On Friday July 9th, Mike Bolenbaker and Tara Sudar got hitched. It was a beautiful wedding at Edgewood Golf Course in Tahoe with great weather! I didn’t take too many pictures (still working on getting better at that), but here are a few that I did take:

Our 4th of July was pretty mellow this year. We headed out to Frenchman’s Lake with Nagisa, Dustin and Anya where we hiked, hung out at the lake and camped for 2 nights. It was surprisingly quiet out there and was very relaxing. Our veggie burgers stuck to the foil and became veggie scramble. Our [...]

The past few weeks have been pretty fun and a good start to the summer. Boly’s Bachelor Party June kicked off in San Diego for me. Despite telling Bridget that the guys wanted a weekend in Napa, ten of us rented a beach house near Mission Beach. Pacific Beach was a great place to unwind. [...]

While we were in Peru, we learned about the ancient Inca Cross, also known as the Chakana. The symbol predates the Inca culture, which they inherited the symbols and philosophical principles from those people that came before them. The Inca cross is composed of 12 points revolving around a circle. Each area composed of a [...]

Our house has a large front yard and a smaller backyard. To even things out, Bridget and I decided to build a courtyard when we were remodeling. With Ron’s help, we got a concrete footer in place, put up some walls, and then had the walls stuccoed, but over the past two years, we never [...]

Erron Dykins and Alexya See tied the knot on Saturday at the Grove. It was such an awesome celebration with good food, great music and amazing company! Cheers! My favorite Groomsman The Beautiful Bride Mr. and Mrs. Dykins Hip, point and nod First dance Tyler, Dave, Ian and Skid No cake smashing here The Quils [...]

This being the second year of having a garden at our house we had only one goal…for it to be better than last year’s. This isn’t a very ambitious goal since last year we managed to kill a bunch of squash plants that my dad gave us (his produced abnormal prize winning sized squash) and [...]

I ran in my second Reno/Tahoe Odyssey this weekend. The Odyssey is a 178 mile relay race (reno – mogul – verdi – boca – truckee – squaw – alpine, – tahoe city – homewood – tahoma – meeks – emerald bay – south lake – genoa – carson – silver city – gold hill [...]

After our hike, we stayed in Aguas Calientes for the night. The city resides below Machu Picchu and is surrounded by giant mountain tops. The river runs through the town, and as soon as we got off the bus from Machu Picchu, we looked for a restaurant and a beer. We met up with the [...]

3:30am. We woke up and then quickly ate cake and hot chocolate. (Meanwhile the porters were packing up getting ready for their next trek.) We then quickly ran to the gate and waited for the gates to open up. Finally around 5am, we were let into the Machu Picchu. We hiked for 30 minutes. At [...]