Claudio & Star Wars!!!

O-M-Goodness!!! Saturday was just pretty darn awesome, I must say. Mary Beth and I went up to Dallas to the Vans Warped Tour just to see Coheed & Cambria. This is a band that MB introduced me to and it turns out I really love them. They are pretty unique, that's why MB and I like them so much. The lead singer/guitarist is Claudio Sanchez who writes all the songs based on a science fiction storyline which he also writes. There are comic books that go with the story. It's really complicated to understand. Sometimes I don't even understand it! So I drove us up to the Smirnoff Music Centre and we parked and went in. Now you have to understand, MB and I were in the minority of the population who went to this type of venue. A lot of emo/goth kids, weird looking clothes and tattoos and perhaps some maryjane was present and definitely alcohol. No, I didn't inhale. It was an interesting experience and it was cool to see a group of people be able to express themselves without other people thinking them weird. Do you know what I mean?

Vans Warped Tour has like 30 bands that play short concerts. We wandered around the main area and couldn't find any information about C&C. What we didn't realize was that around the corner and in the back of the main venue were more stages and all the merch tents. Duh!!! Glad we asked somebody. It was a good thing C&C started at 2pm instead of the 1pm we thought. In the meantime we bought some merch, namely a T-Shirt. I wore it yesterday and already got a comment on it. Sweet.

It was really hot on Saturday and the area around the stage was level so, myself being shorter than the people there had a difficult time seeing Claudio unless I jumped up and down. I did get several good pictures by holding up my camera. Check it out!!!

Merch tent


Before the concert and before the sweat


Concert just beginning!


Travis on the left, Claudio with the hair

Ok. The concert was over about 2:30 and we left high on adrenaline and were walking to the car. I said, "Wouldn't it be cool if they were walking in the parking lot too?" Not 5 seconds went by and MB said, "There's Claudio!!!" We may have chased after them a little bit. I was too in shock to say anything except motion with my hand that we wanted a picture. I thought MB was going to have a heart attack. Alas, we were not able to get a picture with them, but MB got a picture of them walking away from us. :D

So close, yet so far away!!!

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STAR WARS

After sitting in the car calming down and cooling down, we drove over to Ft. Worth to the Science and History museum to see the Star Wars exhibit. It was awesome...

It had the costumes and models used in all six of the films...let's just say, I was in heaven. We were soooooo tired though. You'll just have to look at the photos:

Landspeeder


Sandpeople


Bantha and Luke Skywalker model


Me and Yoda hangin'


Cool lightsabers

After the exhibit we went and ate at Lucile's on Camp Bowie Blvd. Good stuff.

Tired!!! Good Day!

ENGAGED!!!!!!

OMG!!!! I'm ENGAGED!!!! Yes, folks, you heard it right. Jason asked me to marry him yesterday! What a wonderful proposal he made!

Utterly speechless are the words that came out of my mouth when Jason drove down through the rain from Oklahoma to the museum to propose to me. I, of course, said yes and we will live happily ever after!

Here's how it went down:

Jason got to the museum and called for Mary Beth and she came down stairs (I was in another building). She saw he had flowers and asked him if he was there for the reason she thought and he said yup. Mary Beth ran upstairs and got the camera and ran into Joy and told her what was happening. So Mary Beth led Jason over to the other building where I was. She opened the door and I thought to myself, were we supposed to take pictures of something? MB had the camera around her neck. Then Jason came in behind her with this beautiful bouquet of flowers and according to some my eyes got as big as saucers. I kept on saying what are you doing here (clueless at this point). He said Happy Birthday! and gave me my flowers and I'm ogling them. They are beautiful. But I told him it wasn't my birthday and he got all upset because he drove all the way down to Waco on the wrong day!! I kept on telling him it was ok but he wouldn't hear of it. What he said was: "The only way I can say I'm sorry and mean it is on one knee." When he did that the light bulb came on and I realized what he was really going to do. Of course I turned red and started tearing up. He said: "You've depended on me and I've depended on you and I want us to depend on each other for the rest of our lives so that when we are old we can change each other's depends! Jessica Harris I love you and will you marry me?" This speech is very classic Jason. I said yes and we hugged and hugged and kissed and it was awesome! I did get a ring! Jason's class ring from high school, so I guess this means we're going steady for reals! He's working on getting the perfect ring. It was about 3:00 so I said I was going home and call everybody. We did and then went to dinner with Angie and Chris at the Olive Garden. It was great. Perfect ending to a day that actually started out pretty yucky. It's been raining pretty much off and on for about a month and impeding our work. But who cares now right?

We are looking at either December 2007 or June 2008 to get married but nothing is in stone. We will let you know as soon as we know!

The proposal


The answer


More hugs


The flowers

Remember Your Freedom!!!

Just wanted to send out a reminder to remember your freedom and how you got it! We are free because of the men and women who stood up for the rights we deem necessary as human beings.

Since I am a movie buff, I thought I would recommend some movies to watch that are inspirational (to me anyways).

• 1776 (a musical but very very good)
• Glory
• We Were Soldiers
• The Patriot
• Saving Private Ryan
• Patton (One of my Dad's favorites)
• A Few Good Men
• The American President
• Black Hawk Down
• Hotel Rwanda (heavy heavy movie but all need to watch)
• Sands of Iwa Jima
• Tora Tora Tora
• Memphis Belle

There are others out there but I haven't seen them all!!

Thanks to all those who have served and are serving your country, no matter where you are!