Our new house...

Nate and I purchased a new house in Marina Bay. It's located on the old Kaiser shipyards from WWII (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Bay,_Richmond,_California). Thrive! It's not built yet but will be ready in March or April of 2008. It's a great house for us right now because it will cut Nate's work commute by about 10 minutes, it will fit all of our furniture, and it has the perfect laundry room to put the kitty litter box when Nate gets the cat that he's been wanting. I'm hoping that when I get my weenie dog I can teach her to do her number two's in there too :-)

Here's some pictures of the model...

-Megan

European Holiday

My mom will be vacationing in Europe sometime next year. This is a preview of what her trip might look like:

-Nate

Photoshop is FUN!

If anyone would like commemorative buttons of our trip to NYC, here ya go:





Remember those word association questions on standardized tests? Here's one for you. Indiana Jones is to the Idol as Nate is to...

-Nate

The Big Apple and Our Engagement

Last week we headed to New York City to see Grease and go to the U.S. Open. I also planned a bunch of other things to do while we were there including the Statue of Liberty, a World Trade Center tour, harbor cruise, NYC TV and Movie sites tour, and more. Unfortunately, I planned so much the first day we were there that I forgot to schedule in time to eat. Needless to say, I didn't let Nate eat anything until 5pm...oops.
I guess he forgave me because to my surprise Nate had been doing a little planning of his own and surprised me with an engagement ring on the top of the Empire State Building. Here's some pictures. (You can see more pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/meganadpi/)

"Danny" and "Sandy" from GREASE


The cast of GREASE


Row boats in Central Park




The Brooklyn Bridge


Empire State Building




Nate and his ice cream


My mother ship...the FRIENDS apartment building


U.S. Open

-Megan

Bums of drum corps

Every year, my inner band geek craves field show performances, and accordingly we find a local drum corps competition to attend.

Weekend before last, Megan and I went down to Stanfurd to see the DCI West Championship. We were treated to some amazing corps from all over the US including the Blue Devils, Santa Clara Vanguard, the Seattle Cascades, and the Cadets among others. These pictures and videos certainly don't do them justice, but the performances were absolutely awesome.

-Nate

San Francisco Zoo

Nate surprised me with a new camera last week so this weekend we went to the zoo to have a photo competition. We got some really good pictures and decided the competition was a tie. However, when we looked at the pictures closer we realized my camera has two dead pixels...so Nate won the competition by default and we'll have to send my camera back. Here's some of the pictures we took...

Megan's Pictures

Nate's Pictures

-Megan

Extreme Makeover...Car Edition

Ty Pennington stopped by tonight to work on Megan's car...

Luckily, he was able to make some improvements. Here's the results...

She decided to give her old car to me!

-Nate

4th of July with Mickey and family

We headed down to Southern California on 4th of July to spend two days at Disneyland. Unfortunately, we missed the new Nemo submarine ride because we really didn't want to spend two hours waiting in line for it. Oh well, maybe the line will be shorter next time. Two great things that we did see were the "Jedi Training Academy" at Disneyland and "Aladdin", a musical, at California Adventure. Check them out if you are there. It's definitely worth seeing. While we were down there we also spent a couple of days with Nate's family and had dinner with my friends Shelly and Sam.
Here are some pictures (to see all the photos, check out my new Flickr page by clicking the link on the right)...

Nate and Lego Vader


We made Shelly and Sam go to Red Lobster with us because the closest one we have in the Bay Area is in Vallejo! That's just criminal.


4th of July fireworks from our hotel




Jedi Training Academy










We had to hold really still for this picture!


Aladdin


Nate and his cousin, Brittany

Nate's grandpa

-Megan

Marin County Fair

Here's a few pictures from the fair on Saturday...

-Megan