Our First Anniversary

Here's the top portion of our wedding cake. We kept it for the year and sat down to enjoy it, only to find that it had turned to frosted cardboard. I think the tradition of keeping and eating your cake on the 1st year anniversary was meant to drive home the point that after that first year, everything in your marriage turns to frosted cardboard.

I thought it was a beautiful and poignant metaphor.

Taryn hit me.

I was just joking.

We spent our night at Teatro Zinzanni. It's right on the waterfront in S.F. off the Embarcadero. Think Cirque de Soliel, Cabaret, Beach Blanket Babylon and Burlesque all rolled into one, with a 5 course dinner to boot. The place was incredible. Insane, but incredible. I don't think we stopped laughing from the moment we sat down till the show ended some 3 hours later.

Here's Taryn in the lobby before the show started. She's standing in front of some crazy musical contraption. The thing took up an entire wall.

And here's me with full-on fat laugh face and Shakespearean attire. I was one of a lucky three selected to compete for the part of Romeo to Ms. Christine's Juliet. It was quite the interesting dating game. And Todd, think back to One-Week-Early at SOU. Yes, it was way crazier - and much more embarrassing - than that. I sang "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" in falsetto. I played naughty musical chairs with plenty of gyrating and grinding. And I picked the erect sword from the bunch to win my "prize." So I acted out a scene on stage with Ms. Christine here, then fed her grapes on the float that was rolled through at the end of the show. Taryn was laughing so hard she almost peed herself. (The guy from the other couple sitting at our table was so wasted I think he did pee himself) As you can clearly see in the photo, I was laughing pretty hard too.

Halloween '08

Halloween is the best holiday of the year! And it always comes early for the Bacon's. Here are our first three pumpkins for this season (I say first three because we have at least one more to finish). This one looks like IT, as Taryn says, which she doesn't appreciate, but really it's a throw-back to one of the best movies of the 80's - Killer Clowns From Outer Space!

This one is the face of the Headless Horseman from Sleepy Hollow.

And this is Taryn's masterpiece. It's the Evil Monkey from Family Guy. It was her first time attempting to do shading. She calls it her Everest, and for good reason. It took over 5 hours to complete! But it's as sick as it gets people!

Baby: Week 16

Our first appointment with Kaiser was definitely an interesting one. We were both psyched about checking out the new facility and doing our first formal ultrasound to learn the gender of the baby, but at 2am the night before, Taryn got really sick. She started running a fever of well over 100 degrees. When we finally made it in to the facility, they recorded her temp at 101.7. Not good! Because she was so dehydrated we weren't able to do the ultrasound, so no news about the flavor of that jellybean yet. But Taryn is feeling much better, and the baby couldn't be healthier! (Our formal ultrasound is scheduled for Nov. 4th)

We were able to hear the baby's heartbeat, which is exactly where we want it to be. But because it's on the high side of the healthy average, Taryn's pretty certain that we're having a baby girl. God help me! We came away with these two pictures of the little bugger. In both you can see pretty clearly the head and spinal cord - both of which are perfect! And in the top picture you can see parts of the developing brain. That's right, we're having a genius!