Boys Day at Luke Airforce Base

My dad was in town the weekend that the airshow was at Luke Air Force Base, so the boys, Papa, Mike, Stephen and Sawyer and Brent, Michael and Tyler all went and spent the day together enjoying the view! I think they all enjoyed the experience, although I think Sawyer needs to have custom earplugs made!

Well, the pictures are going to have to wait!! I remember now why it takes me so long to update our blog!! I have tried to upload the pictures TWICE and both times it has failed. So, my time is precious and I am not going to try again..................maybe I can get Mike to do one of his fancy collages for this post!!! UGH!!

14th Wedding Anniversary

On March 24, 2009 Mike and I celebrated 14 years of marriage!! It is amazing to me how time flies!! It has been a great 14 years full of wonderful memories and three beautiful children! We are usually good about getting away for our anniversary. This year it seemed that our Disney trip took place of that, but we did get to Hawaii the month before, so that will have to do this year!! (at least there are some benefits for being married to a pilot!!) Thank you Mike for a wonderful 14 years and I look forward to the next 14!!!

Spring Break at Disney World!

For Spring Break this year we decided to take the kids to Disney World!! We have been talking about it for a long time and the timing was finally right!! We checked the flights and it looked like we could get there. Flying standby has its benefits, being FREE and all, but it can also get crazy!! Mike's best friend, John Graham, works for Disney World and so he can get the family in for FREE! The Graham's also have a nice home right behind Disney and they had plenty of room for us to stay for FREE! So, all we had to do was rent a car and pay for food!! That is MIKE'S kind of vacation! He didn't complain about $$ the whole time!! We had a great time and even got Sawyer to go on Space Mountain and a few other big roller coasters! Sadie was our brave one though.....she was the only one who went with mommy and daddy on the Tower of Terror and Rockin' Roller coaster, which went 0-60 in 30 seconds, did upside down loops and barrel rolls!! TOTALLY AWESOME! Thanks John and Sam for a wonderful couple of days!!

Girls Weekend in Colorado!!

The first weekend in March Lori Leetham and I went up to Denver, CO to visit our friend Lauri Gardner!! Lauri moved away last summer and so we felt it was time to get the "L"s back together!! Try and say our names together 10 times fast......Laura, Lauri, Lori!!! We had a fun weekend of talking, eating, laughing and crying! We stayed up late and slept in! We went to a comedy show and laughed HARD! We watched a few chick-flicks and CRIED! We ate, ate and ate some more! The last day was very nice, so we decided we need a little exercise and went for a beautiful hike at Red Rocks. All in all it was a wonderful weekend!! Good friends are awesome!!

Rangar Relay!!

On February 27th and 28th me and 11 other friends set out on a crazy adventure! Emily Johnston was our team leader and put together a team, J.A.M. (Just Another Mile) to run a 204 mile relay from Prescott AZ to Mesa AZ in two days or approximately 36 hours! What an adventure this was! We had two vans full of six team members. Each member of the team would be running a total of three legs of this relay. We would start with runner #1 and move through to runner #12 three times! I was in Van #1 and was runner #6. I ran at approximately 11 a.m. and then again at approximately 11 p.m. and again the next morning around 11 a.m. again! My first leg was 6 miles, which I was pretty happy with, second leg was 3.4 miles at night and this was may favorite leg and then my last leg was 6.4 miles and ALL UP HILL, after only about 2 hours of sleep and well, all I can say is that I finished! I thought I did well for the first 5 miles, but the last 1.4 miles was killer......not my best performance. Anyway, we did it and had a GREAT TIME!! At the moment I wasn't sure I would ever do it again, but I am pretty sure if someone puts together another team for next year I will be signing up!!

Time to update the Hite Family Blog!!

Hey friends and family.........
Even though I should be doing my work right now I decided that I would take a few minutes and update this blog!! Lots has gone on with the family since Mike and I jetted away to Hawaii on an impromptu trip!! So, here is the breakdown on what is to follow.......Ragnar Relay, Girls weekend in CO, Spring Break at Disney World, Anniversary, Luke Air Show, Easter.