Ping Pong Champions and other going ons

Wow, so much to tell about, but we'll start with the biggest and most important news, Mary and I are the reigning ping-pong champions of our ward/neighborhood. Yup, and we have the trophy to prove it. One of my friends from work who also happens to live down the street got a ping pong table for Christmas, so they decided to host a couples tournament. Mary and I, based on our pre-tourney qualifiers, were seeded #4 out of the 9 team field. We blazed through the winners bracket, beating 3 other teams to get to the final game. Since it was a double elimination style tournament, the pressure was off in the championship game, and we lost the first game, but came back to win the decisive second game in sudden death OT, 24-22. Thanks go out to Christin and Colby for holding Jack so we could focus 100% on the matches.

Mary would like to thank her 7th grade gym teacher for instilling in her a love for table tennis from an early age, and to Anna, for sleeping through the matches and not being a distraction, and to her husband who didn't get mad when she forgot it was her turn to hit the ball (yeah, it happened a few times but I did have some fantastic shots to make up for it!).

The major award:

This is just a nice picture after a snow, too bad it's all melted now.


When Mikie was in town over the holidays, we went to the Nickel-cade, had fun playing skeeball (high score of 360,000...beat that!) and used our ticket winnings, all 75 of them, to buy some sweet fake moustaches. Mine is called "The Scoundrel", while Mikie's is "The Bandit" (that's why he's doing some kind of "crossed pistoles" pose)

Maybe I should grow a moustache...hmmm