All You Need Is Love!

We celebrated our first Valentine's Day as a married couple last night. Drinks at Granite City and then dinner at (my favorite) Pittsburgh Blue. Our meal was awesome, but nothing could compare to spending a nice quiet evening together.

HBD Recording Session!!!

Jason had the opportunity of a life time this weekend! He and his band, Home Before Dark, recorded a couple of songs!!! It was quite time consuming (we were there for 4 hours and didn't even finish two songs), but so much fun! It was interesting to see how things all come together. I can't wait to hear the finished products!

Have a peek at the process:

Setting up and practicing before recording the music.

Jason preparing to record his vocals.

Jason is in there singing his heart out. Not exactly what I pictured a sound booth to look like, but it worked!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

With plans to go to a casino in...IA (NOT my idea) squashed by the weather, we decided to stay local. The Stanchion is was! We had lots of fun ringing in the new year with Jenny & Don.

While 2010 was beyond fantastic, I think 2011 is going to be even better. We are beyond blessed to have such awesome friends and family and more so, each other. That being said, 2011...let's do this thing!!!

Christmas 2010

One of the our FAVORITE times of the year...CHRISTMAS!! We spent Christmas Eve with my parents, Tina, Pete & Grace. After church on Christmas Day, we went to my aunt & uncle's house to celebrate with my whole family. Unfortunately, we weren't able to see Jason's mom...HOPEFULLY next year!

Here are a couple of pics from Christmas Eve and one 'special' video of my mom.

Deer Hunting 2010 = Epic Fail

We went deer hunting in November and spent all of three days sitting in deer stands in sweatshirts. I was the only one who even SAW a deer (a little advice...don't ask me about it). Here are a couple of snaps from the week and basically how each day went:

WATCH THE SUNRISE

GOOF AROUND A LITTLE

MAKE SURE MY GUN IS READY!

(yep...it's there, sideways, but there)

WATCH FOR DEER

(Jason is WAAAAAAAAY across the woods)

WATCH THE SUNSET

We then went back to the house, ate supper and went to bed. Ready to go dark and early the next morning....

Redneck Date Night

Saturday night date night at the Corcoran Lions Park Demo Derby. It was a very romantic evening, just the two of us (and about a thousand other people).

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.........HONEYMOON!!!!

We left MSP VERY early in the morning and arrived in PV around 1:30 pm. It was a very long day, but after we got through...

Mexican CUSTOMS...

We were happy to arrive at our resort, check out our room

and HIT THE POOL/BAR!!!!

This is the swim up bar/restaurant called Shipwreck Kelly's. They had great food, awesome drinks & really cool staff!

What a show off!

My studly cabana boy...

Us and Nicholle & Eric at the Flamingos resort next door. They had a much nicer pool, so we spent a day there.

After eating at Sandrino's in Bucerias. The owners are a Canadian woman and a Greek man. They have quite an eclectic menu. The food was DELISH!

We were on our Booze Cruise here and preparing to go snorkeling. Yes...Booze Cruise & snorkeling. One would think they don't mix, but all the drinking really takes any fear out of it.

One stop on the Booze Cruise was a private beach. The lizard was gross.

Here we all are snorkeling. Somehow pics got out of order. That was one of the most memorable moments of my life thus far.

Here is the beautiful dolphin we swam with. We were unable to take pictures of the actual event, but it was AWESOME and something I will never forget!!!

At the water park. Mexican and American water parks are very different. There were absolutely no lifeguards in Mexico. Apparently anything goes.

Dolphins are so beautiful and SOOO smart!

Nicholle, Eric, Me and Jason on our way to Rhythm of the Nights. Yet another all you can drink/eat adventure. We did ourselves proud.

Our farewell dinner at the resort. The buffet was AMAZING!

Adios, Amigos!!!!