Sunday, October 2, 2011

27 favorite memories

Each year for my birthday, I make a post about the favorite moments/memories for the number of years that I am old. Here they are for my 27th year!


1. Joint Birthday Party with my good friend Ryan.


2. Drives/hikes up the surrounding canyons




3. Quality time with Nieces/Nephews.







4. Autumn Trip to DC

...during the rally to restore sanity hosted by Jon Stewart.





5. Traditions.
This skeleton head cracks me up.
Too long of a story for this post...


6. Dressing up for the Harry Potter 7.1 premier.


7. Green Smoothies.
I made these for breakfast/lunch for a month or two....
...until I realized I really hated them.

8. Gingerbread house FAIL.
My brother Cody stayed up with me until 2 am the night before Thanksgiving trying to help me make gingerbread for our family gingerbread house tradition.
I added the wrong amount of water/flour and absolutely ruined like 3 recipes.
But diligent and sweet was he in assisting me until I finally gave up.
Favorite brother memory of all time with Cory Boy!
9. Vegas for New Years




10. Girly Gatherings!
The first picture was from our holiday sleepover. Best idea ever.
The second is a group of old friends at a shower we threw for Jess' baby.

11. Taiwanese Care Package
For Chinese New Year, I sent my old students letters (with goals) that they had written to themselves with pictures, candy, games, etc etc. That box cost $50 just to mail to Taiwan, better believe I loaded it FULL of goodies!

12. Best/Worst weekend of my life.
Jazz game, skiing and life lessons learned.

13. Sunday dinners with the Wood's.
I search out recipes, Jessica makes them.
We make a great team!

14. My Nepali Family.
I volunteer with a refugee family from Nepal. They have been a big ray of sunshine for me this past year. Here's some pics of some things we've been doing...






15. Adventurous Spring Weekend in NYC




16. FREE tickets to U2.
Bono rocked my world.

17. Perfect Spring Weekend in DC



...which always includes a few lunch dates with my amazing sister Lisa.


18. Duck Duck Beach!
...where else would I spend memorial weekend?!






19. First time visiting Moab!




20. Summer running around SLC.
I always run to what i call 'the secret garden'


21. First Powell trip ever.
And indeed it is heaven on earth!!

Thanks to Seth, the godfather, for putting it all together!

we had the phattest boat.

22. Wakeboarders Way!
GET THIS:
at the ripe age of 27, I FINALLY learned to Wakeboard!

It only took 12+ years and 300 attempts , but I finally figured it out!

23. First time visiting the GRAND CANYON!

24. Park City Cabin Time!



25. Weddings
All my good friends are dropping like flies...


26. Box Elder County Fair and Rodeo!



Hadn't seen this rodeo in 10 years but it surpassed all expectations!


27. Hawaii
I was sick of looking at Hawaii on my bucket list.
So Dolly and I bought flights and called it a day.





27 has been my favorite age yet.
I'm really starting to like living in SLC (even though the winters are BRUTAL)!

This Birthday was a great one, thanks to everyone who made an effort to make my day a special one! xoxo

2 comments:

brooke said...

are you kidding me? i'm crazy jealous of your fun year! you have done SO MANY awesome things. :) love you tabbi! i'm glad your birthday was so fun!!!

Tawna said...

Oh I'm sorry, how did I not make your list this year?! I should be number one :) Love this! It's so fun to look back and see how much you really do accomplish in one year, especially being single and being able to travel. I love to do it as well!