Angels Slaughtered

My internet was down a big portion of the day yesterday, so I forgot to post.
Our friends, Brad and Amy, invited us to the Angels' game Monday night. The Angels lost miserably, but we missed the complete massacre since we left earily to get frozen yogurt. It was a fun evening, and it was free hat night, so bonus.

I tried to get a picture of Brad with the spoon in his mouth, but he was too quick.

Cambria Sage McMichael's Baby Shower

Yesterday we went to our friends', Dave and Amy's, baby shower. Amy is due in the beginning of June. The shower was fun; there was even a bounce house for the kids attending and of course me (see below).

Here's a pic of Dave, Amy, Sherri and myself.

Sherri with the hostess, Shannon
Dave knew I was taking his picture here, so this is him posing

Our friend Belinda with Sherri

For the second baby shower in a row I won at baby bingo, but there were many winners and Ben won too. However, I found out later that Ben gave Sherri and me his prize. So a big thank you to The Orange Family Robinson.

Here's just a couple of pics of me in the bounce house. Mucho funno.

Opera Pacific Opera Ball

My folks invited Sherri and me to Opera Pacific's 25th Anniversary Celebration Opera Ball. It was very fun. There was a full orchestra playing while we ate, and live performances throughout the evening. It was kind of strange because everything was so pink; it kind of seemed like a prom because of it. However, the evening in general and the music specifically was amazing. What was also cool about the evening is, just by happenstance, my parents are playing host to one of the performers (Shana Blake Hill, Soprano). She has been their house guest for about a week, so we got to meet one of the singers after the main performance of the evening.

Here's my parents, cutting a rug.
They were having a raffle of sorts. They were selling 200 Tiffany boxes and 199 of them were nice crystal boxes, but one of them was porcelain. If you got the porcelain one, then you won a $17,500 Tiffany's bracelet. My dad was generous enough to buy both my mom and Sherri each a box. No bracelet, but the box is nice. Here's Sherri before the box was opened.

Here's a picture of Sherri and me all dolled up. I think, besides weddings, this is the first time we have gone to a black tie affair since we've been married. It was fun dressing up and having an evening on the town.

Visit from friends and Sedar

It has been pretty busy for me lately. I mentioned below I'm having trouble with my picture hard drive, but that cleared up (I had backed it up on DVD and just reloaded a formated drive). Now my music hard drive crashed, so I have to load all my music back onto my drive. It will take months. Oh well. I'm glad I have the CDs. When I can afford it I will get a backup drive for my music drive, just in case it crashes again.

Yesterday, Angel and her two daughters came to visit. I always like Angel's visits and I hope Sherri and I can visit her soon up in Vegas. Here's a pic of Sherri and Angel yesterday morning.
Then last night we went to friends of the family passover sedar. It was nice. I missed the Duck's hockey game, and of course they lost, so no big deal, and I had mucho amounts of parsely which I like. So it was a good evening.

Popcorn!

I made this popcorn today. Sherri wasn't home, and I needed something. Then while the popcorn was popping, I decided that something needed to be on it. I thought about the popcorn balls that I have had and thought that would be good. I tried to figure out how to make popcorn balls and decided that it must be the same thing as a rice crispy treat except popcorn substituted for rice crispies.
Then while I was making the marshmallow stuff I decided that it could use chocolate. When I went to the cupboard for the chocolate I found toffee bits too, so I threw in both toffee and chocolate into the mix.
The end result was both better than I thought it would be and not quite that good. I think I am on to something though. I think with a bit of tweaking this could be very good. Needs a thinner marshmallow layer and not sure what else.
I couldn't finish the whole thing, but I enjoyed the amount I had.

New Massage Chair

Sherri and I went to a closing Sharper Image last night and picked up this chair.

IT'S AMAZING!

Besides all the standard massage chair things, it grabs hold of you and stretches and compresses you which is very relaxing. With my bad back, it definitely helps.

Baby Shower and Tom's Farm

We went to Kelly and Tracy's baby shower yesterday. They are both excited because there is a good chance that their baby will be released home today. Here's a picture of them opening the gifts. We filled out Bingo cards with what gifts we thought they'd get. I was the first Bingo (I used my "Free Space" space - always an advantage.)

Here's a pic of Amy, Tracy and Sherri.

Dave and Amy

After the baby shower, Sherri, I, Dave and Amy went to Tom's Farm, which I've never heard of before; it's outside Corona on I-15.

While we were there Amy hooked up with this random prospector; here's a pic.
I found this giant rooster! I think its feed must be laced with something; not only was it huge from the drugs, but it was very still. I could get right up to it and pose for this picture and it never moved?!?

Bonus Video:

Back at the baby shower, here's Dave sampling some baby food.