Kyrgyz and Gypsy Weddings

Over Facebook the other day, my friend Megan and I chatted about an adventure to Central Asia. She is currently in the Peace Corp in Kyrgyzstan, which makes her awesome. I told her I can't locate it on a map, spell it, or pronounce it, and she told me it was the vacation destination I always dreamed of. LOL

Anyways, I then told her to be involved in a Eastern European gypsy wedding like I had seen on the this new show on TLC called "My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding".... then she told me she's not in Eastern Europe...

So I asked her about Kyrgyz food and she told me to google a few items.... they are still on the to make list. But in the mean time I thought I should share a clip from this crazy show below.... Also below is a link to Megan's blog about living in central Asia and being in the peace corps. It is a great read so check it out!

Megan in Kyrgyz

Happy Easter!!

All of our eggs on the left... my favorite tie-dye eggs on the right!

 I hope everyone had a relaxing Easter! No work, lots of food, and friends & family were my day today! I cooked up a storm and my husband and I had some of our friends over for an Easter dinner, wine, and charades (my favorite pastime....ever). I had so much fun chatting with friends and eating wayyyyy too much food. I even dyed Easter eggs and really brought out my 6 year old self -still as fun as ever though! I have a few pictures of mine and TJ's Easter eggs, my flowers that I bought at Safeway and turned into a bouquet, and goody tray I put together. I am sure there will be a hard boiled egg recipe soon, there is really no way around it. Maybe some left over ham recipe, you never know. Well actually,  now you do.

Some beautiful dahlias and a mystery flower I liked. If you know, tell me!!!

Mini eggs! In Canada though, mini eggs are here year round, so no big deal. Sorry my American amigos :)

A Friendly Reminder

You know how sometimes you could swear you and your best friend were meant to be best friends? When I look at this picture from my wedding, I think it is pretty obvious.

                                              

 You also know how when you are little, you and your best friend wish you could really be sisters or at least related? Well, I am going back to Fairbanks, for maybe the last time, to watch that happen. My best friend, since we were 9, is getting married to my second cousin, Pete. I am so excited I could literally scream. Tara has always been my best friend. She is obviously beautiful, talented, smart, and shares my amazing sense of humor :) We still laugh about things that happened when we would camp out in her yard in 5th grade, or stuff we would chat about on MSN messenger in middle school (blast from the past right?). I know you are supposed to say your husband is your best friend, and TJ is also my best friend! But I am really going to talk to TJ about how hot Robert Pattinson is? Probably not.  

A lot of people say that when they don't talk to their friends for a while, they always pick up right where they left off and everything is the same. I don't think that it true. I think things always change, and it is never quite the same with most of your friends. Well this one is no different. Sometimes we don't talk for a while, and obviously things in your life will change. After a few weeks I don't know some of the people she is talking about, and she doesn't know how my work is going. But the one thing that will never change is how much I love her, and no amount of time will change that. Despite being 3,000 miles apart she is always there for me. And I am so excited to be there for her this weekend.

Below is a link to Tara and her older sister, Michelle's, website for their super cute business idea. She sent TJ and myself a sign after we got married (above), and it is perfect. Check it out! I promise you will see something you like :)

Wanderlust and Rust

Take #1, Oscar likes the signs too!