Rohan’s Birthday Week

Well…our little man is 3 years old now! Crazy how time has flown, but we hope we’ve filled his life to date with some pretty awesome experiences…:)

We’ll start off with the Hawkeyes being in town for the Insight Bowl the week before last. Greg & Nico got me tickets and it was a good time tailgating, and watching the game…even though the Hawks lost…:) Rohan had a blast at the Hawkeye Huddle where the fans in town all meet at the convention center and prep for the game. Rohan kept calling it the Hawkeye Puddle…:

We celebrated New Years with friends and had a great time with the host (Kim’s) Nerf gun. He had bought it for whatever reason, but we took it to another level by throwing the Nerf darts since we only had one gun. It was decided we would have a future Nerf War with more guns and more people.

Rohan’s birthday week was pretty spread out and has essentially lasted from the end of Xmas until this last weekend. He had been looking forward to his birthday for weeks now and had been telling everyone how old he will be/is. We had a small celebration on his actual birthday, but Mara had to work that night so we postponed the actual party until a couple days later when we had a BBQ with “his people” as he calls our friends (mostly climbers from the gym). Rohan received 3 Nerf guns as presents from his friends, plus tons of Lightning McQueen cars/gear. We played several rounds of “Storm The Castle” with one group protecting the upstairs, and one infiltrating from downstairs. It was an absolute blast! There will be many more Nerf wars to come! We took time to sing happy birthday to Rohan, and of course spoil him with more presents. One of his favorites was a double sided light saber that he would charge upstairs with while we were playing our Nerf games…hilarious to see…he even had a war cry…:)

 The Saturday after his BBQ we meet up with some friends at Pinnacle Peak Mountain to climb a bit. It’s a different type of climbing (traditional) than we are used to (sport), but one of our friends lead the way and took 3 of us through 3 pitches and ~200 vertical feet to the summit of Pinnacle Peak. One of the coolest climbs I have ever done…and very rewarding to summit something like that!

 Afterwards we met Heather, John, Nelly, Matt, Don and Mary at Spinato’s Pizza. Nelly and Don had graciously offered their skydiving vouchers to Mara and I, so we paid them back in food…:) Heather and John were nice enough to take Rohan overnight so Mara and I could get up early and jump out of an airplane…and that’s just what we did! We got to the Casa Grande airport at 8am and were on our way up to ~10,000ft to jump in about 30min. It was awesome! Be sure to check out the video below!

All in all an AMAZING couple weeks, even after the whirlwind of Xmas and New Years when most people are slowing down a bit. We don’t even stop there…next weekend we are running the Tough Mudder race which was recently increased to 12.5mi and 29 obstacles! We have a great group of people to run with so it should be a blast! Can’t wait to post pictures of it! In the meantime enjoy what we have here:


My skydiving video (skip to 2:00 for the jump...):

Irena & Jen Walk Into A Nerf War Zone:

Singing Happy Birthday (I was REALLY late getting the camera start so I only caught the end...):