Our Niece Has Arrived!

I went into Yoga last night as Suzanne and came out of Yoga as Aunt Suzanne! Our first niece for the both of us was born last night in Oregon. Ella Saige is her name and we are tickeled......well.....PINK that she is here! And it's so good to finally know her name! We can't wait to meet her and introduce ourselves to her. We can't wait to spoil her rotten!

We don't have any pictures yet, but hopefully her grandparents will be visiting her today and will take a bunch for us.

Lance and I don't have much practice holding babies so he decided to practice last night when we found out Ella had come into the world.

He's going to be such a good uncle! Ella is very lucky to have him looking out for her! Even though he probably won't want to hold her until she is 1 and he probably won't be standing in line to change any diapers either!

Love,
Suzanne

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween everyone! Halloween fell on our 3 day weekend this year but we didn't have anything exciting planned. We decided to rent a DVD, watch the World Series and relax while passing out candy. We actually had trick-or-treaters this year which was so exciting to us! In all the different places Lance and I have lived in there have never been any trick-or-treaters. This year we had about 30 little kids.

We didn't dress up this year, in fact we haven't dressed up since the first year we started dating. Below is a picture of Lance and I the year we did dress up. I think it was 2004. Maybe next year we will dress up..............maybe!


Murphy doesn't let us dress her up, so we decided to take a picture of her when she's looking ferocious! Can you see her little fangs coming out? She was our little bat kitty this year! =)

We don't torture her I swear! She is very loved and cared for!! =)

We hope everyone had a fun, safe and relaxing Halloween!
Love,
Suzanne

6 Month Anniversary!

Well, 6 months ago today Lance and I said "I do"!! I can't believe it has already been 6 months! Where did the time go??
Here is one of the pictures we took from the hotel. It was taken in front of our beautiful flower arch. I LOVED our flowers! I can't say enough good things about them. I loved everything about our wedding. I wouldn't change anything!

On our 6 month anniversary we were really hoping for an Angel victory. That didn't happen. What an amazing few weeks of baseball though. The Angels swept the Boston Red Sox in 3 games and we were able to see 2 of those 3 wins in the ALDS. The American League Championship Series against the Yankees went 6 games and we were able to see all 3 home games for that series as well. I can't get over some of the games we saw! They were sooooo good! Here are some pictures of our last few games.

We sure did enjoy our baseball season this year. As always we are looking forward to Spring Training next year! Since the Angels didn't make it to the World Series we might actually be able to take a vacation now. We had tickets to all 4 World Series homes games which cost us a fortune. We used our vacation savings to pay for the tickets but now we can put that money into savings and watch the Phillies kill the Yankees!

Until next year Angel fans! And happy 6 month anniversary Lance!
Love,
Suzanne
P.S. Our digital camera died on us so we are left to taking pictures with our BlackBerrys. Not the best pictures ever but better than none right??? =)

Collision with the moon!

Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in FOREVER! I'm back though! I just needed sometime off to recover from 2 weddings, moving, and settling into our wonderful new place.

This is just going to be a quick post, but I promise I have a bunch of posts lined up! I just wanted everyone to know that NASA has a satellite colliding with the moon and my (Lance's too!) company built that satellite! CNN did a write up on it and if you are up early tomorrow morning turn on the NASA channel or go online and check it out!

We are having a huge viewing event here at work but unfortunately Lance and I won't be attending. We will be going to Game 1 of the Angel game tonight and Game 2 tomorrow! 4:30am is just a little too early to be at work when there is an Angel game the night before!

Go Angels and good luck LCROSS!

Love,
Suzanne

Murphy and Moving

Since we don't have kids to blog about, I will be blogging today about our feline child. Now, whenever there is commotion going on in the house Murphy has a hard time dealing with it. For example, the Friday before our wedding, Tracy and I were running around the apartment packing two cars full of stuff we needed for the rehearsal that night and the wedding the next day. We wouldn't be coming back until Sunday afternoon so we wanted to make sure we got everything. With all the running back and forth and the hurry we still needed to get changed, and the 20 million reviews of the checklist, it was all too much for our little Murphy to handle. So, she puked. Twice. I'm standing there in heels, make-up, hair all done and in a beautiful rehearsal dress cleaning up cat puke. Lovely. So based on that experience I was not looking forward to the move that was about to be happening in a month. She actually handled the packing and the moving better than I expected. She didn't puke, but I mean really. Why would she? I wasn't all dressed up! While I was going through my drawers and purging things I didn't need anymore, Murphy decided she was going to go exploring.....into the hole where the drawer went.

I couldn't believe she jumped in there. It's not a very big hole and it was 4 drawers up! And Murphy is not exactly a spring chicken anymore! Crazy kitty for sure!

When we got to our new place we were very excited to see how she was going to like the stairs. Murphy has never climbed any stairs in her 11 years so this was going to be a new experience. We let her out of her cat carrier upstairs and she immediately took refuge in our closet. Which, as Cat learned when she kitty sat Murphy when we were on our honeymoon, is exactly the place she goes to hide. She spent all of Saturday rolled up like a ball in the closet deciding if she was going to come out or not. Finally Saturday night she did. As a proud mama, I took a picture of her first stair climb!

All these pictures were taken off my cell phone so sorry for the not so great quality! But these were her first stair steps and I was glad I got to take a picture of them. Now that we've been here almost a week, she loves running up and down them and playing on them. Who would have thunk it?!?!?!

So, maybe because this place is new or something she has really been exploring some pretty unusual spots. The other day I was putting some things away in the linen closet and she walked right up to it and went right in and sat down. Behind the towels.

She normally comes out once she realized you are closing the door on her!

She has also decided she is going to inspect any open box.

She used to sleep through the night. Not anymore. Too many places to explore and things to do. She really enjoys jumping on us early in the morning to see if we are awake. Is this what having children is going to be like??? We maybe reconsidering! =)

Love,

Suzanne

Moving

No, we haven't fallen off the face of the earth.....we've just been moving! We moved into our new place this weekend and we are so excited to be there! We are slightly overwhelmed with where to begin unpacking, but slowly it's getting done!

We don't have any Internet yet, so when we do I will update with stories and pictures of our new place.

Oh, for any of you who like wedding shows, our friends Jared and Bindi got married in November and "Whose Wedding Is It Anyway" filmed their wedding! It is airing tonight (sorry for the late notice) on the Style Network. Their show episode is called Double Trouble. It's called that because they had two weddings in one day. One Hindu and one traditional. We went to both and they were both absolutely beautiful! I can't wait to watch it! They normally reply those shows a lot over the summer so I'm sure if you miss it tonight, you'll be able to catch again in the next week or so.

Have a great night!
Love,
Suzanne

Lightning and Thunder

Dear Lightning and Thunder,

Was it really necessary to come rolling through at 2 o'clock in the morning? I was still up at 11pm. If you wanted to show us your fantastic light show you could have done it then. Or how about 5:30am when my alarm went off? I would have enjoyed the thunder then. But 2am, no, I really didn't enjoy it too much then!

Lightning and thunder, you don't come and visit us often here in So Cal, and the next time you do, can you please keep the visiting hours to when I'm awake. Your little middle of the night wake up call has left me extremely tired this morning!

I hear you are supposed to be visiting us again on Friday. Twice in one week. How did we get so lucky? Keep in mind, Friday's visiting hours are only between the hours of 9am and 5pm.

Love,
Suzanne