Jes and I just got back from our run through the Sonoma Valley countryside and did so well that it made all of our work up to this point worth it. I don’t think we truly appreciated just how difficult our usual training grounds at Chastain Park are until today. As recently as Tuesday we […]
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Happy Birthday to Me
For those of you that don’t know, Jes and I are in beautiful Sonoma Valley with a few of my closest friends and their wives to celebrate my birthday and Memorial Day. We have both been looking forward to this trip for 4 or 5 months and so far it has not disappointed. Yesterday was […]
Charles and Jes Gets a Makeover
If you are joining us at charlesandjes.com for the first time in a couple of days you are probably noticing that something is just a little bit different, since the site has gone through a complete redesign. I wasn’t happy with a good number of aspects of the old design for quite some time but […]
Mrs. Beth Laurent AKA Mom
It is a long standing Laurent tradition that we plant Spring/Summer flowers on Mothers day. My mom loves to have flower beds, butbelieves the planing process is much improved with help. This year we had the perfect weather for planting, and were excited to get to work. We all have our jobs: Dad brings up […]
Home Improvement
As I mentioned 2 weeks ago, it was raining outside and we were going to look for simple projects around the condo…. well we skipped straight past simple and decided to put up a back splash in the kitchen. After a quick trip to Lowe’s, we decided that we wanted to use the ever popular subway tiles. Of […]
Rain, Rain, Go Away
Well this weather has seriously limited what Charles and I have done this week, and will do this weekend. And unfortunately that will translate onto the “page”. Chalres was going to play a round of golf with Ron today, and then we were headed to the ball park for a day of tail gating and baseball. But […]