First Dance

I just uploaded video of our first dance. The first part is sideways, but not for too long...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWD10ji6Z0M

Not your average "salty dog"

Last weekend Hercules and I took some lunch and went to hang out with Nick on the water taxi (Nick's assignment for the day.) It was such a beautiful day and Hercules had so much fun being out on the boat!

Jeff-fa-fa Dunham

Last month I got to plan a special date night for Nick and I. Everything was a total surprise to him except for the fact that I was taking him out. We started out with dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse (thanks to a gift card I received) followed by tickets to see Jeff Dunham. Fortunately, I was able to keep everything, including the tickets to the show, a secret. Nick didn't even know that Jeff had a show here in SD that night. We made it all the way up to the ticket booth by the main entrance before we finally saw a poster for the show! Then I was picked up off my feet and spun in a circle while Nick kept repeating, "Are you serious?!... Really?! Are you serious?!" =)

For those who may not have heard of Jeff, he is a ventriloquist and is hysterical! His show was great! Neither of us had laughed like that in a while!! And we had GREAT seats too!!

Here are a couple pictures and videos I took at the show... The videos are a little muffled, but I think you should be able to still make out most of what they're saying.

He also has a lot of videos posted on Youtube at www.youtube.com/jeffdunham

The intro... Achmed

Jeff with Walter

Jeff and Achmed

Peanut, Jeff & Jose Jalapeno... on a steeeeeeeek!

Walter & Jeff discussing Indians.... from India vs. Native Americans

Achmed sings the blues...

Read the other post first...

Santa's not the only one who came for Christmas this year!!

Keeping with my theme of 2008, I'm behind in my Christmas posting too... But, I'm right on time for wishing everyone a Happy New Year!! (that's better =)

My Mom flew out to visit Nick and I for a couple of weeks over Christmas. It was so nice to have her here! It'd been a few years since I'd gotten to be with my family on Christmas.

The night she flew in we wound up going to see the Dancing With the Stars tour. Nick's mom had gotten three free tickets that day and invited Mom and I to go with her...









On Sunday night (the 21st), Nick, Mom and I headed over to Coronado for some pizza, the Parade of Lights (people decorate their boats up in lights and parade them around the bay), and a visit to the Hotel Del Coronado to check out their Christmas tree. On Christmas Day we (Nick, Mom, Hercules & I) got up and each opened the goodies that Santa left us in our stockings! We then, somewhat quickly, opened our presents from each other since Nick had to leave for work around 9:15am. Of course, he didn't quite leave on time because who can really open up their gifts and not play with them a little?!? =) Plus, by then we were watching Scott and family open their gifts from us and it's pretty hard to tear yourself away from the webcam when you can see them having so much fun!... Mom and I enjoyed a relaxing day at home and then, when Nick got home from work, we all headed over to Kay-Marie and Gerardo's house for the big family Christmas dinner and gift exchange. After, we made our way back to our house for some birthday cake, ice cream and presents!

Side note: In the pictures you'll notice our pretty new red walls!! After the St Nicholas Day party we un-decorated, moved everything out (except the tree!) and painted the living room and dining room so it'd be ready for Mom's visit.


OK... I've been trying for almost half an hour to insert the slide show into this posting, but it's not working. Apparently I can only do it in a new post or it has to be inserted before I type or add anything else. What a pain!! So... I'll post those separately. I give up! I'll also include some before, during and after photos of our living room and dining room!