Party like a Rock Star

Saturday night Chad and I went to Adrian's house (a co-worker of Chad's) to play Rock Band on the xBox 360. Here is a pic.



As you can see, it is similar to Guitar Hero, but you have vocals, drums and bass guitar along with it so four people can play at once. During this past week Chad has wowed his co-workers with his drumming abilities provoking such comments as, "Chad is a rock god." and, "He plays with less angst than I do and more style on the solos. Bigtime props to Chad." Chad and I enjoyed ourselves so much we decided to buy Rock Band for ourselves.



I think I have a lot of catching up to do. Thankfully the vocals are easy to fake and I am learning on the guitar too. I am enjoying Rock Band as well. Below is an e-mail titled "You've created a monster" that Chad sent out to his fellow Rock Band co-workers.

"While Dixie was napping yesterday, I drove the 0.4 miles to GameStop and picked up the full CrackBand kit so we’d have it to play when she woke up. She jumps into the tutorial on the guitar, and before I know it she’s doing it all: bass, guitar, drums, vocals. Sure, she’s on easy, but we all have to start somewhere. Next thing you know, we’ve created and customized characters and are out on the world tour. We almost hooked up with Bill online before he logged out right after sending a game invite (what the hell was that about?? :P).

Later last night, she pulls me into the office to show me the various pads on eBay that people have created for the drums. She was about to bid on an auction that was closing soon. I had no idea she had surfed it up.

I got a phone call this morning from her. “Hey, I’m on my way to Wal-Mart to get a video rocker chair…” Guess I know what she’s doing with her day off."

Baby Rock Star
We had another doctor's appointment today and all looks good. Baby Willwerth has a heartbeat of 140 beats per minute (within the normal range). We are really anticipating our appointment on February 15th when we will hopefully discover the gender of baby Willwerth.

Jersey Boys

Chad and I went to go see Jersey Boys last night. It was a very good show! It started at 8:00 pm. Just the fact that it was able to keep me awake is saying a lot. Here is a pic from last night.




It seems like my belly really popped over the Holidays. Thanks Aunt Nancy for the shirt. I keep getting compliments on how cute it is. By the way I think my face is coming out so shiny because of the make up I wear. My powder has some sparkles in it and I think when the flash hits it it reflects making my face look shiny. I'll have to keep that in mind when I know I am taking pictures and experiment with that a little bit.

In other news.....
Chad has been sick since Tuesday and hasn't been to work since then. He is sick with a cold and has been sleeping in the guest room because he doesn't want to get me sick :( I think he is slowly but surely getting better.

Yesterday was my nephew, T.J.'s first birthday. Sadly, I forgot to bring my camera. Hopefully dad can send me some pics so I can post them on here. It was a lot of fun. Happy birthday T.J. I can't believe he is one already.

We are planning a trip to Vegas on the Weekend of Feb. 16th. We have to use our Bellagio room and dinner vouchers some time so that is a good of a time as any. We are both looking forward to it.

My next doctor's appointment is on the 21st but the one I am really looking forward to is on Feb. 15th. Hopefully we will find out the sex of the baby then. Other than that nothing else too newsy is going on.

Christmas in Florida

Below is a slide show from our trip to Florida. To see the captions use your mouse to click once on the slide show then you can move the cursor over any picture to see the captions. You will have to move your cursor off the slide show to get it moving again. If you would like to see the full image make sure your pop-ups are enabled and double click on the picture. Here you can buy prints or save your own copy. After you double click on the picture you can see the entire album by clicking on the blue underlined "View Album" at the very right of the screen. If you have any questions on how to do any of this let me know, I'll be glad to help you out.

Chad and I had a wonderful time visiting with both Dixie's family and Chad's family. We are so fortunate to have so many great people in our families. While we both thoroughly enjoyed our stay in Florida we were also very glad to be home. Thanks to everyone who made this trip on enjoyable one.