May's Days: December 2005

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

On the ol' 49er trail

Waiting for the outhouse
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

Continuing on our journey through gold country, we stopped by the old gold mining town of Colombia. While we were there we walked through the town, watched candy canes being made, danced while a man played the fiddle, bought bonnets and went panning for gold. Here are some of the golden treasures I found...

And we're going to party like it's 1849!

And we're going to party like it's 1849!
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Holiday Time in Twain Harte

May Neda Amy
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

The next leg on my vacation extravaganza is my Grandparent's house in Twain Harte, CA. Twain Harte is a small town in the mountains, one hour north of Yosemite. Yesterday, we went to an apple farm and then town wearing our Holiday sweaters all day long. I got a few looks, including "what the heck is she wearing" look and the "dang! Where'd she get that awesome sweater look". Stay tuned for more pictures of this trip.

Neda's Holiday Sweater

Neda Sweater
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

May's Holiday Sweater

May Sweater
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

Amy's Holiday Vest

Amy Sweater
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

Monday, December 19, 2005

Orlando Conference

may laughing
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

This past weekend, Neda, Maryam and I went to Orlando Florida for a Social and Economic Development Baha’i Conference. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the weekend!

Boys lounging around

Boys lounging around
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

Bubble Blowing Contest

P1010468
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

Georgina

Georgina
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

This is George aka Jorge from Orlando. He's a sassy red head wearing another sassy red head's hair.

Hooray for the World..I'm Glad to Be on it!

Red Grammer
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

Move over Paula and Simon...here's my American Idol. This is a picture of the one and only Red Grammer. *Sigh*

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Little Joey

joeymay
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

One of my assignments this quarter is to make a visual metaphor for my beliefs of what a teacher’s role is. I’ve been going through trashy magazines for the last two days reading up on Brad and Angelina and looking for pictures of kid’s heads for my poster. While I was cutting out a child’s head, I jokingly put it up the kid’s face over mine and started talking to Melanie. This inevitably led to a photo session. We named the boy Joey.
Rejoice my friends…for the quarter is over.

Written While Listening to “The Professor” by Damien Rice

joeymel

joeymel
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

'Joy to the World" my X-mas Sweaters have come!

XmasRod
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

A week ago my sister Amy invited me to a "Christmas Sweater Party" that her co-worker is hosting. A christmas sweater party is an opportunity for people to go into their old box of clothes and pull out their old sweater that Grandma bought them. Since Baha'is don't celebrate Christmas I was left searching EBay on a friday night for the perfect Christmas Sweater. I am proud to say that not only did I find one perfect Christmas sweater, but I found TWO perfect Christmas sweaters that happened to be from the same EBAY seller. An interesting observation that I learned while surfing EBAY was that Chritmas Sweaters typically come in two sizes: Woman's Small and Woman's XXL and can usually be found by a seller with a ridiculously high seller ebay rating and lives in a small town in the midwest. Just an observation.

The package arrived today at my parent's house and since i'm still in Davis my Dad and sister were left to model the sweaters and take pictures. Eat Your Heart out Blog Readers!

amy and rod xmas
Originally uploaded by mayshelley.

Please excuse the poor quality of this picture. This photo was taken from my mom's camera phone. On the left is my sister amy showing off the Chritmas "Joy and Wreath" Sweater Vest. You can't see it from this picture, but the word "Joy" and a wreath are fillied with green and red sequences. And my Dad is wearing a gingerbread house christmas sweater. On the back is a little gingerbread man running away from his house.