We started out the month with our good friends, Shannon and Jonathan Badger, coming to visit us in Tucson. While they were in town we saw the U of A football game vs. ASU. Wished the game had ended better but we still had a blast with great company. The guys played golf and we had dinner at one of our favorite restaurants in Tucson, El Charro. We also explored Mt. Lemmon on Saturday and went to the U of A basketball game on Sunday. Here are a few pics....enjoy!
Shannon and Jonathan enjoying the football game
Shannon and me ontop of Mt. Lemmon
Jonathan and Lee ontop of Mt. Lemmon
The next week was filled with my parent's 30th Wedding Anniversary....congrats Mom and Dad!! We also had our Sunday School Class Leadership Team meeting at our house, the U of A basketball game vs. Cal State Fullerton, Lee's staff Christmas Party at our house, drove to Phoenix for the Sun's basketball game and spent the night at the Mospan's awesome house, spent the day with the Fulton's playing golf in Anthem, AZ and shopping, and finally our 241 Sunday School Class Christmas Party. What a jam-packed week we had! Here's a few pics...
Santa and his elf...a.k.a. Tom and Derek
Lee's interns playing Taboo
Lee and me at the Phoenix Suns' game
James, Baby Zack, Brandon, and Lee at our Sunday School Class Christmas Party
Ready for the white elephant gift exchange to begin at our 241 Christmas Party
The following week was filled with my Race for the Cure meetings, Lee's Development Staff Christmas Party at La Paloma's Azul Bar, U of A basketball game vs. NAU, my Komen "Holiday" Party, and a double date with the Ingram's....what a way to end the week!
Finally, the week of Christmas.....my favorite week of the entire year, quite possibly.....Lee started teaching his "winter-mester" class at U of A, I went to Lucinda's baking party (such a blast!), our friend's parents came to spend the night with us all the way from South Bend, Indiana. This is the couple that we spend the weekend with when we go back for Notre Dame football games. I absolutely adore the Ellison's and they are such Godly people to learn from! While the Ellison's were in town, we had dinner at Sam Hughes Place before the U of A vs. Robert Morris basketball game and just hung out after the game and the next morning before work. I really enjoyed seeing Steve and Caryn and hope they come back for another visit.
Ah, Christmas Eve! This is the day we left for our first-ever ski trip with Lee and me and both of our families to Lake Tahoe. Lee and I grew up skiing for the past twenty years but have never skiied together. It was so fun to spend Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the next two days on the mountain with each other, our families, and celebrating the birth of our Savior! We had dinner every night at either my parents condo or Lee's parents condo, skiied Christmas Day and the next two days, ate lunch at the Snowflake Lodge over looking Lake Tahoe and at my parents condo, Santa visited us at the condos, had chruch while skiing at the top of the mountain, and had lots of laughs over wine. We already wish we could go back! Here are a few pics....enjoy!
Christmas Eve Dinner at my parent's condo
Mom and me taking a ski break on Christmas Day....don't we look festive?
Merry Christmas from Lacey and Lee!
Hubs with Lake Tahoe in the background
Lunch at Snowflake Lodge
Christmas Dinner at Lee's parent's condo
All of us skiing minus dad...
The last week of the month was pretty intense but sooooo much fun! We had 3 trips in 7 days and we will always remember how much fun we had this Christmas season! We came back from Lake Tahoe the night of the 27th or more like 12:15 a.m. the morning of the 28th. Went to bed at 1:30 a.m., woke up at 4:00 a.m., and left the house at 5:15 a.m. to catch the U of A football team chartered flight to San Antonio, TX for the Alamo Bowl. We arrived in San Antonio on the morning of the 28th and headed straight to the official Alamo Bowl luncheon. Then we took a 2-hour nap and headed out to another official U of A afternoon event, before taking a $60 round trip taxi ride to eat dinner at our favorite Tex-Mex place, Pappasitos. Finally, on the night of the 28th we had one last donor event that started at 9:00 p.m. I think we were back at out hotel (on the Riverwalk!) by 11:00 p.m. On Wednesday, we slept in and had lunch at County Line BBQ on the Riverwalk with our good friends, The Engstrom's. They drove in from Austin just to see us....so sweet! Wednesday afternoon we had an early dinner with my best friend from college, Jennifer, and her sweet husband, Brett, before we headed off to the Alamo Bowl game and she headed off to work as a nurse in the NICU. The game was a blast but too bad our football team did not show up....would have been more fun if they had won. On Thursday, we woke up and headed straight for the airport to take the chartered flight back to Tucson. Here are more pics....
Dinner at Pappasitos....Yum!
Texas BBQ Lunch!
Love Love Love the Enstrom Family!
Jenn and me...not our best pic but the only one I got that night.
U of A mini pep-rally before the game
The Alamo Bowl game....
Finally, to wrap up the week we drove to Las Cruses, NM five hours after we got home from the Alamo Bowl to spend the night before we headed to El Paso to watch Notre Dame in the Sun Bowl. Can you say third trip in 7 days?! We woke up on New Year's Eve, drove to El Paso, and took pure delight in watching the Irish beat the Miami 'Canes., had dinner at Rudy's before driving back to Tucson, and crashed in our own bed by 11:00 p.m. Can you believe we didn't even stay up to watch the ball drop on NYE? It was FREEZING during the game (32 degrees and snowing) but we had a blast. Here are a few more pics for you to enjoy!
Right before the game started....GO IRISH!
ND band playing "Deep in the Heart of Texas" with the TX flag and in the shape of TX....love it!
The Army's Golden Knights flew in with the ND flag, the game ball, and the Texas flag
Here come the Irish!!!!!!!!!
Irish victory is pure sweetness :)
And the winner of the Sun Bowl is....the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame!
What a way to end 2010! We have been so blessed this year and hope you all had a great year too. Welcome 2011 and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
