What is greatness? When most people hear the word “greatness” they think of people like Mother Teresa, Martin Luther, Peter Jackson, Bethany Hamilton, or Aron Ralston.

All of these people achieved some form of greatness. Be sure to click each name to learn about some of the things they achieved. There are things from just being a good person all the way to amputating a person’s own arm.

Heather & I have always tried to surround ourselves with people who are better, smarter, healthier, and wealthier than us. Why in the world do we try to do that? Well, I can’t remember who or what we heard it from, but basically where you are in 5 to 10 years will depend on the people you associate with and the books you read!

We want to have a happy family (when we decide we’re gonna have kids), so we hang with friends who have super happy families. We want to be healthy so we hang with people who just have to think about losing weight and it happens;) We want to be smart with our mula, so we hang with people who have money and are smart with it.

You get the point! We just want to surround ourselves with people who are successful. We want to learn from people who are willing to help us avoid mistakes that they have already made.

So that brings us back to our question. “What does it mean to achieve Greatness?”

I think Ray Lewis said it best while speaking with a football team recently.
“Greatness is a lot of small things done well.”

We want to master our craft by doing the small things well. We want our marriage to be great so we try our hardest by simply doing the small things well.

Peter Jackson is a perfect example of doing the small things well. Do you think he just woke up and someone said “Hey Peter, come direct this Lord of the Rings movie!” No, he started by doing all of the little things well. Now he has pretty much any resource at his fingertips to bring a movie to the big screen.

We just want to encourage you! Instead of saying to yourself, “Man, I wish I was at this point in my life,” just handle what you’re doing now, and do it well!

Here is the video of the talk Ray Lewis gave to the Elon football team.

It’s such a modern day cupid! I guess as the buildings get taller, the bow & arrows get bigger Well, I hope you all enjoy this day with your sweethearts & don’t forget to tell your families & friends that you love them.

This weekend we had some freakin amazin weather in Nashville. Man it was nice! We weren’t sure how long the nice weather would last so we wanted to take advantage of it all. Don’t get us wrong we love all the snow we’ve been having, but we have a thing: If its gonna be cold there should always be a ton of snow, but if there’s no snow the weather should be perfect. None of this cloudy rainy crap!

We were both so happy to fire up our grill and put on some chicken legs. Eva, enjoyed herself too:) It’s funny how long dogs will play fetch. I promise she never gets tired! This year we’ve been on a mission to capture our lives way better. We grabbed our camera and shot a few pics of all of us enjoying the weather.

For Christmas I got Heather the Friends box-set. Honestly I’ve always thought that friends was one of the lamest shows ever on tv. I know it sounds dramatic, but yeah. Even though I really didn’t like the show, I love the wifey way more so ya know how that goes:) I have to admit that now that we’re on season 5 of the show, I’m kickin myself for not have been watchin the show sooner. Say whatever you want about me…I don’t give a crap..the show is freakin funny!!

Also I’m not sure how many other guys have girls who love football as much as Heather does, but I love the fact that she’s so into it. We had so much fun watchin the probowl on Sunday. Its kinda a sad thing, because when the probowl comes around it only means that football season is pretty much over! All good things must come to an end though right:) We still have one more game though. We can’t wait for the Superbowl next weekend! For once we’re both cheering for the same team! Go Steelers!!

Lets be real…Martin Luther King Jr. was a baaaad dude! He had his stuff together! If you haven’t had a chance, I would definitely recommend watching a few documentaries on him! It’s sad how people today say it’s just another day out of school… that is, if you didn’t miss too many snow days.

But honestly, unless you know us well, you probably have never heard any of our crazy “racist people” stories. Sadly, we still deal with people’s smart comments about Heather & I being married. Sometimes, even from distant family members on both sides of our tree. I mean I had family that were actually slaves on plantations. So human nature kinda makes some of my fam bitter toward the white folks

My Great-Great Grand Dad actually ran away and escaped slavery. There are tons of cool stories in our family. My wifey, Heather, grew up actually thinking Martin Luther King was a bad person. I still can’t believe how thats really not so long ago. She found out when she was 12 in elementary school, that Martin Luther wasn’t really that bad of a guy. I’ve always wondered how in the world could someone go that long not knowing, but Heather’s family actually had slaves way back when & some were even in the KKK. Imagine the battles we had to go through when we started dating.

We are sooo thankful for how far we as a country have come. Without people like Martin Luther King Jr., who knows what I’d be doin right now? Man, I’d be the worst slave ever, though. I’d poison people’s drinks and always be runnin away. I’d probably put itchin powder in all the cotton. I would get beaten soooo much! Thank God for the progress we’ve made in America, where crazy white chicks like Heather can marry crazy black guys like me…hahaha.

All joking aside, please do me a favor. Visit Youtube, Vimeo, or whatever it is that you look up videos on; and check out some of Martin Luther King’s videos and speeches. Don’t let today just be another day out of school. Take a second to understand the meaning of the day. Hey, if you’re too busy to go lookin up videos, I posted one below that you can check out! I don’t give a crap about what you think about President Obama, its just cool to me that we went from black people bein slaves to a black person in the Whitehouse. I’m the worst at political stuff…and probably don’t follow it as much as I should, but I just love that we have a black president. Hope you have a great MLK day!