carly & bryce

welp, i'm gettin' a new brother this saturday.

he's almost as fun as me.

almost.

be back next week after the weddin'!

oh and, yes, the rumors are true. i will be giving a speech.

it will be epic.

that is all.

biker chicks

dogs vs. humans

brian once had a dog named alex.

i once dated a boy named alex.

brian decided that because of this, our stories can get a bit confusing.

obviously.

so he drew a nice little diagram to help clear up the difference.

bride's bouquet and a life lesson.

nothing beats feelings of pure, hard-earned accomplishment.

nothing.

kate & nick

july 23rd, 2011

these two lovebirds got married

and there was a party.

the end.

(pictures taken by myself and multiple other people)

shop talk

brian: "okay so i had this idea. where you play quidditch, in a POOL. and you release a GOLDFISH as the golden snitch!"

roy: "you know people actually play quidditch, right?"

brian: "yeah but those guys are dorks."

(......THOSE guys are dorks?)

dear beth

dear beth,

i've always sorta been against silk garment bottoms, on account of i didn't think i would like them very much. but since you told me you like the silkies the best, i decided to give them a try.

it's like my bum and thighs are sleepin on silk sheets! thanks thanks thanks.

xoxo.

communication problems

touch screen + auto-correct = issues

belief & technique for modern prose

BELIEF & TECHNIQUE FOR MODERN PROSE
List of Essentials

-Jack Kerouac

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time

15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

As ever,

Jack [Kerouac]

coming soon...

birthday double dutch fest 2011

more pictures on the way in the near, near future.

don't worry, people.

from the mouth of joe:

joe: "jen, do you have crazy duck chicken throw on your phone?"

liz: "he means angry birds."

joe: "i'm going to invent a butter glue stick."

me: "so then what's the difference between karate and taekwondo?"

joe: "well with one you go 'hieYA!' and with the other you go 'ayyiiii!"

--(and anytime i'm stressed about anything)--

joe: "hairflip, remember jen? it's a hairflip."

"let's check tsenny's ears"

kyle doing magic tricks with tashya last summer.

feeling a little bit nostalgic and missing my favorite little 4 year old and my friend.

please watch tash closely when she finds his coin this last time--- priceless:

jrc 2010 photo overload

i finally got around to buying a new charger for my camera battery. while my trusty iphone has been super bomb at documenting my life for the past 10 months, i've missed my camera. i haven't turned that thing on in forever, and upon doing so, i found allll these little gems from the ranch last summer. mostly pictures of tashya and emilee. and some pretty adorable videos of tash with her ladybug friend whom she named "carl." (totally appropriate name for a ladybug.)

please enjoy this photo feast of camp last year. and try not to die at how darling (and sassy) these girls are.

---one afternoon i was upstairs changing and walked out of my room to find this: tashya wearing kyle's hat and teaching him about princess jewelry.---

--at the end of family camp--

tashya and carl ♥

me: "is that carl your best friend?"

tashya: "no."

me: "who's your best friend?"

tashya: "Sam."

(sam is featured above in the red bandanna, shirt and apron.)

♥

this is what i have to put up with.

(for my mother: green is me, white is diona)

um... chore wars?

i left work for ten minutes. TEN MINUTES, people. (diet coke run. necessary.)

and in that short window of time, the boys stumbledupon a new game.

game? can you even call it a game?

Chore Wars.

this should probably be the part where i explain to you what Chore Wars is.

except i stopped listening to the boys trying to explain it to me and instead wrote down everything they said in a span of five minutes of playing their game.

AHEM. i mean, adventure.

brian: "rahboo, you are now an apprentice."
ryne: "wait, why am i a hunter now?"
brian: "rahboo... rahboo..."
ryne: "how do we determine who is a paladin and who is a shaman?"
brian: "k the newest adventures... intelligence, HA."
ryne: "i don't see it!"
brian: "...treasure? ...wandering monsters. haha. hahaha."

roy: "what's the adventure? i'm an impatient person."

brian: "go my brethren! oh, crap. i didn't specify the treasure."
roy: "i'm confused!"
brian: "jenny are you joining us in our quest? WHAT! RAHBOO, you did NOT finish that!"
ryne: "i'm killing a monster right now."
roy: "i'm confused!"
brian: "it said that you claimed it, you have it."
ryne: "wait! why did you get it? brian! brian! you didn't get it."
brian: "yes but rahboo claimed it."
roy: "i'm confused!"
brian: "you are NOT a paladin that's a DEAD person!"
roy: "i DON'T WANT TO BE A SHAMAN."
ryne: "rahboo is a liar."
brian: "YOU'RE THE LIAR."
roy: "i'm a henchman now!"
roy: "i have the wand of Sparty and two gold pieces! ...can I use the wand of Sparty?" (Sparty is our boss, by the way.)
roy: "kiss the snake??"
brian: "nooo you have to CHARM the snake."
roy: "that's DISGUSTING brian!"
brian: "ryne might do it."
ryne: "THE QUEST ISN'T OVER, PEOPLE."

what the heck.

"jenny this is OUR GAME. either JOIN US.... or DON'T."

(next time-- ryne: "ohmyGOSHbrian. have you ever seen PurePWNage?")