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Episode 3

So we’re strutting our goofball-ness around the pools at the Hard Rock Cancun in our neon #WiebengaLife tank tops chuckling to ourselves and making sure nobody misses the ridiculousness of what we are doing, but we hear something very different from what we were expecting. All of these people had been watching us go on adventure after adventure all while winning with our business and they were under the impression that #WiebengaLife was an actual thing. So while we are doing our strut around the pool, all we hear are a bunch of people asking how they can get a shirt and be “In The WiebengaLife”. Over and over it was, “Ah man! Now you have shirts!? How do I get one? Can I be a Wiebenga?” As Mark and I got to the end of our walk, we looked at each other a bit disappointed that no-one had thought it was as funny as we had thought it to be, and a little worried that we were going to have to go into the shirt making business. We laid off on the hash-tagging for a bit and made no promises to anyone regarding shirts and thought we had gotten away with not feeding the fire. I’m not sure what mistake we are on now, but that was another mistake; thinking we had not fanned a flame.

We have a good friend who lives on the complete other side of town from us. He showed up at our house one fine December day with tank tops for himself and two other good friends of ours, insisting that we help him put #WiebengaLife on THOSE shirts so they could wear them on their trip the following week. We told him we thought he was off his rocker wanting OUR name on his shirts, but we complied because we knew he had traveled far and we like spending time with him. Mark and I had a good laugh after he left, about how anyone else would actually want to wear our name on their shirt, but we thought that was the end of that. As it turns out, from that point in time to the next week, those same guys ended up convincing us to join them on their trip! We, apparently, are easily convinced to go on epic trips with great friends. ; ) The only stipulation to us coming with them, was that we bring OUR #WiebengaLife shirts too.

Mark and I threw caution to the wind, threw our shirts in our bags, and headed back to Mexico. We were ridiculous with our wearing of our shirts together and even went so far as taking several pictures together all over the resort, family style, as true goofballs would.

We joked about how epic we looked in our awesome #WiebengaLife gear and posted all of our pics on social media. Another mistake, as it turns out.

To Be Continued on Episode 4. . .

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Episode 2

Hey everyone! As Thanksgiving Day winds down, we didn’t want to leave you hangin’ for too long, because there is much, MUCH more to be told about how this crazy WiebengaLife thing came to, well. . . be a thing! Here is our next Episode and as I think back, this is really where we made a turn that we just couldn’t take back. . . Happy Thanksgiving Guys!!!

So, now our name became a verb and was synonymous with all kinds of things including ‘Killing It’, ‘Being Awesome’, or ‘Rockin’ it” (as in, “I’m Rockin’/Wiebengin’ the shirt I’m wearing). Mark and I would walk through a room at any company event and crack up at everyone verbing up our last name; even having some people use it and then get very excited when they found out WE actually were the Wiebenga’s they were referring to! It was a blast, but the fun didn’t stop there.

At some point in the mix of the Wiebenga verb flying around, someone commented “#WiebengaLife” on one of our photos from one of our adventures on social media. This, BTW, is the moment Mark and I finally understood the purpose of hash-tagging things. That #WiebengaLife looked pretty good and if we just added that little hashtag to all of our adventure pics, we would be able to see all of them side by side. We thought, “That would be pretty cool, to see them right next to each other and be able to look them up that way at any time!” So we started to hashtag it. That was mistake #1. ; )

Our second mistake, was thinking we would be funny. You see, we were headed to Cancun with about 300 of our friends, all from our vacation club, and we thought we would get everyone to laugh if we showed up with tank tops that had #WiebengaLife written really big and in neon lettering on them. No offense to the people who take their family on a vacation and make them all wear shirts with their last name on them, but we thought it was a ridiculous idea and our friends would all bust a gut if they saw us strutting around in them. We got the shirts made, super secretly. . . at a kiosk at the mall before we left, and made sure they were on tank tops that we would be OK just going to the gym in, after we wore them once for the laughs.

Our plan was flawless. We picked a day that we knew everyone would be hanging out at the main pool at the Hard Rock Resort in Cancun and we started our strutting. To this day, we don’t clearly understand what happened. . .

To Be Continued on Episode 3. . .

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