Jeff's Wedding Day 1

I can't believe how many Burches are at this wedding! Here are some phone photos. I have more but it is already so late! One memorable part of the day:
Jeffs, "I'm so glad you're all here"
Sarah, "I just wish it were under different circumstances"

Photos from my phone

Some photos from my phone

1. Here's the Lego expo at Tyson's Corner. If you look carefully at the people in yellow in the center you will see that they are building a bigger-than-life-size Yoda.

2. I went to two birthday parties yesterday. The first was at school for a friend of mine who teaches in the art department. The art people are so much cooler than the music people. I think this is why I generally hang out with them instead of the music fac. I thought I took a better picture of the party but it looks like I only got Stephanie and Kristi.

Mardi Gras #3

Festivities and the King Cake Monkey Baby

Mardi Gras #2

I took all of these photos with my new phone and I'm still learning how to adjust the brightness and resolution.
1. K-Gerg with what appears to be a nice glass of metamucil...or a nice non-alcoholic hurricane so she could drive to her soccer match
2. Yummy Potato wedges
3. Ryan and Cheryl
Most of these photos were taken early when the crowd was thin - I think we had over ten, which is a decent size for my apartment (its no Thanksgiving crowd, that's for sure).

Mardi Gras #1

I decided to have a themed party every month and collectively call them the "Farewell Parties" to countdown to the date that I move or don't move from Shepherdstown. Last month's party was a Mexican Fiesta, complete with Mexican-style rice, Tlalpeno soup, chimichangas, black bean cakes, and I forget what kind of drink Heather made. There was also plenty of Latin music, although most of it came from Puerto Rico and not Mexico.
This month's party was a Mardi Gras celebration with gumbo, jambalaya, apple cookies (we opted out of beignets), battered boardwalk wedges, hurricanes, and a king cake. There was plenty of dixieland, brass band, and zydeco music.

Here we have my king cake - I used a monkey instead of a baby because I couldn't find a baby; Heather's gumbo; my jambalaya

Baking

For Cheryl's birthday (which was in November) I decided to bake a bread or bread-like-product every month. So far I've made some nice things and meant to take photos of them but didn't; November was Challah, December was banana muffins, January was rustic olive rosemary bread, and this month I made orange pumpkin cloverleafs. Here's a photo of them. I'll try to take photos of the others to come...

More photos soon - - - there's a Mardi Gras party at my house this weekend!