The picture above is of the entrance to The St. Paul Seminary (St. Paul, MN). I met my wife there, 21 years ago, at a fake wedding. 😊 In the fall of my junior year at The University of St. Thomas, I was invited by a good friend of mine to be his “best man” … More The Fake Wedding That Changed My Life
For the past four years I’ve been blessed with the chance to make weekly grocery trips to Sam’s Club with my little guy, Blaise – first as a newborn, now as a four year old! 🤩 It adds more time to each trip and it’s sometimes a bit of a challenge (mainly on those negative … More My Shopping Buddy
Well, I survived. 🙃 Shoutout to my wife and @DavidGoggins (see previous post!) for inspiring me to get out of my comfort zone and try my first ever CrossFit swim workout today! 🥳 And an extra shoutout to my kiddos who cheered Kate and I on the whole time!! 😊❤️ I was definitely the slowest swimmer and … More Well, I survived. 🙃
If you haven’t yet read Can’t Hurt Me or Never Finished by @DavidGoggins and you’re looking for a swift kick in the pants to step up your life and be all you can be, then it’s time to get reading! (or listening – the audio versions are awesome as well!) 😉 This is my 2nd go-around with … More CAN’T HURT ME
Happy birthday, @jaime_villanuevah24!!! 🥳 🎂 🎉 With Jaime being the Member of the Month at Tangletown CrossFit he got to design today’s workout which, I might add, crushed me. 🤪 😄 It just so happened it’s also Jaime’s 40th birthday (tomorrow), which is why he named the workout “Los Cuarenta” (“The 40s”) and designed it to include … More 🥳 Los Cuarenta 🎂
Praise the Lord for fitness with friends! 🥳 Buddies Mark and Mike (pictured above) invited me to join them for a 5:30 am workout at Basecamp Fitness today and I had an absolute blast! The workout was fun and challenging and the vibes were all kinds of positive! 🙌 Coach Maddie’s constant “YES YOU CAN!” … More “YES YOU CAN!”
Woooooeeee!!! I recently completed the Juneteenth workout at my gym and boy oh boy, it was a doozy! 😵💫 🤪 🫠 I didn’t PR, but I did PUSH MYSELF and FINISH (2 things which is sometimes all the goal needs to be – and both of which I can proudly hang my hat on 😊 … More I didn’t PR, but…
This is a highlight from our recent family camping trip… A whole bunch of goats (literally HUNDREDS of them!!) living their best life, bleating away and snarfing on anything and everything they could find (they were being rented and used to help control invasive plant species at Whitetail Woods Regional Park 🌿🐐😎). As you can … More Goats are Hilarious
So last week there was a workout at my CrossFit gym that involved burpee box jumps. As you can see in the pictures below, I missed one of my jumps and it left a bit of a mark… 😆 😆 Well, this week there was a workout that involved FIFTY burpee box jumps! 🙀 As … More From “OUCH!”… to AWESOME 🥳
Today’s workout was AWESOME. I felt great, I paced well while also pushing as hard as I could, and I was so spent by the end that all I could do was lay on on my back until I regained enough strength to peel myself off of the floor… And what was left in my … More The sign of a good workout. 😃
HAPPY, HEALTHY, AND HOLY 