First Married Road Trip

People are really nice in the Midwest...
We just got back from our first roadtrip as a married couple. The timing was perfect because I had fall break, and Michael didn't have to work because he quit his old job and GOT A NEW ONE!! Hooray! Actually, he got offered TWO new jobs, and just accepted one of them this Friday. He will be working as a sales rep for a company called ACME Manufacturing. He will be selling really exciting things like "threaded rod". But seriously, we are really excited about it.

So on our trip, we drove to Des Moines, Iowa to see Michael's brother (Robby) play football. He plays for Drake University as a defensive end...and we got there just in time to see him make some spectacular plays. We screamed our heads off for him. We hung out in Des Moines for a few days doing nothing at all...but it was a relaxing break, and it was really good to see Robby and Neek.

We heart them.

Then we drove to see Matt and Reagan in beautiful Kansas City...


Okay, so that isn't Kansas City...I stole this picture of them in Hawaii on their honeymoon. We really wish that they lived here...we are trying to think of a way to convince Matt to drop out of school and move back to Colorado. We could have them live in one of the guest rooms in our house. Plus, we have a room for their new and upcoming baby boy. (Think about it, Ogles -we could play CLUE and watch Myth Busters regularly...)

The Lovenasium

Alright, since the last post was short on words, I'll do two today. I set up our home gym in the garage this afternoon. I built the power rack yesterday (see the tall cage in the pictures) and moved all the other stuff up from the basement today. The reason we wanted the gym in the garage is so we could have room to do overhead lifts. Katie and I are really into this crossfit thing, and they post a workout of the day (WOD) that we follow pretty religiously. Check out the link to crossfit.com at the bottom of the page, its a great resource and all free. Many of the workouts have lifts that require us to lift heavy things above our heads, lots Olympic lifts. As a result of our crazy desire to do insane workouts, we needed overhead space, so I moved all the heavy, heavy, heavy equipment upstairs. My back hurts. Also, my truck doesn't fit in the garage anyway, so we might as well put the space to work.

Anyway, that is the background on the garage-gym. We haven't used it yet, except for a few pull-ups, but are very excited to try it out. To combat the cold (it's already here) we put a small space heater in the garage and will use it on the frostiest of days, however, once we get moving in there things will heat up quickly. Pics follow:

The next picture is of kettlebells. They are used in many crossfit workouts. I posted them so that I could show you exactly what Katie tried to put through our floor the other day. She was walking in with one of the kettlebells and as soon as she got in the front door she dropped it. Luckily the 35 lb weight did not go through the floor or dent it even.

On a related note, here is the hole Katie put in our stairwell to the basement. She decided it was a good idea to kick a 20 lb medicine ball down the stairs. When it got to the bottom it kept going:

I am not sure if Katie realizes who has to fix this...us. I'm just kidding, I thought it was the funniest thing in the world, I just like giving her a hard time about it.

Okay, finally our new TV. I realize that images of things that display images is about as interesting as Alan Greenspan, so here is the only picture. It is a really nice 46" Samsung TV.

Thats it, whew this was a long one.

~Mike

Bedroom and Bathroom

Alright, here's a quick update. These are some pics of our bedroom and bathroom. Here we go:

The painting in the picture is going to be hung up above the bed in the picture below. It is a pretty plain bedroom, but we are working on making it a little bit more homey.
Our bed. No big deal. Just imagine the painting in the other pic above the bed.

This is our bathroom. Well it's our sink, the shower is to the left of the picture, the tub is to the right and the toilet (throne) is behind the photographer. It is a nice bathroom, the tile, however, is very cold at 4:30 in the morning when I get up to shower. Okay, I just wanted to say that I get up at 4:30 (and it is only twice a week anyway).

Alright, that's the quick tour of the bedroom. Next post I think I will do the tour of the new toys that we have gotten since moving into the house (TV and the new gym!). Be back soon.

~Mike