THE ART OF PASSION

Last weekend in the true spirit of the Valentines Day season, I attended "The Art of Passion" by CultureHaus at The Denver Art Museum. The event was very decadent, with a lot to both look at, eat, drink, breathe (O2 Bar) and talk about. We arrived just as the last set of sushi was picked from the naked sushi models, I think Crystal took the last male model piece hehe. We sipped on wonderful passion themed drinks and dipped into the chocolate fountains, while listening to our male friends talk about all the cute boys (all gay as well). It was primarily all gay men and some very, very beautiful women so it made for an interesting crowd. After getting our fill of "girl talk" with our guy friends it was off to go meet up with some other girls (the real kind lol).





We met up with the ladies and around town we went. What a fun girls night!!!

2 NEW BACKSTORY EPISODES!!!

Check out my Uncle's newest episodes of Backstory!!!

http://www.tv.com/backstory/

OH BABY!!!!

Well I have had two very busy girlfriends in the last couple of weeks. Both my girlfriend Katie and Kerri have had their little ones.

Katie actually delivered first, which surprised us all. Caroline Quinn Cole, decided she wanted to join us about 4 weeks early. So when my phone rang on January 23rd, I did not think anything out of the ordinary. Although when Katie said her water had broken and she was driving herself, to the hospital, I then realized it was not just a normal Weds call. Pat and I then headed right over to the hospital, stopping to grab some batteries for Casey's camera first. Once we arrived the contractions had started and Katie was off to great start and Casey was just rolling around the room on his new favorite doctors chair. I teased Casey for awhile, telling him I knew 100% they were having a girl (they didn't find out the sex), he of course, being a guy insisted it was a boy. I knew he was wrong, LOL!!!!! We stayed for a bit but then headed home with the promise that right when the baby came she would call me. At around 6am I got a call about the arrival of their little girl!!! Little Caroline had to stay in the hospital for about a week getting over jondus a couple of times but other then that is just perfect!!! Now Casey, Katie and Caroline are all at home getting to know each other :)

Caroline Quinn Cole


My next call came on February 5th, and Kerri called from home to let me know it was time!!! Kerri and her husband Scott, live in Dallas, so unfortunately I cannot give play by play details like with Katie. So what I do know is that Kerri did an amazing job and little Benjamin Patrick Butler, came into the world on February 6th at 9:19 am. He is a super healthy lil boy, but from what I hear has a HUGE head, Kerri said his head is almost a large around as his body is long LOL. I cannot wait to meet him and am planning on visiting the Butler family as soon as things calm down a bit for them.

Benjamin Patrick Butler

GO OBAMA!!!

So proud to be typing from Obamarado, home of the Baracky Mountains today!!!! In Colorado we had an enormous amount of people come out to Caucus on Super Tuesday. My father was even elected a delegate for Obama, WOOOO HOOOOO.

Lets keep our fingers crossed!!!!

What a GIANT Mardi Gras Party!!!!

This Superbowl Sunday, Pat and I decided to spice it up and combine with another one of my favorite holidays, Mardi Gras. Although we weren't in Nalens, a little homage to the French Quarter seemed appropriate. So the beads came out and the King Cake was ordered and the Pat O'Brien's hurricanes were mixed (by the way when you make them yourself, you see why Bourbon Street becomes a blur ;-).

We had a tasty Creole menu of Gumbo, courtesy of our own "Cajun Queen", Brandi. I put together a wonderful salad and ordered an authentic King Cake, but the baker forgot the baby. My assistant Jeremy also brought his signature dish called "The Smorgesbourge". It was wonderful to eat such great food and drink yummy (not to mention STRONG!!!) hurricanes, while watching a really good Superbowl.

We had a great time and maybe a couple too many Hurricanes :)

As you can see Jeremy sure loved the hurricanes!!! (No, he is not wearing lipstick)

It runs in the family!!!

So, many of you know I have a slight (actually major) obsession with all things entertainment including tv, movies, gossip, you name it. Well as some of you know my Uncle is in the biz and has been for over thirty years. If you thought I knew a lot about entertainment, I know nothing compared to my Uncle. He has been acting, writing and producing television since I was born. He worked for many years at E! and produced several of their big shows. He has now begun working on several different creative projects, one of them, is for TV.com. He actually produces these segments as well as stars in them.

Check out the first one below!!!

http://www.tv.com/backstory/?tag=gumballs;img;2&om_act=convert&om_clk=gumballs

Our Baja Getaway

This past weekend Pat and I took a little vacation south of the border, the California border that is. We decided to check out Ensenada Mexico for the holiday weekend. It was a very nice and relaxing vacation and we were able to check out some of the fun and interesting things Baja has to offer.

We actually rented a car in San Diego and drove down to Ensenada, which was a nice way to truly see some of these towns. All I can say is DEVELOPMENT!! I am not sure if Baja is expected to be the next real estate boom but it seems like every plot outside of Tijuana all the way down was under construction for luxury condos and hotels. Even Trump is building something on the beach in Real Del Mar.

We arrived at our hotel in Ensenada, called Las Rosas, checked our bags and headed to grab some lunch at the restaurant and walk around. The hotel really was exactly what we were looking for, quiet and peaceful.

The water normally hit the sea wall but when the tide is really low you can walk the tide pools.

Ensenada has several things to do while staying there. One of the main attractions is called La Bufadora, it is a blowhole on the tip of the Estero Peninsula. It is called La Bufadora because of the noise it makes, buffalo snort. A bit of a tourist trap once you get up to it but the drive was great going to it and luckily we were there the day before the cruise ships dock so it was virtually a ghost town.

The next day we set out to go visit some vineyards in the Guadalupe Valley. To our surprise, we went expecting beautiful green vineyards with grapes and instead we got bark and vines (guess we should have paid more attention to harvest times lol). We decided to visit L.A Cetto Vineyard, which produces almost 80% of all of Mexico wine. We were given a tour and explained the actual process about making wine, which was really interesting. Then at the end, we were given a great tasting of their wonderful wines, and because our guide said Pat and I "behaved" he gave us quite a few more wine tastes. I bought a bottle of Champagne and we headed back to the town for some roadside tacos. We arrived back at the hotel right in time to hop into the hot tub to watch the sunset.

The next day we headed down to the plaza to get on a boat for some whale watching. We were in Ensenada during prime Grey Whale season and Ensenada is right on their migration path. We traveled out for about an hour and a half to reach the area where they swim and sure enough we started seeing blowholes spout out water all over. It was really cool and were were able to see quite a few of them and get pretty close as well. Unfortunately it is really hard to photograph them. We headed back to get ready to check out our neighboring hotel The Coral and Marina. Pat was able to check out the last quarter of the game while I sat at the bar amazed by the lime peanuts (they were so good!!). We had some dinner, walked around the marina and headed out.

The final day we headed back to the states and unfortunately got a little lost in Tijuana, which was pretty freaky. Every sign said San Diego with a right arrow and just took us around in circles. We even ended up doing a little, very scary off roading in our chevy cobalt to find the main road again. Luckily after about a half an hour we ended up at the border and were into San Diego in no time. We headed to La Jolla in the morning to see the seals. It is pupping season so they bring the pups on shore to keep them safe and bond with them for 6-8 weeks then off into the ocean again.

We had all day to waste since our flight did not leave until later that night so we spent the day at The San Diego Zoo. Neither Pat or I had been to the zoo in a very long time so we thought it would be a nice way to spend the afternoon. We got to some really adorable animals and got a lot of exercise too!!!