It's a girl !!!!!

It is official. We are having a little girl. If you want to see some amazing video please click the link below. This is only a small clip of the entire video but it's the part where my heart starts racing. The baby is healthy and everything is where it is supposed to be at this time. She weighs a little more than a half a pound and is about eight inches long. We are so excited. Kristin just knew she was having a girl. She is so smart. We will keep you posted as things move along.

http://vidego.multicastmedia.com/player.php?p=m5r7ax0w

18 weeks

Kristin has begun to show. 18 weeks in and looking as beautiful as ever. We will be finding out the sex of the baby this Thursday. We will keep everyone posted.

Cowboy Up'

Two of my friends and I were entered into a contest called "cowboy up" this past Sunday. It is kind of like a fear factor challenge. It was held at a local city festival and there were only ten contestants. The top three people get paid. I am thinking to myself that I can handle anything so why not. Free money! My friends and I agreed that we would split the money three ways no matter who wins. Now my chances are even better to win money. It's like stealing candy from a baby. So I thought...

There were three events to eliminate the contestants. The first round started with a race of some sorts. It was a timed event to see who can dress up in a stupid cowboy outfit and race back and forth inside this fenced in area. Only the top five went to the next round. I came in forth, my friend Justin came in second and Matt did not make it to the next round.

The second round was bull riding. Who can stay on the longest. We had to draw numbers to see who went first and guess who picked number one...? You guessed it. I have never ridden a mechanical bull before. I was really nervous. Anyways, I bet you'll never guess what place I finished on this event... If you said first place you are so smart. I lasted longer than anyone else. Justin came in third place. The top three moved on to the next round. Justin and I are really excited at this point because we are heading into the money round.

Third round comes and it was the eating portion. Again we draw numbers to see who goes first. Justin draws two and I draw three so we get to watch this other guy go first. The people running this thing should be shot. The blend together worms, pigs feet, pork and bean, hot peppers, marshmallows, crickets, olive oil, vinegar and hot salsa together into a shake. Then they placed a bull's testicle (sack included) on a plate and finally you had to finish with a shot of cod liver oil. The object was to consume the shake, the bull's balls and the shot in the fastest time. Justin and I sat back and watched this guy pound his way through this disgusting food. In the mean time we tried to come up with an attack plan to beat this guy. This crazy sicko guy finished in a little over three minutes. Next up was Justin. He sat down and started eating the bull's testicles and he started gaging. He took a sip of the sludge and began to gag even harder. In about one minute he had thrown up the nasty crap he had just consumed.

Now it was my turn. I sat down and looked at the giant bull testicle and smelled the sludge drink and said to myself "I can do this". I took the drink and decided I was just going to pound it down like a beer. The clock started and I took my first drink and I threw it up right away. I didn't even last five seconds. It was sooooo nasty. I have never tasted anything so chunky and so nasty in my life. Thank GOD I didn't put the bull's ball in my mouth. When it was all said and done Justin and I walked away with a cool $750 dollars. We split the money and went on our way.

Buddy turns 21

What is more special then a 21st birthday party? How about throwing a 21st birthday party for your dog? Krisin sent out invitations to buddy's 3rd (21st) birthday party last weekend. We had all of Buddy's friends over for fun and treats. Kristin went as far as to dress Buddy up as Rambo and to make gift bags for all the dogs who attended. Who makes gift bags for dogs? I think to myself, if she is this crazy about Buddy's birthday party what is she going to be like when our kids have birthdays?

Ohio Bound

For the past couple years my parents have been coming out west to spend Christmas. Both of my brothers live out this way and my parents love Sedona so this was the hot spot. Not this year. My brothers, Kristin, and I are all going home for some fun in the snow and cold and ice and wind and maybe hail or even some rain. Who knows, we could see it all. Merry Christmas to everyone.?! Why are we going home again?

We will be flying in on December 19th and flying home on December 27th. This will be the longest trip back home we have had together since we have moved out here. Oh yeah, we don't really own any cold weather clothes anymore. Let the good times roll.

Weekend in San Diego

I went to go visit my brother Aaron in San Diego this weekend. He flew his buddy Mark in from Ohio for a couple weeks so I thought I would drop in to see how he's doing. We had a relaxing weekend just hanging out and hitting some of my local favorites. For breakfast on Saturday we ate at World famous, Sunday we ate at Kono's and Friday we ate at some Mexican joint in the gas lamp district. All good eats.

Saturday I introduced Aaron to my workout program called Crossfit. We went over to his really nice gym called "fit". I went through the program with him and after the first of three rounds of the program he had to run to the bathroom to throw up. No he says it was because he had some beers the night before but I don't know to much about that. That night Aaron's girlfriend Linda cooked us some mean Asian food. Everything she makes is hand made from scratch. Won ton soup, pork lo mien, and beef and broccoli oh my. That girl can cook.

Sunday Aaron and I went diving for Lobsters over at the La Jolla cove. We were out in the water doing our thing and all of a sudden we see a couple sting rays and some small tiger sharks. Kinda freaked us out a little bit so we got out of the water. We decided to ditch the lobster diving idea and just go check out the sea life. It was really cool but the water was so strong it kept trying to pull us away from where we wanted to be.

All and all if was a good time. Didn't do much drinking of the booze. Didn't do much raging or partying late at night. We were home early everyday and were kind of lame asses. Wow are we getting old.

Another really funny video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnDcNlHIxjo

This video is really funny but kinda mean at the same time. You can only appreciate this if you are from the southwest or have spent any significant amount of time here.

Our first Child

With all of the baby stuff going on around our house we can't forget Kristin's first little one. As you can see, Buddy is a very happy dog who can't wait to have a new little brother or sister.

Very late Birthday Pics.

I know that we are a month behind on posting this but oh well, here it goes. It was the not so important 32nd birthday party. We gathered a good group of friends and rented a big 15 passenger van so that everyone could party together and travel safe. We were all together in the van on our way for a night of fun when the entire van started shaking really bad on the highway. I pulled over to inspect the tires when to my dismay the rear tire needed to be changed. It took five guys to figure how to change a tire in this rental van. WOW! (really only two but the other three stood around and looked busy) After that was all said and done we were back on the road headed up to Scottsdale for the night. We started out having dinner and drinks at Saddle Ranch. It is a crazy country western restaurant/bar with a mechanical bull. We had a group of 14 or so for dinner and we sat outside on the patio. It was really cool until it started raining on our dinners. Yes you heard me right, rain in the desert! After a few drinks and several shots we headed over to watch Gilbert Godfried live on stage. It was a real funny show. We met Gilbert Godfried and got our picture with him. (see above photo) We headed back to the bars after the show for more drinks and fun. My friend Justin and I destroyed everyone in a beer pong tourney at this bar called Gilligan's. No one could stop us. The night gets blurry after that... Kristin drove everyone home safely. The car ride home was much quieter than the car ride out. Funny how that happens.

Here's to another year and another birthday passed.