#TBT: "I'm With The Band"

You never would believe it, but there are plenty of people in the world that used to be in the band during the school days. I am glad and proud to say that I was one of those "band nerds". I started in 1998 in middle school and did it in high school and at UAB as well. It's funny why I decided to get into the band. I was in elementary school, and the middle school came to us to talk about joining the band. I was not really paying any attention until they started talking about going on trips. Once they said that, I was hooked and wanted to join right then and there. I would never know then that years later it would change my life. I have been to different places such as Atlanta, Washington DC, Memphis, Orlando, New Orleans, and Philly(all thanks to being in band). I have made life long friends and found the love of my life because of band. I even able to fulfill a dream of mine and be apart of a EPIC drum major trio during my last year in band. There are soo many more memories that I know I am leaving out, so I will just show you pictures of my times in the band(both in and out of uniform).

 Horns Up!!!

 Pound for Pound(aka PfP)

 I think she likes me.

 It's A Great Day To Be A Blazer!!

 We love some KFC!!!

 The Four Horsemen. "Never Ride Alone!!!"

 "The Big Three"

 Just looking "Too Cool for School"

 "The Sound of Magic City" UAB Marching Blazers

Woman Crush Wednesday

Every Wednesday across the world, people love to post on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram who their Women Crush Wednesday(or WCW for short) choice is. It could be someone they know or a celebrity or just a random person that they do not even know. Well for me, it is a no brainer on who mine would be. It is my fiance Whitney!!!

That's my baby girl.

We first met during our time in the marching band at UAB. She was in the colorguard, and I played saxophone. I used to sit by myself on the bus to the game because I was tall guy and I liked to have my space, but then she asked if she could sit next to me. Not really thinking anything about it, I said sure. After that question, we became seat buddies for the rest of the season.

Seat Buddies!!

After being seat buddies and friends for a long time, we started to grow feelings for each. We started to go a friendly dates, but never made it official. Well that would change on December 8, 2010. That was the day we finally became a couple.

I know that she was a good person to be around, but after being around more and more. I knew that was the only person that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. On November 3rd, 2012(my birthday by the way), I proposed to her on the Kiss Cam during halftime at a UAB Men's Basketball game. Of course she would say Yes!! Yes!! Yes!!(A little Daniel Bryan reference there)

Now we wait until December 6, 2014 for the time when we will both say "I Do" to each other and walk together as a married. To my baby girl, I love you with all my heart and can't see my life without you.

Weekend of Fun

What's going on? Hope that the weekend was filled with lots of rest and even more time out in the beautiful weather for you. For me, I was able to do all of that and spend time with my fiance and make money.

It started off on Friday morning when I had the morning off from work. I relaxed and watched TV all morning. Once the clocked hit 11:30am, my fiance came home from work. She wasn't sick or anything like that. She just was able to get off from work early, so we decided to go out and have lunch together. I have been wanting to go to Ranelli's for a little while, and we finally decided to go(there will be a food review about this later). Then we decided to go to Railroad Park and get some NOLA Ice. It was my first time to try them out, and I am surprised I haven't had them before because it was so good.

On Saturday, it was not so event filled because we started inside pretty much most of the day. The only time we went out was to get something to eat. On this day, we decided to get Backyard Burger. These burgers taste just like the burger off from the grill. There is a location in Vestavia near Chuck E. Cheese, so make sure to stop by there and get a burger. You will not regret it.

If there's grease on the bag, you know it's good.

Now just to let you know that on both Friday and Saturday evening I had to work, so there was not much to talk about there. There is one thing I did on Saturday night that I am very surprised about. I finished a whole growler of Trim Tab "Pillar to Post" Rye Brown,which is pretty much three pints. I love that beer and was very good(if you catch my drift) after that.

This was filled with beer, but not anymore.

Sunday was pretty much the day of moving and doing stuff. To start off, the fiance and I had brunch at one of our new favorite places, Bottletree.

Start the day with Good People Snakehandler

It's very vegetarian friendly, but luckily they have stuff for people(like me) like to eat meat. I decided to get the Chicken and Waffles.

This was delicious!!

Whitney got "The Sombrero", and she loved it!!

The Sombrero

After some great brunch, we headed to Railroad Park for some sun and NOLA Ice. This time I was able to take pictures of our adventures.

 The Ross Boss

Mardi Gras King Cake

I got to say that the weekend I had was by far one of the best ones I had in a long time. Hopefully yours was just as fun as mine. Let me know what you did, and I will talk with all of you soon. Take care!!

Mountain Music

Ladies and Gentlemen, we finally made it to Friday. After all of the things we went through at the beginning of the week, its nice to know that we will have good weather to all weekend long. It will be good time to have a chance to get into the car, windows down, and blast the radio. If you need a new station to listen to for some real good music, you should listen to Birmingham Mountain Radio. I thought they was a new station but they have actually been around for a few years.

I have been listening to them for the last three weeks, and I am so glad that I found them. They play good rock and sometime pop music. Stuff that you know and some stuff you may not have heard before. I usually listen to Reg's Coffeehouse in the morning before I go to work. He is not like your usual radio DJ. He keeps things real and kind of lets you into his life without tell too much of it. I have also listen to some of the evening shows, and they are just as good as the stuff thats on during the morning time. They also are real good on playing music from local artist. So if you want to give them a listen, find them at 107.3 FM on the radio dial or you can listen online at bhammountainradio.com.

Hope you have a fun, safe, and relaxing weekend because you know that I will. Take care!!!

Sticking Together

So last night I was planning on writing about the storms that happened Monday. Well I was going to, but then I thought about it. Even though there was a lot of bad things that came from that storm, more good came from it. You are probably wondering what I mean. Well, let me explain.

If you don't know me too well, my house in Trussville was hit by a tornado on January 23, 2012. My family and I were inside the house as it destroyed the house. Luckily, everybody(including our dogs) were all okay. After that day though, I have not been the same about bad weather especially anything dealing with tornados.

When I heard that bad storms with possible tornados were heading our way, it brought back bad memories. Good thing for me, I have someone that was there for me to comfort and let me know that everything will be okay. That person was my fiancé Whitney. She made sure to confirm that we would be able to make it through this. She stuck by my side, even when I started to cry about the memories from January 23.

As the night went on, the storm got worse and found out that a tornado was heading to the Homewood area. That's where I live!!! We made to get to our safety place before it came our. Once we was there, you can tell Whitney was not okay about the storm coming. Neither was I, but I had to so something. She made comforted me when I was down, so I had to do the same for her in this time of need. I grabbed for her hand and made sure to let her know that we was going to make it through this together. We are sticking through it together til the end.

After we knew that the storm was gone and had passed us, we looked at each other with tears in our eyes and busted out laughing. I also had the "Thunder Buddies" song from the movie Ted going on in my head(go to YouTube now to see what I'm talking about). We were so glad that we was okay, including our two little kitties. We got out of our safety place, looked at each other, and went in for a very long hug. Other than my family, I could not see myself going through that with anyone else besides Whitney. We were there for each other from beginning to end. These are the moments to let me know that I chose the right person to spend the rest of my life with. If we can battle Mother Nature's storms together, we can handle any other kind of storms that head our way.