Baby Laurel 2008!

Casey and Victoria had a beautiful baby girl! We're going to go meet her as soon as we can! Congratulations!

Family photo of Victoria, Casey, Laurel, and dog Toby

Kevin's 28th Birthday 2008

For Kevin's 28th birthday, we went back to Mas again this year, but this year we kept it to just the two of us. First engaged birthday! Love this guy!!

Old man.

Post-mojito happiness

Happy birthday!!

Roger's 27th Birthday 2007

Pictures from Roger's birthday dinner!

Roger and Ashaki

Kevin and me

Jane, Jon, and Audra

Katiuscia and Josh

Donald's 24th Birthday 2007

A big group of us went to to Thai 99 to celebrate Donald's birthday. His younger sister Mary and brother Joe go to UVA undergrad so they joined us as well. What a lovely time.

Perfect group picture!

Sarah and Donald

Brian and me

Julie and Josh

Donald and his brother Joe

 

Donald's sister Mary and someone tired of pictures

Yummy!

Brady's 27th Birthday 2006

We celebrated Brady's birthday this weekend. His parents came to town, we had ice cream cake and lots of beer and wine. Happy birthday Brady!

Laughing at his cake

Cutting the cake with Brian, Emma, Emily, and his mom Jody

Brady's dad Bill, Brady and Nick

Brian, Kevin B and Brady eating cake

Emily, Nick, and Brian

Brady fell asleep at his own party. We took a picture to prove it.

Becky and Brandon's House-Warming 2006

Becky and Brandon had a house-warming party yesterday afternoon at their new place on Arlington Blvd. I talked with her about it beforehand and she invited a bunch of my friends that are here for the summer. She mostly knows them. Brandon is going to be a 1L this year, and he also invited a few of the new classmates he's met so far. Becky also surprised Cathy with a birthday cake! Her birthday is coming up. How nice!

Celebrating Cathy's birthday!

Jon, Becky, Cathy's cousin, Cathy

Sarah, Cathy's cousin's boyfriend, and Brandon

Donald and Josh... in love.

Cute little 1Ls

Blowing on dice during game portion of the evening

Jaime's 28th Birthday in Ogunquit, ME 2006

For Jaime's birthday, she wanted to go to the beach. She lives in Massachusetts so off we went to shore of Maine. Ogunquit is a a popular summer resort town in York County, Maine.


Jaime on her birthday!


Town of Ogunquit welcomes me


The beach and the extremely cold ocean


My first lobster roll ever


Gelato at Cafe Prego

Happy birthday, Jaime!

Cyndra's 23rd Birthday 2006

Last night we went out for Cyndra's birthday at Lime Leaf. Lots of delicious food, celebrating, and even a little birthday song singing.

Larry, Leah, and Cyndra

Me and Australian buddy Matt

Aaron, Tiffany, and Brian

Katy and Sarah

Audra's 23rd Birthday 2006

For Audra's birthday some of her friends came in town from California and we decided to meet them in DC and go dancing there. We went to a bunch of bars in Georgetown. General craziness. Ended with brunch at 4 am. Happy birthday, Audra!

Partying in Georgetown

My 27th Birthday 2006

Today Sarah introduced me to the "Birthday Fun Things Game." You attempt to do the number of fun things on your birthday as the number of years that you have lived. I've never played this bfore and I regret missing the easy years when I would only have had to come up with 5 or 8 fun things, but on the bright side, the older you get the more challenging but the more fun this game should get right? So here are my 27 fun things yesterday.

#1 Was being at Katy's beach house in South Carolina for my birthday with my two buddies Katy and Sarah. What a treat! Thank you Katy and family! #2 I slept late- a special treat after Law Review tryouts. #3 I had a bunch of birthday emails in my inbox when I woke up and pretty soon my family was calling to wish me a happy birthday.

Good morning beach! I'm 27 years old today!

#4 I had Peanut Butter Captain Crunch for breakfast, which is my favorite cereal since I was little.
#5 Playing with Wally
#6 Showered outside
#7 Relaxed in hammock
#8 Walk on beach!

Sarah walking on beach with me

#9 Taunting seagulls- Well, we didn't purposely taunt them. We had cheez-its, they understandably wanted cheez-its, and we wouldn't share (are those even safe for them?) so they swarmed us. This was terrifying but also kind of fun.

Seagulls' revenge

#10- We played the worlds' meanest and funniest game of Chinese Checkers while hanging out on the beach. We blocked every single triangle and no one could win. Never play this game with attorneys or law students. It's just not worth it.

Worlds' meanest and funniest Chinese Checkers game

We got ready to go out and took the first of many group pictures that evening. #11 I love group pictures!

Sarah, me, and Katy

#12- Dinner at  California Dream Restaurant in Charleston

#13- Being carded on my 27th birthday. Still look at least 7 years younger!

#14- This chocolaty peanut buttery drink

At this point, it started becoming a challenge to accumulate more fun things because it was getting late, so it was time to get creative. I've learned my lesson though, next time I play this game I'll have to pace myself morning, noon, and night.

#15- Pumped gas for the first time! I don't drive and I'm from New Jersey...

My kind friends obliged my quest for more fun items and we all arranged our hair into #16- side ponytails, like from the 80s. Since we were already there we took a #17- scenic drive through Charleston, and while heading back #18- I spotted five deer in the woods. That's always exciting for me.

When we returned to the beach house #19 we poured ourselves some wine and made all sorts of ridiculous toasts. #20- This inspired Sarah to coin the phrase, "that is the shit about which I am talking," to combine sass with good grammar.  We took more group pictures (see #11 above) but this time with side ponytails, Wally, and even our bottles of wine. [censored]

 

Wally is not amused by my shenanigans

#21- We ate many of Sarah's yummy homemade brownies. #22- We played "catch the M&Ms in your mouth." #23- We watched the Oscars (we taped it earlier in the week). #24- We played the card game Phase 10, which actually isn't bad.

At this point I was really digging deep, so I #25 did my famous but rarely seen booty dance. And yes, there is video. And yes, I am still wearing a side ponytail. And yes, it is censored. Now I've broken your heart, sorry. #26- I  then invented the booty-dance-moonwalk. The world will never be the same. Finally, to close out the night, #27, Sarah sang the "Golden Ticket in My Pants."

In conclusion, we had a lot of relaxing fun, we laughed a lot and hard, and the game really inspired us to sacrifice our dignity to entertain each other. Tomorrow we drive back to reality!

Katy's 28th Birthday 2006

We went out for burgers for Katy's birthday. Can you figure out where? There are clues. Haha.

Sarah and Katy

Audra and me

Brian and Kathy

Donald (for the record, I took one of Donald and me but we both came out bad)

Selina and Tiffany

Kathy, Red Robin, and me