the desert is alive

Chris and I are planning our little mans 1st birthday party!!! His birthday is this friday the 8th, but we're having his party in April because our families will be vacationing over spring break. We decided on an indoor aquatic center with an INSANE kiddie pool I took one look at it and I knew our little man would be in heaven. Valentin was snoozing in his stroller during the tour so he didn't get a chance to see it. This little boy loooves to be in the water, I can't to see him having a blast!

El Paso is having a WXSW next week at Lowbrow and Black Market

I'm dead set on being there the 9th and 22nd. Bulletproof Tiger  has been one of my top 3 fave local bands for years now they are amazeballs. They always perform in these Tiger masks and they sound so groovy, its my favorite sound. Neon desert music festival is coming up also which we have been going to since the first show in 2011. That first lineup was ideal, at least for us. CSS,Omar Rodriguez Lopez,Designer Drugs, MSTRKRFT and lots more. Last year we bought VIP tickets which was ok honestly we didn't get as many of the perks that were supposed to come with it, and the lineup was kind of dissapointing there was very little variety, but i did enjoy The Twelves, Yacht, and Ghostland Observatory. This years lineup will be announced this wednesday and i hope its better than last years, then i guess we'll decide if the VIP admission is worth it.

Eventful

Chris and I went out with friends last night thanks to his mom for watching our bub. It was nice i felt out of place allot of the time but i always do almost anywhere anyway so i guess thats not really relevant but we did have a great time with my two buddies Amanda and Melanie. This was our first time at both bars we went to so it was really exciting. We started at a bar called Hope and Anchor and It was really casual and...unstuffy? I don't know I liked the vibes there mostly and so did Chris. We ran into our friend Lorena whom Chris and i met back in the myspace days like 7 years ago and found out that Amanda had recently met her when she took a trip to Austin a few weeks ago, they totally hit it off over there so if was a fun little reunion for all of us. We spent a while there and to be honest i probably would have liked to have stayed there the whole night but Amanda wanted to take us to Black Market. It was just down the street but paking downtown is a nightmare so it took a while. After we got down we started walking over to the bar and once we got inside i swear it looked just like how my apartment was decorated. The music was epic i even spotted this guy from the crossfit gym i go to. I couldn't help thinking that it was weird to see him with a shirt on. All in all i had a great time, i mistook strangers for people i knew on two occassions,embarrassing!  But a great time! Just as soon as we got home our little guy was waiting up for us with a big smile and it was the cherry on top of our evening, and really our lives.