Fun in the Sun

We're off to Destin, Florida for the weekend. Should be a nice relaxing break on the beach.

Real Rhapsody

If you :

- Are a fan of music
- Spend a lot of time near a computer
- Have an extra $10 a month

Then I would recommend trying out Real Rhapsody. It's a subscription based, on-demand music catalog that allows you to listen to and download from over 1,000,000+ songs. We've been subscribed for about three months and absolutely love it. You can connect it to your home stereo and have a virtually limitless music library available to listen to. You only have to purchase songs if you want to burn them to a CD.

Unfortunately for mac users, Rhapsody only works on PCs for now. Fortunately, the Boudreausian household has both a mac and a pc. One loaded with songs from Rhapsody and the other from iTunes. :) Although, I doubt I will use iTunes again since purchasing songs from Rhapsody is ten cents less expensive than iTunes.

Rhapsody also offers a service called Rhapsody-to-Go, which for $15 a month you can put all your downloaded songs on your portable mp3 player. Unfortunately, iPod doesn't support these files yet... which happens to be my portable player of ownership... so I haven't upgraded to this service. I am debating whether or not to wait until iPod supports Rhapsody files (if ever) or just getting another mp3 player.

Capital Visit

Shelley and I spent four days in D.C. last month. We absolutely loved it and are looking forward to visiting again soon. There is so much to see and do, the architecture is breathtaking, and the history is humbling, fascinating, and inspiring. Here are just a few of the photo highlights:

Here we are outside the capitol building. A great friend of ours, Jeremy, works on capital hill and was able to give us a great little tour of this beautiful, historic building.

We checked out the Lincoln Memorial late one night and enjoyed this truly awesome tribute to our 16th president.

Here Shelley is pictured reading the Emancipation Proclamation.

This is me at the World War II memorial. I look like I mean serious business.

Jeremy was able to arrange a private tour of the West Wing of the White House for us. This was certainly the highlight of the entire trip! The opportunity to see the Oval Office, the Roosevelt Room, the Cabinet Room, the Rose Garden, and everything else was was an honor and privilege we are so thankful for. We weren't allowed to take pictures on the inside, but here is a photo of us being silly just outside the entrance.

Actually, we were trying to look like we were discussing important matters, but as Shelley will attest, I have a problem with not being a freak of nature.

The two of us in the "front yard" of the White House.

Here I am taking some important questions about the lack of updates to our website in The White House press room.

Somehow this is the only picture I have of Jeremy from the whole weekend. Thanks my friend. We appreciate your kindness!!

Austin: The Other Capital City

A few of my old high school buddies and I got together down in Austin for a weekend of nostalgia, catching up, and unruly debauchery.

From left to right: Teno, Ruben, me, Daniel, and Abelardo.

Just a picture of me. That's all.

Ascendio News

Last month my company, Ascendio, moved into our brand new office in north Dallas, just off the tollway. Here are some photos from just after the move in.

We are really excited about the new place and are excited about the unbelievable growth the company is experiencing. If you want to know why TheBoudreaus.com has not been updated very often, it is pretty much because of the work that goes in in the place pictured below. That doesn't explain, though, why we haven't been able to update the company website for what seems like over a year. ha!

We were able to get the corner office on the sixth floor. So not only do we have a great view, but the office is full of natural light all day. I love that

Here is my work area, where the magic happens.

Beautiful Day

On June 1, Shelley and I celebrated our three year wedding anniversary. Our marriage has been a supernatural, surreal, and wonderful experience. We have come a long way since we started dating as freshman in college to where we are today. I am simply blessed to have such a patient, caring, loving, beautiful woman by my side every step of the way.