First Ride of the Summer

enjoy.

whelp, she said yes

Tonight, I asked Stephanie to marry me and she said yes.

here's how it went down. I was planning a huge night so she couldn't say anything but yes but we were both sick. So plan B ended up being a picnic at my apartment instead of the candle-lit picnic under the stars at the park i took her to on our first date. I had the blanket laid down, with her favorite food (gummy bears) on her plate and two cups of her favorite beverage (apple juice) already poured. next to her plate was a plain white box. not being able to resist a surprise she when right for the present. she opened it up and inside was a ring box. she began to glow as she opened it, only to find a rhine stone encrusted bag tie.

A little side note, for the last few months whenever we talked about getting married i told her she was only getting a bag tie instead of a ring. When she opened the box, she said, "My Bag tie!" I sat next to her and asked if she would marry me. When she said yes, i pulled out the real ring. I took the bag tie off her ring finger to put the nice ring on and she got mad at me. "Hey, I wanted that." we compromised by putting the bag tie on her other finger but she wore both rings the rest of the night. i love that girl. enjoy photos below:

Trip to Ray's Indoor Mountain Biking Park

Here's a some stuff from my trip to Ray's over Christmas break:

remember those stairs i promised

stairs by the bookstore [that poor girl ran out of the way, even though she wasn't in my way]

top set of the RB stairs [you can't see it in the video, but i duck my head to avoid the ceiling, which caused me to land back wheel first. how i stayed on the bike, i have no idea....]

steve says what i was thinking [efff...]

baseball stadium jump

i've known about this jump since my freshman year back in 2001. it just never gets old, only bigger

fathead's massive air

or was that a massive ouch

9th east on film

finally got the jump by the creamery on ninth on film. i think they turned out well... at least judging from the looks on the spectators' faces

Couple of other angles:

tiny drop off 9th east

This is pretty weak, but my Reign was getting dusty and i needed to bust it out. But not to worry, i hit some huge stairs and drops this week... just not when fathead was around to snap the action shots. soon that will change, because these are just weak. but fathead also got some ride time, so it wasn't a total loss. hang in there until the next installment