Memorial Day Weekend 2012

What better way to start your Memorial Day weekend than with a Black Tie Affair cupcake from Cupcakes on Kavanaugh?  And they even put red and blue star sprinkles on it and a flag?



After work on Friday we loaded up the car and headed to the lake.  We were up early Saturday morning and Scott, Scott (my brother-in-law), and I went to hike Sugarloaf Mountain.  This was our first time climbing it and the views were awesome from the top.



















Afterwards, we headed back to the house to eat lunch and pick up everyone else.  We eventually make it out on the lake for a late afternoon ride on the boat and swim.  The water was a little cold for my liking, but I braved it anyway.  We grilled steaks Saturday night and went to bed early.  Sunday morning we hung around the house for a while, then headed out again shortly after lunch.  The water was STILL cold, but we managed.  Scott and I decided to come back home on Sunday night after dinner.

Ollie LOVED the ride home in the Jeep with the top off

We got up Monday morning and went to CrossFit to honor all of the fallen soldiers with "Memorial Day Murph."  You can read more about Lt. Michael Murphy here.  We had a great turnout for the workout.  We were given 3 options:

• Murph: 1 mile run, 100 pullups, 200 pushups, 300 squats, 1 mile run
• sMURPH: 1/2 mile run, 50 pullups, 100 pushups, 150 squats, 1/2 mile run
• sMURPHette: 1/4 mile run, 25 pullups, 50 pushups, 75 squats, 1/4 mile run

Most of us opted for the sMURPH, but there were a few who decided to tough it out and do the full MURPH.  I finished sMURPH in around 23-24 minutes.  There was a little issue with the clock about six minutes in, so it was a guess at the exact finish time.

We spent the rest of Memorial Day being lazy.  It felt great after a busy week.