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

Happy Birthday Shelly!

-Megan

Hangin' Tough

This weekend I went to work with Nate and he took time out of his recent 80 hour work weeks (that's not a joke) so we could put up the larger than life-size LaDainian Tomlinson that I bought him for his birthday. It is ginormous but fits perfectly in his office.

Then I started on my own task of hanging my art. I started with my bedroom, measured very carefully and was shocked when I hung everything level.

For the living room I framed and matted pictures we took while in Greece. I used the new math Nate taught me and drew many lines on the walls. Thankfully, it worked.

-Megan

Happy Birthday Nate!

Some highlights of the first 32 years...

-Megan

Doggies have birthdays too...

Happy Birthday, Bailey!

-Nate

Mendocino

This weekend we flew to Mendocino with our friends, Kareem and Taylor. They are both excellent pilots. It was a quick one hour flight to get there (traveling by car would have taken around 5 hours). We met up with some of their other friends who are also pilots. We ate lunch and walked around the small town and oceanside then flew back to the Bay Area later that afternoon. Here are some pictures...

Kareem and Taylor










Nate taking the controls

-Megan