Today I signed up for the Warrior Dash.  I will be running it at the North Texas location at the 9:30am time slot.  When I checked there will still 150-ish available spots to register for the 9:30am start time so if you are going to be in the area that day and want to run it with me then there is still some time to do that.

I’d heard of this race before from a friend and decided to give it a shot this year.  I figured it would be fun to run through waist deep water, crawl under barbed wire, scale a wall, maneuver cargo nets, and leap over fiery logs.

This will be another timed 5k, my 4th of the year and 8th overall.  It should be interesting.

Warrior Dash – North Texas

Saturday night Logan was pretty excited to have turkey burgers for dinner.  However, he hasn’t quite mastered how to properly say the word hamburger.  His attempts nearly made Katie and I cry from laughing so hard.

Watching Logan try to say hamburger immediately reminded me of this clip of Steve Martin from Pink Panther. The gold begins at the 1:00 mark.

So, a few weeks ago when all three (technically four) of us were working in the garage Logan was fussing a bit because Katie and I were working and he wanted to play with what we were working on and we kept shooing him away. We were unpacking from our holiday trips and beginning to put away our Christmas decorations. To pacify him I let him wear one of my new LED headlamps (thanks Nina and Papa!) that would alternately flash red LED’s or have two stages of brightness for white steady-on LED’s. He was quite happy with having his own lights to wear (I got two headlamps). Katie and I were instructed to turn off the lights so he could see it all flashing, etc. Since I had shown him the button to switch between all the different settings he was having quite a blast. I had to snap this photo and remind myself that I’ll still need to show him lots of love and attention when Zach arrives in may and I hope I can accomplish that.

My brother, Jesse, and his fiance, Megan, will be getting married soon and like all good, and tech-savvy couples seem to be doing, got themselves a website. Megan took to the task and got it all set up with bios for everyone, with input from Jesse for The Boys, and other various details for the wedding. Go check it out!

JesseAndMegan.com

Katie and I have been blessed to be friends with a great photographer, Kristin Bednarz. She was the one who graciously and beautifully captured our wedding back in 2008. We all decided that as long as we live in Texas that we should make an annual trip back to Lubbock for the Texas Tech homecoming game and get in a family session each year while we’re there. Here’s the result of our first crack at it. Enjoy!

I wish I had a pair of these so bad. If anyone wants to drop several G’s on a pair of sz 11′s for me I will be eternally grateful. Unfortunately these ones don’t power lace but I can wait until 2015 to get that version in addition to these. I’m now going… Back… to the Future!

Source: Nike Mag eBay

For those of you who are Texas Tech football fans with U-Verse and you don’t already have the Sports Package then you may be able to get the upgrade for free. When I called in to upgrade just for that weekend of Sept. 24, because the game is being televised on the Fox College Sports channel, they informed me they were running a promotion on the Sports Package where the first month is free and $10 per month after that. Well, you can cancel before the end of that 30 day period and it’s only a $5 cancellation fee. So, you’ll get the TTU/Nevada game on Sept. 24 and a month of the Sports Package on U-Verse for only $5. I’ve already set myself a calendar reminder to call and cancel before the 30 day period is up.

On September 4 a fire raged through, and continues to rage through, Bastrop, TX and surrounding areas. Katie’s parents barn apartment, tool shed, and aunt & uncle’s house were all directly in the path of the fire and were evacuated. No one was able to get back out to the land for several days to check on the damage and when they were able to this is what they found…

…it looks like winter out there in the middle of summer with absolutely nothing on the trees anymore. Very creepy. I’m sure it still smells heavily of smoke out on the land.

It was frat-tastic Tuesday at the office. I found myself a sweet Lacoste polo on eBay brand new for cheap and decided to rock the popped collar. Don’t I look good?