. Israel was far to busy to find time to get on a computer and Jordan & Egypt were just a different trip then anticipated. I did however keep a handwritten blog (thank you Jordyn for the beautiful travel Journal), so I will try to find time to try that up soon.Over the next few days I will put up photos---so check the photo album pages on picasa.

I am so happy to be home. Thank you to James & Morgan for the airport rides. Jen, Sasha & Nick for keeping the house safe. And Steve and Lynn for caring for our bunnies while we were gone.