Adventures with Lisa & Kevin

Jessie's boss purchased tickets for the Sunday 6/6 showing of "Sex & the City 2" at the famous Kabuki theater but ended up having to work so instead of letting the tickets go to waste she gave 'em to Jess to take out a couple of friends! Me and Carleigh were the lucky ones that got to join her :)

Me and Jess had lunch that afternoon at Ti Couz (where we went for dessert for my birthday...YUM!)


The Kabuki Theater is owned by Sundance Cinemas and is located in Japantown (as you probably could've guessed). It's a really great theater that shows independent films and happened to be showing SATC2. The tickets we had were for the third floor which is 21 and over and has a bar and you can eat/drink inside the theater (pretty cool!) I had only seen maybe a couple of episodes of the tv show and had never seen the first movie but I had been told that I didn't really need to see it to be able to understand the film...and luckily it was true. Overall I thought the film was really goofy and I'm not sure I care to see the first one, ha! I realized that this was the first movie I had seen in a theater in over a year (at least since living in SF), crazy huh?

On Saturday 6/5 Kevin got out of work early enough to come home and enjoy a delicious BBQ with me and Lola. On the menu: Korean-style ribs, red quinoa and kale...YUM!

Lola sure enjoyed the BBQ experience (as you can tell by the photos):

A few weeks ago me, Lola and Jessie had some fun girl time. We started out at the dog park (one of Lola's favorites: McKinley Square Park) and as we were leaving the neighborhood me and Jess spotted something off the side of the road and decided to take a closer look. Turns out it was an art installation by one of the local high schools.




We then hung out at our place that night, just goofin' around and spending some quality time together :)

Today marks the one year anniversary from when I started this blog. I'm so happy to see that I've actually been able to keep up with it! This has been such a great idea (if I do say so myself, haha!) to keep family and friends updated with what we're doing and I know it's also become a great online scrapbook so that we can look back and remember all of the fun things we've done with ourselves up here.

June 19th will be my one year anniversary of living here in SF (Kevin's is July 4th) and all I can say is that this has been one of the best decisions we could have made for ourselves.

Here's to many more blog posts! :)

I have some exciting news to share about an amazing opportunity that just recently landed in my lap! On Monday I am going to be starting my Master's of Education in Teaching program through the university I work for...for FREE!!!

I knew that I would one day want to pursue my MAE degree, but never thought that it would happen anytime in the immediate future--mostly because of the cost. Being a staff member at Alliant, I am able to take one course per term for FREE and be able to apply them towards a degree. Amazing!! I feel so fortunate to have gotten this job that enabled us to move here to SF and now it's enabling me to pursue a degree in higher education which will be extremely beneficial when I become a teacher (not only because of the things I will learn and be able to apply to the classroom, but because teachers are paid on a scale depending on the number of years you've taught and on the number of post-baccalaureate units, so with my MAE degree I'll be automatically starting at a higher pay scale).

The program is all online, so it'll be convenient for me and my work schedule. My supervisor is extremely supportive of my desire to continue my education through Alliant and I appreciate this opportunity so much! I'm a bit nervous to start school again (I didn't think I'd have to do any homework for some time, but next week I hit the books again!) but I know I'll do great.

Yesterday I worked at our campus' commencement ceremony which was held at Fort Mason (a gorgeous venue for a graduation!) and I couldn't help imagining myself walking across the stage in a couple of years getting "hooded" with my MAE hood, and receiving my hard-earned MAE degree!

I'm really excited to start this new journey...wish me luck! :)

I had heard about Carnaval before we moved up here from Jessie who had been before and raved about it, so I was excited when the time had come for SF Carnaval weekend! Jessie was out of town at a yoga retreat in Joshua Tree (her graduation gift to herself!) and Kevin was busy working so I was afraid I might not go because I didn't want to go alone. But a friend who I've met through the blogging world, Elisse from Vancouver, Canada, e-mailed me a few weeks prior letting me know that she and her friend Cindy would be in SF that weekend and wanted to check out the festivities!

On Sat. 5/22 Jessie and I were invited to brunch at our friends Carleigh & Scott's place. It was Lola's lucky day because she was invited along as well! She and Bailey spent no time getting reacquainted and ran through their apartment the entire time we were there! Thanks so much Carleigh for the amazing brunch!


The next day, Sun. 6/23, was a very sad day indeed...it was the series finale of the tv show LOST! Kevin and I have been watching the show religiously since season 2 (we used to watch it at my mom's house every week with my mom and our friend Kim and we even got two of my mom's exchange students hooked on it!) Since living in SF we've joined Jessie's LOST fan group and have really enjoyed our weekly get togethers. Last year we had a dress-up day where everyone came dressed up as their favorite LOST character. I would've loved to have come dressed as Desmond as he's my absolute favorite character, but I didn't have enough time/money to make it look good. So for that party I dressed up as Ana Lucia who I think I most resemble. So for the series finale Jessie wanted to host another themed dress-up party but didn't want to repeat the same character theme--so this time it was funeral-themed! Everyone came dressed in their best funeral get-up to mourn the loss of our favorite show. Jessie was extremely cute in her outfit (as always!) and since I didn't have any cute black clothes, I just wore a simple black top and smeared my mascara and eye liner to make it look like I had been crying!

A photo shoot with Jessie's cat Mars before the show...





With Kevin's new work/school schedule, we don't get to see each other too often :( He works 5 days a week, generally 6:30-3:30 (including every Saturday and Sunday). Then when he's in school, he has class from 4:30-10:30 each night Monday through Friday! For a few weeks he's got a break before his summer class begins, so it's been really nice having him home at night so we can actually enjoy dinner together. But even with that, it feels like we never have any actual daylight hours to hang out and go places like we used to basically every weekend. Last Mon. 5/24 I went to work in the afternoon so we had an entire morning together, so we took full advantage of it and had a little day trip! We drove out to Mount Davidson which is the highest point in the city of SF and it's a gorgeous hike.



On the top of Mt. Davidson there is a HUGE white cross which is on property not owned by the city. I had always figured it was just a religious group's doing, but the plaque next to it stated that it is there in memory of the 1.5 million people killed during the Armenian genocide.