Hi Gang

Tooo bummed out about LeBron to do a proper update. Soooo I'll just do a quick mini-update-a-palooza.

2010-07-07 Jenna Misc Album: Went to Schnitzel Haus and had awesome Germany food. Then hit up East Coast Custard.
2010-07-08 Codonics Ice Cream Social Album: To beat the heat Gary K bought everybody in engineering ice cream... Mmmm.
2010-07-09 Boo-LeBron Album: Lebron announce he is leaving for Miami and all of Cleveland implodes. Created a quick
album with all the sad pics from CLE. Just my quick 2 second rant... What gets me most is they way LeBron did it. I understand
it's a business and he can take his game where ever he so chooses.... but you don't have to have a 1 hour special on yourself
and dump Cleveland for the whole nation/world to see. It was totally mismanaged from a PR stand point. At least I will no
longer undecided when LeBron and Kobe play
2010-07-09 Built-A-Kitty Album: Took Becka to Build-A-Bear so she can make her Hawaiin Hello Kitty.
2010-07-10 Pig Roast Album: Got invited to pig roast. Ate lots of piggy. Tooo stuffed.

Enjoy the Albums
-Garvin (^_^)

Yay! Jenna, Becka and I went up to PIB for the weekend. Went went up Saturday afternoon and had a
Super-RELAXING weekend.

Highlights:
   + Sleeping in
   + Fireworks
   + Patio Chicken
   + Shopping
   + Candy shop
   + "The World's smallest" margarita bar
   + Neighborhood cookout

Enjoy all the pics. Happy 4th of July!
-Garvin (^_^)

Took Jenna to the Indians game. We've never been let down by the fireworks show at the Jake.... errrr I mean the
Prog(ressive Field). The weather was nice. This was the first time we got the AMPM All you can Eat tickets. You get to
eat all the popcorn, hotdogs, nachos, and peanuts you can stomach. Mmmmmm. In the end we put away 5 hotdogs,
2 nachos, 2 cups of peanuts, and 3 cups of popcorn. Unfortunately, the Indians lost (again). We had the PERFECT
seats for the fireworks show! My favs are the loud little ones that make a boom noise.

Yay! Enjoy the pics.
-Garvin (^_^)

Yay Happy 14th Anniversary Alan! Mmmmm Codonics Cake.

Updated the Codonics Album... Enjoy
-Garvin (^_^)

Sooo the local minor league team offered Lebron a max contract for a month for Lebron night. They gave out 1000 free
tshirts. We (Jenna, Becka, and I) met up with Ashley, Chris, and Alicia to take in the game. Boy did we get our money's
worth. It went all the way to the 12th inning. Half the gang bailed out around the10th inning. Unfortunately the Crushers got
crushed. Oh well. We all had good time relaxing and eating snacks.

Enjoy the pics
-Garvin (^_^)

Yay! Jenna is in town for the week! Today we celebrated her BDay! It was a baseball themed BDay Party. Everyone
wore baseball gear. We played wiffle ball and had a BBQ cook out. The movie for the night was Major League.
Baskin-Robbins did it again... and made an AWESOME baseball cake.

Enjoy the pics. Happy BDay Jenna!
-Garvin (^_^)

p.s. Made a "Jenna Trip Misc" Album for all the random pics we might take while she's in town.

Yay for Father's Day! Leah, Becka, and I headed up to Ho-Wah to surprise dad with a card. I drew a chubby panda
bear, cause we got dad anUrban Active gym pass. After Ho-Wah, Mama, Leah, Becka, and I went to Brio for brunch.
Then we shopped the calories away at the Rack.

Happy Father's Day!
-Garvin (^_^)

YAY! for anniversaries. It's that time again kiddies. Becka and I made our yearly pilgrimage to Pittsburgh for our
anniversary. On the way there we stopped off at the Grove City Prime Outlet mall, so Becka could check out the Juicy
store. The drive was ok... excluding the monsoon that hit us on the way to the outlet mall and the 15 minute wait to
cross the Liberty Bridge.

The view from the restaraunt was cloudy but spectacular. The food was fresh and AMAZING as usual. Becka had the
ahi tuna, and I had stuffed jumbo sea scallops. What were they stuffed with you might ask yourself... crab cake of course.
Mmmmm. Surprisingly what stole the show was their new dessert. It was called an Oreo lollipop. It consisted of a ball
of chocolate mousse, dipped in chocolate, and rolled in Oreo cookies... oh yeah there was creamy gooey caramel in the
center too. WOW!

When we got back home, we swung by the McDonald's to have a nightcap which consisted of a sweat tea and a
small fry.

Happy 6th Anniversary!
-Garvin (^_^)

Today we went to Dad's place so Mama S. could get some Chinese food and see mom and dad. The food was top-notch
as usual. We had soup with shrimp chips, steak, duck, fish, bbq pork, and coconut shrimp. We had a good time stuffing
out faces with Chinese food. Afterwards, we hit up Nordstrom Rack to shop off the calories.

I've tucked all the pics in the "HoWah and More" Album. There you will find a couple pics of us at #1Pho as well.

Enjoy the pics.
-Garvin (^_^)

After work we went to Lolita for Mama S's BDay. We all had a great time there. The food again was AMAZING!
Everyone got the roast pig special. This time is was piggy with some beans, spicy sausage, and a little crispy skin to
top it off. It was sooooo good. I know I'll be dreaming about it later. For dessert we had a grab bag of tasty treats.
They had really good Guinness gelato.

Enjoy the tasty Pics.... Happy BDay Mama S.
-Garvin (^_^)

Yay Mama S., Leah, and Becka made potato pancakes and blueberry pancakes this morning. Bfast was rounded off
with some sausage from Gibb's Butcher Block Mmmmm.

Later in the day I met up with Teresa, Gary and Mama to hit up the Berea Rib Cookoff. We got half slabs from Texas Pit,
Smokin' T's, and Armadillo's. After we stuffed our faces with meat and corn, we found the only place that sold jumbo beef
ribs. Note to self... Desperado's is where we need to start the rib fest next year. We also won 6 fishes at the ping pong
game tent. Mama, Gary, and I used to do that ALL the time back in the day.

Ugg all meat-ed out. Enjoy the pics
-Garvin (^_^)

Fun fun. Took Mama S to the Cle Art Museum. It's been around 7 years since I've been to the Art Museum. I used to do
a lot of studying and drawing there. Luckily for us since they are renovating the entire museum admission was FREE.
The didn't have all their exhibits open, but it was good to to walk around. They had some good pieces (Monet, Warhol,
and Rodin Mmmmm).

After taking in the exhibits, we when to Little Italy to eat and buy some snacks. We ate at Trattoria's and then got snacks
at Corbo's Bakery.

Enjoy the pics
-Garvin (^_^)

Mama Shaffer is in town for the WHOLE week. We went to the West Side Market today to take in the sites and pick up a
couple of things. The weather was AMAZING! When we got there, we parked next to a fresh new BENTLEY! We saw
tons of tasty food. We even picked up some flowers for Mama S's room. After we dropped off our stuff we hit up Gibb's
Butcher Block for their weekly sausage sampling. They have a ton of good/unique sausages there.

Enjoy the pics
-Garvin (^_^)

p.s. You might also noticed I have primed some empty photo albums under May.... they'll get filled with fun pics later in
the week.

Yay! Today is Mike's BDay. We (Becka and I) got him an Uber-Limited-Edition Canon thermos that looks like a Canon
lens. Apparently, only a few hundred were made for a Canon press-release at the last winter Olympics. Regardless, it
looks Super-Cool! Also, he got a cool 3rd Gen Ambient Weather Clock with color changing dial.

Happy Birthday Mike!
-Garvin (^_^)

p.s. Wahoo! Another friend in the 29 club.

Feeling old today. The guys surprised be with some cupcakes for my 7 year anniversary at Codonics. Ugg... I think I'm
one of the "old guys" now :-\

LOL! Yay for more anniversaries!
-Garvin (^_^)

p.s. Yes that would be a ninja turtle on my notepad.

Apparently Saturday was the day to hold food festivals

Round 1
We (Melinda, Tony, Alicia, Bill, Becka, and I) met up at Paramatown Mall for the Pierogi Festival. We ate pretty much
something from each stand. A couple highlights:
  +Hotdog pierogi combo… don't knock it till you try it.
  +Baked chicken pierogi.
  +Eating giant pierogi at the end of the round.

Round 2
After we were full, we went to the first annual Asian Festival in Chinatown. We met up with Martin, Jackie, Kelvin, and
Mama. The turnout was a lot better than I thought and it was well organized. Most Asian cultures were accounted for:
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, Polynesian. A couple highlights:
  +All the Asian food.
  +Sumo wrestling with Bill and me.
  +Tony destroying kid's dad in sumo.
  +More food.
  +Korean martial arts demo.
  +Eggroll eating contest.
  +Awesome henna artist. Becka got something done on her hand.
  +I bought a super-cool ramen pin.

Bonus Round
Since we were in the neighborhood we hit up Greenhouse Tavern for some dinner. Of course I HAD to order the animal
style fries (reference previous post for why the fries are so awesome).

But wait there's more Round
We hit up Parmatown Mall to get our cars and some dessert, which consisted of Mallie's, Orange Julius, and Dairy Queen.
Afterwards we topped off the night with Shrek 2.

Defineitly a loooong day. The belly is really full and happy.
-Garvin (^_^)

p.s. Over 5000 people showed up... even the Cleveland Mayor made an appearance. The Sunday Plain Dealer ran an
article on the event (link).

Updated House Album with Becka's Ratatouille's ratatouille pics.

Mmmmm
-Garvin (^_^)

Hi Gang

Been super-busy at work, hence the Update-A-Palooza. You know the drill.

May-2nd: House Album Update. Becka made some potato pancakes. Mmmmm
May-18th: Tony BDay Album. Celebrated Tony's bday with some dimsum and some Corbo's cake at Mama's place.
May-17th: Codonics Album Update. Pretty much crammed all of Codonics Eng in Hong Kong Palace to meet up with Cindy
and Chris.

Enjoy the pics.
-Garvin (^_^)

Becka and I went to the CAVS play off game tonight. We bought the tix from Ross. The seats were good. The CAVS were
a bit shaky to start but they came through in the end. Afterwards, we me up with Stephen and had some amazing snacks at
Greenhouse Tavern. The Animal Fries were AMAZING! It's fries with cheese, gravy, bacon, mustard, and a fried egg.
Mmmm.

Enjoy the pics
-Garvin (^_^)

Codonics clean up day. Glenn and I found some super cool lab coats.

enjoy
-Garvin (^_^)