Itzhak Perlman

On Saturday night, Luis and I were so lucky to attend a concert by world renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman accompanied by Sri Lankan pianist Rohan De Silva at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angeles.  To be honest, I didn't know much about him, besides that fact that he was my grandfathers favorite musician, but a few weeks ago when my cousin Mo told me she could get tickets from her brother Nick, who is the Marketing Director at the Luckman, I started doing my research on him.  Perlman has played at Carnegie Hall, studied at Juliard and has played with nearly every Philharmonic ever.  He was the violin soloist for the movies Schindler's List, which won an Academy award for best score, as well as for Memoirs of a Geisha.  He is basically amazing!  So Luis and I, along with Mo and her best friend Joanna and her boyfriend and a TON of our family got dressed up and headed out for a fabulous night!

As if our luck couldn't get any better, Nick was able to upgrade our seats in the orchestra, 6 rows from the stage and the incomparable Itzhak Perlman!

We sat next to Mr. Perlman's son and several seats away from actor Alan Alda and Matt Dallas from the show Kyle XY, but once the concert started, I couldn't take my eyes off the violin.  It was incredible to see how quickly yet effortlessly he played and with so much love in his face.  He played for over 2 hours and I could have listened to him for hours more.

Nick and Vlad <3

Afer the concert, (thanks to Nick and our VIP passes) we got to attend a very intimate reception with Mr. Perlman and enjoy some drinks and appetizers.  It was a truly memorable night!

My love and I

Ice Skating

Saturday night Luis and I had a pretty awesome date night!  For a few weeks in the winter, Old Town Temecula was home to an outdoor ice skating rink, and Luis and I thought it would be a fun thing for us to do together, since we both had never ice skated.  Turns out, we weren't that bad!  Luis only fell once and I didn't fall at all *pats myself on back*.  It was really cold that night so it made it feel even more like Christmas =)

I'm a pretty lucky girl <3

M.I.A

So I have been a little MIA on my blog and I'm starting to feel a little guilty.  Ever since I got back from Playa del Carmen and getting through Thanksgiving, it has been hard for me to get back in the routine of things.  So here is my little blog for now.  Playa Del Carmen was abolutly amazing.  We could not imagine a better way to spend a romantic 8 days together.  We spent the entire time relaxing on the beach and talking about our future together. 

This was my view for the whole trip... amazing!!!

I have a ton more pictures on my FB I just didnt have the energy to post them here! 

Luis' 1st Pumpkin Carving!

Nothing says fall like cool weather and pumpkins, but since its still practically 90 degrees out, I thought we should carve some Halloween pumpkins to get us into the fall mood.  Luis has never ever carved a pumpkin and I was so excited that we got to do this together! We decided that we should start out very simple and do the classic jack-o-lantern face. Here is our little pumpkin before we started carving.

Luis and I pulling out the seeds. We will be toasting the seeds later =)

Luis contemplating his first cut

The finished product!

Our first pumpkin together <3

Happy Halloween!