we can be tourists too!

after recovering from the party the next morning with a fabulous breakfast of bagels, sausage, fruit and waffles, we set out to see DC.

team coleman in front of the washington monument / me'n'case at the jefferson memorial

me, mom and jessica at the fdr memorial

reflecting pool and washington monument- janel being cute / mom and james posing for the camera

us at the korean memorial

such was the third day

seven years

yesterday was our seven-year anniversary of our first date. now i can't exactly remember what our first date was (casey does all the remembering in this relationship) but i'm sure it was great.

oh yeah, it's a party

main course the engagement party / days of shopping amounts to this

the ultimate in sexy.


like the décor? brought to you courtesy of frank and mom's artistic expertise.


more fun:

our awesome chocolate cake with raspberry filling; casey and i in our coordinating outfits; the ultimate in cuteness with my cousin audrey and her dad joe; me and janel outside the party; casey and my signature pose; frank stealing the show with his awesome belly dance

such was the second night

i love my girls!

look how cute we are!

ok people, let's take this slow

so to recount our entire adventure in one posting would be considered cruel and unusually lengthy, so we're processing it in controlled dosages!

apéritif: the welcome dinner / a fabulous meal cooked at mom's house with plenty of family to go 'round

drinking. tarte. general yumminess abound.

oh and fun people too!

such was the first night.

we like to be fancy

makeup/hair consultant/and oh yeah, maid of honor Janel photographed some stellar shots of casey and me in "part one of our engagement pictures extravaganza!"

oh and because we're artistes:

my maid of honor...let me show her to you

janel king is my maid of honor. we met her in college- casey had a class with her making a film. now we hang out a lot.

she even lived with us for a couple of years. but now she lives in anaheim.

janel has a cute cat. and four brothers and sisters, all with 'j' names.

she likes animals. she's a teacher. she teaches animals six-graders in lynwood.

janel is writing a young adult book and also does special effects makeup. halloween is always fun.


pictures from top left going clockwise:

• casey and janel studying a map the last time we were in greece

• taken immediately after me karate-chopping a wine glass out of her hand and onto her pants

• janel playing dead sexy at a murder-mystery party

• janel and me trapped in the ropes course at california adventure

• center / the three of us at the beach aka casey is a pimp

start of something...new?

hi! we're finally getting married after dating for six and a half years. we decided on a long engagement, meaning that we'll probably get married sometime in september of 2010. yep, we're sliding into marital bliss just one month before casey turns 30 and five months before i do.

we got engaged while on a zip-line tour in Costa Rica in february of 2008. some fifty feet up in a tree of all places!

the picture at the foot of this page contains only a few choice selects from years of vain self-portraits. for a larger and more narcissistic picture of us, just click here.