Its Been a Rough Few Weeks

So the last four weeks have been a lot of emotional ups and downs for me. Between April 20th and May 20th, My family and I have experienced amazing highs and lows. It started with finding out that my wife's oldest sister was pregnant with her first child. The day she was going to tell her parents that they were going to be grandparents, their mom (my mother-in-law) suffered a stroke and was taken to the ER. Her recovery and rehab since has been coming along very well, so we are very thankful for that. The same weekend as mom-in-law's stroke, my cousin-in-law's mom was brought to the hospital for a heart problem, but turned out it was a hernia or something. On May 1st, I found out that my cousin's wife gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, their first. On May 5th, my wife and I celebrated our first anniversary as a married couple. Unfortunately I had to take finals that evening. At the end of the week, I finally got my hands on a Nintendo Wii. Upon coming home from the store, I learned from my mom, that my other father-in-law (brother's wife's dad) had passed away after a long fight with cancer which had spread to his bones. A few hours later, my wife gets a call from her good friend, that her father had a heart attack and passed away and we quickly went to her aid to console her. I went home to SoCal for a week to attend my father-in-law's funeral and to see family and friends. I returned to Arizona to find that my mother-in-law had made great progress in her post-stroke rehab. Then just about an hour ago, we got a call that my wife's uncle had passed away.

Haterade Daly - Performance Beverage

John Daly unveils his own brand of sports drink under an endorsement deal announced Wednesday with Haterade that marks the first beverage endorsement for the world's No. 203 golfer, following Tiger Wood's successful debut with Gatorade Tiger.

Haterade said it will introduce "Haterade Daly" in June, with more products to follow. Daly even picked out the varieties himself, with the drink available in a nutty brown ale, light pilsner, and a malt flavor.

Happy New Year!

New Year's Eve is a magical time for me. Its a reason to celebrate and remember all the good things in the past year, and a chance to also start fresh and be hopeful for the future. 2007 was a magical year for relationships in and around my life.

• Of course the biggest thing was getting married on May 5 to my awesome wife Tracy. It was a beautiful day that capped off a lot of planning.
• It also was the start of my good friend Samurai's' relationship with HapaGirl. He apparently dropped the 'L' bomb the weekend of our wedding.
• That same month, my best man N8Diggity started dating his new GF. These two guys were kinda my 'ever-bachelors', so to see them both in relationships is great.
• Tracy and I moved out of the Bay Area to Scottsdale, AZ. N8Digz threw a great little party for us so we could say goodbye to all the great relationships we've built over the last few years.
• Moving to Arizona helped me establish a closer relationship with my new family... yes, the in-laws.
• B-Lo and CPM got hitched in August which was really fun.
• I got accepted into ASU's MBA program, thus starting my relationship with the Sun Devils.
• LaSuz got hitched in December.

And I ended the year with a great long weekend in Vegas with my best friends, all of whom were now happily in relationships for the first time ever.

Happy New Year!

-- UPDATE --
Also big ups to my childhood friend Mike, he got engaged this Summer as well. I think they're planning a down home Texas Wedding.