Saturday morning we hit up the Outdoor Living Tour and were both quite impressed with the setups of some of the homes.

Another great thing about going out to these Home Tours is discovering cool little neighborhoods in places you wouldn’t expect.  We left inspired with ideas for our own backyard but they’ll most likely have to wait until after the wedding

On Sunday, we also attended the Hill Country Food and Wine Festival in Driftwood.  Apparently, this was held near the grounds of Salt Licks new vineyard.

They have a huge amount of land, and the vineyard itself looks to go on for acres and acres.  We presume the Salt Lick BBQ restaurant will soon be serving up their very own branded wine in the not too distant future.

The festival itself was a lot of fun, and Christy and I enjoyed sampling new wine varieties and blends.  Definitely something we’ll do again next year.

Pictures of both events are in the photos section.

Now looking forward to next week, when my friends from Plano come into town for a visit.

Christy and I planned quite a few different scenes for the session.

Christy loves coffee, and part of her morning ritual at IBM Rochester was to walk to the cafeteria and get her plain, skinny, latte with no sugar.   The Jo’s Coffee pictures tell the story of how we met at IBM and I’d pretend to LOVE plain coffee just so I could take that walk with her in the morning.  After a while though, I had to come clean and tell her my preference for more sweet drinks like mocha latte’s.  The people at IBM cafe always did my mochas up with whipped cream, sprinkles, and a pirouline.   We thought it was a funny contrast, and offers quite a bit of insight into our personalities.

The lady and the tramp pics convey both of our love for food, and how our relationship grew making and planning meals together.

Other pictures hopefully show some other sides to our personality….from being active and enjoying life as if we were kids, to being young professional engineers in Austin.

Pictures turned out really great in our opinion, and love the look and feel Erin was able to achieve. I’m really excited about having her photograph our wedding in her unique and brilliant style.

Click the Photos or the Wedding link to see the gallery with a few of our favorites.

I also added an HD version this time around.  Hope you enjoy!

Christy and I are both real impressed with how these all turned out.  Can’t wait to get the full set of high res pics in about a month.   In the meantime, check these out….

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We both took the day off to get our engagement photos taken by the amazing Erin Woolsey. We started the day with some breakfast I had prepared for all of us. Then we went out all around town for our session.

The day was absolutely gorgeous, sunshine, bright blue skies, and it eventually even warmed up to a cool, comfortable temp. We went to a lot of sites, and just had a lot of fun being ourselves and talking to our photographer. Christy and I are both really excited to see the pictures she puts together.

Afterwards, we just lounged around the house for a little while and unwound. We then met up with Jethro at Golfsmith driving range to officially start golf season for the year. Had a few good shots, more bad ones, but we’ll be working on it.

Finally, ended the day at Cru for Austin Restaurant Week with some friends. We drank through a great bottle of wine (Decero Cabernet Sauvignon) over a great 3-course meal that was just right.  How can a meal that ends with a chocolate chip cookie cake go wrong?

Went to Gingerman for a few more laughs and conversation with friends before calling it a night.
Overall, just another great, no-worries day in ATX in the books.

A beautiful car made by Italian firm Pininfarina, featuring a 440 HP 4.7L V8 Ferrari Engine.

I’ve always thought the Gran Turismo was one of the best designed cars of the past few years….so glad to get a chance to see, feel, and hear the new GranCabrio in person.

Pictures in the Photos section

Hope everyone had a great holiday season, and wish everyone a great year in 2010!

Quite a long time since I’ve had the chance to sit down and make some updates to my website.  But, as you will see by checking out the updates in the Photos section, I’ve been quite busy.

In the past few months I got a chance to see a Cowboy’s game at the new stadium, see a live show of one of my favorite bands, go to a wedding in Houston, and visit with some friends’ and their new additions.  Not to mention, spending time with our families and friends for the holidays.  So needless to say, I haven’t really had much time to spare on the weekends, and as a matter of fact this update is probably courtesy of my recently removed appendix, which has grounded me at the house for a while for better or worse.

But with the holiday’s nearing, I won’t have much more time to rest as Christy and I will be getting ready to make our trip to the Dallas area to celebrate the holiday’s with our families.

We should be back here in Austin for New Year’s to ring in 2010.  Which will see me hit the 30 year milestone, and Christy and I take the plunge into marriage.  With all these big steps someone might confuse me for an adult sometime soon

Hope everyone is doing well, and has a great holiday and new year!