Race Day #3

Finally found, all bundled up and ready to go, this is pure excitement.


It's only a half mile to the start line, makes for a nice warmup.

I enjoyed the fireworks and the quietness of the Strip being shutdown to all traffic, it was weird, actually.

Race Day #2

Here's a better shot of the festivities at the start line.


I began my walk back to corral 26... notice the darker sky.

Has anyone seen my wife? I'm still looking but it is getting lighter.

Race Day #1

Race Day started early, about 4:30 to get down to the strip and park, then walk to the staging area, turns out we had to separate on Trop so that Becky could make it down to the Mandalay Bay.


I made the mistake of going inside, a lot of the people were trying to stay warm and warm up at the same time, others were just drunk and stumbling back to their hotel rooms from the night before.

This is the staging area with all the gear bags, they had a system down to get a bag and then run it down the line, seemed to be pretty efficient but also people were dropping off their warm clothes and then starting to freeze. It was just above freezing right before the sun came up to warm up the runners.

The starting line in all of it's glory, with Magic Tigers and showgirls as well, I thought I would start at the front and work my way back to find the girls.

Half Marathon Prep

Becky ran the Las Vegas Half Marathon with her sis-in-law, Stephanie and her brother ran the full marathon, in order to prepare they got a bunch of swag at the registration then we all went and prepared at the Haufbrauhaus.

The music was great, lots of crowd interaction, especially by those that were wearing beer goggles.

So happy and full after the delicious food was served and eaten.



I tried to get Becky to go up drink these girls under the table, she decided not to start drinking and just stayed to laugh at the merry women.

Dust Bunnies

Wow, look at the size of those dust bunnies, they are humongous.

Halloween and Hockey

Some have asked for pictures of our Halloween costumes, found some on the other camera when I downloaded it, we wanted to go with something current in the news so here is "Michael Jackson" and "Dr. Conrad Murray" it was fun making sure "MJ" had his medicine all night, a couple M&M's can go a long way in making it look real.

We finally made it back to LV Wranglers hockey game, it was really fun and we ran into a couple friends that we haven't seen in a while, we had a good time and don't plan on taking so long to get back to the next one. And yes it was the first basketball game so I had to wear a USU shirt to show some support, it's great to have Bball back on the schedule. Go AGGIES!

Six years ago.....

Six years ago this October we got engaged, to celebrate we went on a date to Roy's and celebrated with some yummy chocolate souffle.

We decided that we didn't need much of a reason to go to Roy's but six years is something to be happy about.

Camping Trip

We had the chance to go Camping in October with some of Mike's coworkers, we didn't want to go too far so we settled on the Logandale Red Rocks, I mean can you get enough of camping around red rock? We had a great time and cooked up some dutch oven cowboy chili, breakfast on the grill with pancakes and eggs, sausage and bacon. We headed over to the sand dunes to play around a little and then took a ride on the four-wheeler, it was a great little fun trip and Max had such a great time carrying a red rock with him wherever he went that he passed out for two days when we got home.