Daddy's Official Declaration

Monday morning I woke up and declared, "Today, my children, is Daddy-Family workday!" After the roar of the crowd died down a bit, we packed up our needed supplies and headed for Glenwood Springs. It is a wonderful little tourist spot located about 1hr and 15 min from our home in Grand junction. I quickly completed my needed work and then we headed off to ride the tram to the top of the mountain. While on top we rode the alpine slides, wow were they fast! We then went back down to warm ourselves in the Yampa vapor hot pools. Hmmmm, warm. Here are some pics of our day. Enjoy.

-Dan

Here we are riding the tram. Marlee was a lil nervous, Sam and Lizzie loved it!

Capoeira Sul da Bahia

What u see is called "Capoeira". It is a martial art from Brasil. The music is a little techno beat mixed with traditional Brasilian capoeira instruments. This video was all shot in the Bahia, that is whree I served my Mission. I used to watch guys do stuff like this all the time. Awesome!

Happy Birthday Lizzie

Happy Birthday Lizzie! I love you so much. You are such a sweet girl and you make me so happy. I can't believe you are one year old now. I remember your birth like it was yesterday. You came to us so perfect and pretty.
I love you Lizzie. -Daddy

Here is some video of Lizzie eating her Birthday cake. Yumm!

UFC in Denver

Here we are at UFC Fight Night in Denver. Katie and I drove out from Grand Junction to watch the fights. This is the first event here in Colorado since UFC#2 when Royce Gracie dominated. My mom, Gma Roni and my sister Mandy came to watch our kids while we were gone. Thanks again guys, we had the funnest time. We went shopping, went out to eat, went swimming, sat in the hot tub and of course spent most of Wednesday at the fights.

We saw lots of famous ppl, (famous in the jiu jitsu / mma world). We saw Dana White, Rampage jackson, Matt hughes, Al Roker, Joe Rogan, Eddie Bravo, the Tapout boys, Frank Mir, Diego Sanchez, Anthony johnson, Forrest Griffin and Jay Cutler, the Broncos QB. They were all there just watching except for Anthony. He faught Tommy Speer and knocked him out cold in the first round. I took my picture with him, below. That was cool. He is from Denver. I saw alot of those guys up close. I was using the urinal right next to Eddie Bravo. LOL. Katie said did you look over and say hi? My reply, "No, I did not want to get tapped out in a urinal with my pants down by Eddie Bravo!" LOL.

We saw Kenny Florian vs Joe Lauzon, Matt Hamil vs Tim Boetsch, Din Thomas vs Josh Neer, Clay Guida vs anon, Frank Edgar vs Gray Maynard, James Irvin vs Houston Alexander, Manny gambuirian vs. anon, Thiago alves vs Karo Parysian, Anthony Johnson vs Tommy Speer. My fave fight was Nate Diaz vs Kurt "batman" pelligrino. It was a jiujitsu war but Nate tapped him out with a triangle choke in the 2nd round. It was awesome!!!




This is video of the main event: Kenny "KenFlo" Florian vs Joe Lauzon. 155lb weight class. Kenny won by tapout in the 2nd round. It was a great fight.