Im the suck at interviews

yeah I switch microphone hands like seventeen times.  Eh, dont care.

staying on time and looking fresh.

Yeah, Im a slacker and not a care will be given.  I have been taking life pretty easy lately.  After a very busy first half of the year, I got to take a halftime of about six weeks from racing and have gotten some much needed time in with my awesome girls.  July started out in SLC for nationals.  This race is one of the most stressful races of the circuit for me.  I guess its because its the local national and people generally come out to watch/support me and I dont want to disappoint them.  It was like 700 degrees that weekend and the wind, like always, was blowing.  The weekend ended well, finished up with 2 1sts, and 2 2nds.  My lil grom was there to show some support and I won the race she was there for.

The following weekend I was able to go to Pittsburgh for a race.  Holy hot!  The humidity had this mtn boy sweating every ounce of water out of my body.  It was crazy, but the times that were had made up for the intense heat.  I was roomed with 2008 olympic silver medalist mike day for the weekend, and he had my mind right where it needed to be to grab another set of wins.  Stoked.




Then it was time to be home and be a dad and a husband.  I have to tell you I am one lucky cat to have such a great lil family.  I have truly been blessed and couldnt ask for anything better.  The grom is such a little miss independent, riding her bikes, coloring, talking, climbing, cuddling, watching shows with a sore dad, and helping around the house.  The wifester got her a little desk to sit next to hers when she is working from home, aka bringing in the bacon!  It makes me happy that we lucky enough to have the wiff, yes wiff, working from home and be there with our grom.  It would crush me to have her at a sitters house all day, we would miss out on so much.

The craziness that was my garage before

I have wanted to finish my garage/bike shop for quite some time, but being gone all the time left very little chance of it getting done.  Its not like I was doing the majority of the work, but still, I dont want to be gone when someone is around all my stuff at my house.  So one weekend I was home I had a guy that owed me some money drywall the garage.  I painted it, and rearranged it, and with the help of my boy zach got all the base on, and tv on the wall.  You know, important stuff for a garage. Super pumped on how it all came together.  We also fixed some sprinkler issues that we had going on at our house as well, who cares that it took three years?  Not me.

The finished product.  well except for that blank space...............

Grabbed some great new sponsors in the past couple of months that I am really stoked on.  Two local companies have stepped up and are keeping not only me fresh, but my hussy as well.  Its nice to have some local support, and really nice that the hook her up as well.  Moms need free stuff too!  Check em out if you feel so inclined. 

  I love her more than anything in this world.  My best homie.

This weekend its off to Park City for a mini vacation with the girls.  I have been given permission to take the bike, so I might get three hours or so on it.  Park City is my most favorite place ever, well, next to Seattle.  Oh yeah Macklemore in December, Zach, Chris, get your tickets!


Life is good in the hood.

May Day

Here we are at the end of the month of May.  May has been a pretty good month.  Went to Canada, did some running, some riding, some photo shoots, and started gymnastics with the grom.  The wee one is loving gymnastics, and we like it too.  Last night one of the ugly girls pushed her off the trampoline, holy shit it was terrifying to watch.  thankfully she is ok, and has already forgotten about it, but it scared the living hell out of us.

Im just going to post photos and let them tell the stories of the past little while.

Canada Cruiser

 

 while judging cheer tryouts for SLCC, I got talked into some stunting

 Hanging out in Brett Metcalfs trailer at the SLC supercross.

 our awesome seats at the SLC supercross

 The wife and I on a sunday stroll through the back roads of Cache Valley.  She has a huge road ride in a week.  Good thing she has rode her bike once.  

 I caved and bought the book.  Hope its good.

 We will be taking advantage of the empty campus.  The grom loved the longboard

 Got me one of those downhill bikes.

 Got the flu last week, it was lame.  Sat in front of the TV for hours.

Photo shoot for my bike check.  braaaapppp

I do what I want Friday

I have been pretty productive so far today.  4:30 wake up call, a little laughing session at the gym (no training), coffee, breakfast, clouds, traffic, work, emails, faxes, facebook, twitter, blogs, email, billout, phone calls, and texts. 
No one else is in the office, rumor has it that the new office lady just got offered a new job, awesome.  However, all else fails miserably in comparison to the news that I got that my lil groms gets to start gymnastics soon.  Wow.  I got butterflies in my stomach when the wifester sent me that text.  I am so pumped that  I will even be able to be there one day week cause they start late enough. 
I have been sitting here imagining her running around and jumping and then one day doing flips and shit.  hahaha, so PUMPED! 
On top of that I stumbled upon a new macklemore video this morning that reminded me just how awesome my trip to Seattle was earlier this year with the mrs.  I love it there, and if I could handle the cloud cover I would probably move there.  But I cant, because I am a moody little woman when it comes to not seeing the sun, and I think the wife would for sure leave me if  was even more moody.
So I leave you with the video that I speak of.  Yeah I post alot of videos on my blog, and if you dont like it, eh, who am I kidding, no one reads this.

Phoenix or Africa?

 Well I was going to do a San Diego recap a bit back, but I was lazy and decided not to.  But this last weekend was Phoenix and due to the major heat exhaustion that I am still experiencing, I am not doing anything at work, so I thought I would do this.

To say that it was hot in Phoenix would be an understatement.  The unusually high temps (105 sunday), really put a hurt on this northern Utah cat.  I have gotten soft since leaving lake powell, thats for sure.  Thankfully our awesome TM Steve was at the finish line with a ice soaked towel to throw on our necks and bottled water, I probably wouldnt have made it back to the pits if it werent for that comfort.

Racing went well.  Scored some good finishes,and kept it rubber side down.  The comp was really good considering the moto count wasnt super high.  My class is just tough all the time, so I have to be ready all the time.  Up next is BC next month, it shouldnt be too hot there. 

Well back to the grind, so I can continue to be a dink.

 1st round qualifier into the dumb turn.

 This is my Bart Taylor impersonation

 a little go pro action

going faster than Nick V ever dreamed of in the Phoenix where it was hotter than a mexican fiesta

Neat

A while back I tested out the stainless steel GT. Chuck Fallon was there to film it. Turns out they used the footy for a commercial. Pretty stoked on this. Thanks for the heads up Nick

GT Commercial, April 2012 - More BMX Videos