i can't remember what year this is, but i had to put it in. when we were in youth, we had a christmas party, and instead of a white elephant gift exchange, we did a white elephant cookie exchange. the rule was that everyone had to bake it themselves. the story starts when eric calls me asking how to turn the oven on to bake his cookies. he flipped out when he found out that it'd take something like 40 minutes to bake everything, so he asked if he could just cut the entire cookie dough chunk into four large pieces, double the temperature and halve the time. i told him NO. that was the end of our conversation. well, that night, eric comes into my house with a plate covered in foil that totally reeked. in fact, my mom had to put it in a brown grocery bag and move it to another room because the smell was so strong. we brought it back out for the exchange, but obviously no one would pick up that foul-smelling package. ironically, the white elephant worked out in a way where eric was the last person and forced to pick his own package. so... the cookies came out of the bag, and this was the result. apparently, eric doesn't listen to my advice.
yes, those are froot loops on the cookies.
this was the senior banquet we put together for the class of '96 - bob, charles, joyce and eva. uh yeah, we were cruel.
okay, senior year and beyond is a mixture of canaan and other pics. our senior year, a bunch of us thought it would be fun to do the annual high school musical. i was a donut head (although i'm in my ballerina costume in this picture - yes, me in a tutu.), jenie was a conehead, alinna was a bunhead, and olivia was a jesterlet.
some pics from senior ball. i'm bummed because i can't find my favorite picture from senior ball - the one we took with the canaan crew. we managed to finangle our dates around so that we could bring in a whole bunch of people to our prom. it was a total blast. notice how much fashion has changed - look at our dresses vs the dresses the youth kids wear now to proms. maybe i'm just an old fart, but i still like the dresses back in our day better than what kids wear now.
i think this is senior award night.
me, chris, jean & mike with our parents & relatives at our graduation
this is one of my all-time favorite pictures. the expressions on dave's & mike's faces with p.dan - i think the picture speaks for itself.
more unidentified churches in socal. we went down to socal the summer after my senior year, although i don't have a whole lot of pictures from that music trip. i think these girls were kids of the pastor of that church - although i could totally be making that up. i remember they were super cute though.
this was at our senior banquet - we had to play a game with our parents. thankfully, my parents & i answered enough questions correctly. unfortunately, jean & her parents weren't so lucky. i think dave also got pie in his face. i love the expression on our parents' faces. look at amy's mom, dave's mom, and my dad. i think they're all secretly thinking they're glad it's not their kid! and joe in the back left, snickering that his sister got hit.
go bears! the future bears with eva & bob
okay, the rest of these are some random college & post college pics.
at cal, in our dwight wy apartments. i think this was for eva's birthday. we made bob come upstairs and take a ton of random pictures of us. i miss living in the canaan buildling. :)
reni & joyce came up to visit us, so we had a mini-reunion. i guess we liked hats.
post-college: i went out to the east coast o's first year in baltimore, and we made a trip to ny & boston. this was us entertaining ourselves because drew took so stinking long in the bathroom.
and i just had to post this picture. we went with drew to the middle of nowhere, aka south hamilton, to visit gordon conwell before he started seminary there. they had this huge room with a ping pong table - i played a game against drew, and this captured the moment i beat him. what a great victory.
and just because i felt like i had to post a picture of peter, this is me & olivia with peter in LA in front of the hugest bush i've ever seen.
phew, that was fun - brought up many great memories! sometime in the future i'll do non-canaan pics.
4 comments:
That unidentified church in SoCal looks suspiciously like my home church, EFC LA. I don't remember the red chairs, though. And if this was the summer after your senior year, it must be while I was still at UCLA and attending my home church almost every weekend.
hrm...don't remember those girls either. Maybe a lot of churches use the same chairs... =)
btw, how come Bob doesn't smile in pictures?
HILARIOUS! Bob was so awesome when he took those silly pictures for us at my Dwight Way #305 apt... He came upstairs and did an entire photo session as our photographer. I still have some of those pictures. What were we thinking?! Man... we had some weird poses and props. Haha!!
so cute i love it!!!!!! dude a pic of dandan!!!! and that a really funny story about eric and his cookies! hahaha
Esther, I think I didn't smile for pics back in HS because I was going through my "looking hard" phase. Yup, that's me.
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