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Happy Birthday Jilly

May 16, 2012
May 16, 2012

So we had a super fun birthday surprise…or more precisely…I DID! Jake booked us a hot air balloon ride over the front range of Colorado. It was pretty spectacular! We had so much fun….even though we did have to wake up at 430AM to get to the “lift-off location”. I had no idea what to expect that morning….I did not know where we were headed so early, or why, until we were walking into an empty field with a couple of people and a large truck and trailer. At first I thought…sky diving…because I told Jake that is exactly what i DID NOT want to do….but I was delightfully wrong. I realized once we walked up to the truck with a giant balloon logo what we were doing and it was just amazing. The balloon by itself weighs over 600 pounds (can you believe that?!). It was HUGE (see pics) compared to us. It took about 10 minutes for it to fully inflate, which is actually much faster than I would have thought. But it was so cool once we boarded the basket and took off.

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Parent’s Visit and Deep Dish Pizza

October 23, 2011
October 23, 2011

We had a really busy week this past week. After getting back from Florida, we have had very little time to just relax in our abode. We had a charity event for Jake’s work, kickball-sunday-BBQ-fest, and then tons of work to accomplish for the “Parent’s” visit. They came in Wednesday evening, so we had just enough time to get the final touches to the house done before their arrival. We just moved into a way-to-large house, and can actually accomodate guests now, which is kind of nice.

They came Wed. and spared no time planning away our home; where they would make improvements, adjustments, etc. Oh and let me preface by saying that we only plan to live here for the year, we are probably going to be buying a place next year, more appropriate in size for just me and Jake, so we dont really care that much about putting more into this house…but none-the-less, it was really nice having help doing those cumbersome household things that neither myself nor Jake is any good at.

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Chicago, Road Trippin’ & Adventures

July 1, 2011
July 1, 2011

Its been awhile since we have posted…we are slackers (and by that I mean Jake is a slacker as he vowed that this would be his “thing” to post about our lives). Anyways it has been crazy the past few weeks with everything going on. We finished our second album “Trinidad” just last week and are expecting our 1000 copies to come some time next week! Music is good – we have a few shows booked in July and have been getting rave reviews from our fans so that’s always fun. We might even have one of our songs featured in a commercial (not sure if this will actually happen yet), as its still in the works but we are super excited.

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Happy Birthday Jilly

May 7, 2011
May 7, 2011

So yesterday was super fun!!! Well not all fun, but it ended up that way in the end. It started out as any normal friday would – Jake went off to work as I conquered the web-space at home in my PJ’s. It took an ugly turn about 1PM when Jake called me and said the car won’t start, and oh by the way, I’m out in another town in a parking lot (though he wouldn’t tell me what he was actually purchasing). Normally. I suppose, this wouldn’t bother me at all, but I had major work deadlines that were rolling in and we had (secret) plans for the afternoon so I couldn’t stray from work for too long. So long story short, I went out to meet Jake, we find out we can’t open the hood of the car because the latch broke, and the “roadside assistance” was nothing more than a guy in a Lumina (not even a tool in his car) came out after about 45 minutes to basically give no help at all. He wouldn’t even call for a tow truck, and because of how the car insurance worked, he really couldn’t do much, so needless to say, Jake had to wait another hour until a tow came.  I had to leave because of my huge deadlines which I would have missed had I waited another hour.

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Daytime Drinking

May 5, 2011
May 5, 2011

gfkToday was a pretty nice day…by nice I mean that I got to get boozed up with my BFF (miss Tara) in the middle of the afternoon on a most delish brew dubbed “ghost face killah” while Jilly was off getting a sexy new “do.” The good ol’ Twisted Pine Brewery (here in lovely Boulder, CO) was the setting for our exciting afternoon drink-fest, and ONLY 3 DOLLAR PINTS….ARE YOU F&*%NG KIDDING ME ??!?!?!??!! How did we not know about this before TODAY! Needless to say – it was a pretty nice day.

Sidenote – this weekend is Jilly’s Birthday (the big 2-9), don’t know what we are doing (well actually I do, but Jilly is none-the-wiser) and as she is sitting right here, I don’t plan to dispose that information to you folks…at least not yet!

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Date Night!

April 13, 2011
April 13, 2011

Hey Crew who actually cares about all this nonsense that we call our life; we hope you all are having the best day ever because tomorrow we are going to have THE BEST DATE EVER!!!! We are going into downtown Denver for a night of debauchery and (fill in the blank). The night will start off with dinner, although we have no idea which of the countless healthy lifestyle restaurants we will patron, in the Denver-Meto Area. Following dinner we will visit a bar 1515 Bar and Lounge, for free drinks (allegedly all I have to do is give them our band name. THAT is how cool we are!)…..side note: I believe we have finally become huge rock stars.

We will then make our way to Comedy Works, a place which we’ve never been. Its sort of odd because we’ve lived here for nearly a decade (really only 7 and change). So you ask “who will you be seeing?” Well folks let me tell you……the one…the only…….your favorite actor (if “They Live” is your favorite movie of all time), the never-reigning champ of the WWF….the wears a plaid skirt and doesn’t take s#!@ from anyone…the legendary “ROWDY” RODDY PIPER!!!!!! No idea who the other comics are that night, but it matter not because we are seeing “ROWDY” RODDY PIPER!!!!! Please say tuned for a full report of tomorrow (april 14th).

Jakey C signing out (and Jilly a little bit too)

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