Wednesday, April 26, 2006
April Happenings
Since I've blogged so little in April, here's a quick update:
Easter weekend - we went to Phoenix for a quick visit with Grandma & Grandpa Coffey. The kids really enjoyed it. They begged to go swimming every day, but they really enjoyed spending time with their grandparents.
We decorated Easter eggs:
We got Easter gifts from Auntie:
We also played a very long game of Uno that after shuffling the deck 4 times and switching out all of the players we finally determined Grandpa won because he had the fewest cards:
The next day we visited with Jeff & Lisa and got to meet Aaron for the first time. What a cutie:
We saw the Fountain Hills Fountain:
We took a picture of Shea on Shea Blvd:
Shea gave Grandpa a haircut while Clark took a nap:
Shea loved the big bunny she got from Grandma & Grandpa, and everyone at the airport just thought she was so cute:
We arrived back home very late Saturday night, but due to the delay we got free TV on our flight back. We were so thankful to Irene and her family for watching Lilo and letting us pick her up at the late hour. The kids really wanted to have her home.
Steve & I woke up a little later than normal on Easter Sunday, but the kids had already found all of their eggs left by the Easter Bunny. No photo ops of the egg hunt, but I did manage to convince them to let me take a shots of them together in their new clothes.
The Browns kindly invited us to join their family for Easter luncheon, and we spent a very enjoyable day over at their house. The food was fabulous but the company was even more fun. Steve & I played the game Apples to Apples for the first time, and it's quite a hoot. You really get to know how people think about things. We also watched much of King Kong, but I was happy that I didn't sit through the whole 3-hour experience. It may have been cleverly filmed, but it truly dragged on and on in way too many places.
Last Saturday 4/23/06 we went to the Rockies game. Our first family trip with our season tickets we share with three other families.
Unfortunately, the Rockies lost, but right when we walked in we saw Barry Bonds' first home run of the year, and the kids loved their cotton candy, of course.
On Monday we went to Skate City. It was for Clark's Cub Scout Troup meeting, and the kids first time roller skating. They both loved it. Shea's skates were locked, and she basically spent the whole evening walking around the rink. Clark started out with locked skates but once he was on regular skates he was fearless. Even though he kept falling down he would get right back up and try to skate as fast as possible. Steve and I were much more hesitant. Steve had braking problems, and I just had problems all around. Every time I would skate too fast I got scared and started to lose my balance. I only went around twice. Oh, to be young again.
Easter weekend - we went to Phoenix for a quick visit with Grandma & Grandpa Coffey. The kids really enjoyed it. They begged to go swimming every day, but they really enjoyed spending time with their grandparents.
We decorated Easter eggs:
We got Easter gifts from Auntie:
We also played a very long game of Uno that after shuffling the deck 4 times and switching out all of the players we finally determined Grandpa won because he had the fewest cards:
The next day we visited with Jeff & Lisa and got to meet Aaron for the first time. What a cutie:
We saw the Fountain Hills Fountain:
We took a picture of Shea on Shea Blvd:
Shea gave Grandpa a haircut while Clark took a nap:
Shea loved the big bunny she got from Grandma & Grandpa, and everyone at the airport just thought she was so cute:
We arrived back home very late Saturday night, but due to the delay we got free TV on our flight back. We were so thankful to Irene and her family for watching Lilo and letting us pick her up at the late hour. The kids really wanted to have her home.
Steve & I woke up a little later than normal on Easter Sunday, but the kids had already found all of their eggs left by the Easter Bunny. No photo ops of the egg hunt, but I did manage to convince them to let me take a shots of them together in their new clothes.
The Browns kindly invited us to join their family for Easter luncheon, and we spent a very enjoyable day over at their house. The food was fabulous but the company was even more fun. Steve & I played the game Apples to Apples for the first time, and it's quite a hoot. You really get to know how people think about things. We also watched much of King Kong, but I was happy that I didn't sit through the whole 3-hour experience. It may have been cleverly filmed, but it truly dragged on and on in way too many places.
Last Saturday 4/23/06 we went to the Rockies game. Our first family trip with our season tickets we share with three other families.
Unfortunately, the Rockies lost, but right when we walked in we saw Barry Bonds' first home run of the year, and the kids loved their cotton candy, of course.
On Monday we went to Skate City. It was for Clark's Cub Scout Troup meeting, and the kids first time roller skating. They both loved it. Shea's skates were locked, and she basically spent the whole evening walking around the rink. Clark started out with locked skates but once he was on regular skates he was fearless. Even though he kept falling down he would get right back up and try to skate as fast as possible. Steve and I were much more hesitant. Steve had braking problems, and I just had problems all around. Every time I would skate too fast I got scared and started to lose my balance. I only went around twice. Oh, to be young again.
