This page contains Family Web Entries for 2007
December 2007
Christmas. Note people sleeping on the floor,
always trying to catch Santa but never succeeding...
Josh marches in the Parade of Lights.
Veronica performs in the "Robin, the Witch and the
Challenge" at St. Mary's High School.
October 2007
Mike Business trip to Bethesda, Maryland.
Mike visit's his Mom in California, visiting
Napa Valley and doing the
obligatory wine tour, Old
Faithful Geyser of California, and the
Big Sur.
    
September 2007
Matt Ref's at the
Colorado State Cup preliminary round in Ft. Collins, followed up by
Refereeing at the State Cup Semi Finals and Finals in Broomfield at
Dick's Sporting Good's park.
St. Mary's has it's
annual homecoming bonfire. Followed later in the month by the
Homecoming game, and a drive around of old Corvettes at St. Mary's
Grace Center football field...
Valerie's Rocky
Mountain Classical Academy 6th grade science class goes on a star gazing
field trip, and I very much accidently capture the
Big Dipper in this
time delay photograph:
August 2007
My friend Robin Widmar receives an honorable mention in
the
2007 American Icon Awards for her story Lochan's Sun.
July 2007
Veronica gets her drivers permit. AAAEEEIIII.
Veronica performs in the Academy of Children's Theater
summer camp and performs as Sherlock Holms in "Chicago ERR".
We spend a day at the
Colorado Renaissance Festival...
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We go on college tours with Matt and Veronica at
Colorado State University and
University of Northern Colorado.
Both are great, but I am especially impressed with UNC's modern facilities
and campus - one advantage of having significant capital investments over
the last decade.
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Another college tour, this time to
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
This campus has grown tremendously since I took classes here, and has all of
the facilities and amenities of the other large universities in the state.
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Our last college tour, this time to
Western State in Gunnison, Colorado. A very nice campus in what
unfortunately is one of Colorado's least pretty mountain towns. Drive
five miles in any direction any you get the views and scenery you expect in
Colorado, but in Gunnison itself, Yikes! Plant some trees!
That said Matt ranks his preferences as: UCCS, Western State, UNC and
last, my alma mater, CSU... though I have taken a number of courses at UCCS.
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June 2007
I buy a car for Veronica, to use in her MasterDrive
training next month.
May 2007
Valerie graduates 5th Grade from Remington Elementary,
she will be attending the Rocky Mountain
Classical Academy charter school in the fall.
Josh has a Horizon MS band contest at
Elitch Gardens, so we make our
at least once annual trip to the amusement park. Oh, and they score a
96 in the contest, highest Horizon has ever scored and a Gold Medal of
course! Josh rides the Twister 11 times, everyone else spreads the fun
around:
    
Valerie's last Fifth Grade field trip to the
Denver Zoo.
     
Mike goes to Dayton again ( double yawn).
Veronica finishes her JV Tennis season:
April 2007
Matt Referee's at the Colorado State cup tournament at
Dicks Sporting Goods Park,
the new home of the Colorado Rapids, featuring a new 18,000 seat stadium and
a total of 24 outdoor fields - it's a beautiful stadium and soccer fields.
Mike once again goes to Dayton (yawn).
March 2007
Veronica's Sand Creek WinterGuard team wins the State
Rocky Mountain Color Guard Association Championship in their division with a
score of 92.2!!!! This contest was held at the
Broomfield event center.
Below are pictures from the event, including one with the team and their
championship banner:
 
   
Veronica performs in a WinterGuard contest at Pomona High
School, where the team once again wins first place with a
score of 84.7
Mike business trip to Dayton and Cincinnatti.
Veronica performs in a WinterGuard contest at Legacy High
School, where the team again wins first place with a score
of 80.4!
February 2007
Veronica performs in a WinterGuard contest at Rampart
High School, where the team again wins first place with a score of 68.8
Mike visit's his Mom in California. A few
of the interesting places I visited included the
Natural Bridges
State Beach Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary; numerous beaches; Santa Cruz
Small Craft Harbor and another hike through the Forest of Nisene Marks:
Veronica performs in a WinterGuard performance at Sand
Creek High School.
Veronica performs in a WinterGuard contest at Pine Creek
High School, where the team wins first place with a score of 65.7
Cousin Alison colorized Rua-Chan :
I moved from a Project Management position to a Business
Analysis position.
December 2006 - January 2007
Big trip to Florida is a go - here are a few of the top
pictures from our Florida vacation:
Day 1,
Sea World.
Started out with a visit to Shamu. One notable event was the attack of the
squirrel during our lunch... Dinner at the
Makahiki Luau Dinner
and Show.
     
Day 2, Cocoa Beach.
We were having so much fun in the water, we didn't really take many
pictures. But we did have the attack of the Sea Bird creature to deal
with:
  
Day 3,
Disney's Animal Kingdom.
Very highly themed park, unfortunately horribly crowded, we wore ourselves
out - dinner at Pirates
Dinner Adventure.
     
Day 4, Clearwater Beach.
Lots of fun in the sand and water, dinner at Dad's favorite restaurant,
Bahama Breeze.
    
Day 5,
Disney's EPCOT and
Magic Kingdom.
Spent most of the day at EPCOT, and a little time in the evening at Magic
Kingdom.
     
Day 6,
Universal Islands
of Adventure. My kids have definitely gotten older, they have had
fun on this trip so far; but for them this was when the REAL fun began.
And Disney has got nothing on Universal as far as theme'ing goes, both
Universal parks were beautiful, and this was the best of the trip. All
day here and we hit almost every ride, and then dinner at
Margaritaville, Mike's other (new)
favorite restaurant.
     
   
Day 7,
Universal Studios.
Call it luck, but these were definitely the two best parks to end on.
We hit every ride, thanks to Universal's Express Plus add-on, worth
every penny and far better than Fast Pass; which we used both days. A
long but immensely fun day, ending with dinner at the
RainForest Cafe in
Downtown Disney, where we completed our last minute souvenir shopping.
     
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