Happy Birthday Jerry

29th year statistics

Most significant life event: becoming a father

Second most significant: becoming a Mac owner

Oz of salsa consumed: 384

Passion fruits harvested: 45

Diapers changed: 991

Miles bicycled: 858

Hours spent being a great dad: countless

11 months (almost)

I haven't posted too many photos recently because I haven't really been able to take very many. I attribute this lack of photographic success to the fact that Levi no longer holds still. Here are a few photos from the past few weeks where I caught him being stationary.

Tournament of Champions

Background: A few months ago, while playing intramural ultimate frisbee with The Flying Spatulas I was invited to come practice with the Lady Condors, the Santa Barbara club team. Over the past 5 weeks I've been attending workouts and getting a feel for the real game.

Current: So this weekend we traveled to the first tournament of the season which was up in Santa Cruz. We came face to face with some of the highest level ultimate frisbee players in the world. The Lady Condors played such dignitaries as Team Canada (yes, the national team), Great Britain (again, yes), and a team called Fury who won the US nationals last year. I was just a BIT intimidated, if you can imagine.

So the games were intense and very fun. I didn't play that much, but really feel like I was lucky to have been on the team at all. The times I was in, I didn't make any egregious errors so- maybe they will let me keep coming to practice? I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Walka Walka

  Levi is lucky to have two personal trainers.  We put him through the paces each night.  We're trying to settle in on a goal, like maybe the racewalking event in the 2024 Olympics.  Since prosthetics are now allowed in the olympics do you think he would be disqualified for bringing his push cart?

This one is for James

James Swensen is our friend who introduced me to the sport of ultimate frisbee and basically taught me everything I know about the sport. One of the first pieces of advice he gave me was "Ultimate players don't call it a 'frisbee' they call it a 'disc'". Levi has spent his fair share of time on the field at ultimate frisbee games and even has gone through the inevitable initiation of being hit in the face by the disc. We thought it a worthy second word.