HOW COULD I FORGET?!?!

The second cutest dog in the world... well tied for second with Josie, I don't want to offend anyone. My nephew Tux (also Catch's cousin, see the family resemblance?)... thanks for that friendly reminder Laura - can't wait to see you and Matt on the 21st!

I think I'm gonna rename Catch - her new name will be Amelia Bedelia.

I went to take a picture of her with her new bandanna on (thanks for the Xmas presents Ree!) and like most people I said "make love to the camera Catch". This is what I got....
















Anyways, reminded me of those Amelia Bedelia* books - next I think I'll tell her to break a leg and see what happens.... later, after the camera had some time to recover from all the love making, I got the money shots - check it out, and note the (totally rocking and way awesome) Christmas bandanna!

*Note: I have no idea how to spell Bedelia

So I got back from Santa Fe about a week ago but I'm just now getting around to posting this - here's the best pic from the vacation - and the caption goes like this....

"Who knew I could look so good in a helmet? Seriously - I knew I would look good, but this good?"



















And this one - "I'm smiling because dang! My wife looks good in a motorcycle helmet!"




















I had a great trip - but it was a little short, traveling 1,000 miles to spend 3 1/2 days. That's okay though cause Santa Fe is always awesome....

I almost forgot - congratulations Blake and Catherine! Hope you enjoyed your honeymoon!

Okay as usual I've been super busy, I could go on but I'd put everyone to sleep and then I'd tuck myself in. So I'm avoiding that and I will now discuss my past weekend.

I was supposed to leave on Friday to go to Conway, SC for Webster's brother's wedding, but we got a HUGE snowstorm Friday morning, snow EVERYWHERE (I'm a big fan of the caps LOCK) so my flight got delayed, I missed it anyways cause I'm always late, etc. - point is, unfortunately I missed the rehearsal dinner and didn't get there until about 2 pm on Saturday. So we had to go straight to the wedding, I spend the night in a super nice hotel, then drove back to Atlanta the next day and got on my flight. A short trip but at least I got 6 hours with Webster in the car. And I know what you're all thinking... "6 hours in a car with Webster? What are you? Crazy?" and you're probably holding your hands up and shaking your head back and forth and looking crazy yourself. Well that's what I said too, and that's what I did too, for the first 2 hours. Then I took a nap, woke up and just talked Webster's ear off, so it was a good trip!

I've posted some pics, and I'm making extra sure to post this blurry one because we look like we're at prom. Prom with a Christmas tree in the background. And that's just funny. I also put one up here of Blake getting his face stuffed (that's Webster's brother) - apparently he thinks he's about to go to a football game, thus the icing on his cheeks. I don't think anyone's told him yet that he's about to have a LOT less time for football.... not that I know, but I think sports only get less and less after you're married. I'm just sayin... that because I know Blake now checks this thing and I don't want him to feel left out :)

So enjoy! And comment, please! I love em!

My first snow in CT!

Just think, while all of you were fast asleep in your beds with visions of sugar plums and blah blah blah, I was waking up to this!














Actually, let me correct that, Catch and I were waking up to this - and look how excited she is to be here!



















Even ol' blue couldn't escape the cold!

I think this pics says it all (sorry I'm posting them a little late...)

Hope you enjoyed it!

Thanksgiving in South Carolina...


this is pretty much what we do the whole time. But we take breaks to eat and feed the dog. That's Josie, Steph's little pup. She had a little too much Thanksgiving dinner...

I had a great turkey day, got up on Thursday and ran a little, then drove to SC to see the family, went climbing on Friday with my little bro and Peter, came back and had a late Thanksgiving dinner, beat everyone in Blokus, and then came back to Atlanta and watched the GA-GA Tech game with Webster, Melissa and Danny. So it was overall good times... oh and in between I snapped this fashionable pic of my little bro Mark, he lives in New York so he's super trendy... can't you tell?
In other news, CT got its first snow on t-day, so I got to miss it, how lucky is that?!

Everything will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, it's not the end.

I know it's cheesy but there's something about it I like...
sorry it's been a while, I promise there will be an outpour of useless pictures and blabbing soon to come. And if you're having a hard time dealing with my lack of posts, see above. Well either that or check yourself (before you wreck yourself of course).

Wow what a day! And good news for everyone, I have pics! For all of you who hear me talk the talk but never see me walk the walk (or in this case climb the climb) here you go...

This is a picture of me on a climb called CCK at the Gunks (near New Paltz, NY) - that's about 2 hours from my apartment... pretty cool huh? I can make it from downtown Hartford (which let's face it people, is a happenin place...) to the GREAT outdoors and 300 feet off the ground in about 2.5 hours - I love it! So this climb is about a 5.8 trad lead, which I know doesn't mean much to most of you, but as you can see, I'm about 200 feet off the ground at this point, and this is definitely the most scary thing I've done yet in this sport. I love it! See, in trad climbing, you set the pieces yourself (that's what I'm doing there, reaching above me to put a piece in that crack) and you carry all this gear because you have to put the right size piece in each place you find, which takes a while so you're trying piece after piece, meanwhile holding onto the rock and knowing that if you fall you'll be going all the way down to your last piece, times 2 because then you have all that slack in the rope, and just hoping that the piece you put in holds your weight. I don't think I could handle the sport if I was a fat boy :)
So here's the deal, I'm up this high, scared to death (literally) and it pushes me SO much harder - it's amazing what you find you can do when you have to do it. Moves that seem so much harder than my level become doable, cause it's not like I can give up and go back! I'm posting two pics here of me on this climb, unfortunately the leaves are just about finished changing, so they're not as pretty as they were 2 weeks ago when I was there, but it's still an awesome view.
My last picture is of a climb I did 2 weeks ago, here's a picture of someone else on it - I think this was in the Smithsonian magazine, they're obviously much better photagraphers than me. But this is how the area looked 2 weeks ago, and I actually led the climb this girl is on, so just picture my head on her body!

Don't you just love this sport?

Here's an idea for Shelly and Ree, just because I know how strongly you two feel about pirates - a decorating idea - give that tired old lamp an exciting makeover!