Saturday, March 16, 2024

Family Portrait

Fun time doing brunch at Majestic, then a visit to Murphy's in old town for a quick pre St. Patrick's day beer.

Mom and her boys

Celebrating our Irishness.

DC Half Marathon

Nicole got up before dawn to run the Washington half marathon. Beautiful day for a 13 mile run.

Friday, March 15, 2024

New Zealand Hammer

Sam's teammate Antz was competing to make the New Zealand Olympic team back home in Auckland yesterday. It was on tv at 1am Eastern time this morning and he took first. Another step to the Paris games.

Why Not?

I was home, doing some work and watching the ACC basketball tournament on Friday and suddenly realized it was being played 8 miles away at the capital one center in DC. I instantly jumped on Ticketmaster and bought some nosebleed seats for Dylan and for the night session. It was a classic upset by NC State over Duke. Very fun game and the seats were much better than the couch. Great to have some quality time with Dylan before he goes back to Maine on Sunday as well.

Friday, March 08, 2024

Black Bears

Last weeks action in Rhode Island.

Saturday, March 02, 2024

7’s Rugby

The Black Bears beat all comers for the Bryant University invitational championship. Dylan started and played well in all 4 games. Nicole and I enjoyed the games on tv from the comfort out our home.

Friday, March 01, 2024

DJ Dylan

I took Bumpy out for a spin as I usually do once a week. Bumpy is the boys car and doesn't get much exercise when the boys are away at school so i just drive it around for a while. Today, Bumpy and I were able to listen to Dylan's new radio show during the drive. We both approve.

Monday, February 26, 2024

Progress

Sammy took 6th in the MVC conference indoor championship. He got 12th last year, so lots of progress and he was the top sophomore out of 26 entrants.

Saturday, February 17, 2024

Snow

Not only did I get a minor snow storm in Minnesota on Wednesday (7 inches) we woke up to a fresh 3 inches here in Des Moines on Friday. The campus looked nice.

19.96

Sam had another Personal Best yesterday at a meet in Iowa City. He's only .04 meters short of 20 with the Missouri Valley Conference championship coming up next week in Chicago. It was fun to see him throw live for the first time this year.