Some other stats on little Gabriel:

• Height: 2 feet
• Weight: 12lbz 13oz
• Time crying after a shot: 10 secs!
• Favorite sound: Farting; that’s my boy!

Now for some cute pictures….  I’ll have to get a video on here too soon.

Heres the past couple days:
2006-10-05 – 2006-10-06 – 2006-10-07 – 2006-10-09 – 2006-10-10

This past weekend we went to the Texas Renaisance Festival with our friends Jake, Beth, and Brian. We all dressed up and had a great time. You can check out pictures of that here.

One last thing, those that like scary movies, be sure to check out the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. My boss’s son, Matt Bomer, is in the starring role!

To read about the rest of our weekend, click on the link below…

On Saturday afternoon, we went to the Crawfish Festival in map(Old Town Spring|spring, texas). We rode the bike up there so I could try out my awesome new helmet. We got there kind of late, so we didn’t actually go into the fairgrounds, but we did walk around the main street a bit. I didn’t partake of any mudbugs myself, but Jay and I did try an unlikely dish—deep fried Oreos. Yes…I think you haven’t really experienced true festival fare until you’ve tasted some unexpected fried item. We could choose from among Oreos, Nutterbutters, Chips Ahoy cookies, Twinkies! And let me tell you…the experience is beyond description. I guess there is nothing quite like the taste of an Oreo that has just melted from being submerged in vegetable oil heated to a piping 400 degrees. Let’s just say I was curious to try the freakish treat, but I don’t think it is on my new favorites list.

On Saturday evening, we watched our regular shows as well as the eighties classic, imdb(Coming to America). I have to admit that the first time I watched this movie, I didn’t realize that Arsenio Hall and Eddie Murphy played lots of different characters. Ya, what can I say…I’m a little slow sometimes, but in my defense, I will say that I was only nine when I first saw this movie! And it’s still great! On Sunday, our slothful spree continued as we laid around and watched the Food Network pretty much all day. Yes…Jay made the ultimate sacrifice. He watched cooking shows with me all day and didn’t complain about it once. I love this man! Here is our favorite recipe of the day. I can’t wait to make these…

Chocolate Truffles

• 1/2 pound bittersweet chocolate
• 1/2 pound semisweet chocolate
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1 tablespoon prepared coffee
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• powdered sugar
• Cocoa powder

1. Chop the chocolates finely with a sharp knife. Place them in a heat-proof mixing bowl.
2. Heat the cream in a small saucepan until it just boils. Turn off the heat and allow the cream to sit for 20 seconds. Pour the cream through a fine-meshed sieve into the bowl with chocolate. With a wire whisk, slowly stir the cream and chocolates together until the chocolate is completely melted. Whisk in the coffee and vanilla. Set aside at room temperature for 1 hour.
3. With a melon-baller, scoop balls of the chocolate mixture onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Refrigerate for 30 minutes, until firm. Roll each dollop of chocolate in your hands to roughly make a round ball. Roll in powdered sugar, cocoa powder, or both. These will keep refrigerated for weeks, but serve at room temperature.

And on an exciting note, today I told my boss that I am going to start looking for a new job! I work for the Harris County Public Library, and we have a rule that we must tell our supervisors when we apply for new jobs within the library system. Since I am going to finish grad school in August, I could start applying for positions at HCPL now. And today I applied for four jobs—children’s librarian positions at Cypress Creek and North Channel and young adult librarian positions at Cypress Creek and Tomball. So now I just have to wait. Everyone keep their fingers crossed for me!

So I’m sure you can see from the lack of updates, both Gwendolyn and I have been pretty busy, both at work and at home. I guess the biggest highlight would have been our motorcycle ride out to map(Lake Livingston|livingston, texas). We originally planned on going out there for a poker run. For those cage drivers out there, a poker run, is normally a charity event, where a bunch of bikers meet up and are given a map to a few key locations. You then go to these locations and receive a playing card. When you arrive at the last pit stop, you will then have a poker hand, and whoever wins, gets a prize. Its just a nice way to spend a day riding. However for us, we went to the meeting place, but found no one there! Now this could all be blamed on me, as I was the one that saw the flyer and wrote down all the info. We made the best of it though, and headed home going the back way through Coldspring and other back roads. Along the way we came across a few groups of at least 20 bikes each. Made us wonder if they were part of the poker run that we couldn’t find. We stopped in Coldspring again, and ate at The Hop. We all enjoyed shakes and floats and then headed on our way. I must make a mental note, to try the onion rings there, as they come highly recommended! Instead of going straight home, we decided to make another stop, and visit my dads cousin Sarah Jane, who lives out in the Woodlands. I think Gwendolyn fell in love with her house and that area.

Once we were finally home, we had to take a nap and unwind after a long day of riding. I think we were out for a good 6 hours. Definitely a long day. After a nice nap, we decided to watch some Scrubs. This activity was short-lived, however, because while we were on our second episode, all the power went out in the entire neighborhood. Then, the firetrucks showed up in front of my apartment. So we went out to investigate and make sure the place was not on fire. As it turns out, some tree branches fell onto the powerlines and caused all the commotion. So with no phones, no lights, no motocars (okay not quite…) we decided to get out of the house and go see imdb(Sin City). The movie just looked amazing. I’m not sure how much Gwendolyn liked it due to the violence, but I loved it.

This weekends plans, are partly up in the air. My cousin Veronica is coming into town with her husband, and a newborn girl. We’re going to my parents tonight to visit. Tomorrow night we might baby sit for them as they go to the astros/cincinnati reds game. Hopefully sunday will be spent with a little R&R.

Okay now you guys should be all caught up!

Heres the list of the movies we watched:

• imdb(The Forgotten)
• imdb(Hudsucker Proxy)
• imdb(Donnie Darko: Directors Cut)
• imdb(Waking Life)