Well hello there! Is it really February 15th already? It would appear so! Well, I have had a couple of very busy weeks, which is the reason for the lack of blogs. Last week we had a 3-day training at work that I pretty much planned soup to nuts. It was a lot of work with many prep sessions, agenda revisions, and contingency plans. The latter because, as you may have heard, New York City was walloped with a massive snowstorm on Wednesday, the exact day that our training was scheduled to start with sales folks arriving from the far-flung reaches of Vegas, Chicago, and Connecticut.
We were supposed to kick off at noon on Wednesday and, miraculously, all but one of our sales reps - ironically, the one from Connecticut - arrived by 2pm. Unfortunately, our presenters did not fair so well and we were only able to have one session on Wednesday. With almost everyone else working from home, our team managed to have 12 people in the office for 2.5 hours of training on Wednesday. We are so hardcore.
The rest of the week was just busy and included 2 nights of free drinks with the team. I'm still trying to recover from the over-eating and pursuant sense of fat-ness, but that's ok.
And now, Taylor and I are seated squarely on our couch watching reruns of scrubs becasue, blessedly, we have the day off today! Plenty of time to recouperaet from the long week :)
So that pretty much covers the Snow and Work portions of this title. The last is travels, which was just a reminder to myself to update you all in blogland about our travel schedule.
This will be a really short week because Taylor and I have taken off Friday to go to Buffalo and watch Taylor's sister's last conference swim meet before she graduates college.
Two weeks later, we aren't the ones doing the travelling, but I think it warrants mentioning nonetheless. When Taylor was in Indonesia, he encouraged one of the teachers at his school to apply for a sort of reverse Fulbright to the United States. She applied and actually won the scholarship and has been studying new Cincinnati at Western Kentucky University since January. This is big because she had never even been off the Indonesian Island she was born on until this year.
We really wanted to see her while she's in the U.S. but instead of buying two tickets to visit her in Cincinnati (sorry, Lepolts), we decided she probably wants to see New York anyway, so we would just buy her a ticket to come to New York City. So on March 6, Taylor's friend Tutik is coming to stay with us and see New York City for the first time. She is really, really excited to come, it's really cute!
A couple of weeks later, Taylor is going on a business trip to Toronto, so I'll have to fend for myself. I think I can handle it though! :) And then hopefully one weekend in March or April, we're going to go visit my grandparents near Orlando, Florida. The dates depend on on when we can get cheap tickets, so fingers crossed!
Alright, sorry this is a really boring blog, my apologies!
Monday, February 15, 2010
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
A Belated Volunteering Story...
Last Monday, Taylor and I had a really interesting volunteering experience that I've been meaning to write about. We volunteered for the Department of Homeless Services’ (DHS) annual street survey, called the HOPE Street Survey, on January 25, 2010, from 10:30 PM – 4:00 AM. The HOPE survey is basically a point-in-time estimate of the unsheltered homeless population in New York City.
The way it works is, 3,000 New Yorkers (and folks from outside New York, I know some kids came from Princeton) show up at 10:30pm on the night of the survey at one of several "hub" around the city. We went through about 45 minutes of training for the night. The basic setup is that they divide New York City into thousands of small areas and then assign 4-5 volunteers to survey 1-2 areas each. Each group has to walk every sidewalk in their assigned several-block area, including both sides of every street and any parks or other public areas. We are given a short survey which basically is intended to find out if the person is homeless, and we have to ask that survey of EVERY person we see. That includes someone in a North Face jacket walking a poodle, a man getting out of a Mercedes after a long night at the office, and of course any actual homeless folks. The reason we have to talk to everyone is that they want to eliminate any volunteer bias about who may or may not be homeless.
We were actually assigned to a large group (9 people) and went up to the West Harlem area around 125th Street. Basically we walked the street in that area and didn't see a soul. Then we were also assigned to the 125th Street subway stops of the 1 and the A,B,C,D trains, which was really interesting. We interviewed some homeless people as well as some obviously NOT homeless people.
I actually had the most robust experience of our group when I talked to a really nice homeless man on the subway. He was really sweet and answered all of my questions. At the end of our conversation, I asked him if he would like to receive shelter for the night. It wasn't a very cold night, so we didn't expect many people to accept the offer. He was funny, his answer was “No, thanks, I have some things I have to finish up,” which was clearly not true since he was just standing on the subway platform with two suitcases not going anywhere. But he was very nice and, at least for that night, not too cold.
The other interesting thing about the survey is that they actually place decoys around the city to ensure that the teams of volunteers do in fact talk to everyone they see. They plant decoy homeless individuals on some of the streets, parks, and subways that volunteers will survey. The researchers who analyze the survey then adjust its total estimate of the homeless in New York based on the percentage missed. New York is the only U.S. city that ensures the accuracy of its count through this technique. Our area actually had two decoys and I’m proud to say we found them both!
HOPE 2009 found the number of individuals living on New York City streets down by 47 percent since 2005, and a 30 percent decline from the 2008 survey. We’re still awaiting the results of 2010, but it was really fun either way!
The way it works is, 3,000 New Yorkers (and folks from outside New York, I know some kids came from Princeton) show up at 10:30pm on the night of the survey at one of several "hub" around the city. We went through about 45 minutes of training for the night. The basic setup is that they divide New York City into thousands of small areas and then assign 4-5 volunteers to survey 1-2 areas each. Each group has to walk every sidewalk in their assigned several-block area, including both sides of every street and any parks or other public areas. We are given a short survey which basically is intended to find out if the person is homeless, and we have to ask that survey of EVERY person we see. That includes someone in a North Face jacket walking a poodle, a man getting out of a Mercedes after a long night at the office, and of course any actual homeless folks. The reason we have to talk to everyone is that they want to eliminate any volunteer bias about who may or may not be homeless.
We were actually assigned to a large group (9 people) and went up to the West Harlem area around 125th Street. Basically we walked the street in that area and didn't see a soul. Then we were also assigned to the 125th Street subway stops of the 1 and the A,B,C,D trains, which was really interesting. We interviewed some homeless people as well as some obviously NOT homeless people.
I actually had the most robust experience of our group when I talked to a really nice homeless man on the subway. He was really sweet and answered all of my questions. At the end of our conversation, I asked him if he would like to receive shelter for the night. It wasn't a very cold night, so we didn't expect many people to accept the offer. He was funny, his answer was “No, thanks, I have some things I have to finish up,” which was clearly not true since he was just standing on the subway platform with two suitcases not going anywhere. But he was very nice and, at least for that night, not too cold.
The other interesting thing about the survey is that they actually place decoys around the city to ensure that the teams of volunteers do in fact talk to everyone they see. They plant decoy homeless individuals on some of the streets, parks, and subways that volunteers will survey. The researchers who analyze the survey then adjust its total estimate of the homeless in New York based on the percentage missed. New York is the only U.S. city that ensures the accuracy of its count through this technique. Our area actually had two decoys and I’m proud to say we found them both!
HOPE 2009 found the number of individuals living on New York City streets down by 47 percent since 2005, and a 30 percent decline from the 2008 survey. We’re still awaiting the results of 2010, but it was really fun either way!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
First half-marathon of 2010!
Crossing the finish line, action shot!
Official finisher photo, looking nice!
The photos are watermarked because I cheated and stole them with Snagit.
We aren't even one month in to 2010 and Taylor and I are already well on our way to one of our goals for the year! This past Sunday we ran the Manhattan Half Marathon, part of the New York Road Runners Half Marathon Grand Prix. Basically, they sponsor a half marathon in each borough every year.
This one really snuck up on us since the only training that I have done for the best few months has been to expand my stomach! Our training basically consisted of two training runs the two weekends leading up to the race. We did 7 miles on January 10 and 10 miles on January 18 and that was it!
I have to say, though, the race wasn't really that bad. For starters, the start line was less than 2 miles from our apartment. This is in contrast to the Brooklyn Half Marathon where we'll have to travel about an hour and a half BEFORE the 8:00am start! Second, the weather was about perfect for a half marathon. It was about 40 degrees and cloudy but not raining (well, until the very end). It could have been a little warmer, but it worked for us.
We woke up at around 6:45am, ate some breakfast and hopped in a cab to the race. When we got there, we dropped off our bags and headed to the start line to do some stretching before the start. Evidently I was faster in a former life because we were in corral 3, which was pretty close to the front. Turns out we probably should have been a little further back because once the race started people were passing us left and right! We were running at about a 9minute 45second pace. It's true, that is much slower than I have been at other times, but we were just trying to set a very achievable goal to beat next time (haha).
The race consisted of two full loops of Central Park followed by another mile of the third loop to come in at 13.1 miles. Central Park has MANY hills, but I have to say they didn't really bother me, perhaps because we were going so slow. We didn't really struggle too much in the first lap and took some Goo (a carbohydrate boost packet that runners use) at about mile 6. On the second loop of the race we were feeling good so we sped our pace up to about 9:30 miles. We started to get bored at this point so we had a good time making fun of other runners (I'm talking about you, Crazy Arms McGee) and talking about when we will buy our first house (NOT in New York City, that's for sure!).
The last 3 miles we were just ready to be done running so we picked it up a little more. Our last three mile paces were 9:31, 9:24 and 9:09. Now that's what I call conserving your energy until the end!
In the end, our time was 2:07:20. My slowest half marathon to date, but a good starting point for some serious improvement in 2010. We haven't set a formal goal, but I definitely want to break my personal record of 1:55:48 this year. Stay tuned!!
Official finisher photo, looking nice!
The photos are watermarked because I cheated and stole them with Snagit.
We aren't even one month in to 2010 and Taylor and I are already well on our way to one of our goals for the year! This past Sunday we ran the Manhattan Half Marathon, part of the New York Road Runners Half Marathon Grand Prix. Basically, they sponsor a half marathon in each borough every year.
This one really snuck up on us since the only training that I have done for the best few months has been to expand my stomach! Our training basically consisted of two training runs the two weekends leading up to the race. We did 7 miles on January 10 and 10 miles on January 18 and that was it!
I have to say, though, the race wasn't really that bad. For starters, the start line was less than 2 miles from our apartment. This is in contrast to the Brooklyn Half Marathon where we'll have to travel about an hour and a half BEFORE the 8:00am start! Second, the weather was about perfect for a half marathon. It was about 40 degrees and cloudy but not raining (well, until the very end). It could have been a little warmer, but it worked for us.
We woke up at around 6:45am, ate some breakfast and hopped in a cab to the race. When we got there, we dropped off our bags and headed to the start line to do some stretching before the start. Evidently I was faster in a former life because we were in corral 3, which was pretty close to the front. Turns out we probably should have been a little further back because once the race started people were passing us left and right! We were running at about a 9minute 45second pace. It's true, that is much slower than I have been at other times, but we were just trying to set a very achievable goal to beat next time (haha).
The race consisted of two full loops of Central Park followed by another mile of the third loop to come in at 13.1 miles. Central Park has MANY hills, but I have to say they didn't really bother me, perhaps because we were going so slow. We didn't really struggle too much in the first lap and took some Goo (a carbohydrate boost packet that runners use) at about mile 6. On the second loop of the race we were feeling good so we sped our pace up to about 9:30 miles. We started to get bored at this point so we had a good time making fun of other runners (I'm talking about you, Crazy Arms McGee) and talking about when we will buy our first house (NOT in New York City, that's for sure!).
The last 3 miles we were just ready to be done running so we picked it up a little more. Our last three mile paces were 9:31, 9:24 and 9:09. Now that's what I call conserving your energy until the end!
In the end, our time was 2:07:20. My slowest half marathon to date, but a good starting point for some serious improvement in 2010. We haven't set a formal goal, but I definitely want to break my personal record of 1:55:48 this year. Stay tuned!!
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Interesting Story
So I originally started this blog on MySpace (if you can believe that) back in 2006 when I moved to New York City. My idea was that, living in New York, my life might be at least mildly interesting and that my friends, family and possibly even perfect strangers might be interested in my stories. Then I decided to train for a couple of Marathons and raise money, so a blog to complement my training and fundraising seemed to make sense and so it went. Lately, I feel like my life has been somewhat boring, and I've been wondering if I really have anything to tell in this blog. Well, turns out that things do stay interesting in New York. I mean, the story I'm about to tell isn't life-changing, but it is fairly interesting and probably what this blog was originally designed for. So after much blabbering and lead-in, here goes :)
Last Thursday, I left work at around 6:30pm to go meet my friend Katie for dinner and drinks. While I was walking up Park Avenue, I found a wallet in on the sidewalk. After checking around to make sure that there was no one close by was realizing they had dropped a wallet. I didn't see anyone, so I picked up the wallet and realized it was definitely someone's main wallet, complete with driver's license, credit cards, etc.
In the very front of the wallet, right next to the driver's license was a card from the ASPCA that (quite morbidly) said something to the effect of "If you find my wallet and I am incapacitated, please call one of the following people" and then it listed the name and number of some folks I presumed to be her parents. So I decided that my first step would be to call them in case they could give me her cell phone and I could somehow find her nearby and return her wallet. I got voicemails at both numbers, but I didn't leave a message.
I found the wallet outside of the New York Life building, which has many employees, so I went inside thinking that perhaps they could tell me if the person worked there. If not, I had planned to just give it to the police to track the woman down. They directed me to the building's security office and I left it with Security who said that they would give it to the police to return to the woman.
As I was leaving the building, I decided to try to call one of the numbers from her wallet and leave a voicemail in hopes that they would get it and let the girl know and maybe she could get her wallet back before she got to far away. The number was still in my phone, so I called back as I walked to the subway. I assumed the call would go to voicemail again and was surprised when, after about the 3rd ring, a man answered and said, "Don't call this number again!" I guess they thought I was a prank caller or a telemarketer of some sort. I spoke up immediately and said, "Wait, sorry, my name is Carissa and I just wanted to let you know that I just found Jennifer's wallet on a sidewalk in New York City and left it with the security office at the New York Life Building on Park Avenue. I just wanted to let you know so that you could call her and let her know it's there. In all likelihood, they will send it to the Police, but just wanted to let you know." The person - a little contrite - said thank you and that he would let the wallet's owner know. And we hung up.
While I was at dinner about an hour later, I missed a call from a number in the same area code as the two numbers in the wallet. So I decided to text back after dinner just to confirm that the person didn't have any questions about the whereabouts of the wallet. I said that my name was Carissa and that I hoped she had gotten the wallet. Our conversation went like this:
Jennifer: I can't thank you enough! Absolutely karma. If you're still in the neighborhood, I owe you a drink.
Me: No worries! I work at 25th and Park but nothing owed :) Feel free to email though, we could do lunch. csmith@akamai.com
Jennifer: OK this is weird, I work at Akamai too! I'm on the 8th floor!
So basically I gave her my work e-mail and it turns out that she works at the same company as I do! We just work on different floors so we've never met. I think we'll probably get lunch next week, but talk about a small world! I find a random wallet (albeit it close to my office, but there are many offices around), and it turns out that the girl works for my company.
Alright, this is a long post so I'm going to sign off now!
Last Thursday, I left work at around 6:30pm to go meet my friend Katie for dinner and drinks. While I was walking up Park Avenue, I found a wallet in on the sidewalk. After checking around to make sure that there was no one close by was realizing they had dropped a wallet. I didn't see anyone, so I picked up the wallet and realized it was definitely someone's main wallet, complete with driver's license, credit cards, etc.
In the very front of the wallet, right next to the driver's license was a card from the ASPCA that (quite morbidly) said something to the effect of "If you find my wallet and I am incapacitated, please call one of the following people" and then it listed the name and number of some folks I presumed to be her parents. So I decided that my first step would be to call them in case they could give me her cell phone and I could somehow find her nearby and return her wallet. I got voicemails at both numbers, but I didn't leave a message.
I found the wallet outside of the New York Life building, which has many employees, so I went inside thinking that perhaps they could tell me if the person worked there. If not, I had planned to just give it to the police to track the woman down. They directed me to the building's security office and I left it with Security who said that they would give it to the police to return to the woman.
As I was leaving the building, I decided to try to call one of the numbers from her wallet and leave a voicemail in hopes that they would get it and let the girl know and maybe she could get her wallet back before she got to far away. The number was still in my phone, so I called back as I walked to the subway. I assumed the call would go to voicemail again and was surprised when, after about the 3rd ring, a man answered and said, "Don't call this number again!" I guess they thought I was a prank caller or a telemarketer of some sort. I spoke up immediately and said, "Wait, sorry, my name is Carissa and I just wanted to let you know that I just found Jennifer's wallet on a sidewalk in New York City and left it with the security office at the New York Life Building on Park Avenue. I just wanted to let you know so that you could call her and let her know it's there. In all likelihood, they will send it to the Police, but just wanted to let you know." The person - a little contrite - said thank you and that he would let the wallet's owner know. And we hung up.
While I was at dinner about an hour later, I missed a call from a number in the same area code as the two numbers in the wallet. So I decided to text back after dinner just to confirm that the person didn't have any questions about the whereabouts of the wallet. I said that my name was Carissa and that I hoped she had gotten the wallet. Our conversation went like this:
Jennifer: I can't thank you enough! Absolutely karma. If you're still in the neighborhood, I owe you a drink.
Me: No worries! I work at 25th and Park but nothing owed :) Feel free to email though, we could do lunch. csmith@akamai.com
Jennifer: OK this is weird, I work at Akamai too! I'm on the 8th floor!
So basically I gave her my work e-mail and it turns out that she works at the same company as I do! We just work on different floors so we've never met. I think we'll probably get lunch next week, but talk about a small world! I find a random wallet (albeit it close to my office, but there are many offices around), and it turns out that the girl works for my company.
Alright, this is a long post so I'm going to sign off now!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
We're going to Australia!!!
Hello there! I am so excited! Taylor and I bought tickets to go visit my good friend Kim and her husband Will in AUSTRALIA in June! We found some really great deals on flights and took the plunge on Tuesday. Here's a map of our route. We are stopping off for 4 days in Indonesia so Taylor can visit his old village and the students he taught when he lived there last year.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Planning for the year ahead...
So in recent memory, my general goal has been to have at least 1 major thing each year. In 2006, I moved to New York City. In 2007 I ran my first Marathon. In 2008 I ran my second. In 2009 I went to Indonesia for 3 weeks to visit Taylor, oh and got married. So here we are at 2010. Seems like a year that should be monumental. Here are some big plans for 2010:
- Running the Chicago Marathon (will be Taylor's first and hopefully my last until I'm 40)
- Running the New York Half Marathon Grand Prix - one half marathon in all 5 boroughs. This one is actually pretty much going to happen.
- Travel to Australia and Indonesia to visit Kim and Will and Taylor's village where he lived.
- Moving to the Midwest (let's shoot for more like 2011 for that one :)
- Reproduction (refusing to put a timeline on that one yet :)
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
The Smith's are famous!
A few days before Christmas, Taylor and I went on a Chocolate tour of SoHo. He bought me a gift certificate as a wedding gift to a tour company and this is the one we picked. It was a wonderful tour with some delicious chocolates made even better by the fact that it took place the day after a beautiful snowstorm in New York. It was so romantic wandering the streets of Manhattan and tasting some of the yummiest chocolate ever!
I would tell you more, but the LA Times saw fit to write an article about that exact tour, in print yesterday. Here's the article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-chocolate-tours4-2010jan04,0,7018290.story
About halfway through our tour, a photographer for the LA Times showed up and snapped photos of us like the paparazzi. Here's the one she chose to use (oddly enough!).
I would tell you more, but the LA Times saw fit to write an article about that exact tour, in print yesterday. Here's the article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-chocolate-tours4-2010jan04,0,7018290.story
About halfway through our tour, a photographer for the LA Times showed up and snapped photos of us like the paparazzi. Here's the one she chose to use (oddly enough!).
Friday, January 01, 2010
Happy New Year!!!
Happy 2010 to all my friends and family! I can't believe 2009 is already over. It seems like yesterday when I arrived in Singapore to see Taylor after 5 months apart and embarked on a fantastic tour of Southeast Asia (Parts 1, 2 and 3 can be found here). Well, this year was a little more low-key, but we still had a great time. In New York, like in other places, many people spend New Years with their friends at a bar, typically having paid upwards of $100 per person for open bar for a few hours. The bar, however, is inevitably so crowded that getting a drink is almost impossible and pretentious douchebags are available in spades. We have one friend who paid $160 dollars for ONE PERSON to experience this! About which Taylor astutely observed, "I do not need to pay $160 just go to to a bar in hopes of going home with my wife!"
To avoid this shenanigans, we decided to spend a nice relaxing weekend alone in Montreal for New Years. Sadly though, we are both sick and our vehicle fell through, so we ended up spending New Years Eve sitting around our apartment and seeing a movie (Up in the Air, it was pretty good).
To ring in the new year, we opted to leave our apartment at around 11pm and walk to the south end of Central Park and 7th Avenue. 7th avenue goes straight in to Times Square and you can actually see where the ball drops from about a mile away. Silly us, we thought we'd be the only people to choose this "deserted" spot to view the ball. It was not so. We arrived there at around 11:40pm with a bottle of Champagne in my purse and cameras in hand. And it was CROWDED! There were hundreds of people (mostly local New Yorkers who did not want to brave Times Square, especially not in the slushy rain/snow mix that was coming down). Here are a few photos of us trying to get a view.
In this one, you can barely see the tower and the ball just to the bottom left of the really bright lights.
This is right at midnights, the fireworks shooting out of where the ball drops, Happy 2010!
The Smiths :)
After we watch the ball drop, we walked back through the park and stopped by the finish line of the Emerald Nuts Midnight Run. Every year, they have a run that starts a little before midnight and ends with a big party at the end of the race. Before I saw it for myself, I pictured a quiet little run of a couple hundred people in the center of Central Park. Boy were we wrong! There are tons of people, loud music, and a laser show! Here are a couple shots:
Finally, we came home and went up on our rooftop where Taylor smoked a cigar (I had a little).
Here's a view from our rooftop.
To avoid this shenanigans, we decided to spend a nice relaxing weekend alone in Montreal for New Years. Sadly though, we are both sick and our vehicle fell through, so we ended up spending New Years Eve sitting around our apartment and seeing a movie (Up in the Air, it was pretty good).
To ring in the new year, we opted to leave our apartment at around 11pm and walk to the south end of Central Park and 7th Avenue. 7th avenue goes straight in to Times Square and you can actually see where the ball drops from about a mile away. Silly us, we thought we'd be the only people to choose this "deserted" spot to view the ball. It was not so. We arrived there at around 11:40pm with a bottle of Champagne in my purse and cameras in hand. And it was CROWDED! There were hundreds of people (mostly local New Yorkers who did not want to brave Times Square, especially not in the slushy rain/snow mix that was coming down). Here are a few photos of us trying to get a view.
In this one, you can barely see the tower and the ball just to the bottom left of the really bright lights.
This is right at midnights, the fireworks shooting out of where the ball drops, Happy 2010!
The Smiths :)
After we watch the ball drop, we walked back through the park and stopped by the finish line of the Emerald Nuts Midnight Run. Every year, they have a run that starts a little before midnight and ends with a big party at the end of the race. Before I saw it for myself, I pictured a quiet little run of a couple hundred people in the center of Central Park. Boy were we wrong! There are tons of people, loud music, and a laser show! Here are a couple shots:
Finally, we came home and went up on our rooftop where Taylor smoked a cigar (I had a little).Here's a view from our rooftop.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas!
Hello friends and family near and far!
I hope that this post finds you well and enjoying your Christmas. Taylor and I are rejoicing and celebrating out Savior's birth in Tenafly, New Jersey with his family. I apologize for my lack of blogging in the last couple of weeks :) I've been busy with work and Christmas preparations and also our lives are not that exciting. But my New Years' resolutions as it relates to this blog is, as they say, to "poop or get off the pot." Meaning I will either do it regularly or ceremoniously end this blog on account of nothing to pots about :)
For now, please take a look at a Merry Christmas video that Taylor and I made this morning! It was intended for the Lucyk family, so you can ignore the promise to call you later :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK1s4xJX-dc
Blessings to you all!!
Love,
Carissa and Taylor
I hope that this post finds you well and enjoying your Christmas. Taylor and I are rejoicing and celebrating out Savior's birth in Tenafly, New Jersey with his family. I apologize for my lack of blogging in the last couple of weeks :) I've been busy with work and Christmas preparations and also our lives are not that exciting. But my New Years' resolutions as it relates to this blog is, as they say, to "poop or get off the pot." Meaning I will either do it regularly or ceremoniously end this blog on account of nothing to pots about :)
For now, please take a look at a Merry Christmas video that Taylor and I made this morning! It was intended for the Lucyk family, so you can ignore the promise to call you later :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Blessings to you all!!
Love,
Carissa and Taylor
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Wedding Photos are online!!
www.consideringlilies.com/carissa-taylor
I was having trouble with the link, so if it doesn't work, just type the above in your browser.
You can watch the slideshow and then see ALL the rest of the 2,000 photos by clicking on "Browse Gallery" at the top. Enjoy!
I was having trouble with the link, so if it doesn't work, just type the above in your browser.
You can watch the slideshow and then see ALL the rest of the 2,000 photos by clicking on "Browse Gallery" at the top. Enjoy!
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