One of the reasons I blog is to preserve all these memories of the golden years. When I was going through our files the past few weeks organizing everything to apply for jobs, I found a lot of pictures that are getting old, and that I don't have copied at all. So I uploaded a bunch of them. It's amazing how beautiful Yokie is!!!!!!
From Jesse's (my brother's) wedding in SoCal, 2006:
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| Gale and Yokie |
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| Me and My Mom |
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| YOUNG LOVE!!! |
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| The Montana Johnsons and the Albuquerque Johnsons |
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| Happy Family Oreo Cookie |
Continuing the Wedding Theme, some pictures from our dating back in the day:
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| In Steamboat Springs before a rare date circa 2008-2010 (ah raising a baby!) Thx Mom for the babysitting. |
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| And thanks Mom for one of my favorite pictures of us as a couple. On the slopes of Steamboat. |
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| Thanks Uncle Mike for this one. |
Somehow, for such as smart girl, she couldn't figure out how to get away from me. Eventually, I proposed; we tried to go up to Avalanche Lake, nearby Quake Lake, got snowed out and ended up instead near Red Rock Refuge area, at a cool lake we drove to in Yokie's old black Honda.
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| At Quake Lake |
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| I'm a super super super lucky guy! She said Yes!! |
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| After I proposed, we celebrated with a bottle of wine and got ready to cook dinner. I went to get the stuff from the car, and two swans had come to this same remote lake to . .. ahem. . . hang out. Such a cool coincidence. |
Then we had our legal US Wedding, in Bozeman in 2002:
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| I wish I could travel back in time, and tell myself to tuck in my damn shirt. |
Lastly, some pictures from our Malaysia Wedding, starting with the most beautiful woman in the world:
The Happy Couple. This was easy for me. I read a whole book this day. Yokie's costumes were harder to change. Mad respect for models after watching all of this:
We had a lovely honeymoon in Malaysia, and we took another one in the Keys years later. Love that place. Yokie worked there for a while too. She loved it. Great times in 2006!
Eventually, it ended up here: with Rose being born in this house,in Pueblo CO:
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| This was early; the house still had grass. Obelix looks great. And how about the Pele photobomb!! |
Man, has she grown up quickly! So tall now, tough to even remember this girl:
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| Snow ANGELS ROCK!!! |
I'm a really lucky guy to have those two girls as the center of my world! Here's some more cool finds from the depths of the file cabinet:
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| 24 Hours of Moab Bike Race Pits |
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David Liboy, mon ami Belge from my senior year at Del Norte '96.
That shirt became my lucky shirt. Still is. |
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| My first classroom! FFCHS '05. |
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Chefing it up: Chef at MSU '99, in front of Museum of the Rockies. Best burger ever. Seriously.
I'll punch you in the face if you have a problem with my burgers from that year. |
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The Most Handsome Man in the World.
Portrait drawn by my French Club kids in Seri Omega '12. |
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| My first badass bike: Giant AC Air2. This thing rocked. Bozeman. France. thousands of miles. |
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| You could argue I used to doodle too much in HS. |
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| Nickname drawings from Seri Omega Year 6. I did this one of Monkey, one cool kid. |
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| I did this one for one of my favorite students, also in Year 6. |
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In Noelle's dorm room in Montpellier during our year abroad.
France '01. |
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| On my way to a dinner party with Geneseo State students in Montpellier '02. |
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| Me, Justin, and my $200 Chariot Johnny on the Spot, on Lamme Street, Bozmean, around 1999. |
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| I hate Hippies. Even the ones that ski. Even me. |
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| The Coolest Cat Ever, A pearl amongst the swine: Rico. |
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| One of the best road trips ever: Lee, Rose, Obelix, and Utah sunshine. Around 2008. |
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| Family Chinese School. Melaka Malaysia. Fundraiser day. I played a lot of chess. |
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| I Love you Yokie! |
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| Senior Picture in Malaysia |
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The first meeting with the potential in-laws.
Thank God I got chopstick skills, or this could have gone OK Corral from the get go. |
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| Yokie in Albuquerque.Such a cutie. Love you girl! |
