Archive for July, 2006

Golfing with Pops

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

Golfing with Pops
Originally uploaded by aswitzer.

You all know how passionate I’ve become about golf in the past few years. The feeling of soaring a drive out there towards the nethers, and hopefully somewhere near the fairway, has totally replaced the natural euphoria that a solid volleyball [...]

Winter Park Getaway

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

Weekend getaway to Winter Park
Originally uploaded by aswitzer.

We enjoyed a nice getaway to Winter Park this past weekend with Dan, Deb, and Gabrielle Waldheim. Deb did a lot of the planning, and we were happy to join them. Carrie and I managed to sneak away from [...]

July 4th with Hansens & friends

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Our kids!
In back: Trey Hansen
L-R front: Tori Hansen, Tobey Switzer,
Madison Lockwood, TJ Smith, Ryan Smith

Uploaded to Flickr by: aswitzer.

Dane and Alice sent the word out that they would be in town for the 4th of July holiday, and Carrie spun into action on the Colorado end of things to help put a spontaneous “volleyball friends” [...]

Best kind of Independence Day launch

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

For the first time in NASA history, we have launched a manned mission on the 4th of July.

What better way to celebrate our Independence Day?
Discovery has a 7 member crew and its 12 day planned mission is to deliver supplied to the international space station and drop off a European Space Agency astronaut. There were [...]

Michigan Vacation

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

Michigan VacationOriginally uploaded by aswitzer.

We had a great week-long vacation in Michigan. The primary reason for the trip was to celebrate a “Century Birthday Party” for Karl and Amy - a combined birthday event.
Ashley was busy working her two summer life-guarding jobs in Englewood, and watching Twizzler, so Tobey, Carrie and I represented the family.
We [...]