Easter

We got to go to St. George last weekend and we just had a great time. The kids love all of their family down in St. George so much and they got to meet a new lady friend of one of my little brothers, Maddy. Maddy, along with their newest aunt Becca, made for some very fun conversations and also hanging out. Aunt Becca already has Matthew won over, he talks about her all of the time and loves to see her whenever he gets the chance.

Even when Michael is in a photo with Becca, he always says that Becca is in the picture first and of course later says that Michael is also. Sorry Michael he does love you he just has a "crush" on his aunt Becca, and what two year old wouldn't she is a great aunt and enjoys the kids a ton.

The first night that I was there I sort of pawned the kids off on my Dad, he does really good with Ariana and Matthew also. (I think this is why I love going to St. George so much, free baby sitting and the kids enjoy it also). Eric and I went to a movie, "Fast and Furious", they trick you into seeing it by putting Jordana Brewster in it. She is only in it for a few scenes and that doesn't make up for the other hour and a half of crappy movie that you are then forced to watch. When I got home, at 11 o'clock, I was sure that the kids would be asleep. They weren't which was all right I guess Daniel and Maddy had just been there so they were up playing with them.

Saturday, I had made plans with my Dad to go and get in a few games of racquetball at the Palms. Now let me say Dad has been playing racquetball as long as I can remember. We lived in Valdez which just seemed to have a surplus of funds so they had some really nice free city facilities. Like there were two racquetball courts in the Elementary school with a very large changing room, possibly nicer than the facility at the city swimming pool that was located inside the high school. (It will be hard to put the kids into the Utah school system, way under funded and way overcrowded after being raised on such luxury in Alaska).

Anyways we went to play racquetball and had a very good time the final scores were 3-1 in games won. Of course Dad won three but it is always fun to go and release some energy and also it makes it that much better to at least beat your arch nemesis once. I will have to keep up the games whenever I go down, he will be getting older so maybe I can pull off a few more wins.

We will have to see if he will keep playing or not, and I forgot to show him how to blog so that we could start hearing and remembering some of his very off the wall stories. Like has anyone heard about how he helped build the apartments when he was just three years old? Or what about the friend he shot in the butt? Love you Dad, and if anyone reads Becca and Michael's blog they will know that yes that 2 am conversation on Saturday night was ended because we woke up my dad or he was already awake and he came out to remind us that it was very late. I do love you Dad you always make the best of any situation.

One last thing, I stayed a little later than I should have on Sunday because we had just enough people to play a round of "five crowns" (my moms favorite game). We played with all of those that we could get these were those that played and order of how they sat around the table; Dad, Daniel, Maddy, Mom, Paul and Eric. Yes this was Maddy's first time playing and she came in second place it was amazing she was ahead of almost all the Goold's the whole game pretty much until the last few hands. Good job Maddy hope that luck never runs out.

Oh and it was fun to finally watch Eric kick Daniel's butt, he must have pinned him in about 3 seconds flat. I honestly never thought I would see the day that happened, it was really funny. In front of Daniel's girlfriend even, man that must have been embarrassing.