Weekly Email

Hi Mom,

We've had a busy week. Monday BSF. Tuesday girls night out.  Wednesday Megan's choir concert. Thursday music practice. Friday CU vs. WY basketball. Saturday Christmas party. Sunday church day.   Whew. Sounds like a Carolie week.

Megan did great at the concert and at her audition for Fidler on the Roof. She didn't get 'called back' which the teacher said was a good thing. She'll find out tomorrow if she got a part. Fingers crossed.

Chloe has been studying hard for finals. They start on Tuesday with physics & math, Wednesday is history & lit., Thursday is photography. Then she is done. Off on Friday.

I have a new guy starting at work tomorrow. It'll be good to be fully staffed again. I'm a little nervous about training him since I'm still pretty new myself. But the rest of the team will help get him up to speed too.

The basketball game of Friday night was fun. Riley Grabau, one of the stars of the Boulder High basketball team last year ended up, going to Wyoming. So it was his homecoming. Chloe said we should go at the last minute. So just the girls and I went over and bought GA tickets (Megan got a free ticket from some passerby).  It was a pretty good crowd but we still ended up sitting mid-court pretty close down. Colorado really blew it and ended up losing pretty big. Riley didn't play at all. But it was still a good time.

Last night was a Christmas party at one of Theresa's friends house. An interesting mixture of church people and non-church people. It was a nice evening. Drinks, hors d'oeuvres,  and deserts.

Once again, I've watched a bunch of sports this week too. Missouri vs. Villanova  & Navy basketball... 9-0 and ranked #10 in the country. Army Navy game. Too many mistakes for Army. And then of course today - Tebow time. I can't believe how the exciting watching the Denver Broncos is with Tim Tebow leading them to victory at the last second. Today's game was incredible. You'll have to check out the highlights.

We just watched "Their eyes were watching God" with Hallie Berry  - an Oprah Winfrey made for TV movie. It's based on a book that Chloe has been reading for lit class. She needed a little refresher :-)

Well that's all I know for now.

Luv u,

Jeff

Weekly Email

Hi Mom,

We've had a good week.  Ken and Mona went on their merry way on Monday after a great stay.  They made it to Salina and then finished up on Tuesday morning - home safe and sound.

Monday night was BSF - taking a detour from studying Acts into Hebrews.  That's some heavy sledding.

Theresa got the results from her Dr's appointment last Friday - all clear.  Whew - thankful for good health.

Megan has been preparing her audition for the middle school spring musical (Fiddler on the Roof).  She is going to sing "On My Own" from Les Miserables.  She also has a choir concert coming up on Wednesday.

We got quite a bit of snow on Thursday and then a lot more on Saturday.  Good for skiing - keep it coming.  Not so fun shoveling though :-(

Chloe went out to dinner and bowling with friends on Friday night.

Theresa is now working 1 day/month at church doing the administrative stuff that needs to get done before, during and after the services.  She went in this morning early for training.

I just finished watching the Broncos.  That Tim Tebow is amazing.  He finds a way to win every time.  I guess God is on his side and is a Broncos fan.  Explains why sunsets are orange and blue.  I've also been keeping up with Tigers basketball.  7-0 now.... wow didn't expect that after we lost our big man Lawrence Bowers and the new coach, Frank Haith, under fire.

I spoke with an old college/fraternity brother, Bob Kinton, yesterday.  He lives in Chicago now with his wife and kids (4 boys - ranging from 1st grade to sophomore in college @ MU).  He found a job lead at Vail Resorts and I know the recruiter there so I was able to put them in touch with each other.  We have kept in touch over the years but it was fun to have good long catch up on the phone.

Work is going well.  Still feel like the new guy with so much to learn.  But, I'm getting there and feel like I'm fitting in and starting to make a difference.

We are headed out to the mall here in a little bit to do some Christmas shopping.  Hope it isn't too crazy out there.  We've been getting into the spirit.  I told you I put up the outside lights on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.  Theresa has all the thanksgiving decorations down now and the christmas tree is up.  She's got all the decoration boxes up from downstairs and is getting to those a little at a time.

Can't wait to be together after Christmas - only a few weeks away now.  We still need to get together with Julie to talk through food.  We'll figure it out!

Okay - that's it for now.

Luv u,

Jeff

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Hi Mom,

Just catching up after a good long holiday break.  I took Wednesday off and then Thursday/Friday were holidays for Thanksgiving.  So, It was a nice 5-day weekend.

We had a great time with Ken and Mona.  They got in around 12N on Wednesday and left this morning around 8:45am.  We watched a lot of football, played dominos, watched movies, ate and went on a couple of drives.  Thursday we ate around 2pm after Theresa prepared all day - funny to fix for 6 hours then to eat it all up in 10 minutes.  We watched the Greenbay/Detroit game on Thursday, Tigers/Jayhawks on Saturday, and Denver/San Diego + KC/Pittsburgh on Sunday.  Saturday night we watched Secretariat - good one to watch again.  On Friday we took a ride in the Prius around Boulder - new neighborhoods, church, CU, Boulder High, Centennial.  Saturday Chloe drove us up into the mountains - Nederland, Eldora, Ward - the roads were surprisingly snowy higher up.  We tried to head to the theater on Saturday afternoon to see "The Descendants" but it was sold out.  The girls stayed and saw "Twilight: Breaking Dawn" and the adults just went home.  Sunday morning I played at church for both services.  Ken and Mona went to mass at Sacred Heart then met up with Theresa and Megan for breakfast at IHOP afterwards.

The girls and I put up our Christmas lights and Angels on Wednesday while waiting for Ken and Mona to arrive.  It was almost 70F so it was too nice a day to pass up climbing on the roof.

Chloe and Megan also went to check out the black Friday sales at 6:15am. Chris Leitz picked them up with Clara and dropped the girls off at Target first.  Then Marlys took them from Target to Flatiron Crossings Mall from around 8am to 1pm.  They were wiped out.  They came home with some finds but I don't think they were overly enamoured with Black Friday.  I guess they just had to experience it first hand.

Everybody is back to the routine today. Theresa had some doctor appts down this way today so I met up with her for a hotdog lunch at Costco.

I'm sure there are a million other details too but....

luv u,

Jeff

Weekly Email

Hi Mom,

Nothing much to report on here....

Theresa has been a busy bee cleaning for Ken and Mona's arrival.  We are excited that they decided to come out for Thanksgiving.  I think they will drive on Tuesday, stay the night somewhere and arrive on Wednesday - and then depart the following Tuesday.  I think I might try to take Wednesday off to add on to the Thurs/Fri holidays.

Looks like mixed results on our football teams UofA, MU win, KU, CU, Army lose.  Missouri Basketball tonight on TV against Notre Dame.  I've got the DVR set up for that since I have BSF tonight.

I played on the worship team yesterday.  And Theresa helped with Operation Christmas child afterwards.  Megan went to 29th street shopping with Clara and then to her gymnastics meet - she was gone from 12-9pm.  Meanwhile, Chloe slept all day.  I guess she was just wiped out from school and now has the thanksgiving break to catch up a little.

Don't know much more than that :-)

luv u,

Jeff

More Weekly Email

Hi Mom,

A few things I didn't mention in my weekly update....

Reading all the news about Gary Pinkel getting busted for a DWI :-(  Oh dear.  I have to say he handled it well.  Took his punish, was sincerely apologetic and assumed full responsibility.  Missouri needs a win or two against Texas Tech and/or Kansas.  They've had an uneven year.

Also, Theresa and I watched the 20/20 special with Diane Sawyer on Gabby Gifford.  AMAZING!  Wow, what she's come through in 1 year.  We really enjoyed watching it - laughed and cried and were inspired.

My friend who's daughter (Laura Triem) was hit by the light rail train is going through serious brain trauma.  They had to open up both the left and right side of her skull to release pressure and they are fighting some infections.  She is in an induced coma.  But they have moved her out of ICU so that's positive.

Well - those popped into my head and I thought I would write with a quick update.

We were in last night with Megan (Chloe went over to a friends house) and watched "That Thing You Do" - fun movie!  Not sure what we'll get up to today.

Luv u,

Jeff

Weekly Email

Hi Mom,

Just a quick update since I didn't write last weekend.

Friday night we had a fun outing with the Lietz's.  We went to Noodles and Company for dinner and then to Fairview High School's musical production "All Shook Up" based on Elvis Presley music.  It was really fun and so well done.  They always do an amazing job.

I guess Colorado was the better of the two lousy football teams on Saturday (CU 48 UofA 29).  It was windy - 75 mph winds!  Missouri had an upset win over Texas.  The real football talk around hear has been the Denver Broncos and Tim Tebow.  You can't go 5 seconds without hearing "TEBOW" - love him or hate him.  I didn't watch any football this weekend.  I've kind of been following the beginning of college basketball.  KU lost last night to UK.

It was Theresa's birthday weekend and she wanted to go to IKEA.  What an experience.  It's huge - kinda like the disney land of modern furniture.  They funnel you through a specific traffic pattern and dump you out in the gift shop :-0  Afterwards we went to Buffalo Wild Wings and pigged out (so much so that i was kinda sick later in the evening).



Sunday was a fun Sunday at Calvary.  It was pledge card Sunday for the Building Fund drive.  They had a special extended music worship time with the band and a praise choir.  I played in the band and Theresa and Megan sang in the choir.

Megan went to school with Chloe on Monday morning to shadow her.  Getting a feel for High School.  She'll have to decide between Boulder High as her home school or open-enrolling at Fairview.  I think she's leaning towards Fairview.

Monday night I didn't go to BSF so I could hang with the girls on Theresa's actual birthday.  She's sporting a brand new iPhone 4S as her main present.  Along with lots of cards, money, flowers, lunches, dinners....  I think she was feeling special :-)

We went to pick up our 'pilot' car last night.  It's a yet-to-be-release Toyota Prius that is a combination plug-in electric/hybrid vehicle.  We get to drive it until January 17th.  I brought it to work today... averaging over 100 mpg.  It's kinda weird when it's running on battery only - it doesn't make any sound at all.  It will be interesting to see how the program goes.



Well that's all I know for now.  I know I leave out lots of details - but it's amazing how quickly I forget what happened yesterday much less last week!

luv u,

Jeff