Our Weekend in Dallas

I decided not to write a long post about what we did. Instead, I made a quick video of a lot of the stuff we did in Dallas this past weekend.

But a quick summary:

Friday we went out with Katherine, a friend of Jamie's from Americorps. She's awesome and showed us this great burger place called Twisted Root. Then she took us to Tuckers' Blues, a Blues bar that was hidden away behind Twisted Root. To get to it you walk around the back of Twisted Root and BAM! out of nowhere there is a door with a Blue neon light (it makes you feel like you know about a secret blues bar). I (Jared) loved it. They played blues and told stories about different classic blues artists before each song. Watch the video below to see what Jamie does during the show! Saturday we stayed at a hotel called, Aloft. The hotel was really retro and cool. We also went to eat at the House of Blues before going to our concert there. The concert was for Bad Fish, a Sublime cover band. We had a great weekend as you can see below. Last but not least we finished it off by Running with the Bulls (sorta).

Catching Up, Thanksgiving to January 17th

WOW! We got busy and haven't updated this in months! I want to write a quick recap from Thanksgiving to now. For the most part everyone knows Michelle and Justin visited us for Thanksgiving. That was awesome. It is extremely surreal whenever someone comes to visit because it can be tough to believe they are really here! We took Justin and Michelle all around San Angelo (the same tour we gave our parents). We had an amazing time with Justin and Michelle.

After Michelle and Justin left we waited for December 23rd, the day we would fly home for Christmas. But until then I (Jared) had an interview with At&t here in San Angelo. The position

was for a new store that will be opening in early March (until then we will be operating out of a kiosk in a the terrible mall of San Angelo). I received a job offer and accepted it.

The position I received is Sales Consultant and I started January 11th. I have three weeks of training.

But more about that later. Jamie was finishing a lot of work up in December because she was going to be really busy when January and February came around.

We had an awesome Christmas. Ten days of family and we couldn't get enough. It was so great to get to see everyone. It was extremely busy though (get ready for a run-on sentence like you've never seen before). We had my family Christmas on Christmas Eve, my mom's side on Christmas day, a Christmas day dinner in Bondurant, my dad's side in Denver, IA on the 26th, Jamie's big family Christmas on the 27th,

went to Denison to have Christmas the 28th, 29th, came back for my mom's birthday on the 30th, went to Webster City for Trisha and Brock's annual ridiculously awesome New Year's Eve party, spent the 1st with our individual families, watched home videos of Jamie and her crazy antics during the day on the 2nd and FINALLY finished the trip with some friends at my place that night.

But like I said even after all of that we still hadn't had enough of our friends and family. It was a great Christmas. (I don't have access to Jamie's pics so these couple will have to do until then).

When we got back to San Angelo we took it really slow for a couple of days. I get to go to Dallas three weekends in a row for training with At&t, and Jamie came with me the first time. At&t rented us a Hyundai Santa Fe with XM radio (awesome) and put us in an amazing room at La Quinta Inn with a living room, french doors to the bedroom and a cool executive style desk. Jamie spent the whole next day shopping at a huge mall in Dallas. We went out that night when we got to Dallas at a restaurant called Snuffers (weird). The food was great! Unfortunately Jamie can't come with me next weekend because she'll be on here way back from Lafayette, Louisiana. She left for Louisiana today and will be helping repair a bunch of houses that are still damaged from Hurricane Katrina. I will get her to write up an entry and post pictures when she gets back.

So that is a summary of what we have been up to lately. We will try to maintain the blog a little better in the future but we are getting busy now so who knows. Thanks for reading!