Thanksgiving 2008

This year for Thanksgiving my family came to Colorado - except for my brothers family. We missed them! We had a great time eating, ice skating and hanging out.

Megan, Kyle and Zach

Jacque and Julie - it was a very cold day!

Darren helping Malyn put her skates on!

Zach, Megan, Kyle, and Malyn

BYU vs. Air Force

This fall we were able to attend the BYU vs. Air Force game in Colorado Springs on November 15. We went with my friends from work, Chris and Danielle, and our friends from BYU - Jenn and Lino. It was really fun - BYU alumni had a huge tailgate party and I swear half the stadium was BYU fans. Each time BYU scored, which was quite a bit, we all stood and sang the alma mater. One of the coolest things was seeing the traditional fly over before the game began.

Winston and Jacque

Jacque, Danielle and Chris

Jenn and Lino

Races

This past summer/fall I ran in 3 races. One of which was Race for the Cure. Denver was the #1 site for the most participants. There were over 62,000 participants. I ran with my friend Danielle!

It's Been A While

I haven't been very good at updating my blog......so, I thought I would go back a couple months and share with you some of the stuff we've done.
STARTING WITH.....in the fall we had the opportunity to go to Hawaii with some of our friends - Tom and Janae. We had a great time lying on the beach and snorkeling! Our hotel beach was basically a huge reef. You couldn't really even swim there because of all the coral. So, we literally snorkeled all day long. It was great. I love it there!

This was the view from our hotel the first night we were there. After that, we moved to the time share!

We saw so many beautiful beaches and waterfalls.

This was on the road to Hana - it's one of my favorite places! The color of these trees were amazing!

We were eating with Tom and Janae at Cheeseburger in Paradise!

At one of the local beaches - I swear it was called Wedding Beach, but it seems that some disagree with me!

We saw so many cool things snorkeling!

A Few More Pics.....

DNC Pictures

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Celebrities Everywhere!

This past week was super crazy. We hosted the Democratic National Convention at the Pepsi Center here in Denver. We worked very long days and dealt with some really nice people and some not so nice people. The first day was a total cluster! Because the DNC "rented" our building for 10 weeks, we pretty much were treated like tenants. Even though all of us are in the event industry and have worked and planned several events, they really didn't want to hear our suggestions and did their own thing anyway. So, the first day they did everything their way...hence the cluster! Late that evening we met with the DNC people and gave them our suggestions - needless to say, the next two days were great!  

Even though we worked very hard, I had a great time. I wasn't so much into listening to all the speeches (even though I saw quite a few of them) I was more into the celebrity sightings!
One of the highlights of my week was shaking hands with President Jimmy Carter and his wife and then later shaking hands with President Bill Clinton. I just happened to be at the right place at the right time. How often do you get to shake a President of the United States hand?

 
There were so many famous people in the building, but I only saw a few:
1) Muhammad Ali - we actually were asked to get him a wheelchair (even though he refused to use one) and then have a security team escort him to his suite. As soon as people realized who he was...they pretty much attacked him. It took him forever to get to his seat.
2) Blair Underwood
3) Taye Diggs - I saw him several times

4) Angela Bassett - hello Stella!
5) Biff - David Letterman's side kick - they tried to get us to be on TV, but we thought it wouldn't be very professional while we were working and all....and then the next thing we know, our Director of Security is being interviewed and filmed.
6) Charles Barkley
7) Rudy Giuliani

8)  Omarosa

9)  Deidre Hall - otherwise known as  Dr. Marlena Evans from DOOL!

10)  Stephen Spielberg

11)  Jamie Foxx

12)  President Jimmy Carter

13)  President Bill Clinton

14)  Senator John Kerry

15)  Ummm....several other Senators, but I'm not quite sure who they were! :)

16)  Martin Luther King's son

17)  Alicia Witt

18)  Ashley Judd - she is the cutest thing - we actually ate dinner next to her one night! 

19)  KJ - former Suns player

20)  Bill O'Reilley

21)  Kerry Washington

22)  Megyn Kelly - America's Newsroom 

23)  Oprah - we saw her on the last night - through my binoculars - she was sitting in a suite a couple sections over from us..supposedly Mary J. Blige was in her suite, but we never saw her.

24)  Al Gore

25) Tim Daly - from Wings

26)  Shawn Johnson

27)  John Legend

28)  Sheryl Crow

29)  Jennifer Hudson

30)  Stevie Wonder

I'm sure there are others, but this is all I can remember right now...I'll have to update this as the others come to me. 

DNC in Denver - August 25-28, 2008

Tomorrow the Democratic National Convention begins right here in Denver. We are actually hosting the first three days of the convention at Pepsi Center. The closing speech will be delivered on Thursday at Invesco Field! It has been crazy at moments getting ready for this, but I am excited to see it all come together.

Betsy's Visit to Colorado

My friend Betsy from Texas came to Colorado this summer for her friends wedding. The wedding was in Colorado Springs which is about 30 miles south of where we live. So, she came and stayed with us for the weekend and I was actually her date for the wedding. We had a great time catching up and eating some great food!

This is us right after the wedding...waiting for the reception to begin.

The wedding was Saturday morning and so when we got back to Castle Rock Winston took us up to the mountains to do some hiking. We hiked up to the forest fire look out called Devils Head. Just when we thought the hike was almost over - we came to these stairs. You have to climb these if you want to see if the hike was all worth it.

It was! Here's part of the view from the top.

Summer trip to Philadelphia

Every summer my in-laws go on a trip with just the girls. This was the first summer I was able to go with them. There are no kids allowed on the trip and so two of my sister-in-laws were missing because they both have had a baby within the last year. This summer the trip was to Philadelphia! We had a great time visiting all of the tourist sites and visiting some areas we probably shouldn't be in or around during night! :)

We actually stayed in one of Winston's hotels in New Jersey. This is the bridge we took every day to get into Philadelphia.


Typical down town Philadelphia street.

We HAD to try at least one original Philly Cheese Steak sandwich.

At the top of the 'Rocky' steps.

Rocky Balboa statue - it was so hot and humid this day!

Me, Kristin (my sister-in-law) and Aunt Lynn
ATLANTIC CITY NEW JERSEY

One day we drove about one and a half hours to Atlantic City, New Jersey. I had never been there before. We walked along the boardwalk and did some shopping and also walked down to the beach. The water was super cold. I don't know how anyone could swim in that cold water!

On the way home from Atlantic City we stopped at the cutest little town right on the ocean called Cape May.



The Liberty Bell

Love the Heat!

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to have a 'girls' weekend. We were supposed to go to Palm Springs, but we decided we didn't want to spend all that time in the car and spend the money on gas. So, we ended up going to north Scottsdale staying at the JW Marriott. It was wonderful - just what I needed. We spent all day long at the pool.....Kati totally made fun of me because I kept applying my sun screen, but I made it out of there without a sunburn! We chatted the entire time, went to a couple movies, and of course ate some great food! I would move to Arizona in a heart beat. Love the heat! We missed you Lindsey!

Kati and Jacque

Almost 20 years ago!

A couple months ago my parents drove from Florida to Colorado to visit us. They drove instead of flying so they could bring me literally a car load (and then some) of my stuff that has been sitting in their house forever. This morning as I was going through some of the boxes I found some great stuff.......old love notes from boyfriends, sport banquet programs, EFY registration stuff and one baptism program. It was my friend Michelle DeLuna's baptism program. She was baptized almost 20 years ago....July 24, 1988! Michelle and her husband, Joe, are actually the ones that set me and Winston up on our first blind date! AND...last summer they moved to Castle Rock! Any way, we actually had plans to meet them for dinner tonight. It was fun to give the program to Michelle and see her reaction!

May 20th, 2004

Four years ago Winston and I were married in Mesa, Arizona. Sometimes it seems like yesterday – I can hardly believe it has already been four years. Our wedding was beautiful, but very hot. We actually got up at 6 AM to take pictures before it got too hot. After pictures I went home to take a nap and later that day I got dressed AGAIN and had my hair and makeup done for the second time. During our ceremony it was over 100 degrees – infact, I think it was even a little hotter than 110 degrees! I can’t really remember. Once it hits 100, it’s all the same! ☺ Because it was so sunny, we don’t have any pictures of us coming out of the temple with our eyes open!
At any rate, it was the perfect day to me!



Last night we had a pleasant evening. We had dinner together and spent the evening catching up and planting my new orchid plant Winston got me. It’s absolutely beautiful.
I look forward to the years getting better and better!

Snowboarding

Here's some more snowboarding pictures.  

The kids waiting to get registered for their classes.
Getting their boards!
Zach - checking to see if his goggles are going to fit over his helmet.
This picture was taken after a long day as we got in the car ready to head home.
About 10 minutes later! 

Spring Break

Last week my sister and her kids came to visit during their Spring Break. We had so much fun ice skating, skiing, hiking, playing games and just hanging out with each other.
The highlight of the week was taking all the kids skiing....well, actually snowboarding. Because all the kids were snowboarding Winston and Darren decided they needed to try it as well. They both took an all day lesson and by the end of the day they were very sore and very frustrated. So, the next day we all hung out in the lodge while the kids had their lessons. About half way through the day we received a call from the Ski School saying that Malyn (Julie's 2nd) was in the medical room. When we got there we were lucky to find out that no bones were broken, but that she wasn't feeling well and couldn't finish her lesson. So, Malyn spent the rest of the day with us in the lodge playing cards and watching the Junior Olympics.


This is all of us hanging out in the lodge at Winter Park.

One day we all hiked "the Rock" - this picture was taken at the top where it was very windy!

After a long day of snowboarding - Zach, Kyle, Malyn, & Megan