Wild Hogs!! (Before & After)

Finally...the unveiling of the Medusa bike. Here we have a 1990 FLHTCU Harley Davidson Ultra Classic Electra Glide, I bought back in 1998. It's been pretty much stock for it's 10 years of existence. Due to persistent badgering from my brother Trevor, "we gotta paint it man", the stock blue has received a much needed makeover, as you can clearly see from the before an after pics below. I cruised out to Vegas where me and Trev did the paint. Actually he painted and I watched, you can view his custom paint works on his website www.mafiametal.com. The design was his creation, which displays a mural of Kristen on the front fairing, or at least thats what I told her. She was fooled for about 5 seconds, and then I was in trouble, which is nothing out of the ordinary. I felt in this case however it was better to ask forgiveness than permission. I mean, come on, this was an inspired piece of work, and who are we to ignore the powers on high. We blacked out all the chrome and lenses, which to our fellow African American bikers is called "murdering it out", to give it a more rugged look, which took a ton of sandblasting, but it was worth it in the end (it's all mardid out). The reassembly was painstakingly tedious due to all the performance upgrades we made (I wont bore you with the details). Dad helped me out big time in this department, but we finally finished it. Though not technically a custom bike, this is pretty much the sickest dresser around. It almost makes you vomit when you see it close up, but when you fire it up, and feel the rumble of the 2 in 1 Tunderheader pipe, you better have a paper bag or you'll be wiping vomit chunks off your shoes. Enjoy the slide show. Awesome photo's courtesy of Kristen.
Before

After

Before

After

The Park

It was the perfect day to go to the park, so that we did. Noah and Alex (Amy's little boy) had so much fun running around. A crazy thing happened whule we were there, I ran into Adam Preece and his wife Marcie. I was really good friends with Adam all through high school and haven't seen him for at least six years. He is in dental school and just happen to be here visiting. It was really good to see him









There always has to be crying.

Madden's Blessing

Four Generations-My Mom and My Grandma

My Parents

Carson's Dad & Kristi

The Young Men-Carson's dad has been growing his hair out since Christmas. He isn't going to cut it until after Sturgis-a big motorcycle rally in South Dakota in August. It's quite the do.



My Grandpa & Grandma Draayer


We blessed Madden today. After several attempts in April and May we finally could do it today. Noah was throwing up yesterday morning so I was really worried we were all going to get sick and have to cancel again. But he was better last night and luckily Carson and I didn't get sick.

I am so grateful that Carson holds the priesthood and is worthy to bless Madden. It was funny Carson was saying as they were blessing him that he was trying to sit up the whole time-he is almost five months so he doesn't love to lay down anymore. I guess he was super wiggly, so the Bishop was making faces at him to keep him entertained.

Almost all of our family members there from both sides. We had a nice lunch afterwards and the weather couldn't have been more perfect.