Cars and such

My wife will be the first one to tell you that I am abnormally obsessed with cars, well, Subarus and Volkswagons to be exact. I had a Subaru at one point but got a work truck and my car just sat, and be that we live in such a small town, it just never made sense to have three cars at our house.
With the move coming in the future, I am looking to buy a little car again, nothing too extravagant like the cars that I went and saw a couple of weeks ago, but something that I can drive and not pay up the wazoo in gas. My truck currently gets 13 miles to the gallon and its the suck to drive it any where for personal use because of that. It does have XM radio though, and that my friends is priceless.


So a couple of weeks ago we went to the Rocky Mountain Subaru meet. I really dont know much about cars, and I think that is what interests me so much in them. I like being a fan and just soaking it all in. One fella started rambling off a bunch of stuff to me, and I just looked at him like he had punched me. I looked at him and asked, "does it have a DVD player?" He wasnt impressed. Got to play with my new camera as well, pretty cool little toy.


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March, where'd ya go?

March has come and gone and what a month. The wifesters birthday and mine fall in march. We had a good month overall. Got to spend a ton of much needed time with the family and gearing up for the rest of the year. We still haven't had any luck on selling our house but it only takes one person and we're outta Logan. Go karts for the birthday palooka was a riot like always. It was more like bumper cars but still had fun. The traveling trophy went to Steve spencer but next year his ass is grass! Probably not because I suck at go carts but its so fun.
We have finally hit some nice weather so have take. Advantage of that. It's probably a good thing or I think the wife would have went all redrum on me.
Enough talking here are some high quality phone pics

PHX day one

Well I'm an early morning riser for th most part and the rest of my team, eh not really. So here I am hanging out in the lobby of our hotel which is super nice, drinking coffee and blogging. Good lord, I'm a nerd.

Last night we introduced our carbon bikes to the media. It was a pretty cool event off site from the track and hustle and bustle that goes along with it. I have to say, my team rules! It's nice to be able to travel with people and not want to beat on them. We had a nice chicken dinner on an outside patio and just talked about the bikes. I also ran into an old friend that I haven't seen in over 13 years as well.

This morning as I started to check the interwebs I ran across a story of a little fella that had a failing heart and last night at 1:30 am he passed away. I lost it. My heart hurts for complete strangers that have to wake up today knowing they lost their son. I can't even fathom their pain and wish them the most comfort possible during this time.

Do things with purpose. Love each other. Hold a door open for someone. Get out of the bus seat so a lady can have it. Never ride shotgun when a lady is in the car too, they get the front seat. Wear your seatbelts. Take a date night. Watch movies, make popcorn and eat chocolate graham crackers. Hug your little ones and your significant others. Wake your kid up to say goodbye. Over call your spouse. Call an old friend. Be better everyday. Ride with a purpose. Don't take life for granted.
Keep up homies.

2013 so far

2013 has been an interning one so far. Unfortunately every weekend of BMX I have found myself crawling off the track with bloody elbows, knees and other fun stuff that comes with the territory. My knee has been giving me fits since the first weekend in January where I found the lovely dirt in Reno. Not too sure what's going on there but ill get it figured out.
I have been enjoying some much needed family time. Last year was so hectic with traveling that I want to make the most out of everyday when I'm home. I don't want to look back and say to myself that I wish I would have done his or that. I mean I'm doing that with BMX so I better do that with my family because that's number one. We have been hitting the trampoline park frequently, bowling, bike races with the grom, shopping, cafe sessions, snowboarding, sledding, and other fun stuff.
Last night we did a little pre emptive party for the wifester. See, next week is the hussies birthday and being the all American husband I am, I will be in Phoenix racing so I wanted to have a get together for dev. We had a private room at one of her favorite restaurants and then we went to the tramp park and acted like kids, finishing it off with a shitty cake. It was good times.
Ted got hammered with snow yesterday but today the temp was awesome and the sun was out with clean air. It was supposed to be an off day but I couldn't resist the sunshine and took the rollers out for a good spin. I ended up being out there for almost an hour, much needed.
Life is good and the traveling season starts this week, off to Phoenix this weekend hope the weather holds out. Keep up homies.

2012 at a glance

2012 has been a great year.  Lots of ups and some downs.  Growth within this crazy mind of mine, and of course, the growth of my family.  I set many goals this year, and achieved some of them, others, I will continue to work on.  I was fortunate to travel a lot, and make some great friends.  Its hard to put into words how lucky I am, but just know that I understand what I have in my life and wont take it for granted.

Have you ever thought your heart was just going to jump right out of your chest?  Everytime I think of my grom it happens.  Good thing for blood pressure medication. Eh, when I take it.  I live on the edge.

I was going to do a 2012 recap in pictures. but really Im not that ambitious, but I did want to share some of my favorite from the past year.

She looks so little in this pic. 

I think the picture above speaks volumes for the attitude that little one has.  She knows she's awesome, and we agree.

When I traveled to Tulsa for the Grands, the wife made me a care package full of pictures to keep my spirits up.  This was one of them.  I mean really, how do you look at this and not smile.  If you do, we're not friends and you can stop reading now.

We spent time at Aggie games and in Park City.  Living life the way we're supposed to.  Spoiled and happy.  Oh and hauling ass down the slidey mathingy in PC.  The girls experienced the Front Runner.  The Grom loves Choo Choos, and pretty much everything else.

The Groms raced in her first race in September and is straight hooked.  She is also hooked on Dancing, gymanstics, toys, Macklemore, Elmo, popcorn, and just life in general.  I want to be her when I grow up.

Nothing more to say other than Life is effing awesome!

And We danced

Besides being consistantly sick for what seems like forever, we had a pretty decent time over the last weekend.  The wifester and I, along with zach and the midget were lucky enough, and proactive enough, to snag up some Macklemore tickets for his show at the Depot in SLC.  I have been obsessed with everything Macklemore for about 8 months now, and the ol hussy and I were pretty dang excited to go to a show.  I think this was also our second outing in a pretty long time.  The concert was one of my all time favorite shows.  The dude puts it out there and really gets into his shows.  We will for sure see him again.

We also went out to the BMX track on Saturday for a little presentation and to let the gromlin ride in the big wheels class.   She rolls deep when it comes to anything she wants to do, four grandparents, two uncles, and mom and dad there to support her.  She was having so much fun and wasnt too pumped on having to leave.  I think I might try to get her out there a bit earlier next time so she can just play.  Its a bummer living in such a cold area, playing outside with her is seriously the best.

Being sick is the suck of suck.  I dont think the wifester has slept in weeks, makes me fear for my life on the daily.  Yes Ill do the dishes, yes Ill take out the trash, yes I fluff your love sac, (woah that sounds dirty), whatever I have to do to not get stabbed in my sleep, Ill do.

I have also re-signed with GT for 2013, pretty pumped on that.  Im over the cold, and it is ruining my will do much, including writing any more on this blog today.........................

Recap

Have you ever had a dream that was so awesome, that you just thought it would never come true.  Have you ever set a goal, that you thought was going to be too hard to achieve, but set it anyway because it coincides with your dreams?  For me and the entire time I raced BMX it was going into the grands in the hunt for the NAG (national age group) title, and winning the greatest race on earth and being crowned the champion.
Fast forward 16 years, and after a short retirement, I have achieved a dream and goal.  This past weekend I once again missed Turkey dinner with the family to travel to Tulsa for the Grands.  It was the largest BMX race in the history of the sport and to be honest, my nerves were shot.  I have probably been the worst person ever to be around for the past month or so.  My thoughts were consumed with fear, excitement, doubt, and anxiety.  My gym sessions got longer and longer, as well as harder and harder.  By the time I had my last session of training, I was spent.  I told myself, there is nothing else I can do. If Im not ready now, I never will be.
I went in pretty excited.  Once I saw the track, I felt good about it.  They had built a fun little option on the second straight that seperated the meat heads from the people that like to ride their bikes and it shows.  So I like to be able to jump, and the second straight suited me.  Gotta follow in my boy Nick Vs steps and get on with some bikes skill, minus backflips, tailwhips and barspins.  I can however throw some mean turnbars. 
Friday nights races were kinda rough and I didnt do as well as I had hoped in cruiser, but class I was able to come away with a clean second place.  Had a great gate and just never looked back.  Just saw the guy in pink that was unbeatable on his 20" all weekend.
Qualifying for the grands is a huge process. starts saturday and ends sunday around six, and thats just the qualies.  Stressin for almost two days, I found myself in the main on both bikes and with a great gate pick on cruiser, I felt good about my chances. 
The gate drops and Luke and I drag race to the first corner, with me getting the inside I had a slight advantage and took it the wire.  So PUMPED!!  I crossed the finish line only to get mobbed by my TM steve spencer.  It was awesome and all I could think about was calling my girls. 
After a quick facetime with the girls, and what seemed like a billion hugs I was back on the gate for my tweny inch.  I found my self in lane seven next to two powerhouse riders.  I knew what was coming. I was getting shut down 5th pedal in for sure.  So I game planned.  high in the first corner to dive bomb to the second straight.  Just as I had thought, I was shut down 5th pedal in and moving my way to the outside to set up for the corner.  I started my dive in the corner as the rest of the pack went up high, and just as I passed by they all blew up.  I was now in third and that is where I would finish.  Never could I imagine getting two podiums at the grands, let alone in the same day.
I ended up the season NAG 1 on cruiser and NAG 2 class.  Pretty excited about that.

I will post a thank you blog later.  Too drained for it right now and this blog is long enough.