Superbowl Weekend

What a great weekend we had. It started off Friday night with a surprise visit from one of my favorite people in the world. My little cousin, who is not so little anymore with two kids of her own, Leslie and her Husband Steven stopped by for the night. They were on their way up from Phx. and stopped in on their way home. It's been over a yr. since I've seen her and we had a lot of catching up to do. Starting off with meeting her new addition Kade, who is the happiest little boy I've ever seen. Les, you guys looked great and it was so fun.
They left Saturday at 9am and with a quick change of the sheets, our friends Scott and Jamie also came up from Phx. to see us. They got here around 10am and we had a fun day enjoying the weather downtown and playing the Wii. They rocked Guitar Hero Band and Scott even beat John in Boxing. No one could beat Leksie in Tennis though, she has an amazing serve that you don't even know is taking place until the replay is on.
That night we made dinner and had Jen and Bronson over, I taught with Jamie and Jen when we lived in Bullhead. We enjoyed dinner and watching everyone make fools of themselves on the Wii. It was so funny that we couldn't stop laughing the whole night.
Sunday morning Scott and Jamie left and we headed off to church. After church we had friends and family over for the Superbowl and had a lot of great food and fun times. Things would have been better if the Cardinals had won, but it was still a wonderful time.
We are so thankful for the amazing family friends and that we have. The one benefit of living in different places we have met many wonderful people. We love you all and hope that all is well.
Love,
Amie

Scott and John Boxing

Brax and Baby Kal
Aleksia and Ky

Griffinator

I had to post this picture because I thought it was hillarious. It is of my nephew Griffin at Disneyland during lunch time. His Mom was planning on staying all day, but after this he ended up going home with Grammy.


Now here's his Mommy at about 10:30 that night.

I'm not sure he has the same Happy Place as his Mom:)

We love you GRIFFEY!!!!

Ki Won, Natalie and Kyler's new addition

Kal 7lbs 9oz 19.25in born 1:11pm

Martin Luther King 3 Day weekend

We had a great three day weekend, starting with John and I heading up to the mtn. on

Thursday. We had an amazing time and did great getting in 11runs for the day. We would have done more but on run #10 my binding broke while I was headed down the mtn. causing me to crash big time. Then on the last run, after fixing my binding, I was so sketched out that I face planted big time. It's been awhile since I had wrecked like that and I've started having 2nd thoughts on Snowboarding.
John and Aleksia went back up Friday after school and had a great time. They made it back just in time for Aleksia's to see Mary and Helen, her cousins from Phx. The twins were here all weekend and they all played in the snow every chance they got. They were over here Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday night, sledding and building an Igloo hotel. They stayed out until they had to come in. Saturday night Grammy and Paps took them to the movie Mall Cop, it must of been good because all I heard on Sunday were comments or quotes from the movie causing bouts of laughter.
On Monday, John took them up snowboarding for the whole day. He ended up putting them all in a Snowboarding School, Aleksia scored and got private lessons for group lesson price. She was the only one in the advanced class and got to hang out with her instructor Brad all day. He said she did awesome and finally got her toe side down and even going down the last two runs edge-to-edge. For those of you who don't know, that is when you head pretty much straight down the mtn. getting down the fastest (and crash the hardest when your binding breaks). He said that we should really put her on the Snowboarding team, hum following them around to different ski resorts and lots of vacations, sounds good to me.
The twins did great to. Helen was able to beat Mary down the mtn. and was really feeling it Today. Mary started to catch up at the end, and they both made some great improvements. They weren't to happy on the last run though when John and Leks took them up to the top. They took quite awhile getting down and made it to the rental shop right as they were locking the door. They did make it down but I'm not sure how soon will get them to go back to the top though.
On Saturday, John and I got up on the roof and shoveled the snow. We were getting Ice Dams and had to get the snow off before we got leaking problems. We ended up getting all of the snow off but couldn't make a dent in the ice. We both only slipped a couple of times but luckily had no falls. John was really thinking about Snowboarding off the roof until the girls convinced him otherwise.
All-in-all it was an amazing weekend spent with great company. I hope everyone else had a great weekend.