I live with an .......

honorary Savage! Robert, that is. We met a wonderful group of friends, Totally Savage, a few months back at an open jam and have been following them since.

They asked Robert to play Stormy Monday with them on Friday night at Brewsters Grille, one of their regular gigs, which was also the same night they were recording a live CD!

It was so funny when Larry was introducing the band and said, "and Jonathan on bass" only to look right in front of him where Jonathan was sitting at the table with me! Too funny! He didn't realize that Robert was playing, guess that means he's pretty good, huh? (I certainly think so!) Good music, friends and fun! Lucky for everyone I just happened to have my camera with me!


Then last night we went to our favorite neighborhood bar, Crystal's on the Square, and they were there! Robert played with them again, fun stuff!!!!!

Doh!!!

What was I thinkin'???

Monkey'n Around!

Mike and Chris decided to play monkeys on New Years Day with Nathan... Remind me again who are the kids in this story?

Mwaaaaa-aaa!!!

Nathan just blew you a kiss!

Setting the table

When I was a little girl, it was my and Sara's 'job' to set the table. Who would've thought that it would turn into something I really like to do? Robert and I collect different dishes and really like having a beautiful table set all of the time. The first two pix here are of our Christmas table.

A little mix and match, and here we are with a brand new table setting. Take special notice of the black tablecloth with the gold monkeys. Dinner's ready!!!

Mike is such a good Grandson!

So here's the deal.... During the Christmas holiday, Mike & Co. visit Indiana/Illinois to spend time with the family and they stay at Grandma & Grandpa Lugo's house.

Mike & Angela are now in the home improvement business and have alot of experience in refinishing floors, sooooo......... Mike decided that they needed a new floor for the bathroom. He removed the vanity, sink and toilet - then scrapped up the old floor tiles and replaced them with a nice 6x6 brown tile.

Fabulous job Mike!

Chillin' on a Sunday afternoon......

So Robert and I are sittin' here on a Sunday afternoon - our one day off together this week - watching the NFL playoff game between the Steelers and Colts, and I thought that I would catch y'all up on life here in Marietta, Georgia. I haven't broke the camera out in nearly a week, and missed some truly memorable moments.... darn!

We have both been working alot this week, but Robert has me beat. 84 hours in one week, yikes!!!! So, on Friday evening we decided to celebrate his upcoming day off on Sunday and went to Ralph's Tavern to see our friends Totally Savage play. Now this was one of their regular gigs, but they asked Robert to come up and play Stormy Monday with them. Larry said that Robert's an honorary Savage, that's pretty impressive in my book. Needless to say, Robert did not get much sleep (about four hours) until he had to get up and do it all over again at 5:00am. Order up! Breakfast for 1300 please.... eggs over easy.....

Sooooo.... it's 9:00pm and Robert calls to say he is on his way home from work. Yes, that made it a 16 hour work day. We decided to go to Crystal's on the Square, where everyone knows your name! Yup, it's alot like the setting of Cheer's and we love it because of the familiarity, in addition to the fact the crowd is more of our generation than not. A band named Big Biscuit was playing hits from the 60's and had the audience constantly on their feet dancing and having fun. We closed the place down at 1:30a.m. and made our way over to Nik's Back Porch to find more music and found The Mike Beal Band to close the last half hour of our night out with more oldies.

Sleeping in today was our goal and I am happy to let y'all know that we achieved it! Brunch at 2:00pm - yes! Now to decide whether to go to Open Jam tonight at The Firehouse.

I am also going through pix from the holidays and will be sharing some of my favorites with you. Nathan is exercising with his Daddy Mike. How cute is that?!

We ate a boatload.......

of sushi and sashimi on Friday at Fuji Hana Sushi and Steakhouse! I don't know that I have ever seen such an impressive display before.

So here's the deal for those of you who may not know this..... don't worry - I didn't prior to meeting Robert. Sashimi is the raw fish variety and sushi is either vegetables only/and cooked fish or meat. Soooooo.... the sushi is easy - I really do like it. Sashimi on the other hand is a little harder to 'like' if you haven't grown up eating it. You all would be proud of me that I tried something new.... sashimi! Now the truth is that I don't like all of it, but thoroughly enjoyed the tuna. This could be the start of something new!

The picture posted here is not the actual dinner we ate, but is very representative of it.

I can see clearly now.....

the flash is off! I've got a little story to tell about a girl who can't keep her eyes open! It's my sister Sara. Try as she may, I think it is next to impossible for her to keep her eyes open in a picture involving a flash. After trying many, many times, I finally turned off the flash and here are the results.

Happy New Year!!!

Even though Robert and I spent the New Year apart, it was so very memorable for me. For those of you who weren't there - I spent the past week in Chicago and Hammond, Indiana with family. Chris lives in Chicago, Mike & Angela were visiting along with Nathan and the rest of the family lives in Hammond.

Even though we just saw Nathan in November, he has changed so much. I never cease to be amazed by his development. He is verbalizing his wants and feelings very clearly, and is very well behaved to top it off! Even if I wasn't his Tutu (Grandma) I would be proud. Oh, and did I mention this is one of the cutest kids ever?