Two of My Favorite Things

Mack here. Been a while since I blogged so I thought I would write a bit. I have been missing something in my life for the last few years since my mission and since the multiple knee surgeries but it has found new life. Golf. I LOVE golf. I played daily in high school and have played with the same clubs for about 7 years now so needless to say, it is time for a new set. So I've been playing with this TaylorMade 320ti Driver that back in the day was awesome but there has been some amazing progress in technology since 2002. So I go into the golf shop here in San Antonio looking around for a driver. I had done a bit of research and grabbed one of the drivers I wanted to try out and I go into the simulation booth to test hit the driver and I start crushing it. I average about 300-315 yds. with my older driver which is still long but I hit this newer driver 340 yds! I was really happy about that but the golf pro started watching me and asked what club I was hitting and he said "hold on, that club can't keep up with you, let me grab you something" So he came back with the new TaylorMade Burner and he said "hit this". So I grab it and hit it 375 yds! The golf pro was amazed and then told "just grip it and rip it as hard as you can" So I swung as hard as I possibly could while keeping good form and I set the record at the golf shop with a huge 405 yd. drive! The golf pro couldn't believe it. He said "well I think that you have found your club" I went over and grabbed the ball to hit it again but I found that I had cracked the ball right down the middle! They had me sign this little towel that they kept by the simulator with all of the records that they had seen and they let me keep the ball. It was pretty sweet.

I love to play Chess and have played since grade school and even taught a bit in high school. So I thought that I would teach my lovely wife how to play the game I love. So I went on the internet and bought a $7 chess set similar to the ones that I played on in high school and over the last couple weeks have taught Bre a bit about the game. She has caught on quckly and we've already had some fun games. It's been fun to play again and I'm sure in no time she is going to become quite adept.

Its Been 6 Months!

On Saturday Mack and I celebrated our 6 month wedding anniversary. Holy moly its gone by fast. It's crazy to think of all the things we've done in just 6 months...it feels like it should be longer. To celebrate we went to Chipotle. They are all over, I first went to one in New York and fell in love with it. Then Mack and I went to one in Sandy a couple months ago and it was like Heaven. I love it and have been thinking about Chipotle ever since then and was excited to see one in San Antonio. Here is Mack chowing down on his burrito. (Oh yeah, Mack's dad so a Dateline on Chipotle and they only use free range beef so it's way good.)

Then we had lots more time to kill before our movie so we went to Baskin Robbins.

We saw The Proposal, with Sandra Bullock. It was a fun movie. These were my attempts to take a nice picture to remember our anniversary. Mack doesn't like to cooperate.

6 Months down ... a bajillion more to go.

Natural Bridge Caverns

On Monday Mack and I went to these caves in San Antonio. There is this 60 foot limestone bridge that these four college students wanted to explore under in 1960 so they started exploring the caverns and felt a breeze which made them think there were more caves so they moved some rocks and crawled through a little hole for 2 miles finding other large caves. Our tour just took us through the first 1/2 mile worth of caves. We saw stalagmites, stalagtites, and mounds of old bat poo.

I Found This Funny

Ok, this add on the left showed up when I was checking my email. I saw it for the first time a while ago and then I saw it again today. If you look closely, and what I find funny, it says, "We pay off your mortgage in the event of your death." I was shocked. Its so abrupt and straight forward and gloomy. I don't see the connection between mortgages and death. If anything this add made me scared for my life. I don't know how this add would be appealing to anyone or make them want to get the free quote. Maybe I'm weird, but this made me laugh.

The New Me

Here is the old me...

I took this picture at like 9 in the morning after staying up all night camping out to try and take my driver's test when the license place first opened in the morning. I think I look Mexican. Anyway, I turned 21 this past April and I didn't realize that my license expired this year till a guy at the bank pointed it out to me. I was debating whether to renew my Hawaii one or succumb and get a Utah one. I realized it would be impossible to get a Hawaii license with my new name change and not being there. So I looked up the requirements to get a Utah license and I was a little scared when I read that I had to take a quiz. I was afraid I wouldn't pass, which would be incredibly embarrassing. When I got to the licensing division I was even freaking out that I would fail the eye test even though I have no problems with my eyes. I passed that and they told me I could use a book while I took the test!! It was still nerve racking, but I passed. After figuring out placement issues becuase of my long name I got my paper copy. I had to wait for them to mail me the real thing. I finally got it!

The new me...

I am officially a Utahn. The new and improved Breana has a new last name, is no longer under 21, and if you look closely between the two licenses, I have grown an inch. ;) I was reluctant at first to get a Utah license because I heard they would confiscate my other one, but they let me keep it. I do miss the rainbow background, but I think I like this picture better.