Ella Bean's Birthday

First

Attended this sweet girls 1st birthday party last night. And surprise, surprise.. I took a ton of photos. I will post the rest tomorrow after I am finished editing. As you can see, she dove right into that cake. (A girl after my own heart.)

Temple Quarry & Lisa Falls

This week we were few in numbers, but still had a ton of fun. We went to the Temple Quarry in Little Cottonwood Canyon, and then just up the road to Lisa Falls. It was just Eric, Bonnie, Ella, and me. Well and Apollo Anton Ono. But he only biked past for a second. (And it might not have been him, but it sure looked like him.. hey he lives here, it's definitely a possibility.)

(no photo's of Mr. Ono, I couldn't get to my camera in time ;)

As soon as we arrived at the hike, we had someone telling us it was a great day to see mountain goats, and they had seen a lot of them. He then pointed us in the direction of where they had seen them, and I had to laugh. Maybe it was just my eyes, but these so called mountain goats could have been rocks for all I could tell. They were just so far away, I drew up a little diagram to show you where they are..

The Temple Quarry was really cool, it had great views, and we stumbled across interesting things along the way.

Then we headed up the road to Lisa Falls which was gorgeous. Ella dipped her toes in, but quickly realized it was freezing water and pulled them right out. Eric on the other hand was a sport and hopped in the water and sunk to his thighs.

The view from the top of the water fall was gorgeous. We were surrounded with crazy views all around us.

We had a ton of fun, and are ready for a new challenge next week. Happy Monday!

While Bob's away, the Cat will play.

I took this picture last night while driving around the city. Taking a little me time.

For the last week, Bob has been up visiting his parents and taking a class for an upcoming BBQ competition. Which left me here with plenty to do.

This week has been chalk full of friends, family, and food.

Holli was down from Logan, and came to have a sleepover. It was like old times. We ate yummy food, talked, and looked at old pictures of us when we were single.

Attended a bon voyage lunch for my aunt Tara and her family. Who are moving to Northern California.

Stayed up into the wee hours of the night reliving childhood memories with my cousins. And watching one of our favorite childhood movies. Labyrinth.. oh David Bowie, and his crazy tight pants.

Spent Mother's Day with my Grandmommy.

Had more procedures to try to figure out what's wrong with my stomach. Still haven't heard the results, but I will keep you posted.

All in all, I had a great week. But am glad Bob is returning today. I've missed him, there's just no substitute for Bob.

Vita Course (Murray Park)

Because of the crazy weather we have been having lately. We decided to stay away from those snow filled mountains, and go to the Vita Course in Murray Park for our exercise and weekly get together.

For those of you who don't know what a Vita Course is. You follow a path and go to about ten different stations where it will tell you to do three various exercises and supplies the equipment to do it on. It was pretty fun. And with our group, pretty hysterical.

Some of the exercises were easy, and some were hard. And then some were really hard. There was one where you had to propel yourself over a bar with both legs. Which scared me to death. Because of how clumsy I am. So I decided to skip it. Jon and Eric did a pretty good job of it though. Look at that form!

This station just seemed to be a tad dangerous. At one point Jon came close to hurting his, well himself. (Let's keep this blog PG rated.)

Then we all measured how high we could jump. And looked like idiots while doing it. But that was part of the fun.

Even Ella got in on the fun.

But I think for the most part she just thought we looked like crazy people.

Thanks to everyone who came and made it fun. Next weekend I think we should do a hike. I'm just not coordinated enough for those crazy exercises!

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to two of the prettiest, nicest, most generous people we know.

Love, BobCat

Savers aren't hoarders.

{Sorry I have been m.i.a as of late. Still not feeling great, and a lot of stress comes with that, along with all the medical procedures. Finger's crossed that Monday we will get some answers. Anyway..}

I came home last night to a very clean house. My husband is the man, and cleaned our apartment from top to bottom. He also organized everything. When I went to thank him for all his hard work, this is how he responded..

Bob- "Cait, why do you have a bunch of garbage in the closet?"

Cat- "What? I don't have garbage."

Bob- "I was going through everything to organize and you have a ton of junk in boxes."

Cat- "What kind of junk?"

Bob- "Tons of old toys, and papers, and notes, and just a bunch of garbage you could throw away."

Cat- "Those things aren't garbage!"

Bob- "Caity, I hate to break it to you, but you're a hoarder."

Cat- "I am not a hoarder."

Bob- "I found a hacky sack. A hacky sack you could buy for two bucks."

Cat- "I'm saving it for our kids, what if one day our son turns into a hacky sack champion because I gave him that?" "We don't want to take that away from him Bob.", "You'll thank me one day when we don't have to buy toys for our children."

Bob- "Caity, in the future our kids are going to be playing with hover cars, and moving smoke clouds with their minds."

Then he made me go into the office and open a random box and explain why I needed the stuff inside it. I pulled out a map of Seattle, a lotto scratch ticket, and an old candy bar... Okay, he might have a point.

So I am making this my new goal, to get rid of some junk. On Monday I will hopefully return a de-cluttered person.

On a side note, my argument was "What if I die Bob? Then you will have all of this stuff to remember me by." He responded with "I would be sad. But then I would look at all of this junk and it would suddenly make it easier for me."