We sing...

Yesterday, I was given free tickets to a Jason Mraz concert from Starlight Washington for some past volunteering . I called Christian, he called the grandparents and they graciously agreed to watch West so we could go to the show and it was amazing. West was happy about that and they had lots of fun together. As for the show, the opening act was an amazing Irish artist called Lisa Hannigan. She has a beautiful voice and a really fun Bjork+Tori Amos+Jenny Lewis vibe. She did a duet with Jason called "lucky" and it is the sweetest song ever.

Jason was, of course, incredible. He played a lot of earlier tunes and some new as well, and even threw in a little "Daddy sang Bass" to really get the crowd going. The stage at the Paramount was fantastic. While the crew was finishing set-up and tuning, there were screens on stage showing pictures people were emailing in from their cell phones. So...Westley's picture was on stage at a Jason Mraz show!



We emailed one of his Gnome pictures to a special address and in about a minute it was in the rotation on the screen! You can see here we even got one of the picture up toward the end of the show with the the band on stage.
West wasn't the only gnome in the venue though, since the percussionist actually had a little Garden Gnome at his Bongos all night! How great is that?!

YES WE CAN!

Tonight, November 4th 20087, Barack Obama was has been elected 44th President of The United States!
Words can't begin express how proud, how inspired, I am to be alive in America at this very moment. I believe tonight is the beginning of the best 4 years this country has ever seen, and I am so thrilled to

witness this event of such monumental, history-making proportions in my lifetime, and especially in West's.

Thor and more...

We've really enjoyed all the Halloween festivities this fall. West and I went to a party for our mommy-and-me group and had a fantastic time with all the kids and their moms, enjoyed some great food and fun and we even won for best costumes! As you can see from the Halloween slide show to the right, West was the world's most precious Gnome, "Gnestle the Gnome" to be exact, and I was a gardener!

On Halloween night, West snoozed away with Grandpa Bill watching over him while Christian and I went to Scott's place for a Halloween Bash with good friends. Everyone really had a wonderful time, the costumes were hilarious and inventive and all of us had so much fun! Christian even won 1st place in the costume contest for his depiction of Thor, God of Thunder. I, dressed as Sif, Goddess of the Harvest, looked on proudly as he accepted an excellent prize of DVDs and some other treasures.
Thanks, Scott, for bringing THE PARTY home!!

It's been a great October and we are gearing up for a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration in a few weeks,
and preparation for all the Winter Holidays.
It's baking time!!!!