Some more cruise pics...

These are just a few of the activities the ship had for us to do. We had so much fun! :)

Vacation- Part 1

Well, vacation is over and we have had to return to the real world! We did so much and have so many pictures that we are going to have to post this in installments! Here are just a few pictures from the first day and 1/2 while we were in Orlando.

We arrived in Orlando around 4:00pm and after checking into the hotel immediately looked for a place to eat dinner! The concierge from the hotel recommended Bahama Breeze. It was very good and a great start to our vacation eating! Will and Kali Buchanan are on the left and Tyler and Lauren Cunningham are on the right.


After dinner we headed back to the hotel for a "quiet" night in of playing games, including our favorite, Catch Phrase! Our quiet night continued until about 1:00am when security came to ask us to be quiet. OOPS...

Sunday morning we woke up and headed to Islands of Adventure Amusement park for a fun day in the sun! It was a perfect day and suprisingly the park was not crowded at all. We had to wait 15 min or so for a couple of rides, but that was all.
Here we all are in line for the Spiderman 3D ride. I think this was hands down our favorite ride.

More pictures will come in the near future...this is just the beginning :)

Vacation!

Jason and I are very excited, we leave town tomorrow morning for 2 days in Orlando and then a 6 day cruise! We will be back in 9 days and have a LOT of pictures to share with you all. Hope you have a great week, we know we will!

One REALLY Busy Weekend!

Two Royal's games, one baby shower, one 4-mile race to the Plaza, and zero energy on Monday morning! :) That's what this past weekend entailed as we experienced seemingly as much activity in a 48-hour period as any two people ever should. It started Saturday morning with a very nice baby shower for a couple that attends our church. They had some great food and it was all around a fun event (sorry, no pics from that). Then, just a few hours later we packed up the car and headed out to Kauffman Stadium to watch the Royals take on the Detroit Tigers. We had to get there REALLY early because it was replica jersey giveaway night! It wasn't all that bad though because the extra time before the game gave us a chance to check out all of the new features at the ballpark. The Royals had $250 million worth of upgrades and renovations completed in the off-season, and the stadium looks AMAZING! It's definitely a whole new place. :) The Heine's and the Larson's both came to the game with us as well as our friends, the Bakers. Besides the fact that the boys in blue lost 9-1, it was a great time. Check out some of the pics below.

The view from behind the fountains in right field - you can now walk around the entire stadium for the first time ever.

True Royals fans through and through. :)

Now on to Sunday's activities. It started at about 6:00 AM - we had to get up to run in the Trolley Run. This was our third consecutive year running this 4-miler that goes from the Waldo area to the Plaza. It is always a lot of fun because the course is very easy to run. There are almost zero uphill sections and it makes for a fast race. Plus there is always close to 7,500 people who participate each year which always makes for a great atmosphere. This year, the Larson clan joined us for the race for the first time. John ran with Jessica and Kim, Lisa and Dalton all walked the course. It was a great time!

John and Jessica after the race.

With a quick turnaround at home, Jess and I headed back to Kauffman for yet another Royals game! I had won a pair of tickets in a raffle at work, and they were probably the best seats we have ever had at a baseball game. These tickets also got us access to the brand new Diamond Club which we visited during the game for some food. :)

Sportin' our jerseys we got from Saturday's game.

The AWESOME view from our seats on Sunday!

We had a great weekend, but were certainly exhausted by everything. The fun doesn't stop either...we have quite an exciting week coming up - more about that soon! :) Oh, I almost forgot! Here's a couple pics of our puppies. They make us laugh at some point every single day!

Bella still thinks she is a lap dog - even at 50 pounds!! Ouch!

Aren't they cute!

Spring Cleaning

Can you have Spring Cleaning when it is 30 degrees outside and snowing??? Jason and I decided to take advantage of the bad weather and stay inside all day. We slept in and spent the early afternoon cleaning. Doesn't sound like a lot of fun, but it was very much needed and we now feel very productive! Our closets are now spotless, carpet is vacuumed, garage is organized, and the laundry is done. Tonight we are going to watch the NCAA basketball games and order pizza. Not bad for a snow day!

Our new ride!

So here it is. The new Heine-mobile! We were so excited to get this 2008 Honda Civic. Truth be told, we actually purchased it before we went to the auto show, but thought it would be fun anyway to put up those pics first. :) We got a great deal on this car, and it is loaded with cool features. It has leather interior, sun roof, and a navigation system just to name a few. Our main objective was to find something with four doors and I personally wanted something with a manual transmission. I'd say we got exactly what we were hoping for! We've had it for about 3 weeks now and at this point there are really no complaints. It was previously owned, so that helped us get a steal on the price. But it's still just like new and will hopefully last us a very long time. I had been driving my Honda Accord for the last five and a half years or so and it was great. I'm sure we will have this one much longer than that. Speaking of the Accord - we've sold it to Jess' sister, Brittany, who is up in Philadelphia...hope you enjoy it Brit!

We bought a new car...

...This past weekend, Jess and I took a trip (made the 25 minute drive dowtown...) to the 2009 Kansas City International Auto Show to check out the latest and greatest in the world of automobiles. This is the second year in a row that we have attended the show (mainly because I beg her to PLEASE let me go see all of the "cool" cars) and we really enjoyed it. We've recently been in the market to upgrade my set of wheels and this would be the perfect place to see every kind of car out there all at once! My brother Jeff also went came along this year to dream big with me. :)

We saw everything at the show from the Kia Rio to a pair of Maclaren Mercedes SLR 500's with a price tag of $495,000 on them --- EACH! We had a lot of fun getting inside all of the different vehicles and imagining what it would be like driving them. We also made sure to bring our camera along to take pics of our favorites. Take a look - see if you can guess what we've ended up with...

Is it a Dodge Ram pickup truck that I need to feel manly driving down the road?

Maybe Jess has something more "family friendly" in mind - like this Acura RDX...

I'm still thinking that a sedan is the way to go, and I really liked this Acura TSX.

Then again something really fast and fun would be AWESOME! This is the Infiniti G37-S.

Who are we kidding though - Jess has always really wanted this Range Rover.

...and if I could have absolutely any car on the planet - it would, hands down, be the Ferrari F430 - Not a faster, meaner, more eye-catching machine on the road. :)

We really have gotten a new car, but you'll have to check back in a couple days to see what it is.