We've moved!

Been awhile, not sure if anyone is still checking this...
Last month Jared and I moved into a one bedroom. Its about twice as big as our studio and in the same building.

Contact us for our full address.
yeater@gmail.com or marni.kanne@gmail.com

More information and pictures to come.

Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who celebrated our wedding with us! It was really fun to see everyone. We had a really good time and we hope you did too!

Sorry, no wedding photos yet. Our professional pictures won't be ready for a couple weeks. We've been slowly getting pictures from family and friends. We're planning to compile them on the web. When we get it going we'll let everyone know where to find them. If you have any pictures from the wedding we'd love it if you'd share them with us. You can e-mail them to Jared at yeater@gmail.com or Me at marni.kanne@gmail.com or send us a CD (let us know if you need our address).

Since returning to NY we've been enjoying our free time (no more wedding planning!)

It was my birthday last Thursday. We had sushi at a local restaurant and rented a movie.

This weekend I made pulled pork for the first time. It was really yummy.

Look at the pretty vase in the background (Thanks Mark and Mary!)

We also got together at our friend Joe's with Amyliz (our friend who spoke during the ceremony), Monty, and India (see below). We had some breakfast, watched the Olympics, and played cards. Very relaxing weekend.

Introducing...

I'd like to introduce you all to the newest member of my family...

Anna Noelle

She was born on April 25th at 2:12 in the morning.
6 pounds 11 ounces
19 and a half inches in length

This is my sister and brother-in law's (Jenna & Justin) second child. Megan, their first child, is just thrilled with her baby sister...


Apparently Megan thinks Anna is her baby.

We'd also like to apologize for the long wait between posts. We've been busy with school and work, but hopefully we'll get our act together and start posting regularly again soon!

-M

Late Night/Date Night

I often end up working pretty late hours when a job requires it. For me, as a producer, it usually means me sitting in the office waiting for the artists (3D artists usually) to do their work so I can post up a link for our client. I had one late night recently as a result of a job we did for Lysol:



The "germ" characters you see about half way through the spot took all night to "render" (for the computer to process the digital information, frame by frame). So...it ended up being an all nighter for me and my crew at work (about 5 of us).

The good thing is that this doesn't happen often. Maybe 2 or 3 times a year. And the company I work for is very understanding and appreciative of our dedication to making the best of these situations. My boss in particular always encourages me to take Marni out for dinner as a result, and he'll pay for it. This time however, he just hooked us up with a gift certificate that could be used at a variety of great restaurants in NYC.

So Marni and I decided to make a date night out of it and we chose Union Square Cafe...a very popular highly rated restaurant in the city.

We had a great time. We had oysters to start. A bottle of wine. Duck (M). Tuna (J). And finished the meal off with a couple of chocolate deserts. We were stuffed but it was all great!

We then headed to the Union Square movie theater where we flipped a coin between seeing No Country for Old Men (J's choice) or Atonement (M's choice). NCFOM won the coin toss.....but it was sold out! So we saw Atonement instead.

Unfortunately...I thought it was very bad. Poorly done. Could have been so much better. Blah blah blah. M thought it was ok...but didn't live up to her expectations. Needless to say, we don't think it should be on the Academy Awards Best Picture list this year.

So here's to a late night at work...and all the entertainment it can provide for M and I after the fact :)

End of Year Travel

2007 was a very interesting year. Marni and I both started new jobs (I had two different jobs!), we traveled to Florida, got engaged, spent the summer with my friend Mac, had friends and family Mark, Jasper, Kati, Alyssa, Christina, Wyatt, Rocky and Libby visit NYC. All in all it was a great year to say the least.

To cap off 2007 we took some time off (my first vacation since starting work in June) to head home and see the friends and family that didn't get a chance to visit us.

I started my travels with a stop in Minneapolis to celebrate my brother Wyatt's birthday on Dec. 20th. Then headed to Fargo the next day to spend time with my friends there. My camera is sort of broken and I didn't have Marni's camera, so unfortunately I can't show you what a great time I had.

I then returned to Minneapolis and met up with Marni who had flown in a day after me. We spent Christmas eve with her family and enjoyed her grandma's famous swedish meatballs.

Christmas day we got up and drove to Brainerd where I had the pleasure of meeting Marni's Grandpa Chuck for the first time.

The remaining week was spent doing wedding preparations. Being in New York we've conducted most of the business via email and phone. So now that we were in town we went around and visited all of the locations, met with all of our vendors, etc. Our parents met each other for the first time as well.

On the 27th we celebrated my brother Elliot's birthday. Wow is he excited about his Target gift card he got from Marni and me.

For New Years we'd made plans a while back to join my friends Jasper and Kim, who live in Fargo, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It wasn't the high season of summer that Myrtle Beach is known for, but it was still very nice. We shopped...

ate...
...hung out on the beach...

swam in the heated pool, and played some golf. Kim won!

When it came time for New Years Eve we hung out at the condo. Ate some pizza and chilled on the balcony. When the clock struck midnight the entire resort erupted in cheers and fireworks. It was a great time.

Thanksgiving 2007

Let's all take a second and think back to last year's Thanksgiving. What a wonderful time that was:
http://jmnyc.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html

I really do miss the beach, and the palm trees, and the sway of the bo...ouch! Marni just hit me.

Ok so last year's Thanksgiving was great. But this thanksgiving was equally as good (but not equally as warm).

Wed. after work we high tailed it out of NYC up to Boston on the Chinatown bus. My parents were flying in the next morning and we had a holiday weekend of fun ahead of us staying with my bro Aaron and his wife, and our parents joining us. For Aaron it had been 17 years since he'd had Thanksgiving with our parents. Which made me realize, I believe it has been somewhere in the neighborhood of 7 myself. Wow, time flies. Needless to say, we were both Thankful for the opportunity to spend it with our parents, and gals.

We didn't grab that many pictures. But we had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner, post Thanksgiving dinner, and night out at a great restaurant. We did grab some pics however of our trip to the new Boston modern art museum. Here we are outside. And the family in front of the harbor.


Hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving!

M&M in NYC

Our string of visitors continued with my friend Mark coming to New York for the first time. Mark lives in Fargo and runs an art gallery/shop in downtown Fargo called Gallery 514 (gallery514.com) and is also a DJ. So between art and clubs, he was well overdue for a visit to NYC.

We started off with meeting up with old friends. You remember Mac, who lived in NYC over the summer. Mac, Mark and I (along with Jasper who also visited over the summer) have all been best friends since we were in first grade. Here's the three of us on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade before crossing the Brooklyn Bridge on a cold Saturday.
I gave Mark the brief walking tour of NYC, hitting a few of the sites, a few less frequented areas. It was cold, so we never shied away from taking the subway, a cab, or taking refuge in a restaurant.

We hit up Holy Basil for some thai food for dinner. We knew we were looking for some live music and good place to chill in the evening. We found a magazine the recommended a jazz club up in Harlem. Perfect!

Well, it wasn't so perfect. We had a good time. But to call it a jazz "club" was a bit of a misnomer. The trio was great, but it was basically a small little shop in what amounted to a strip mall in Harlem. The place was lit like any store, fluorescent, brightly lit, no real ambiance or mood. But it was bring your own wine/beer, so we obliged, and had a good time.

Afterward we had a slight run in with the cops in Harlem. There was no trouble. But I think we might have looked a little out of place in that particular neighborhood at that particular night. We caught a cab back downtown and headed to Mac and my favorite late night hang out, Decibel.

Mark used to live in Japan, so he enjoyed the no frills, authentic Japanese sake bar. We spent a good bit of time there...ordering bowl after bowl of edamamme.


The next morning Mac headed back to DC and Mark toured around the Brooklyn art gallery scene in DUMBO. Later, Marni and I met up with him and his friend Ali at MOMA, and then took a quick jaunt through Central Park..

...before taking one last picture and saying our goodbyes.