i rode yesterday. for almost 3 hours.

it was, in a word... abysmal. i can't remember the last time i had a ride that slow. or the last time i bonked that hard.

i have a long way to go to get back to where i was. but i'll get there.

thanks be to fullmer for dealing with my slowness for the whole ride.

on a different happy note, i spent my afternoon after my ride making a funny little wedding website... go visit it and tell me how absolutely cheesy it is, ahaha. also i finished up our invites. wonnnderful!

i don't have a picture for today, sadly. perhaps later. but good things all around!

a great new year's celebration with great people. everyone was super-photogenic, but alycin was just EXTRA photogenic :)

























good year ahead.

happy new year.

should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind
should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old lang syne
for auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
and surely you'll buy your pint cup
and surely I'll buy mine,
and we'll take a cup o' kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.



happy new year to all my friends, near and far.

better than christmas... is the day my parents put up their tree!!



(mom opened the good wine!)


(tinsel master)






warm and fuzzies!

it's the return of the emily.... such a wonderful incredible gal, inside and out, and someone whom i'm proud to count among my nearest and dearest.


look for her name in lights... this gal's gonna be famous some day.

wonderful but chilly time with adam and shannan!

cold shoot. warm pictures!

brave new world...

a little something else for today...
some goodness from jared's birthday recording time:

happiest of happy?

i had the pleasure of helping caroline and kristen prepare clayton's surprise birthday party! i dont even know if i did anything at the party but run around with a camera and document. it really was a super happy event. more to come, complete with baby teddy freddy absolutely STEALING the show with his cuteness...



















srsly... so many more happy photos to come. i grinned ear to ear looking at all of them.
here's to a many more for clayton!