Birthdays!

Sohail and I celebrated our birthdays this weekend.

Breakfast on my birthday at our house.

The newspaper and a croissant were a perfect start to may 29th year.

Then we went to Annapolis to get away and stayed at this really cute B&B with a suite room.

Enjoying our suite.

Dinner overlooking the harbor.

In a neighborhood this morning.

Visiting the Naval Academy.

Sohail's Birthday

Happy Birthday my Love!

We had dinner at Kushi. I highly recommend it to DCites.

Sarah & Barney's wedding

Last weekend Sarah & Barney got married right outside of Asheville, NC. Because I know both of them from different times in my life, I got to see double the number of friends I normally see at weddings. The wedding itself was beautiful and the wedding was a lot of fun.

The bridesmaids during the rehearsal

After the rehearsal with the bride to be

the rehearsal dinner was beautiful

Gabriel, Shirin, Deena and Kai during dinner

Sohail and me

On Saturday I went for a run and then Deena did my nails. What a great friend!

Sarah getting ready as her mom looks on

The carriage Sarah took to the ceremony

This was the site. It was really beautiful!

The reception was under the tent.

it rained during the ceremony but it was still beautiful

congratulations sarah & barney!!!

After the wedding

my friends from undergrad

running to sohail

it was a beautiful reception

Sully & Emily's wedding

This weekend we went to Sohail's high school friend Sully's wedding to his girlfriend of 10 years Emily. Nate also went to high school with Sully and Sohail so we got to spend the evening with our very good friends Nate & Siobhan as well.

N & S

Where the ceremony was held.

Emily arriving with her Dad.

The bride and groom!

Nate & Sohail with Sully's cousin

looks like these childhood friends grew up to have very similar tastes in clothes.

Sully & Emily doing some traditional Afghan wedding stuff.

The food was all Afghan and amazing!

The centerpieces. Now that I'm about to get married, I notice these things.

With Nate & Siobhan during dinner.

A little dancing...

And saying goodbye to the newlyweds.

Bachelorette

My sweet DC friends threw me an amazing bachelorette party today - no tiaras I'm afraid (read sarcasm) and a day with great friends, a massage, champagne, strawberries and even a cake. And then dinner with Julie! Thanks so much everyone!!!

With Maria Clara and Alicia

Julie, Rebecca and Luna

Cutting the cake!

Yum!

After the massages, Julie and I carried on the party over dinner at Cork. Everything was delicious but this plate was particularly amazing.

bon appetit

Tonight Sohail's dinner was smiling at him. Mine was a cyclops....

Rehoboth Weekend

Last weekend Sohail and I took, what has become and annual, beach trip. It was great! We've both been working a lot so we did a lot of nothing.

The drive out takes us through lots of farmland and by old houses like this one.

Our first night there we took a long walk on the beach. You have to use your imagine here but envision an almost full moon reflecting off the ocean.

We spent a lot of time watching, what seemed to be every middle and high school boy on the beach using their skin boards.

And we napped...

and napped...

and stared at the sky...

and hung out on the beach.

handsome Sohail.

Soccer Semi and Final

Today was the last day of our CAN (alumni) soccer league and it was hot hot hot - 95 in the morning for the semi-final and over 100 in the afternoon for the final. In the end, we won the semi-final 3-0 against Cal and we lost the final 1-0 to Florida State but I think at that point no one could run, much less walk, on either team and we were just relieved to hear that last whistle. Sohail and I haven't ever felt this sore! That being said, I'm always a bit sad to see the CAN season come to an end because it's my favorite team and league and it's only in the spring season every year. The nice thing is that I did my masters with most of the people on the team and I've seen all of them regularly for the past 5 years - it's like an extended family.

Colin - still running!

Kwame

A bunch of us.

Maybe one of our goals.