Viv and Jon

Jon — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:02:39 +0000

This has been an amazing, crazy, busy, travely (I promise that’s a word…) summer for Viv and me! We love to travel, and travel we did! Now that we’re home for the summer, it is so much fun to look back on where we have been and what we’ve done, here is a quick summary:

Total Miles Driven: 4,799

Total Miles Flown: 4,791

Total Miles: 9,590

{Trip 1} 2,757 Miles: The One Year Anniversary

Each year, Viv and I plan to alternate between planning a trip and giving a significant gift to each other. This year it was my turn to plan the trip, and her turn to give a gift, and I think we both did a great job! Viv’s gift to me was tickets for the two of us for theAdvance09 conference, so I planned a mini-vacation on the East Coast. The conference was in Durham, NC, - after which we spent a night in Richmond, VA and an took an afternoon Segway tour of Washington, DC!

{Trip 2} 2,920 Miles: California Dreaming

Viv’s parents helped us celebrate Viv’s new Art Teaching job by letting us use their miles to visit her brother and sister-in-law in California! Most of our time was spent in North Hollywood, but the in-laws wound up taking us on a day trip to the San Diego Zoo! It was a great trip, full of food and laughter (two of our favorite things)!

{Trip 3} 396 Miles: Wyld at Life

We had a great time at Carolina Creek with our WyldLife kids and leaders! It was nice to have a shorter trip for once, and thankfully the weather was cooler than normal for Texas in late July.

{Trip 4} 1,646 Miles: Corn, Soy and the Guthries

One of the highlights of our trip was our time with my brother Jay and the Guthries at East Iowa Bible Camp. I was able to speak 5 times to a group of 7th and 8th graders (click on the Talks section to listen), and we all had a great time getting to know the kids!

{Trip 5} 1,871 Miles: Rocky Mountain High

My grandfather passed away after being sick for years, so we met the rest of my family in Denver for the memorial service. The service and family time was great, and we even got to spend an evening with our great friends Chad and Mary!!! We’re back now, and ready to lay low for a while.

For more updates from Jon, or to hear some of his talks, be sure to check out http://jonjordan.com

Misc.

Jon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:14:08 +0000

Sam Adams Imperial Line

I haven’t found this line in Texas, and I got to try the Imperial Stout, which I almost had to scrape it out of the bottle it was so thick

Viv and a Baby

Adorable baby named Kaitlyn (Viv’s Uncle’s Daughter)

Beer Bacon Butter Burgers

Seriously. Nguyen (twitter) shared this recipe with us. After smelling this, we had to wait 3 hours to eat them!

That’s it for now, more pics coming once we upload from Viv’s camera too. Speaking of Vivien, she doesn’t update much does she?

HP6 at the Chinese Theater

Jon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:04:40 +0000

The Chinese Theater was awesome! Home to the “stars” (pics below) and the famous hand prints, this 1200 seat auditorium was a great place to watch Harry Potter 6. Highlights:

Vivien Leigh (who Vivien Ly was named after) Star:

Michael Jackson’s Star was crowded the whole time (sorry for the bad pic):

View from the outside:

And a quick peek inside:

Oh yeah, it was a pretty good movie too.

San Diego, land of Zoo

Jon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:55:48 +0000

We took a day trip to San Diego on Monday to visit their world famous zoo, and it did live up to expectations. Here are some quick highlights!

Giraffes … always so fun to look at (shout out to BOG Designs)

Pandas (not the greatest view but the line was crazy long most of the day)

And a hilarious warning at the Lion’s Cage

We highly recommend making it out there - be sure to buy passes for the Air-Trolly that lets you fly from one side of the zoo to the other!

Food, part 1

Jon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:19:02 +0000

Let the food begin! We’ve had some great Vietnamese, Japanese, Italian and more!

Food highlight has definitely been Thi’s Starry Kitchen creation (Starry Kitchen)

More updating on the way … right now we’re headed to the San Diego Zoo!

California … Here we come!

Jon — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:09:10 +0000

Viv and I are on our way to California to visit Nguyen and Thi (Brother and Sister in-laws!), and along the way we’ll get to see several other in-laws and Stephanie, Elliott and Mia Foster!

Check here often or subscribe to our RSS feed for updates! In the meantime, here is Viv sleeping on the plane (we woke up at 4:00am, and are in the middle of a full day right now … looking forward to a great night’s sleep!

we’re back!

Viv — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:53:19 +0000

the jordans are back in business!

here we go again! we are so excited to start up this whole blog shindig again with our family and friends after our one year hiatus (yes, i completely had to look up the spelling of that word!). hopefully we’ll be as interesting and humorous here as we are in person (disagreements? please call 911).

please be patient. please be kind. & don’t hesitate to give us a call or ask us out to lunch. regardless of how “interactive” a blog is, it is certainly no replacement for a good friend’s company, conversation & naturally there are few things better than a good meal!

i love this random photo from our wedding taken by our friend & yours:

Sharif Latif!

Thanks Sharif!

Setting up our blog!

Jon — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:36:11 +0000

Over a year after our wedding, we’re finally getting on top of this! We’re having a great time at the 15th/Alma Starbucks! Be sure to check back often or subscribe to our updates!

Isn’t she cute?

Ok, that’s probably a little too cute, and that has to be bad for your wrists…