Ike

Hurricane Ike was a serious distruption to life here in Houston. We lost power for 1 week! These are various pictures of the damage we saw around houston.

Corkscrew with GaryV

Our friends Danny and Tory met us at the Corkscrew in the Heights on Saturday night for a Vayniac meet up. Gary Vaynerchuk organized the get together and he is a fantastic host. Gary must have provided 12 wines or more and everyone was having a blast sampling the different ones. I was in my Official Vayniac T-Shirt so we got to meet everyone as they knew I was there for the gathering. Amy and I are hopeful we can start up a Third Thirsty Thursday group here in Houston now that we have seen how many cool people are Vayniacs here.

Dinner with the Rents

Amy and I went to my parents after the 12 - 3 trip to Vino 100 in the Woodlands where we got to hang out with Gary Vaynerchuk. We then went to my parents and cooked a steak and enjoyed a good bottle of Cab Franc that we had purchased a Vino 100. Fun was had by all.

Gary Vaynerchuk

We got to meet Gary Vaynerchuk at the Woodlands Wine Festival. Amy and I were both very excited about it and we were not disappointed. Gary is a cool in person as he appears on his video blog. We also got to meet two other Vayniac couples while there. We spent the rest of the evening with one of the couples, Mike and Judy. We all had a blast.

My 38th Birthday

Tonight Amy and I went out to have dinner at Perry's steak house. We had a fantastic dinner and we made it extra special by getting all dressed up and making a serious date out of it. Before we left Amy enjoyed her first rose in the new flower garden she made. My wife is seriously beautiful and I am a very lucky man.

SCA event

Today we spent the day with our friends Crystal and Brandon at an SCA event. We hung out and watched Brandon win the day doing heavy fighting and made some new friends. It was a beautiful day and fun was had by all.

Ryan's 40th Birthday

Tonight was Ryan's 40th birthday and his send off to Bandaache. We got there late so we missed the surprise part but from what I understand he was clueless till he spotted a friends car in the street. (We all knew it would be a car that gave it away after all it was Ryan.) The party was a blast, there was good conversation, food and company.

Amy at surprise party

We are at my cousin's wife's surprise party in the heights. He threw one of the best surprise parties I could imagine.

Done and Done!

From House and Yar...

Yeah now both of our old horrible looking lights are replaced.

From House and Yar...

A close up.

House Work and Planting

Amy and I switched out one of our outside lights to a much more attractive one today and Amy spent some time planting a few plants. Fun in the sun! :-)