jimmy

April 18-21 NASCAR made one of it’s two annual stops to the Phoenix International Raceway. Several weeks prior, Lesa mentioned she had to go to the race that weekend for work and invited me to come down and spend some time with her. For those of you who don’t know, Lesa works for gomotorbids.com, a company that runs an ebay style website devoted entirely to motors memorabilia. I flew in Wednesday evening after her big meeting and we spend several hours in the garage at the track Thursday and Friday. Because of airfares being higher on Sunday rather than Satruday night, we didn’t stay for the Saturday night race, but there was still a lot of cool things to see and I think i got a picture of all the big name drivers.

after a few trips to the midwest to meet my soon-to-be-family-in-law, it was time to make the trek up north for her to meet my family. we had several gatherings of church folks, family friends, old coworkers, volleyball buddies and whomever else wanted to stop in.

the main purpose of the trip was to meet my parents and get down to business about planning a wedding. but secondary was so she lesa could see little of my old home town. we got to santa’s house, the north pole, around fairbanks, the alaska pipeline and she even took a little flight-seeing tour with my dad in his plane.

much was accomplished including some awesome homemade food (mom’s pizza), a wedding week outline and some much needed sleeping in. and now that everyone has meet it is all systems go for getting the lesa/jimmy wedding train steaming down the tracks.

my friend tyler’s birthday was last night and he invited a few of his friends to tag along with him to watch his beloved A’s play the Mariners. One of his friends, not present at the game, works for the Mariners and got us some pretty nice seats.

after watching the gators knock off the buckeyes for the national championship, again, i went out to take a walk. i noticed there was a full moon so i went back and grabbed my camera.