birthday cakes

yesterday was my 22nd birthday. it's funny because i usually dreaaaaaad my birthdays, but something about the 22nd birthdays that makes everyone super stoked.

overall, it was a fantastic birthday. i am lucky to have such great friends and family. it's a frakin' great time to be alive.

{sister cakes}

{parent cake}

{bestfriend cake...or tart}

pre thanksgiving dinner

So, my sister and the kids flew over from San Diego to spend some quality time with the fam this past weekend. We had a huge dinner the night before thanksgiving. it was so much fun and i really missed my sisters. overall, it was a really good weekend of thanks and giving: a lot of my friends came back from their uni's, i got to see a lot of my relatives and ate a lot of food. perfect set up, yeah? i thought so...


{Doug, Sara, Pappi, me, Alexis}

{such a great fam}

{take one}

{take two}

Banabigail

{banabigail's muse}

i've been meaning to put these pics up for awhile now. so basically the story is that the last night i was in neuchy neuch, me and my friends pulled an all-nighter and went out and had crazy fun times. i borrowed this greenish-yellow dress from my friend isabelle and my friend ben commented that i looked like a banana (ummm...RUDE). the next day, we went and watched some of the world cup and i was kind of depressed because, not only did england lose against germany, i was going back home to salt lake city. anyways, to be funny, my friend, alex, bought a banana and put lipstick and drew a dress on the banana and named it "banana-abby" i changed is to "banabigail" because it sounds better. haha. so they went around neuch and took pictures of banabigail in her daily life. here is some photos:

{banabigail supports England}

{alex is gonna miss banabigail}

{waiting at the bus stop}

{she didn't want any icecream--too depressed}

{sunbathing}

{just chillin' in nature}

{having a beer at the world cup game}

{regis eating banabigail}

{olivia wanted a bite}

{banabigail splat}

{just keep swimmin'}

Photos by the lovely

Regis

Matthey.

Raclettelicious

I've been staying here in Neuchatel with my very very good friend, Alex. he's been so kind to me and not too annoyed with me [i forgot to lock the doors to the apartment a couple of times...my bad!]. anyways, he came back from work last night and i told him that we were going to do something fabulous. we got dressed up and went out for dinner at this great little restaurant [the tavern?]. we ate Raclette, had a bottle of white wine and laughed the night away. it was a perfect night.

{balla walrus}

{polka-dotted alien}

{i'm gonna miss this boy}

{urban man}

{sex and the city?}