I'm Home!

After a week on the road in Savannnah for work I am glad to be home to snow and cold! Nothing beats home. My wife had to try and shovel the driveway while I was gone. Well she usually enjoys the exercise but it snowed everyday while I was gone and was real wet and heavy. She learned real quick how to start and run the snow blower. She even did the older couples next door. She had my boots on and was bundled up pretty good so the neighbor asked is that you Tracey? She amazes me alot of times in the things she does for others all the time and now shes even amazing the neighbors. Now that I am home of course it hasn't snowed for a few days now.

Another reason I am glad to be home is because now Tracey and I can watch the Packers play in the championship game together with friends at the golf course. Last week was good to see the pack win again but it was not the same without her to watch it with. All year we watched it together at home or with friends or went to the game in Green Bay or Dallas. My prediction is the pack is going to beat the Giants 31-20. Go Pack Go!

Happy Birthday!

Yesterday I started the day by calling Tracey at work and singing happy birthday to her over the phone. Mandy came over later in the day and surprised Tracey with some delicious cupcakes. Jessie, Mandy and I sang happy birthday and went out to a new restaurant in Pestigo. We had a great time and some good food.
After getting home we visited for awhile and somehow the subject of our heritage came up. We had a good laugh when Mandy said she thought she was indian! Grandma supposedly told her this a long time ago for a report she did for school. We called grandma and she laughed with us and confirmed there is no indian blood in our family. I have a hard time remembering my heritage for some reason. Mom was German and Norwegian and Dad was French, Irish, Scottish, and English. Or as I like to say American. Generations to come will truly be a heinz 57 or just good old American.
I have spent a good part of the last couple of days dreaming and planning a bike trip to Virginia for the nascar race. Virginia is for lovers:). I think planning trips for the warm months on these cold and rainy blahh days is a great way to dream and get through the day. We may even stop to watch Tiger Woods smack some balls around at the Wahcovia Championship in Charlotte.

The start of the race!

I am a newbie at this so bear with me on this. I was inspired to do this after seeing what my sister put together in her blog. I saw how much she injoyed telling stories about her family. It reminded of the days after our father died.

We all gathered at Mom's and watched a video interview of my Niece interviewing him. I learned several new things about my Dad that day(Thanks Nicki). I hope that this blog about whatever I want to write about will help my family to better understand who I am from a more personal view. Tuff guys like my Dad always had a hard time expressing ourselves to the ones whe love. My hope is that this blog will help everyone in my family understand each other better and grow stronger because of it.

The title is Ready, Set, Go because thats how I now try to live life. Like its a race to have fun and really live life not just go to work every day and collect a paycheck. Lets GO!