Big day for a little girl

Tess had a big day today as it was her baptism and we had both sides of the family,Hoffmans(God parents) and Wolfs over for easter.It was a great day and a lot of fun.

New look with new kits

Stopped and pick up the new kit and I have to say I think their the best one's yet.
Good color, nice to have the matching shorts .

12 LBS and 24in long

Wow, The Doc says she doing well and moving up the chart. The best is she is at the point where she knows her own voice and its really cool to see her and her face when she trys.

Days of thinking

Well sorry its been awhile but things have been pulling me in all directions as of late. The new job is going great even know its a little more work then I first thought, its taken some time but I am getting the swing of things and everybody in the shop is a great help.
Things at the bike shop are always fun and its like being in another world for me, no matter what my week was like or what has happened it all goes away when you step in the shop and get your hands dirty.
Home has been great and this little one is a ton of fun, she is getting so big its hard to remember how small she really was. Now don't get me wrong we have had our ups and downs but in the end
sometimes I just look at her and think "is this really real".
Erica and I have talked a little and I think I have made up my mind with the whole racing thing,
I'm taking this year off of WORS, maybe I'll do one or two but I will miss most of them. This is more of a good thing as I really want to be around for Tess's first year and racing takes up a lot of time in the summer and I don't think its fair to make Erica take care of her well I'm out racing and having fun.I really want to be around for all the fun stuff she will be doing.
Now don't get me wrong I still will be doing 24-9, chequamegon (If all goes well with that) and I hope to get to the time trials but for the most part of it, it will all be riding for fun.
I will miss all the people I get to see at the races but it will only be for a year and I still hope to get to some of the race to watch.
See Yaaaaaaaaaa..................................

30 in on a Empty tank

Had a good ride today, out to the waukesha county airport with a little stop a work and then back.
Felt good on the way out but felt like shit on the way home, the tank was empty. I was eating and drinking but still felt like shit. Road the cross bike with the 1x8 set up and all ran great till I hit hoyt park and the shifting not working, a little tinkering and come to find out 5 loose chain ring bolts, so a little turn with the tri key and away I go.
Hills both ways and I put in almost three hours in the saddle, not a break neck speed but it felt great to get out.
See yaa..............................

New Job

Well posts have been a little slow as I took a new job as the install manager with my company and I am trying to get my head around things. It looks like I will just start from scratch and do it my way as a lot of the old things have not be working really well.
I worked in the stock room till like 6:30 and I really didn't get any thing done, as I said I think it will be easier to just rip the stock room apart and start over, the hard part with this is I still have to keep 4 crews working and keep up with my orders. So it looks like a lot of late nights and early mornings for awhile.
I hope to be able to ride during my lunch as soon as the weather turns and I hope this helps my training.
SEE YAAAAAAAAAAAAA....................

Its My birf-day

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

shop,shop,shop

Going to look and price one of these today for the race season. As with the new baby and the dog and the bike and the rest of the shit we won't have enough room in the van.
So if anybody knows of anyone selling a 4foot or 5foot model for a good price let me know.
See Yaaa

On their way

Finally after weeks of waiting I should get them on or around my birthday,
Happy birthday to me

Lost a little weight*

*And gained some with the double stuff

Workin hard or hardly workin

I received a few photos from some of Bubba's co-workers to spice up my blog.
I have been told he works really hard, well we can all see at what.
Make sure to click on the last picture and read the post-it note

HOLY SHIT BATMAN !!!!!!!

Is it cold outside or what, I can't believe a bunch of the guys road over the weekend.sorry way to cold for me I'll stick to the trainer and or new exercise machine.
See Yaa.........

Bad day at work,

Good day on the trainers, After doing taxes and venting after my shitty day at work I got onto the bike and figured its about time I get back on the rollers. Its been about two years since I had a really good crash and have been a little gun shy, but what the hell. After reading how much fun she is having I got to give it a go.
So after 15min on the trainer I hop onto the rollers, a couple of good spins and away I go, It feels good, the fixie is smooth on them and I am pretty relaxed. After about 10min I figure I can test the waters and I grab a drink, a little off course but still upright. I feel good, I go one handed then I do a few one legged power spins and still all is good.
45min later and the ride is over, dam that felt good, why did I ever stop? Oh ya knocked my self out cold when I blew a tire on them.
TIP, check your tires before you get on your rollers.
See yaa

The way things have been going

a few more days at the park

Been spending a lot of time at Miller Park for work lately, trying to get all the bugs worked out of their Access control system that we just installed. We started to use a new software from the maker of the controllers but it seems like they let it out for use before it was really ready, so we now get to try to figure it out.
The place is really cool when you get to go behind the walls and gates. Have been up to the roof a couple of times, even walked the cat walk over the field, now that's a long way up.
Well got to go
See Yaa..............

Bubba's Diet plan

Stopped by his work yesterday and he was eating it right out of the can
he says it good for him, OK.
The funny thing is everybody at his work makes fun of him more then I do.
So when you have lunch today tip your spoon to the new diet plan.
Got to get back to work.
See Yaaa.........................

The Break Down

Well the back has been killing me for like four days now and finally today its starting to feel better. Got up to read the paper and got a call from Candy, they spent the night in the flat land and asked if I could let the dogs out, no problem so off I go, spend some time with the pooch's and get back home before I have to leave again for a meeting at the bike shop.
So off I go, sit though the meeting and not much to it, half way though John says he just ordered a 2006 5200 from Trek and he got it in a 54cm, wow that's my size, that doesn't happen to often as a 54 is not that popular of a size to have around the shop in that kind of bike, normally is like a 56 or 58, but as I sold my road frame at the swap I need a new bike and this just seemed to fall in to my lap. It came with the race lite fork not the race like its spec'ed with so that's a plus.
So now I just have to break it to the wife, "but honey I got a really good deal". I'm going to pay for this one.
See yaaaaaaa.

A day in Mad town.

Got up to look out my window to see the Parker family minus Greg looking in the front door, "OH Shit" time to go, turned the key and we were gone. A short ride west and we got to mad town with a little time to spare, it was like perfect timing to get into line in a good spot, stood around for like 20 min and we were in. A lot of shit but some really good deals to.
The only two things I went to look for were pedals and maybe a HID light but I figured the HID was out of my price range on the first go round. So I start the second round, look at some good stuff but not much I really needed, I stop by one table and some guy is still putting stuff out, I see a light and ask "Is it HID ?" he looked at me and says " for 100.00 I don't think so but its not mine I"m selling it for a friend" Well it was and I didn't get it for 100.00 I got it for 80.00 plus I also got a second light head with the wide angle bulb. So in the end I got like 700.00 worth of lights for 80.00 bucks.
I spent a couple more hours there and got rid of some of my parts and my road frame, got some cool Oakley shoes and a BKB water bottle. O and I can't forget the buy well walking out the door of some glasses for 20.00, they should match the new team kit for this year.
It was also good to see a lot of the people that you really only get to see at the races and some people who used to race but have moved onto other things.
Well got to go.
See Yaa.......................

in full swing

Called the shop and got one of these ordered today for the basement work out area. So I hope it should be here in like a week or so, Erica is really looking forward to it also because shes not a huge fan of the bike.
I started the program I have laid out for the race year tonight and I am really looking forward to it as work has been a bitch as of late. Not that were real busy but its just a pain when nothing works ,our access control company decided to come out with a new software revison for our panels, but they put it out before they got all the bugs worked out, so its like a battle to get systems to work and when we do you have to spend five hours on the phone with tech service to make it work.it sucks.
Rode for around 45min tonight, start of the new program, after I spent 20min doing sit-ups and a little yoga and some stuff with the power ball. I'm hoping this will help the back for the season.


See Yaaa

Finally

Well after having it for almost a year I sat down and loaded like 1000 songs to my Ipod over the last week, I was having some trouble with Itunes but a few phone calls to Microsoft I uninstalled it and reloaded it and like magic it works.
So as you can see I have not been on the bike since Tess was born, so the plan is to start the training next week. I have the plan all laid out now that's all I have to do is stick to it.
See Yaaa

New years party with great friends

Merry Christmas from the Jennings

Wow what a differance

The last couple of days have been a eye opener for both of us, sleep has become something that's needed not wanted and to have a little life totally counting on you is something I would have thought we could never do but I guess it just comes to you.
Tess has been great, she is not very fussy unless she wants to eat and we got it made there, she sleeps like 4 hours at a time and then is up for like 45min and then back to sleep.
So far its a hole new ball game and she's running the team.
Christmas will be a good test for us as we have my family in the morning and then her family in the afternoon. I think all will go well if we just take it in stride.
So I hope all of you have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.

What a Friday

WOW, What a day, Tess had one more test today to see if see would have to come home on a monitor, she passed with flying colors.
After we sat with her and waited to talk to the doc to see how everything was going when the nurse came over and said "are we ready to go home" WOW we had a good idea we were going home today but not at 12:00pm in the afternoon.
Well by the time we did all the paper work and got all her stuff packed up it was like 3:00pm, but we were going home.
As I type this Tess is sleeping right next to me and I looked over and thought wow I'm really a Dad now.
Its so awesome to finally have her home. Tomorrow will be a full day, we have a nurse coming to the house to check on Tess at 1:00pm (a hospital rule) and we will have family and friends stopping by all day to see her.
Well better go and get some rest when I still can.
See Yaaaaaaaaaaaa....................

Happy Holidays.
Not much to update right now but big things to come, will let you know.
While you wait check this out, even know its from them

Slow on the posts

Sorry so slow(on the post and bike) but its all about the little one,had dinner Rob and Candy on Sat. after taking them to see Tess.
Sun. had dinner at Bubba's before seeing Tess.
So as you can see.................
Its all about her.
See Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Daddy's little girl

http://tessaslifeinpictures.blogspot.com/
I put her in the links also

Erica's home and Tess is geeting better

Erica came home today and is doing very well, it was hard to leave Tess in the NICU
and not
bring her home with us, I guess when we started out doing this we never figured we would be home without her but we both know its all for the best.
Tess's feedings are going great and as of tonight she gets double the amount of milk and this will keep going up if she can handle it.
She came off one of the breathing machines today and got smaller tubes in her nose, just like the one adults get(just smaller) she is much happier,they also took her IV out of her hand and put it into her foot, this frees up her hands to move around and she loves this because she can now touch her face and she has found her mouth.
Erica and I would like to thank all of our family and friend for all their words of love and strength
it was because of all of you that the last week has gone so smooth.
Thanks to our Moms and Dads for being there when we need them and giving us a shoulder to cry on when we need it.
Thanks to our brothers and sisters for the support and understanding in our time of need.
And a BIG thanks to all out friends:
Rob and Candy for all the help with the house and the pets
John and Lynn for help in the hospital
and all the rest of you guys for the visits in the hospital, the words of encouragement.
Thanks to you all