Bachelor Party

For my bachelor party, nine of us headed up to Craig's parents ski in/out condo in Winter Park. Both Fri and Sat were perfect days to ski/board and the weather was great.
Fri night we played texas hold'em and Craig and Greg ended up winning the pot. I was too distracted by the car bomb I drank. Craig, Nir, and Travis (Craig's other friend) really enjoyed playing poker and wound up playing until 4am.

Sat night all of us went out to dinner to a place called Deno's. Deno's is an upscale restaurant which serves steak, pasta, seafood etc . . . All of us had a wonderful (loud, drunk) time. * * Thank you very much Tre' for picking up the bill. After dinner, we hopped around to a couple bars. Thank you Scott for being the sober driver for the night.

Sun morning I had the bright idea to schedule a snowmobiling trip at 9am the day of the the spring foreword. As you probably guessed, we had a hard time getting up that morning. We still made it to Grand Lake, but 1 hour later then we were scheduled to arrive.

When we arrived at the location the owners were not too happy with us, but everything was ok. I had scheduled a four hour long trip that day, but I was not really not feeling that well, so I managed to get the owners of the shop to charge us for only four hours. Long story short, only Craig, Ben and my brother made it back within the two hour time limit. The rest of us (Scott, Chris, Tre and myself got lost, but luckily made it back in four hours. We were all worried about the fact that the owners of the snowmobile shop might charge us $20 for every 10 minutes we were late, so we hurried as fast as we could back and luckily they were nice to us and only charged us for the 4 hour rate.

What a adventurous weekend ! ! !

National Cross Country Race

On February 10th, Boulder had the best of the best cross country runners compete at the USA cross country championships. The men’s race was a shoot out from the start. Alan Culpepper started off at a comfortable pace while Adam Goucher took the lead early. In the end Alan took first place on the 12K in a time of 37:09, just under 5 minute pace on a very tough muddy course. Adam came in second with a time of 37:35.


Girls ready to go

Christmas 2006

This year Kerri and I flew to New York for Christmas.
With the big blizzard in Denver, we were lucky to actually make it there and back. Our flight to NY was a bit delayed and it didn't get in until 2 am. We owe Hank a lot for picking us up at such a late hour. It was a great Christmas and we had such a great time seeing everyone.

The Fray

The last Saturday in September, Kerri, Tennyson, TJay and I headed up to Red Rocks for the Fray concert. One of my friends Sarah is the sister to one of the band members. His name is Joe King and he is seen on the left of this picture.
I have supported the Fray ever since they started here in Denver. I can remember going to a number of the Fray’s small gigs and there were only about 20 people in the crowd. I just hope that the Fray will be able to keep it real with all the growth they have incurred. I don’t see this being a problem giving what the Fray is all about.
The concert was awesome, the weather was perfect again and everyone had a fun time.

Baby Elena (Ellie)

Kerri’s friend Jenny, and her husband Wade, had their first baby, little Ellie. Kerri and I went down to Castle Rock to meet their new daughter, only 5 days old. When I held Jenny’s baby for the first time I got a feeling for how fragile life really is for this newborn.

We wish the best for Jenny and Wade as they enter this new chapter of their lives.

John Mayer - Sheryl Crow Concert

Michelle was nice enough to give Kerri and I free tickets to the John Mayer/Sheryl Crow concert. I have not been to a Red Rocks concert for a long time, so it was a real treat. The concert was great and the weather was perfect.

Tennyson/TJay Wedding

We traveled up North on I-25 for Tennyson's wedding in Sheridan, Wyoming. TJay is an avid golfer and had planned a golf tornament the day of the wedding, but unfortunately the weather did not cooperate. Kerri, Emily, and I toured around the small town instead.

With the weather at 40 degrees and rainy, Tennyson and TJay were forced to host the wedding under a tent. Tennyson looked beatiful & didn't appear to be affected by the cold weather. It's too bad we didn't get to see the Powder Horn Mountain Range, but everyone had a great time at the wedding and made the best of it.

Colorado Relay

Here is Greg leading us off on the First Leg

Derek ready to run! !
My team Blister Blasters competed in this years Colorado Relay, and ended up WINNING by over 1.5 hours.
This relay consist of 170 miles, 10 runners, 2 vans, 2 volunteers and no sleep.
The route goes from Idaho Springs to Gleenwood Springs.

Start times are based on how fast your team 10k times average are. If you are not very fast at all your start time is 5am, but if most of your team is able to run a faster time you are able to start later in the day. My team consisted of faster runners, so we were able to start at the last wave at 10am.

As it turns out we could have started the relay even later, because we ended up finishing at 5:40am the next day.
Here is Ben doing the last minute details for the relay. Every team needs a sign on the back of van that says "Caution - Runners on Road"






Ben getting ready to run down Guanella Pass.





Andy running up Guanella Pass

Crested Butte

Kerri's friend Elisabeth flew into town from California. The day she arrived, the four of us headed up to Red Rocks for a hike (inluding Punto). The weather was nice and the food & margs at The Morision Inn were tasty.

The next day we left the house around 10:30 and made our four hour journey to Crested Butte. Once we arrived, we met Ben and Solomon at a coffee house in town. We were all tired of being in a car all day long, so we decided to grab something to eat. After we all had our fill we agreed on a general place to go look for a camping location and as you can see from the picture above we found a great spot near a stream with wonderful views.

If you look past my Explorer you can see the mountian that all of us hiked up. Ben and I originally thought that we would be able to climb this mountain in 45 minutes, but as it turns out the hike took us around 2 hours to get to the top. Kerri, Liz and I hiked while Ben ran all the way to the top.
Punto is ready to go run.

Here is Solomon enjoying the sun.