January in April

This might just become a habit...posting every other month, catching up on the larger items of our life. It is a shame that I don't document the smaller things that make our life so enjoyable together, ah, to be a fly on the wall during our nightly conversations, the odd stuff I come up with, the humorous responses from my witty husband and our ever going infatuation with out-"drawing" each other with whose stick figures are the coolest and who can guess our clues fastest, if you have no clue what we're talking about then you should really download "Draw Something" app for your smart phone and start a game with one of us. In other "small" news Brad and I have beat Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 on our Playstation, now we have to go back and get 100% by casting spells on all the things we couldn't during our first round. It's silly, I know, two grown adults, playing video games, and not even adult video games! I'm sad that we won't have any more Lego Harry Potter games. I guess I'll have to find another one that strikes my fancy (and more importantly, matches my skill level). Now, onto the bigger stories and catching up... January I went on a trip to Tahoe with my friend Erica. It was pretty sad to see Tahoe so barren over MLK Jr Day! That's usually a huge ski weekend and Tahoe was lacking an ever so important ingredient to skiing...SNOW. You can see some snow on the beach, on the logs, but pretty much the pictures remind me of summer, certainly not winter, except for maybe the fact that I'm wearing a beanie.

The big even for January was BRAD'S BIRTHDAY! The big 29! I can't believe I'm married to someone who's almost 30, still seems so old and far away... Brad's parents came to town for the weekend, we went out to dinner at Old Fisherman's Grotto and on Saturday we had a dinner party with friends. It also just so happens that Devin recently moved to CA and his birthday is 2 days before Brad's so we did a double celebration candle blow-out. I'm really horrible at taking pictures of others, I've decided I'm completely obsessed with Brad and nature/details and pretty much nothing else...so...sorry to not represent the occasion very well with who was there with us, but for fun,here's the roll call: Rita, Kim, Devin, Michael, Gabi, Kai, Erica, Brad, and myself.

Last even in January, we went to an art exhibit opening. They had a women's Japanese drumming group that was awesome and then the art itself was very unique. I really found the safety pin artwork intriguing. Art is so subjective, but I liked some of this stuff. If you look closely you can see the safety pins, and also paper clips wrapped in newspaper and other paper scraps.

This is all the blogging energy I can muster tonight. You will have to wait to see what exciting adventures we've been up to in February and March.

Playing Catch-Up

So, I haven't been very good at keeping this thing up to date...and honestly, I haven't been very good about taking pictures, not even one during Christmas. Now I can blame that on the lack of memory card, but I think I've just been feeling guilty (or liberated) about not posting anything on the blog or facebook and therefore haven't taken to my normal shutterbug tendencies. But here are a few pictures I HAVE managed to take in hopes of catching up with the present. So here it goes... November brought on some rain.

In December I went to LA with some friends, we say Jay Leno at a comedy club, walked around Rodeo Drive, went to a museum, wandered around the Chinese Theater where all the hand/foot prints are, and were audience members on Let's Make A Deal and The Price is Right. But that's not all...Erica won big on the TPIR, she won the showcase showdown!!!

I won tickets to a meet & greet with Parachute at a Christmas concert. they were AMAZING. I also got to meet Rachel Platten, I LOVE her music, so upbeat and catchy, reminds me of Ingrid Michaelson.

December also brought on a slew of Christmas parties, first was Brad's work party, then my work party, then a union party, and finally a friend's party. All of which were awesome in their own ways.

We spent Christmas in Utah and had a good time hanging out with friends and family! It's fun to see all the nieces and nephews and family. New Year's we spent with my family at my aunt's annual New Year's party. This is about as much blogging as I can handle for now. Next time I'll catch up on January/February...and whatever other months pass before I update again, but I will try to be better.

6 Years Later...

...I still have the best husband for me and we're still falling deeper and deeper in love. We have our ups and downs but it just makes us stronger. Everyday I see things and do things that I know if I were with anyone else it wouldn't be the same. I am more myself than ever and it's because of Brad and his endless faith and acceptance. Our anniversary this year is a little on the strange side. It was yesterday, but we only saw each other for a little while in the morning before heading off to work. We celebrated on Thursday by going out to dinner at Old Fisherman's Grotto. It was delicious. The night ended with the waiter giving me a rose, which I thought was so sweet. Since it was a work night we just went home after dinner and watched our usual Thursday night TV. Very low-key but that's how we roll. Today I'm headed to the East Coast with my mom. Brad is up in Mendocino at a spear diving competition. I'm excited to explore New England and hopefully the weather holds out for us and we don't get too much rain. I hope Brad has good weather this weekend, it's no fun to dive in huge swells. He really loves free diving, and he is so good at spear fishing it's scary. I think if we ever had to "live off the land" we would be fine, Brad would be able to get fish for us to eat any time. Now, I just need to "acquire" the taste for lingcod...then we'll be set for life. I'm so impressed with his skills. He continues to amaze me all the time with his ability to learn anything and excel at it. The past 6 years have flown by, and I'm eager and excited for the future!