Monday, December 24, 2007

Merry Christmas!

John and I are back in Milwaukee, he is with Jim and Polly at St. Paul's for Christmas Eve sing along. I am tidying up the house for Christmas brunch with Diana tomorrow morning. We returned after our 24 hour "extra vacation" in Dallas, but still have not be reunited with our luggage. I am loosing hope as our small cosmetic bag made it back, but not the rest. Sigh.

Thought everyone might enjoy some pics from our Portland trip.



Diana, John and John's Grandfather's secretary, Maybell

Below are a few pics from one of the family estates that have been turned into public gardens.






The beautiful view from the Sheraton Dallas --

Merry Christmas family!

Monday, December 10, 2007

Major Jess Update

After such a crazy semeseter, I am ready to start blogging! hoo ray!

Where should I begin...

Well, our One Small Step CD came in on Saturday. They look really great and Zach and I and Jamie, our friend who is putting out the CD for us, are working on setting up a CD release party sometime in mid-January. We have just been asked to play on our public radio station (our NPR music station) on January 4th. We have to come up with an hour long live performance. However, Zach has planned on taking a class out of town that week so our participation in this event will be pending upon whether or not Zach can get out of the class.

We have updated our myspace page with information on our new album and our album cover. You can see it at www.myspace.com/onesmallstep. The more plays we get the better, so we can trick people into thinking that we are uber-popular! :)

Still working like crazy at Cherry Bomb. We had a really good day yesterday. Tons of people are looking for Christmas gifts. There was one guy who spent $160 on a rap costume for a Christmas party he was going to...that was the strangest purchase of the day.

Here is a picture of our album cover:
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Here is the back:
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Here is the actual CD:
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Our friends Matt and Lindsey did the artwork and layout for the cd. You can see more of Matt's work at www.mattdobson.com.

Well, that's about it for now!

Love you guys!

Friday, December 7, 2007

Grant's View






Don't have much time to post with grading, but thought you would enjoy this series of photos taken by Grant over Thanksgiving.