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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Happy Birthday, Jasper!

Happy 1st Birthday to our nephew, Jasper!

You surprised us all by coming so early... and had to spend 2 weeks in the NICU...

But soon enough you were big and strong

Not to mention cute

And funny

You look just like your daddy in Uncle BB's glasses.

We had so much fun hanging out with you at Christmas!

Friday, December 19, 2008

More Adventures in Aviation...

Earlier this month, on our way back from England, we were stuck on the plane for 5 hours while they changed the landing gear. We ended up being 5 1/2 hours late landing.
Last night, we arrived in St Louis 20 hours late!

Now that I have your attention, we set off to the Burbank Airport on Wednesday to catch our Burbank to St Louis via Las Vegas plane. We were really excited because Ashton was leaving from LAX and headed to Chicago, but was going to have a stop in Las Vegas at the same time and we were going to try to meet him there for a bite. Kind of funny.

Arriving in Burbank, we were told that our flight was delayed. I asked about if we could possibly miss our connection in Vegas. No, he said- that is also delayed. Ok, ok, we'll grab a $10 gross airport pizza and wait. Pretty soon, the amount of people standing in line at the gate desks and the overall commotion tipped us off that something was up. Turns out Las Vegas had a huge Ice/Snow storm and nothing was going in or out. They shut down the airport! Who knew that Las Vegas gets SNOW?! Our flight was cancelled.

Caleb got in the huge line to inquire and I got on the phone and we got booked on the next possible open flight for the next day (making sure it stopped in Phoenix instead!).

And here we are. With both our bags (they arrived separately, but most importantly- they arrived!) Safe and sound. Just 20 hours late.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Day 3-5: DING DING DING- The Main Event!

NOTE: This is the LAST post of our England trip. The story is several posts back and warning- it is LONG- but chronologically, start at the story (whether you read it all or not) and then work your way back up to follow our trip. Cheers! (PS- I couldn't say Cheers while there, I felt like my lack of a cool accent made me sound like an idiot saying it! haha)

Rock Stars

This picture does not do it justice... the crowd was huge and the floor was packed!

I am taking it from the second tier with additional people around me

Me and my merch "mates" Ian and James...

Not Pictured: British Caleb- he was there all Friday, but not Sunday when the pic was taken.

Congratulations to Caleb and Ashton for Rocking Out the UK and thank you for taking me along on such an awesome adventure! Having to sit out the US tour, it was really nice to not be left out of their first international adventure. I'm really proud of these guys! tear tear, corny...

Day 3, Friday: English Countryside

Don't know what this is, but it looked old, so CB snapped a pic

Pretty countryside

This is us crammed in the back of the small Euro rental car Micha drove us in, we'd all just woken up I think

Day 2, Thursday night: The Legion Show

This is the only good pic from that show- our friend Chico took it, as I was stuck getting hit on at the merch table... geez

Day 2, Thursday: Sightseeing Round 2

Riding the London Underground or "Tube"- Micha, Ashton and Chico

I have NO idea what this facial expression was trying to be- it just looks like confused, tired and maybe a little angry- definitely not what I was going for