My newest adventure in my crazy life

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS JEREMY'S POSTING, NOT KRISTIN'S HAHAHAH

As many of you already know everytime you talk to me I have some crazy story or something outragious to tell. Well today is no different. I am going to try something so stupid and yet so awesome at the same time. I am going to try out for the American Gladiators. My tryout is Saturday February 9th in Scottsdale Arizona. The tryout consists of several test to challenge my speed, strength and endurance. To qualify I have to do as many pullups as I can in 30 seconds, (24 was the old guide line) I have to run a 40 yard dash in 5 seconds or less, I have do a complete set of suicides in under 15 seconds, plus standing long jump and vertical jump. This is a sample of what I have to do. I am working out extremely hard and think I will be ok.

I have a friend Jen and she is going to try out with me. She works out a the Worlds Gym in Phoenix. She has a world famous personal trainer who has trained all sorts of sports stars and celebraties. Well "wolfe" fromt he american gladiators works out at the same gym. She go the low down from him about the contestants. Wolfe said "there aren't many strong guys that have come through." He said "most people can't do more than ten pullups." I am pretty pumped by that information. At this point I can do 20 pullups in a row. I think with some hardcore training I can be up to 25-30 in 30 seconds no problem. I will keep all of you updated as the time get closer.

Here is a link to check out the show. http://www.nbc.com/American_Gladiators/

NEW YEARS EVE 2007

WOW this year flew by so fast. It was filled with a lot of crazy events, some we would like to remember and others we can't wait to forget.

We spent part of our New Years Eve at the Insight Bowl in Tempe Arizona (Indiana University 6-5 and Oklahoma State University 6-5). The party started at 1:00pm with a pregame tailgate sponsored by my company, Insight. It was cool because it was all you can eat and free beer. So after pounding down our fair share of beer we headed off to the game. The game was not important to us so we left at halftime to make our way over to the Mill Block Party. We hired three petty cabs to take us there because no one wanted to walk. We offered the guys a couple extra bucks to see who can get us there faster (the picture shows my petty cab in the lead with everyone else hot on our heels). We arrived safely to Mill Ave. The streets we closed off and there were food, games, rides and booze. It was really fun walking in and out of all the bars and drinking along the way. It was a really long day. We started so early that no one had the energy to make it until midnight. (We are getting old)

We headed home before midnight and watched the ball drop from the comfort of our living room. Kristin and I are making 2008 our year. This is our year to buckle down and save more, spend less, and prepare for kids. Yes, I said prepare for kids...

Merry Christmas from Sedona

For the second year now we have had an unusual Christmas. It was really strange putting up the Christmas tree in shorts and a t-shirt with the windows open. It is even stranger not having to bundle up and brave the elements to do our day-to-day activities. We love the warm weather. Anyway, we were excited that the whole Oravec family was coming to Phoenix to celebrate with us this year. My mom and dad flew in from Cleveland (temp 32 degrees and snow) Tommy, Tonnette and Haley drove down from Vegas and Aaron drove from San Diego to spend a couple days in Sedona, Arizona. We all got rooms at the Hampton Inn (thanks Dad) where we exchanged gifts and played games all night. Everyone was feeling pretty good from all of the great wine we were drinking, especially Aaron...

Kristin flew back to Cleveland to visit with her family and friends on Christmas Eve. Aaron and my parents stayed for a few days more. We went climbing up Camelback mountain, hiking through Cave Creek park and watched movies. It was great. The best part about this visit with my family was all the wonderful food that my mom made for me while she was here.

Merry Christmas.

Christmas Sweater Party

Tis the season to be jolly...

Too much time had passed since our last party (one week) so Kristin and I decided to throw an ugly Christmas sweater party. The idea is to find the craziest or ugliest Christmas sweater you can. I couldn't find a cool enough mens sweater so I had to go into the big girls section at walmart to find a crazy sweater. Kristin, as always, looked really cute. We had a nice group of people come out for the occasion. We had good friends, fun drinks, tasty appetizers and games. It was a gloomy night in Phoenix so I built a fire in the pit outside. Kristin had so much fun that she doesn't remember anything.

Tailgating for the Browns

Aaron and I in at the stadium

The Dog Pound from Phoenix....

On brisk Sunday morning in December the sun rises over the mountains to welcome the Cleveland Browns to Phoenix, Arizona. This was the game I have been waiting for all year. The only Browns game that I get to see in person this year. (Unless the Browns make it to the Superbowl. Ha Ha Ha) It was tailgating time. Kristin and I gathered a group of friends to help celebrate this glorious event. Aaron and two of his friends drove in from San Diego for the weekend. The game started at 2:15pm so we started the festivities around 9:30am. We were playing flip cup and corn hole, grilling brats and drinking beer. Can you think of a better football Sunday? We had a blast all day long. Unfortunately, the Browns ended up losing at the last second of the game with a bad call in the end zone.

Thanksgiving fun...

It was a great surprise to Kristin and I that Tommy, Tonnette and Haley all wanted to come down from Las Vegas for Thanksgiving this year. We haven't seen them for almost an entire year so we were definately looking forward to their visit. Being Thanksgiving is a time to spend with family; Kristin and I also invited a few friends to our house whom were not fortunate enough to see their families for the holiday. What does all this mean? As you all know I love to cook, so I was pretty pumped to have to cook my very first Thanksgiving dinner for eight people. (At this point I would like to give props to my mom because she made cooking for large numbers easy.) I spent SIX hours cooking in the kitchen cooking for a meal that lasted an entire 17 minutes. All in all everything turned out great. Everyone loved the food and we didn't many leftovers.

After dinner we all played cornhole for hours. Adam and Rich (team six feet and over) could not be beat. Later that night we sat around the firepit and drank the night away. It got so bad that we ran out of firewood and we started burning whatever we could find. GOOD TIMES>

First Hosting Thanksgiving in the books...

More Birthday Celebrations in San Diego

Last Thursday night Jeremy, Buddy and I packed up and drove to San Diego. We stayed with Jeremy's brother Aaron who lives in Mission Valley. Friday night we went to Hartnett's surprise birthday party at the Strip Club downtown. It is a Steak place where you order your dinner but you have to cook the meat yourself. Interesting concept - but I wasn't a big fan considering I don't like to cook. So of course, Jeremy cooked my steak kabobs for me!! After dinner we all headed to another bar in the gaslamp district - Fleetwood. Then after that I really don't remember much ;-)

The rest of the weekend was filled with a lot of eating, relaxing and socializing. It was a great weekend that we are still recovering from.

It is nice to be back in AZ though, the weather here now is PERFECT!!!