Archive for July, 2006

Ticket to Ride!

Sunday, July 30th, 2006
Ticket to Ride is the game Jana, David, and family gave us for Christmas.  It is awesome!  We have literally played more than fifty times, just the two of us.  That’s not even counting the times we’ve played with other people.  The goal of the game is to build train routes according to tickets you draw.  We started with the American version, so you might draw a route like L.A. to New York, or Vancouver to Phoenix.  You get points for successfully completing routes, and lose points for failing to complete your routes.  You can also get points for each train you build, and for having the longest train.  It is a lot of fun, and there’s a lot of strategy.  Eric and I have sort of memorized all the routes for Ticket to Ride America.  Fortunately, Ann and John bought Ticket to Ride Europe, which means other people can compete successfully with us again =) 

Shadowfist and Nwn

Sunday, July 30th, 2006
Patricia and Jack are still hosting their weekly dinners, after which a group of us play an online game with Gavin.  We started this year continuing our Neverwinter Nights kick.  And then Jack found an online version of a collectible card game he used to play!  The game is called Shadowfist.  Jack found out that they are still making cards for the Shadowfist game and he volunteered us to become playtesters.  Since that time Jack, Gavin and Eric have been learning Shadowfist as well as playing with cards that are not in production yet.  One of Eric’s first decks “broke” the card bountiful fields, since he was able to get thirty cards in his hands with the combination of Bountiful Fields and Cheap States.  So the version that will see print will be not as strong, thanks to Eric.

June Tulsa Visit

Sunday, July 30th, 2006
I was so happy to get to visit Tulsa in June!  It isn’t often that there’s a break in the wedding schedule in the summer, but my boss needed to go to Mexico to a spa =)  So I got to go home!  Little Casey was singing in the Lion King with his summer camp.  It was so cute.  He sang, I just can’t wait to be king, and he had a really good roar!  He also sang Hakuna Matata.  His newest toy was a big slide bounce and splash, which is basically a blown up plastic raft that you cover with water and slide across into a shallow pool.  It was so much fun to watch!  Later on, Alek and KaLynn got to try it too. 

Not only did I get to go to Tulsa the week of Casey’s performance, but Alli was visiting Mom, so I got to see her too!  We had a blast, staying up late watching movies and playing games.  Alek and KaLynn came over, and that was even more fun because we could play soccer games like numbers, and pictionary.  KaLynn was my partner, and at one point we were on such a wavelength that she got pirate instantly from a very sketchy boat and stick figure.  =)  Alek started up a myspace account, which was nice. =)  And Alli photoshopped his head onto a body builder.  We rented like five movies together, and stayed up until all hours watching them.  The funniest moment was probably when the kids got on a kick of speaking in accents.  I think they were going for Russian.  Sometimes French or Spanish.  Always hilarious! 

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Casey and his Slip and Slide! I must have taken a hundred pictures of him doing this =)
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Casey, Barrett and Me!
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Barrett loved the swing! I wish you could hear him giggle =)
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Raegan =) She is such a sweetheart!
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Here’s me juggling all three kids. Pushing Barrett and Casey and holding Raegan =)
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Raegan wants to dance! She does the cutest thing, kicking up her legs while she’s on all fours.
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KaLynn and Grandma bake lemon cupcakes
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Alek playing numbers, where you try to juggle the soccer ball. I think he did six or seven! =)
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The ducks! Their names are Sally Sue, Betty Joe, Goosey Lucy and Goosey Gander… and maybe Sara. I can’t remember, but KaLynn, Casey and Alek named them =)
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Alli and Casey playing around.