THUNDERBIRDS vs WINTERHAWKS

Date night tonight with my man. Dad won the hockey tickets to tonight's game at the Showare in Kent. Can't believe how many people up here love hockey. The place was packed.

Just in cast you are wondering, Mortensen is the name of the construction company that works together with dad's architect company and they are building the hospital.

Not only did dad win tickets, these tickets were to the VIP room. So that means we had really good seats. However when we went to the Mariner's baseball game a couple of years ago and got the VIP tickets, we not only had good seats but better service as well. The service here was not all that great. The main thing is we did enjoy ourselves none the less.

We lost the game 4 to 3. It was a good game though right up to the end.

It had snowed some more. So when we got home, it looks as though there is a whole bunch of sugar all across our front lawn. I also took Butch for his evening constitutional around the block passing by Erin's house at 9:30 this evening and I am sure the girls are still awake as the lights are on in the bedroom. That's alright. I know somebody will definitely be going to bed real early tomorrow night as school starts again on Monday. No more vacation for that girl till Easter when they get one more week off for Spring vacation.

ICESICLES

I knew that it is cold up here but did not realize how cold till I looked out of our second story office window and saw this piece of ice hanging down.

It started to snow again today just after we arrived home from the skating rink around 3:00 p.m. The snow is still falling. Not hard but none the less still falling.

I do however love watching the snowfall from inside my warm, warm house. I may be biased but I love our Maple Valley snow instead of the Spokane snow or the snow they get in the east.

BLAKE'S 8TH BIRTHDAY

This month is Blake's birthday. We missed it for the last two years. Last year it was because we were in Canada at the Olympics and the year before that I can't remember.

Today his party was held at the Auburn Skate Connection. If I had my thinking cap on I could have Mimi do a sleepover at Nathan's since they live so close to the skating rink. Dad and I have a hot date tonight at the Showare. Going to see a hockey game. Didn't know we were hockey nuts didja??? Not. I do enjoy the game though but I'm not crazy about it as Brandy and her family are.

Oh well things worked out for Mimi and us. She will be having a sleepover with Erin and her family tonight. Then tomorrow she, dad and Sara will go over to Grandma and Grandpa house while the women division of the SGI will attend a women's meeting the Seattle Culture Center.

It never ceases to amaze me that even having just the one child our lives have become even richer and more blessed than I could ever imagined.

DOCUMENTS FINALLY SENT TO THE INS.

Got them signed, sealed and delivered today by FedEx. Phew! Recieved another e-mail last night from another China family stating that the cut off date is now is June 9th. Slowly we move along........sigh.

AT THE MOVIES

Emma had to leave Seattle at 4:00 a.m. along with Coach Kelly. Those two are on their way to Texas to Bella Karolli's (not sure of the name spelling) ranch for the National Jumpstart Trainning Program ths weekend. Rhonda brought them to the airport hence the sleepover with Elsie last night. This way Elsie could sleep instead of having to go to the airport so early in the morning.

I tell you those two are something else. Elsie asked if we could Sukiyaki for dinner and so Sukiyaki it was. Then I thought to myself why not have Emma and Rhonda join us before Emma's trip. So we all enjoyed a delicious dinner together and Rhonda brought over one of Mimi's favorite desserts.........cookies. Her other favorite dessert is ice cream.

About 8:00 p.m. is when Rhonda and Emma headed for home to get ready for the next day's trip. Meanwhile Thelma and Louise were upstairs just laughing the night away. I finally got them to brush their teeth and into bed by 8:30. That does not mean they went right to sleep. Mimi would say that she is tired and wanted to sleep while Elsie yakked. Then Elsie would say that she is tired and Mimi would be doing the yakking. Then there was the giggles and laughing in between. I think they finally petered out around 9:45 or so and was up and about at 7 this morning.

After breakfast and the clean-up, I thought that I would take the girls out to see a movie so that dad could have some peace and quiet while he got all of our paperwork together in order to FedEx it to Bal Jagat ASAP.

We went to see Justin Beiber's movie "Never Say Never". The girls liked it ok. I thought it was cute but kind of a sleeper for me.

Now the movie is done and the back home at Elsie's.

JUST DANCE

This is Mimi's favorite Wii thing to do. Blake and Shad love Club Penguin. So the kids switched back and forth. Shad says "I think my mom will like this cuz she likes funky music and she's kinda funky" The boy is not far from wrong.

MIMI AND SHAD

When we got home Shad was outside playing so I had Mimi go put on her snowpants, hat and gloves and once again the snowball fighting began. They played and played to their little hearts content and till they could stand the cold no longer. Then it was time to come in for some hot cocoa and Wii games.