Back To School

I went to the teacher's lounge at Lemoore High to visit all of my friends. The past three years I taught math at LHS. It is fun teaching at the same school I graduated from. Sometimes I walk through the halls and try to imagine "High School Annie."



Anne Brown graduated a year before me and now we are both math teachers at LHS.
After lunch I went to Kristen Ruby's classroom. I have known her many years because she was Philip's first waterpolo coach.

Hand and Foot

This morning Grandma Asta and Papa Tom taught me how to play the card game, "Hand and Foot." They taught me so well, that I beat them by a lot of points. It was a lot of fun learning a new game and most of all, spending time with my grandparents.

New Babies

Melissa Coulter (She married John Alton) had a baby girl, right before our wedding (So, she is as old as Cory and I have been married). If I ever forget how long we have been married I just ask how old Tessa is. This was my first time meeting little Tessa. Melissa and I grew up playing sports as little girls and we were on just about every team together in high school.

Papa and I took my truck to get the oil changed and we went through the car wash. I love hanging out with my Papa Tom. He is a work-a-holic. We went back to his house and he wiped down the truck and cleaned the tires until they shined.


I went to Fresno to visit with Andrea, Brady, and Matt Cole. I have known Andrea since 6th grade and we were roommates at FPU. Brady was born the day after my Bachlorette party. Andrea was one of my bridesmaids and helped put on the party but she couldn't come because she was in labor. Brady is a lot of fun to play with. You can visit his blogspot at www.bradycole.blogspot.com

Birthday Dinner

Sunday, I went to church with my Dad and Jill at South Valley Community Church (formally known as First Baptist Church).

After church I went to Tommy house and then I picked up Kristian Bringard. At Kristian's house I took a picture of him along with his parents, Paul and Susan. I have known the Bringard family since I was little. Kristian shattered both ankles two weeks ago which explains why he is in a wheel chair. Click here to see Kristian's myspace and pictures of his ankles.

I took Kristian to Hanford to Lyle and Marlene's house. I had to sort through luggage that had been brought back from New York.

At 5pm we went to the Thomas house for a birthday dinner for me. We had organic spagetti, salad, garlic bread, meatballs (both vegitarian and beef) and Tammy's homemade birthday cake (chocolate with cream cheese frosting).

Shelley gave me an autographed copy of Amy Sedaris' book. Shelley had her sign in for me when she went to her book signing in Marin. Shelley told Amy about our New York blog and after she signed her name she siad "blog it, blog it."

The cute dog is "Buddy." He belongs to Shelley.

Family Time

Mallory and I made it to Hanford at 12:30 am Thursday night after a long drive from San Diego.
Friday morning I had breakfast with Marlene and Lyle.

I went to Grandma Lois' house for a visit before I headed off to Lemoore.

I got to see Melissa Coulter's baby girl for the first time. Her baby (Tessa) was born the day before our wedding.
I had lunch with Grandma Asta and Papa Tom. Then, I went to my Dad's house to see him along with Jill, Melissa and Jason.

I went to Grandma Peggy's house to visit and also to shower and change. Shelley helped me get "big hair".

My older brother Philip married Allyson Luis. I found our that her dad is a cousin of Joey Luis who was my dad's best man in his wedding in 1972. It is a small world. The wedding was in the same church that Cory and I got married in and I hadn't been there since. It was fun being back because this time I just had to watch. At my wedding, we forgot to take a big family picture so we made sure we did this time. This picture is of the Secondo Family (my mom's side). We also took a family picture with everyone but my camera's picture did not turn out.

The reception was at the Vineyard Inn's Wine Cellar. The reception was beautiful and there was good food and a lot of fun people. Just in case you need captions to the pictures...





1. Tommy, Beautiful Bride Allyson, Philip, and me
2. Secondo Family
3. Me and my dad
4. Papa Tom, me and Grandma Asta
5. Tommy, Shelley and Me with our glowing boobies.
6. Me, Lindsey and David Howe
7. The reception hall as the bride and groom enter.
8. Family at the FPU basketball game.
9. Tommy and Rosco


Saturday night we went to watch cousin Ross play basketball. He is following in my foot steps, playing basketball at Fresno Pacific University. Click here to see he bio on the FPU website.

Today (Sunday) I went to church with my Dad and Jill. After church I went and to visit with my brother Tommy at his new house (he moved in the house in July). His dog's name is Rosco and he is a lot of fun to play with.

Then, I picked up Kristian Bringard (I have known Kristian since we were little and he is one of Cory's best friends), went to Lyle and Marlene's house, then we went to the Thomas' house for a belated birthday party for me. I will put those pictures up later.

Annie's Still In San Diego

Apparently, I am a horrible person to sleep with. This is the first thing that Mallory pointed out to me after she woke up. When I talked to Cory this morning he agreed and said that he slept more soundly than he has in a long time. What am I supposed to do. I am a very inconsiderate person when I am a sleep. Either, I am very loudly grinding my teeth or I am kicking, kneeing, and/or stealing the sheets. I don't like the life I lead when I am sleeping. I will need to make up for this by being even better while I am awake. Maybe then will my friends and husband not hate me.

After lunch Mallory headed off to class and my friend Molly (She was my best friend in Junior High who now lives in San Diego) picked me up and we went to Starbucks for a chat. I love catching up with old friends.

Then she dropped me off so I could watch Mallory perform a scene in one of her theater classes. I found a green chair that I liked. So, of course I had to take a picture of it. I have "chairs" on my brain because Cory and I have recently been admiring some really cool chairs in a store on Broadway that we would like to buy.

Mallory was really good in her scene. I almost started to cry because she was getting so emotional.

My luggage finally arrived. I found two surprises. The first surprise was a front pocket filled with my smooshed deodorant. The other, 2 out of a 3 piece Pyrex bowl set was shattered to pieces (The little bowl survived). There was a fragile sticker on the lugguge but apparently Jet Blue was not careful enough.

Now, Mallory and I are getting ready to go eat dinner before we hit the road. I am hoping to be in Hanford by 1am. I am already tired from jet lag but I will not let that stop me from having a great time being home.

Tonight, back in Manhattan Cory is performing a few songs at a party. His friends are leaving for Africa so they threw another party to raise money and say "goodbye." I wish I could be there, but the timing just didn't work out.

Annie's in San Diego

I am in San Diego at Mallory's house. It is weird being back in California. I am not used to the wide open spaces both outside and inside. Mallory's bedroom is bigger than our apartment.

It was a long day of traveling, especially since my original flight was canceled, so I had to change my flight. The flight I got on went very smoothly. In fact, it went so smoothly we arrived an hour ahead of schedule, but we had to sit in the plane for 30 minutes because there was not an open terminal. The wait wasn't so bad. Bad is waiting as everyone else gets there luggage except you. Jet Blue misplaced my luggage along with the other people's luggage who changed their flight like me. They said it should be here tomorrow. That is why you should always keep necessary objects in your carry on luggage. I have clean underwear and my retainers. What else does a girl need?