AmaSING!

Last Monday, June 29, we attended the Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert at Red Rocks Ampitheatre. The place was breathtaking. It is a naturally formed theatre made from the Red Rocks found at the foothills. Larry, Alec and Tony were less than excited about going, but the concert turned out to be amazing. The choir didn't just sing "hymns", but many selections from around the world. They finished the evening by singing some patriotic numbers and I even heard Tony singing on the way out. Nice! The highlight of the evening was when Lloyd D. Newell of "Music and the Spoken Word", introduced President Monson. WOW! If you make the first picture bigger, you can see him down in front turned around to address the crowd. What a great night!

I just found out from Dave's email, that my nephew Nathan, serving in the Oklahoma City mission, was an usher for this great event the week before. Denver was the last stop on the tour before they returned home. I can't wait to see how Nate liked the performance.

"Piotrek Koroluk" our Polska exchange student

Welcome Piotrek! Our Polska exchange student arrived Thursday, May 28th at 11:45 pm. The plane was only delayed about a half hour. We are so excited to have him with us for three weeks and hope we give him the right impression of Americanskis. We are so excited for this experience with him!

The "Three Days of Memorial Day Weekend"

How much can you possibly cram into three days? We thought we would test the limits....What a crazy weekend! To sum it all up, we had six baseball games between Loveland and Ft. Collins, four graduation parties, one graduation ceremony, one Bolder Boulder race and one very sick husband. Poor Lar must have gotten a bit of food poisoning because he was very sick. He still managed to be the best tag team partner ever, getting Tony to the games I couldn't. Love you Lar!

Tony's team took third place in the tournament and only lost to the first place team by two runs in an earlier game. Alec finished the 10K in 51 minutes. I finished in 58 minutes and my goal was under 60 so I was pumped! What a great weekend, now it's time to go back to work to get some rest.......

Mall of America

This is the amusement park in the heart of the Mall of America. This is also where Alec & Tony spent the majority of their time. What an amazing place! 520 stores, every type of restaurant you could want, miniature golf and even an aquarium. We were exhausted by the time we left, but had a wonderful time!

Alec's new ride....

While the boys and I were in Minneapolis for Spring Break, Lar arranged a deal with a friend of Todd's and the purchase of this sweet new ride. This beautiful 2000 green Dodge Durango only had 50,000 miles and has been parked/babied in a garage it's whole life. Alec passed his driving test when we got back and is now officially loose on the streets of Brighton. Look out!

Snowboarding at Winter Park

Alec and I went skiing/snowboarding on Friday, Feb 13th. What an awesome time! I was the chaperone for the trip with 29 students. We boarded the charter bus at 6:00 am, picked up another chaperone and 10 other students at PVHS and off we went. Alec had a lesson for the first half of the day while I skiied. We met up for a wonderful lunch in the lodge and then the real test....I took him up the lift and he boarded down like a pro. If a pro boards on their butt that is.

He was great, I pushed him pretty hard but he was a trooper and did really well. It was a beautiful day, blue sky and sunny. We got back on the bus at 3:15, all kids were accounted for popped in a DVD for the kids to watch and headed back home. We had a great day and would definitely do this again!

Happy New Year 2009!

I bet you're wondering what
the rest of us did to bring in the
New Year? Only Kronk knows
for sure.................