Spring Time in Arizona

One of the greatest things about Arizona is spring. I had a Spring break from school this past week and so Julie and I took some time to enjoy the weather, some fun activities and each other.

We went to a Chicago Cubs spring training game. Julie has lived by their stadium for the past 2 years and hadn't made it to a game yet, so we walked on over and enjoyed some of the game. We also went for a bike ride in downtown Mesa and stopped for lunch at Sweet Cakes.

Spring also brought us some visitors...we have had a few ducks stop by our pool and we also saved this grasshopper that we found clinging for life on the hose of the pool vacuum.

Indoor Skydiving

So Julie and I decided to satisfy our thrill seeking craving by going indoor skydiving. Julie's Aunt Mara had given us a gift certificate to "Sky Dive Arizona" for Christmas. It's a place in Eloy, AZ where they take a lot of military and civilians skydiving. There is an indoor facility for practice if anyone wants to go over things before the big jump. In fact, before our turn in the wind tunnel, there was a group of four people doing formations and all kinds of cool stunts in preparation for their jump. They then ran us through a little class where they told us what we needed to do, gave us some hand signals to coach us through our run because it was EXTREMELY loud in there (p.s. turn down the volume on your computer when you listen to the videos below, or it will scream at you), and then we had a ball.




We would recommend it to any one! Great time and no real risk of major injury :)

Light Rail

Rick and I decided it was time to check out the new light rail that started operating in the Phoenix area this past December. We drove down to the most eastern stop on Main between Dobson and Alma School, paid the $3.50 for a day pass for me and Rick was free since he's an ASU student. We hopped on and started our ride!

We ended up getting off downtown and looked for a fun place to have our picnic. We found a little square between some cool buildings and had some lunch.

Thanks for the picnic basket Hollister! We had fun packing it up and using. I would recommend this to anyone who wants a fun, laid back, economical date :)

Thanks Cindy!!

Here is the dress that Rick's Mom, Cindy, made me over

Christmas break. I wore it last Sunday and received

multiple complements on how cute it was. Thank you!

Thank you! It turned out fantastic and I love it!

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Skateboarding at Night

Karen’s brother Kyle came down to stay with her for American Thanksgiving. We found out he was pretty into long boarding, so one night Rick pulled out his board and we all had some fun riding and taking pictures.

Karen & Kyle

Rick & I

Rick

Thanks Giving 2008

Rick and I have had the chance to do some cooking classes with my Aunt Lynne over the past few months. We have learned to make a delicious red spaghetti sauce, chicken fried rice, Asian pork chops and everything has been delicious! (of course it was, Aunt Lynne had a hand in it!)

So it was getting around the time to do another cooking class and she invited us to come help cook Thanks Giving dinner with her for the rest of the family. This woman knows what she is doing and my cousin, Bill and his daughter Maya are always there helping and equally as talented in the culinary department, thanks to their mom/grandma. We helped with the turkey and ham, 3 kinds of stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes, green beans and an array of deserts. It was amazing and as always a fantastic time spent with family!

We appreciate Aunt Lynne sharing so much of her time and talents with us and we look forward to more cooking classes!

German Pancake

This was the result of our first German pancake. Unfortunately

I didn't have the camera ready when it first came out of the

oven because it was HUGE...so proud.

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