Bridget and I have been prepping for Burning Man, especially over the past few weeks. We are doing a Narnia theme camp, which we’ve been prepping for over the past few months. This beauty on the left came to us in March. Bridget and I went for a jog north of our house in the [...]

Friday Night Bridget and I jammed down to Napa after work for our anniversary and stayed at the Hawthorn Hotel. This place was decently priced (for Napa with only a few days prior to booking) and the hotel was clean. We booked two separate reservations because of availability. The first night we booked directly through [...]

Last year we had planned to move into our new house for the first time after coming back from our wedding in Costa Rica. We had originally bought the house at the end of March 2008, but we decided to gut the entire house to make it our home. For the next four months we [...]

Since I’ve been working at Twelve Horses, we’ve been doing some cool stuff with a few of my clients. Here’s a short summary of some of the things that my clients have been up to. Website Redesigns Over the past year, we’ve launched a few sites, which I’ve been part of the entire process or [...]

I remember the first time I saw you, looking so innocent in the clearance rack at Copelands. You looked eagerly at my feet, and I really needed something to replace my baseball spikes for softball. You pointed your toe at the $19.99 price tag, and I didn’t need to put you on. I just grabbed [...]

I love Keva juice! I have been hooked ever since they opened their first store in Reno on Kietzke and Virginia. Over the years I have tasted almost every flavor and narrowed it down to a few favorites: Keva Kolada, Bananarama and Mello Mango. I also really like the wheatgrass shots, same nutritional value and [...]

My mom absolutely loves to hike. She probably goes around 2-3 times per week and every time she will say, “Oh I just love this!”. For years all she has ever wanted for her birthday is for us to hike together as a family. This year we decided to go hike a trail in Tahoe [...]

Last Saturday we returned to the scene of the crime, where Andy got lost at the RTO. A few friends invited us to run with them in Squaw Valley instead of the usual Saturday morning run around Reno. Andy enjoyed that leg so much (even though he went the wrong direction), that we decided to [...]

The Donner Lake Triathlon was on Sunday July 19th. The same week of my dad’s 60th birthday! My parents had rented a cabin in Tahoe for the week and my dad and brother were planning on doing the triathlon on Sunday.This was a perfect! I stayed the night Saturday to celebrate my dad’s birthday and [...]

Nothing is more American than celebrating the Fourth of July by eating hot dogs, going to a baseball game, and drinking beer. Well… considering that we were headed up to San Fran for the weekend, this made for the perfect weekend to hang out with those Drinkin Dykins. On Saturday morning after arriving at our [...]