September, 2009

Kellie and I just returned from a fantastic weekend in North Carolina with her extended family. Her cousin Trista was a gorgeous bride and all the festivities were magnificent. My personal highlight of the trip was creating a dance routine to Thriller with two other guys, teaching it to 20 of the family, and then dancing for the bride and groom in wolfpack masks. It was a blast!

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I’m enclosing the word finished in quotation simply because I still would like to put some trim up around the garage and I still need to install a gable vent and create an attic hole covering. Aside from that though, the Gladiator gear arrived a day or two before we left for Puerto Vallarta and I had most of it up before we left. I finished up some last steps Sunday after we returned and snapped these pictures. (Yes, I drilled into the new cabinets to install the under cabinet lighting courtesy of Steelcase.. well Details actually. It was horrifying to drill into brand new cabinets but my measurements were precise..)

The Firebolt.

The Workshop.

Open house.

Drawer 1 of 5 – tool organization.

Drawer 3 of 5 – more organization.

Kellie and I just got back from a wonderful week in sunny Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We went Saturday to Saturday covering the week of labor day and stayed at the Riu Palace right on the beach. We enjoyed a couple outings to Las Caletas (Rhythm of the Nights sunset cruise and dinner/show) and Swim Life Park (think Michigan’s Adventure water park plus swimming with the dolphins) and of course, lots of Tequila! I’ll post pictures sometime over the next few days.

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