Nick ‘n’ Heather

We’ve not been very good at this, but I figured I could take a couple minutes to wish Heather a good day as she’s at her new job for the first time!

Well, have been a bit busy lately.  Just finally calmed down long enough to finally put up a quick note about finally getting married to my beautiful wife, Heather.  Not a whole lot of pictures yet, but we’ll get them up when we get them from the photographer.  It was a great night and we’re thankful for all that could make it and share the party with us.

Haven’t updated in a while, been really busy.  My project at work goes live next Saturday.

This weekend I’m in my friend Brouse’s wedding so we have rehearsal tonight, wedding tomorrow.

Then Heather heads back to Fargo for national’s training and I’m working like a mad man all week to get ready to deploy Saturday.  Then we hop on a plane for a week in Florida, fly back and get married in 4 weeks. 

I thought summers were supposed to be relaxing.

I’ve been working through the program at HundredPushups.com over the last few weeks and thought I’d share my results so far.  I’ve got one day left in Week 4.  It’s a 6 week total program and the results are astounding.  You do the pushups 3 days a week and the number increases each time. 

The first day of the program I did around 45 pushups broken up between 5 sets.  Last night I did 140 pushups broken up into 5 sets.  Here’s a chart of my progress so far.

So I haven’t been updating, sorry about that.  Work has been very crazy over the last month.  We’ve even managed to get some stuff done for the wedding.  We’ve got the DJ booked.  We’re working on my personal favorite part, the cake selection.  It’s very tough and will require many more tastings.

I recently received our “Christmas” present from Magenic last week.  It’s a Kindle, basically, a handheld device for reading books.  Pretty nerdy, but you also have to remember the company I work for.

I’ve also been working on my cooking skills some more.  Although, I haven’t baked any pies in a while, this weekend I did make homemade tortilla chips.  Last night I made turkey burgers.  I even bought a couple cook books.

Heather’s prepping for a TKD tournament in April.  It’s the state qualifier and she’s planning on going to nationals this summer.

We’re also trying to work on getting our own TKD school off the ground, which starts May 5th.

Also: please note that today marks the fact that you only have 21 shopping days left until a certain special boy’s birthday.

Heather makes fun of me for not liking to get on chairlifts.  Laugh all you want, but you won’t laugh when this happens to you.

Man Dangles from Chair Lift

So it’s been quite some time since Heather or I have actually given anything good to read here.  Well, I figured I’d change that around a bit.

Things have been pretty hectic over the last couple months.  I’ve begun snowboarding and almost killed myself once.  We’ve been bouncing around a lot for the holidays over the last month and we are just now settling down and getting back into that “regular” groove. 

For New Year’s we went to a friends house and hung out.  He wanted me to bring my Wii, so I did.  I did not realize until we tried to hook it up halfway through the night that I was missing the video cord.  I called my mom and she shipped it off to me.  It came in the mail on Saturday so we at least had some Wii time this weekend. 

We drove down to watch Tim’s kids test in Elysian for Tae Kwon Do.  Heather and I were going to go snowboarding in Mankato, but when the test was done it had started to ice/rain.  We debated a bit and I put my foot down said we were starting home instead.  So we drove from Mankato to Golden Valley in the middle of an ice storm.  It was glorious.  Normally it would be an hour drive and it took us over two and a half hours.  I had to stop twice to scrape the ice off my windshield.  Every time there was another good quarter inch of ice built up.  It was ridiculous.  We made it home safe and I crashed on the couch.  Driving had wore me out.  After a bit we got bored, because it was still early so we went and rented a movie, Mamma Mia…Heather’s pick for those wondering. 

Today was a cleaning day, we got most everything squared away from the holidays.  This week we’ll continue to work on our Extravaganza for the 24th and Heather is also starting to get excited about my company’s holiday party, which is on the 17th. 

Hopefully, we keep updating more regularly again now that the site is a bit more servicable.

Happy New Year, all!

Just a quick update for those that subscribe.  I’ve been working hard to finish the website.  There are obviously some glitches and problems still.  They’ll be gone shortly.

Had a pretty good weekend this time around.  Tim came over Friday and we all went to Dave and Busters which is basically like Chuck E. Cheese for adults.  They were having a half-price day for Halloween so all the games cost half what they usually do.  We had a lot of fun and the three of us played forever without having to spend too much.  I even won a 1000 tickets at the giant wheel spinning game.  Although Tim did get the fastest gun draw time, and Heather did smoke us in racing once.

Saturday we were planning on going to Valleyfair for the last day of the year, but they didn’t open until 7pm so we had to improvise.  Played a lot of Guitar Hero and hung out.  Then we started hitting up stores and scoring the good after Halloween candy deals.  We finally made it to Valleyfair and it was a lot of fun.  I almost got us kicked out by sneaking my camera onto the Extreme Swing and trying to take a picture in the middle of the ride.  Oops…

Anyways, it was a lot of fun and Sunday Tim and I went to the Vikings game because Heather wasn’t in the mood for a football game.  Took it easy after that.

I’m listening to the Ada-Borup football team play their section championship game at the Alerus dome in Grand Forks.  I want to take a moment and give some recognition.  My brother Aaron just scored the first touch down of the game.

Every time I’m back in Ada and football comes up people talk about Aaron starting to follow in my footsteps.  I just wanted to say that Aaron’s not following in my footsteps.  He’s not following in my footsteps, he’s only in 10th grade, starts both sides and already better than I ever was.

I liked to play football, had some fun and that was it.  I was lucky enough to be part of a really good team, go to state and see some cool stuff.  Thought about playing in college, was on the team at MSUM, but quit before practice started my freshman year.  I had other stuff I wanted to do and football would get in the way.

However it ends, good job on this year, Aaron.  Keep working, you’ve got years to get even better. 

But keep this in mind, one-on-one, I could still take you any day.