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Even though the Lakers lost the NBA Championship to the Celtics, it still would have been nice to go to an NBA Finals Game. We got tickets from Jenie’s dad (Thanks Mr. Leung!), and decided to go to Turlock to meet up with Jenie’s parents and drive down to LA for the game. Initially we thought the game started around 1 pm on Father’s day, so we planned to leave Turlock by 7 am.

Well, after dinner the night before, Jenie checked the game time just to be sure, and found out that the game started at 6 pm! There was no way any of us could have made it down to LA for the game and then back to the Bay Area for work the next day. Needless to say, we were so bummed that we couldn’t go. This was one of those once-in-a-lifetime things! Doh!

We took our engagement photos in late May in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Most of the pictures were taken at the de Young Museum and the Japanese Tea Garden. I also wanted to get some shots taken at the carousel, just for fun. We brought Kiya with us too, because she’s just so cute and we love her so much! Thanks again, Mom, for dog-sitting for us!

Our wedding photographer, Augie Chang (www.augiechang.com), was awesome! We had so much fun taking our pictures!

More photos are viewable on our wedding website.  Please visit www.jenieandfrank.com.

Here are a just few:

Frank and I joined my parents for dinner at Napa’s beautiful Auberge du Soleil last Friday. My dad’s company, Save Mart Supermarkets, sponsors a Nascar race–The Toyota/Save Mart Supermarkets 350–in Sonoma every year, and they make a weekend of the event. Last year, dinner was at the Pine Ridge Winery, where we got to have dinner 150 feet under the grape vines. So cool!

The dinner was a joint function between Save Mart and General Mills, who sponsors race car driver Bobby Labonte. He drives car #43 and he sat out our table. We got to ask him all sorts of racing questions and I found out that their cars only get about 4.5 miles to the gallon! Oh my! He’s a very nice, down-to-earth guy. We don’t really watch Nascar, but we will definitely root for him from now on.

This year’s dinner at Auberge du Soleil was equally yum! The dessert was to-die-for! Christina Aguilera even had her wedding rehearsal dinner and stayed there when she got married in Napa a few years ago. It’s a beautiful place! We hope to go back some day!

A picture before dinner. The view was gorgeous–you could see the entire Napa valley. But it was soooo hot that day!

I am so excited and relieved to say that the school year is officially over!  YIPPEE!

My last day with kids was yesterday, but I had to pack up my entire classroom because our school is being remodeled over the summer.  So everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING, had to be packed into the 2 cabinets in our classroom or the 30 boxes the moving company provided to each teacher.

I stayed last night after school until 10:30pm to get started on the packing.  Frank brought me dinner, helped me pack a little, headed back to the store to close up, and came back to help a little more.   This morning, I started at 8am and worked until around 4pm (with a few breaks in between of course) until Frank was finished with the store and joined me in the last of the packing.

In all, we emptied all the book shelves, my desk, the top two drawers of my file cabinet (a must according to the moving company)…the list goes on.  I can’t even say how much stuff went into the trash or into recycling.  One positive of having to pack was going through everything and getting rid of stuff I didn’t need.

In all, we packed 24 boxes, going through almost three rolls of tape!  We finally finished at around 7pm.

So now I can relax…until Monday.  That’s when summer school starts.  Ugh.  Note to all:  Don’t start a business in the same year you’re getting married!  Life just gets too crazy!

Yikes! 2 months to go until the big day! We can’t wait, but at the same time, we feel like there’s still so much to do!

Latest wedding planning updates: addressing invitations is in progress, I took my wedding dress in to get taken up and in, and we picked out the guys’ tuxedo ensembles. The boys are all gonna look so good!

The most exciting thing that we’ve done recently wedding-wise (besides my bridal shower of course) was taking our engagement pictures! We took them last week at various locations in Golden Gate Park. It was so much fun! Augie (www.augiechang.com) is so awesome. He’s got a great eye for the modern, but is down-to-earth and loves everything to be natural. The whole day was a testament to why we chose him in the first place. The experience made us feel so good about choosing him to photograph our wedding.

We’ve gotten a preview of the pictures so far, and will post some here soon!