It's Alive!

I a made a comment on Caroline's last post about her spatula, and guess what...she didn't throw it away. Apparently it was just too good of a spatula to get rid of, so we still have it, although it is now a mini-handled spatula. : )

Breaking Binge

There have been various times in my life when I go through a binge...not an alcohol or drinking binge, but rather a breaking binge. I appear to be in one now. First, I broke a glass at NH and Ashley's house. Next, I somehow managed to tear apart our fitted sheet during the middle of the night while I was sleeping. Not near my feet or anything, but underneath my mid-back. And then the other night while I was making some cookies I managed to break a spatula. Now I wasn't doing anything labor intensive with it, I was merely scooping out some shortening from a can. So let me apologize in advance if I come to your house and break something. I don't mean too, I am just binging!

Pics of the Planetarium

I just thought I would post a few more pics of the planetarium we saw in California and one of my cute wife.

Everything you can Imagine and More

As Caroline mentioned we went to a car show in Vegas last week, the SEMA Show to be exact. It is for aftermarket car jive, like rims, turbo chargers, body kits, etc. and is only open to those in the industry and the media (and spouses in Caroline's case). Despite this it is one of the largest car shows in the world, with tons of international attendees and everything you can imagine and more, from exotics and luxury cars, to offroaders and econo boxes, but all are decked out. With all those sweet cars everywhere it was amazing how quickly we were saying, oh just another Porsche, another GT-R, another Rolls. Here is a very small sampling of what there was there. I am curious to see if you can even figure out what some of them are. Post them in the comments, a point for each one...and no peaking. If you need to see a full-sized version click on the picture. Oh and that is a machine gun mounted on the fender of the second to last one.



















If you are still interested in seeing more I have been posting batches of them on www.motorcities.com

Phew

I just finished my thesis defense. I passed with minor revisions. I am relived, but not feeling too excited about having to actually work on it anymore. Mostly I just feel really tired now after that all the adrenaline and anxiety has worn off.

Last weekend

Last weekend Brad and I went to LV and LA. It was great. Warm weather, friends, family and plenty of hamburgers. (For those of you who don't know, I love hamburgers. Funny that I was a vegetarian for so long...) Anyways we went to a car show in Las Vegas, I did some clothes shopping in Vegas, and then we headed to Cali., where the sun is bright and the traffic is plentiful. Here are a couple of pics. I am going to let Brad post the car pics he wants from the car show...hint hint Brad.

This is at the Griffiths Observatory near NH and Ashley's house.Got to love those birds of paradise.NH and Ashley are much more hip than us.

This is a good resemblance of Brad's life. Him just trying to get along and live life and me hassling him most of the time.

This is the Wann family. That is my sister and her husband Guy and their children.This is a reenactment of their "engagement" photos.That's me and Brad at the Wann's house.

Two Little Chefs

My friend Kelly and I started a blog about food and cooking. We will be cooking together and I will be doing the photography for the site. Check it out. So far we only have the one recipe posted, but we plan to update regularly. If you like it, please forward it to your friends. Cheers.

Patrice gets Bored at Night

I do not know if we have mentioned Patrice before or not, but she is our friendly neighborhood ghost and all michief in our house gets blamed on her. Our computer chair that loves to creak when no one is in the room and messes that...ummm...no one made.















Anyway, she is up to a new trick it seems. A couple of times over the last year our TV has just magically turned itself on. Last night though Patrice was apparently quite bored, because at 2am, Caroline got up to go to the bathroom and the TV was on. Of course she turned it off, but then when I got up at the 7:30am for my meeting it was on again. That naughty girl.

Good News

Today I got the go ahead from my thesis chair to submit my thesis to my entire committee and schedule a defense date. I am very happy. I am almost done! Yeah!

Halloween Politics

Okay, so I totally stole this off of Erin's blog, but I had to post it too.

Aaaah those Heady Days of Summer

For some reason my computer saw fit to remove my desktop background. Thus, my first priority this morning was to find a suitable replacement. While doing so I came across some pictures from some of our summer adventures and I must say that fall arrived sooner than it should have. By the way if you click on the pic you should get a jumbo version.

Wiiiiiiiiiii

Trav and Kelly having a blast trying to knock each other out.

Getting Ready for Halloween

Caroline has been really excited about Halloween, buying plenty of candy, even though we don't get trick or treaters, and so today we cut pumpkins. Here they are. Any guesses as to whose is whose?

Brad's Birthday!!

Brad had a birthday on Saturday, so we spent the day celebrating. We had a lazy morning and opened birthday presents, we then went and made some purchases and went for a casual hike in the mountains. That evening Brad and I went to PF Changs and ate some delicious food. After which we had some friends over for cake and ice cream and a little wii competition.

Brad owning the soccer field (as usual) the day before his birthday.

That's us on the big day.

Brad's cake. I made a two-layer chocolate cake with a rasberry frosting filling, chocolate frosting everywhere else, and blueberries on top.

A little tribute to my Brad. He is a wonderful person, a great man, and an extraordinary husband and he has so many talents. I am so happy that he married me and puts up with me everyday.

I love you Brad.

For ME

All I want for Christmas is a little kittty like this! Sure it might grow up and eat me, but hey, you have to make some sacrifices in life for what you want most.