King of Elmoland!

He loves his "Big Elmo" and "Small Elmo" and won't go to bed without them. He kisses them more than he kisses us!

80's

For some reason I've been getting into 80's music again. Great music, but anyone ever notice the strange names of some of the groups? Martha and the Muffins, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Killing Joke, Bow Wow Wow, Johnny Hates Jazz, Boy Meets Girl and Kajagoogoo. Can you imagine saying, "I play for Bow Wow Wow". Haha!

33

So, today I turned 33. Birthdays are just not as exciting as they used to be when you were a kid. I recently saw an interview Kiefer Sutherland had with Jay Leno. Kiefer just turned 40 last month and he mentioned how his birthday was quiet, somber and a reflection of how much closer you are to that age of life expectancy. That's kind of how I feel today. The other day I went through an old album and saw old pictures of myself 8 years ago. Kind of depressing looking at how young I looked...even my co-worker commented on an old picture in my cubicle at how much younger I looked. I'm sure having a baby contributed to my "old" look now!

We'll probably just have a quiet dinner tonight. My in-laws took me out last night to Longhorn Steakhouse....if you haven't tried that place, I highly recommend it. They're much better than Outback. Their steaks are cooked to perfection, salads are fresh, great bread. Yummmm!

Here's a pic from my mom's 60th birthday last month. That's my younger sister on the right with her husband holding Nathan.

Pics of Men's Group

Pics of my church's bi-weekly dad's gathering:

Nathan plays well with the Pastor's daughter who's 15 months old.

Trying to learn how to share.

Total of 5 dads (pastor is the one standing up). Nathan plays with the pastor's daughter and there's 2 other infants playing together. Funny watching them parallel playing.

January Birthdays

Happy 36th birthday to my hubby today! Hope you enjoyed your kalbi dinner tonight and your day off from taking care of Nathan.

Also, happy 30th birthday to my sister! We'll see you in New York this weekend......Nathan's been asking for his aunt!

New Year

2006 was a year of uncertainty for us as we had to find a new church. After 3 churches, we've been pretty happy with Cornerstone Presbyterian for the past 5 months (great humble pastor, biblically sound, really nice people, great kid's program, lots of parents our age with 1-2 kids, agreement on mission statement, etc). They've already asked me to play organ temporarily for the past month as their organist went on maternity leave and is due this month. I really believe that God sent us there as it was perfect timing. The girl actually asked if I could do it fulltime as she never really wanted to do it in the first place. Their praise team also asked me to play keyboard since they don't have one either. We really have to pray about it and we want to make sure we're going to commit fully. I want to wait until we're members before we "sign up" for anything permanently because I want to avoid getting burned. Maybe I don't have enough faith, but I'm just so afraid of getting hurt. I need to let go of past hurts, but it's so hard to forgive and forget. If you can, please remember to pray for me.

On a lighter note, for Christmas I just got the new 30 GB Apple Ipod to replace my first generation 5 GB Ipod. I seriously needed to upgrade...it's so much lighter and I can now put more of my CD's on there. I've been busy the past week ripping all my CDs...I didn't realize I had over 250 CD's on my shelf and I still have more to go! I really indulged in buying CD's during my college and post college years.

Only a week and a half left for the new season of "24"!! I can't believe it's going to be a 4 hour premiere.