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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIAN!!!!!!!! oh my goodness....30!!??!?!?!...
hooooo. old man now. don't forget fo stretch before you go in da water, k? =)

i am so grateful that after too many years, i reconnected with my good friend brian. we ate lunch at gina's (mini chicken...nuf said about that), then went to ross' with joanne. after about 30 minutes at ross', brian called me and said, "i'm going to starbucks across the street..." what a great guy to put up with us two shopping crazed women. i don't know many guys other than my james that would *voluntarily* go to ross' with me and jo. after spending the next hour and a half shopping, we picked up brian across the street, then james from work, and the rest of the dwyers joined us for dinner at ward bucca de beppo's. the night ended with hanging out at... where else but ward starbucks? good times. sorry i don't have pics (see brian's blog).

brian, i appreciate you.
you love Jesus. you love others. it is evident in all that you do and say. God bless you this coming year my big brother.

my friend is so smart

amber, you are da bestest est est esssstttt. i love you and miss you!!!!!!! =)

home church

we (finally) decided on faith christian fellowship as our home church. it's good to go "home".

we will be helping out with 'the outlet' (jr high/high school) group lead by the tamaoka's. this past week, there were 40+ students there! i was reminded of the good old days with jon and amy. the ministry room adjacent to the office looks a little different, but smells really bad...like toe jams. i'm not kidding; according to steph, it stinks because the boy's play soccer (indoors) there.

visit from the dwyers

tonight james and i went to kanawai park with the dwyers. they are visiting hawaii before they move to mexico next month. we bbq'd boneless rib-eyes and had rice and corn. mmmmmm. the boys played on the playground. then we went back to our place and had bubbie's mochi ice cream and hung out.

i also found ally (loveless) through jo's myspace account. ally was one of my best friends in high school.

tomorrow jo and i are going to the swap meet so we can go SHOPPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

i am running on 3 hours of sleep after working an almost 13 hour shift last night.... it's worth it though to hang out with friends you haven't seen for forever.