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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Ski Trip 2010

Ok so I have my camera and I can put the pictures from Nick's birthday bus and also the pics from this past weekend.
Chris, his friends Skiz and Tim, Louie, Jenny, Dewey, Katie and I went to Schuss Mountain in Bellaire this weekend. We stayed near the hill a shuttle took is too and from the mountain to our condo. Saturday is was a little windy but still perfect conditions. Sunday it rained all day. It was everybody's first time out this year-except for Chris, Skiz and Timmy- so we all had to get our bearings again-well us girls did anyways! :) But after a few trips down the hills we were all feelign pretty good, pretty confident. I am still too chicken to attempt to do some jumps but Dewey was trying some of 'em- she was doing pretty good too UNTIL...she went over one jump and landed on her butt then elbow which then fractured her humerous (towards the shoulder) she was done for the day Ski patrol brought her back to the lodge for the first aid to look at her. We took her to the ER on Sunday and YUP a frickin fracture what the hell??
Sitting by the fire Tim built near one of the runs Dewey after the jump she fractured her humerous on!
Timmy Jumping a jump

Dewey thinks she should try skiing- which I do encourage but she is a damn good snowboarder and she should keep with it!!! :)

All in all good trip and definitly not our last trip of the year!


Thursday, January 21, 2010

The big 2-6

Yup I turned the big twenty six on the 10th. If you round up my age I am 30 OMG!!!!!
J/K it wasn't a big deal I don't feel any older in fact I feel a lot better, I am getting up every other am to work out and I am using the new biggest loser DVD mom and I got so ya know this could be the best I look yet!!!!

So for my birthday (which was a Sunday) people came over the day before and were snowmobiling. Barrett rode his around the yard all afternoon, Ryan came over with his new snowmobile-a kitty kat for his boys! So of course they came over and rode their new toy. We played outside until 6 or 7. Chris made it to our house around 5. He and his friend Brian went to a snowmobile auction where Chris sold his sled for $1025.00! Nice!

Brian, Chris and I then went to the Oakwood Lounge where we met up with Lindsey and Alex for some drinks I celebrated my birthday as the clock struck midnight with some shots! BAD DECISION! I ended up puking outside of the bar before mom came to get us so hey I can turn older but apparently I can't get the 'youngster' outta me!!!
Sunday me and the whole fam went bowling in Westphalia for 1 game then we went over to Ryan and Alissa's for some subs and pizza. Good birthday with my little neice and nephews! However I wasn't done celebrating! On Friday the 15th Katie, Lindsey, Jenny, Katie(sister) and I went to Liquid Tattoo so I could give myself my birthday present. We had to wait b/c it was busy so we ate at Rookies-good nummies! Then it was time for my tattoo!!!
Ok so it took like 3 minutes but the prep time took what felt like 20 I was getting myself psyched for 3 minutes!!! Jeez! We got that done then kinda bar hopped until the end of the night, everywhere we went was dead! But all we needed was eachother for a good time! :)
Oh we are not done yet! The following day, Saturday my fam headed up to the Thumb for my cousin Nick's 21st birthday. He got a birthday bus. Busses are always fun. Diana stole a glass from each bar we went to for Nick so now he has a 21st birthday glass collection!

So you may be asking yourself, 'What did Kim ever get for her birthday besides her tattoo??' WELL let me tell you! Now go back to my actual birthday (1-10) Chris and Brian headed for home, they had to look at some sleds they found for sale on craigslist, well I get up to Chris's on the 16th to find that Chris bought a new sled, this sled came with an enclosed trailer AND ANOTHER SLED!!!! So yea Chris bought me a snowmobile for my birthday!!! OMG!! I just love him so much!

Sorry I don't have any pictures besides the one I took of myself with my phone, Jenny and Katie(sister) had their cameras, mine was dead. I do have pics from Nick's party bus, however my old ass legs are tired from Jillian kicking my butt in shape to go upstairs and get my camera so maybe next time!!! :)
Oh and if you are wondering, the tattoo behind my ear is a replica of the cross pendant I wear on my necklace-I don't ever take off my necklace, last time I did unfortunate things happened to me! So now it will NEVER come off!!!!

Monday, January 4, 2010

Florida Vacation and DISNEY WORLD!

OMG! Disney world what fun-I will get to that in a bit!

Chris and I left Sunday the 28th for Florida, the rest of his family was already down there and awaiting us! The weather could have used a bit of improvement but it wasn't bad. I did spend alot of time in jeans and a sweatshirt but I did make it to the beach one day (3 hours) so it wasn't all that bad! :)
For the first few days the fam and I kinda lingered around, Chris and I didn't have a car so we just went with the flow-which sometimes wasn't flowing but we did what we could. I don't remember which day, but one day we (Big Phil, Phil JR, Cody, Chris and I)went to the Yuengling beer factory. It was a nice tour, very laid back and at the end of it you got two free samples. I am not a beer professional but it wasn't bad. Chris loved it that was all he practically drank down there.
The next day Chris and I went to the beach. We did some shopping a few days before and I found myself a new suit at Target-$8.00 for the whole thing! Awesome! Anyways, the sun was nice, the wind wasn't bad but it only lasted about 3-4 hours. Chris and I packed up and headed back for hoem for some showers and a Pirate Cruise. We went on the sunset pirate cruise, for 2 hours the ship took us out on the water, we saw dolphins, the sunset was covered but none the less gorgeous and it was all the beer you could drink! HELLS YEAH!!!
For New Years Eve the family headed to St. Petersburg for a festival they call First Night, its all non-alcoholic, but the bars that surround it don't follow those rules! The festival though was cool it had a live band, a drumline and fire works at midnight all by the edge of the water! Cody, PHil JR, Chris and I headed for some sight seeing and wound up in a bar called the Havannah or something like that. We stayed there until about 11:30 and booked it back to the rest of the family for the fireworks at midnight-very cool!Cody, Me and Phil Jr enjoying some vino!
New Years day Chris and I packed up and split from the group-we were headed for our Hotel in Orange City-12 miles from our airport but 40 miles from DISNEY WORLD!!!! We rented a car-nice 1210 Malibu really really nice! Of course I got us lost-I wasn't drinving but I got us lost so we were late getting to the hotel so once there we went right to bed because the next day was gonna be busy!!!

01-02-2010
At 8:41am Chris and I crossed the threshhold of Walt Disney World! in 12 hours and 8 minutes we covered three of the four parks and even did the Magic Kingdom twice! We started at the Magic Kingdom. We covered 4 of the 'areas' there, seeing nearly and doing nearly all there was to do at each area. I am NOT a roller coaster fan but I did go on the one next to splash mountain-which I also went on. I was a picture FREAK! But hey I had never gone before so hey live it up right?? From there we went to Epcot, that was really cool to do, kinda futuristick at certain points but not too bad. We had lunch in Japan, grabbed a couple of beers and a pretzel in Germany, Kissed by the Neptune fountain in Italy and watched some Chinese acrobats in China. After touring the globe we did the Space something or other in the big Epcot globe do-dad. After Epcot we made our way to the Animal Kingdom, we were running out of daylight so we RAN to the Safari ride and caught one of the last busses going through it, you will see that the pictures aren't that great but hey I tried! We went down a water ride at Mount Kilamanjaro-it was starting to get really cold as the sun was setting. And Lastly at the Animal Kingdom, Chris wanted to go to Mount Everest-roller coaster. I was like what the hell-wrong decision! I was nauseated for 1 hour after I got off the damn thing! Augh Sucky! So we went back to the Magic Kingdom, I wanted to get some gifts for my nieces and nephews and Chris wanted to drive a racecar so we did that, took a bunch more pictures of the Castle and called it a day.

We got back to our car at 8:49pm-temperature: 45 degrees! I waved good bye to Mickie and away we went for a late dinner at Applebees-2 for $20, can't beat it! Then to our hotel for more sleep because our flight was leaving for Grand Rapids at 7:35am! Oh yeah the temperature was 36 degrees!!!!

Home at last, home at last! Until the next vacation! :)

See ALL the pics here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Kimsinanutshell/FloridaVacation2009?feat=directlink

Zooming through Christmas!



Julie and I at work showing off our window!

Yeah where did it go? IDK!
I started off my Christmas holiday by heading up to Chris's on the 23rd-I had the 24th and 25th off so I thought what the hell? I got up there and the both of us quickly took off to Grandma and Grandpa Leipprandt's. I dropped off a Christmas poinsettia to Gma Doris and gave Gpa Chuck his gift-an ETL zip up sweatshirt. I actually got one for Chuck, Big Phil, Uncle Tim, Chris and Brian Simecki.
Me, Jillian and Margaret at the Riverside

From the grandparents we went to the Simeckis for dinner-sorry we were late Margaret! Brina and Margaret had dinner plans for us then to the bar. Brian, Margaret and Tim Simecki; Rob Steinman and Jillian, and Chris and I headed to the Riverside for some after dinner and pre-holiday drinks. We decided that this is something that needs to become a tradition!
The next day Chris and I went to Grandma and Grandpa Spragues to give them their Christmas poinsettia. We chatted it up with them for awhile and then took off for my house.

We laid around once we got to my house because we had to wait up for midnight massand all, I watched a couple rounds of The Christmas Story-best holiday movie EVER! Then off to church which as very nice the choir always does a great job. I don't much care for our new priest but whatever!
Christmas day came and went FAST! Late breakfast, Ryan Allisa and the kids came over then it was a tornado of wrapping and presents! The older kids took a little bit more time opening gifts, but it was fun. Aunt Sue's family then joined ours for dinner, drinks and games. The night was a long one but a very fun one too!

The tornado...

Now, Mykenna turned 1 year old on Christmas day, I got her a couple of things but I wanted to wait until after Christmas gifts for her birthday gifts so after dinner got done and mostly cleaned up I gave her her gift in the sunroom, I think she liked her princess chair!

PRINCESS

I got some great gifts that I am still working on Thank-yous for all in all it was a good Christmas in 2009! :)

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Posting in shifts

To save you all ALOT of reading I am going to do some quick posting in about 3 shifts! Ok so it still be alot of reading but at least it will be broken up!
To start, I wanted to say CONGRATULATIONS to my friend, Sarah Thelen.
A) She got engaged!
&
B) She had her baby boy! Jude Collin Williams was born December 28, 2009 at 3:12. He wighed 8 pounds and 2 ounces and was 22 incehs long!
Congrats Sarah and Collin!

I also wanted to say congrats to my Cousin Dean and his wife Amie, they are expecting their first-so wahoo to you too!