PRS Guitars and Weekly Recap

Hi everyone! We've had a busy week with pre-school, friends visiting, and just living our lives. Before I get into our week though, I wanted to say hi to Sam and Britt!! Britt was kind enough to point out that one of my 3 G's should be for God...which is very true, but quite honestly I thought that was just implied. :-) Thanks Britt! You can check out their blog over at Sam and Britt's Blog. It's one of my favorite blogs, and it cracks me up every time their cat, Jack, guest blogs.

It was Big G's second week of preschool and it was L's first week of taking him on her own. The first day, Wednesday, was a little rough and Big G was not ready to leave his mom. He toughed it out though and by the time L picked him up he was a happy man. Friday went really well, and L had to say "love you!" as he was walking into the school. He's growing up so fast! Here's a pretty recent picture of these two goofballs! Little G is growing up fast and he's really started to like watching his big brother. Once he gets mobile, watch out!! These two are going to be TROUBLE!!

On Friday we went out to eat at a local dive called King's with our neighbors. It was Shelly's birthday, so we all went out and enjoyed some delicious King's burgers, fried green beans, and cheese curds...if you've never tried deep fried green beans, I HIGHLY recommend them!!

Since I haven't talked much about the third G, guitars, on here much I thought I would mention my current favorite guitar brand, Paul Reed Smith, or PRS guitars. I've had the pleasure of playing/borrowing a couple of these lately from a friend at work. Wow...I honestly can't remember the last time I was so impressed by an electric guitar. I own quite a few, but none like these. Here they are:

What's the difference you ask? Well, they are basically the same, but the one on the right has 2 extra frets which gives it 2 extra notes to work with per string, so 12 extra for the whole guitar. They sound a little different from each other as well, but if I went into any further explanation I would just be demonstrating why people call me "guitarded".

Why do I like this brand of guitar so much? Paul Reed Smith guitars are very well known for their attention to detail, and super high quality finishes on their guitars. Both of these guitars have what is called a "10 top" which means that they have the highest grade of maple top. Playing these compared to a $500 guitar...well, there really is no comparison. However, that's the downside...the price for these guitars would start anywhere from $1800 - $2200 a piece depending on condition, features, etc.

Well that's all for this entry. What's new in your world?

Labor Day and Birthday recap and Big G's first day of (pre) School

Hello again everyone! Sorry for the short hiatus, but we've been busy here the past week. We left last Friday to head to L's aunt and uncle's house on the lake for the weekend. We typically go down every Labor Day and have a great time. This year it became very clear that Big G LOVED beach life!! It was all we could do to get him to come in and eat with us. I think he would have stayed on the beach or on the boat the entire weekend if we didn't drag him inside. We had a great time with family. The unfortunate part is that we left our camera at home (I guess this is what happens when you go from 1 to 2 children...things get left behind!) I am waiting for pictures from others, and will post them as soon as I get them.

The other weekend event was my turning ANOTHER year older!! This is a disturbing trend that seems to happen on an annual basis. I'm doing some analysis to determine why this keeps happening, but I have yet to determine a root cause (other than being born).

Probably the BIGGEST event of the past week was Big G starting preschool!!!

I have to admit that I wasn't worried about it at all and L was having much more trouble with it than I was. However, once we actually got there and he had to go to the classroom, I was a little bothered by it. It was harder than I thought it would be to let him go without holding his hand. I understand a lot better now why this is so hard. Letting your child do something on their own is a hard thing to do. As the parent you never want to see your child uncomfortable, scared, nervous, or anything like that, but that's part of growing up. I was soooo proud of him though. He cried a little bit, but his teacher said he did great and that she has no doubt in a couple weeks he won't even notice that we're gone.

Well, that's it for now. No guitar updates this time although there is a contest coming up that I am one of three finalists for a VERY expensive guitar!! Hopefully I can report at the end of the month that I own the guitar...we'll see what happens though.

Pictures of the G's!

Now that I've officially blogged for the first time, here are a few pictures of the G's.

Big G on the right and Little G on the left:




And the third part of G Cubed...my guitars!!





Of course I have to include the most beautiful, loving, patient (especially with me), amazing woman in the world....L!

Seriously folks...if you know me, you know I'm a lot to take, so for a woman this beautiful to marry me...well, that's all the proof you should need that miracles still happen.

I'll post more soon...I can see this becoming very addicting!!

Our first post!!

Welcome to the first post of the G-Cubed blog!! I've named it G-Cubed in honor of my favorite 3 G's in the world....Gerrit, my oldest son, Gavin, my youngest son, and Guitars...an addiction of mine for many years now. This is the first of hopefully many posts.

I'd love to get comments and feedback on any and all posts. I'm sure I'll have lots to say, and who knows, we may even get a guest blog from my beautiful wife Laura some day!