katy perry and camping

for the weekend of the 24, me and mike went up blacksmith fork canyon with my family to go camping. we went up on saturday afternoon and were able to stay til monday afternoon. it was way fun, especially cuz we rarely have the same days off. so it worked out great that we were able to stay that long.
monday night i went to a Katy Perry concert with Brynn and Jeff that i work with. Mike said he would sit it out, which is probably good cuz i really doubt he would have enjoyed it. (except being able to see her.... he claims he doesn't think she is hot, but i have known him long enough to know when he is lying. why else would he have wanted a t-shirt?) ;) we had a really good time and, aside from the opening acts, it was a really good concert. the opening acts were DJ Skeet Skeet, and Robyn. maybe i am just really sheltered but i had never heard of either of them. they were both just loud and obnoxious and i wanteed to pull my hair out. especially the second girl..... it sounded like all techno crap and i could barely hear her voice over the other noise they consider music. lets just say it was a relief when that ended. even though there were a few Katy Perry songs that i had never heard, it was a really good concert! :)

Brynn, Jeff, and me at the concert


stage

cool light show during one of the songs

mike throwing a tube attached to a rope into the

river while we are camping. don't ask me why

he does these things... he just does. :)

playing volleyball up the canyon

mike getting ready to float the river with his "paddle"

as of late

nothing much new around here lately. but i have been slacking on pictures, so i thought i'd post some.

here is the cake i made for taylor's birthday. i'm still learning....

this is the first square cake & the first 2 tiered cake i have done. let me know what you think!

we went to another real game recently. i have always loved soccer, and as much as mike
tells you he hates the sport, he actually enjoys watching these guys.
we need to go to more so, if nothing else, we have a good excuse to wear our jerseys :)

march of july (just for you caitlin)

this year i missed the hyrum parade. which i was totally fine with. its not as fun as when i was a little kid. im not sure whether this is because i dont go running for the candy, or because now all it is, is a bunch of cars with their business logo on it. lame!! there are hardly any floats anymore :( needless to say, i wasn't upset at all with working 6-2. i got off right as the parade was getting over so i had time to go to my grandmas house and change, go up to the square and buy some really cute headbands, and still make it back in time for our family bbq.
mike missed coming to my grandparents because he was at work, but then we met up at paul and ashlees for another bbq, games, and fireworks. there was a lot of badmitton played. mike thought he was pretty good til he went up against paul. paul is a lot taller with longer arms so he only had to take a couple steps, but had everyone else running all over and diving. very funny to watch!! mike redeemed himself in volleyball, but just barely. we had a lot of fun playing volleyball, although anyone watching would have got a good laugh. a bunch of uncoordinated people trying very hard just to get the ball over the net. mike kept saying you bump it to me, i'll set it, and jon can spike it. like i can aim... HA! i told him maybe we should just work on getting it over the net. better idea i thought :) in our efforts to get it over the net, some faces were hit with the ball (megan and jon) the net fell down a few times, and we had a great time! (maybe not the competitive boys, but the girls really enjoyed it).
i love that me and mike both come from families that can have a good time messing around, laughing, and attempting to be pro athletes. and that we can throw our families together and have a lot of fun! thanks ash and paul for letting us come over, and for a fun night!

anniversary

last friday was our anniversary. yep, its already been a year. hard to believe!!! we went to salt lake on friday afternoon. we went shopping to kill some time and then went out to eat. we went to The Melting Pot. terribly overpriced and not very good. not to mention that it took forever to eat. we had gotten tickets to a bees game that started at 7. at the restaurant they first bring out a cheese fondue and bread and veggies to dip in it. then they bring you a main dish and you cook your meat in the fondue pot right on your table. each thing took a really long time for them to bring out, and then to cook it, so we just skipped dessert because it was already like 7:30.

we went to the bees game and got hot dogs and nachos. much more our style :) that was the first baseball game i have ever been to and it was pretty fun. they were playing music and when i actually started listening i noticed it was christmas music. YUCK! and all the announcers were wearing santa hats. apparently they were doing some christmas in june thing. weird!

on saturday we were planning on going to Hogle Zoo. we drove there and there were cars parked probably about 6 blocks away with people walking to the zoo. not to mention that the front gates were packed!! we decided we didnt really want to fight crowds, so instead we went shopping again :) (friday we didnt really get anything we were just bumming around). i got some really cute stuff and im sure mike was having the time of his life..... but he payed me back by dragging me all over smith and edwards with him.

crazy to think that it was a year ago that we were all stressing to make sure we had everything we needed, and that all the details were right. all i can say is that i am sure glad that the planning part is long over and i never have to do that again!!!

mike's revenge

well, he finally did it! he caught himself a woodchuck!!!

he came home from work and saw one by the side of the house so he came running in the house and started loading his gun. of course i freaked out on him and told him to put it down. after awhile he finally listened to me and decided to set his trap instead. (it was in the house because he had been working on it).

he randomly decided to bait his trap with a marshmallow and apparently they like sugar :)

one of our neighbors was talking to us from her upstairs window, and she said she works from home so she is there a lot and she sees them com under our porch all the time. she told us that the one we caught was just a little guy compared to the others, but mike assures us it won't be the last one he catches.

we took it out to my parents house to get rid of it. mike was going to shoot it which is why there are no pictures of him letting it go, because i didnt want to see that. he took it up to the spring and he said he had a shot but his safety was on, and then he just decided to let it go. hopefully they dont start eating the plants out there!

woodchuck inside the trap

this picture is pretty dark, but it is in the back

CURRENT STANDINGS: WOODCHUCKS-2 MIKE-1

woodchuck strikes again!

yesterday we got mike a new bike. als was having a sale, and he has wanted this one for a really long time. me and megan went and got it and had it here when he came home. megan has one identical to it, just a little bit smaller. so when he came home he thought it was a joke, and it was hers. when he found out it wasn't, he got really excited and rode down to janey's house to show her.

today his family came over to see it. his dad wanted to take his old bike home so mike went out back to get it. he came inside and told me to go out back and look at his lettuce. i went out there and he said "didn't it used to be taller?" ha ha ha! sure did!! once again he said "d*** woodchucks!!" the trap was about a foot away from the lettuce, but unfortunately it got blown over by the wind so we just picked it up and it wasnt set. of course. so once again our lettuce is gone.

*compare this picture to the one from the last post to see the difference.

CURRENT STANDINGS: WOODCHUCKS-2 MIKE-0

mike V. woodchucks

awhile ago we were pulling up to our apartment and mike said "squirrel!" i told him that was a pretty big squirrel and he looked closer and said it was a woodchuck. so of course he had to chase it around the back of the house. we couldnt see it anywhere and we assumed it had gone in the hole between the cement pad and the grass just outside of our back door. mike wanted to try to get it out with a stick but i made him leave it alone.
last week, mike decided to plant a garden. on thursday he went to home depot and bought a big tote and some lettuce, tomatoes, and peppers. he came home and planted the whole thing and was very proud.
saturday afternoon i was at work, and i got a call from mike. when i answered he said "the d*** woodchucks ate my lettuce!!!" i started laughing my head off and he told me that i needed to call my friends dad who is a trapper to see if he could lend us a trap. i asked him what was in it for me and without pausing he said "a woodchuck hat!!!" :)
on sunday mike decided the wait for a trap was unbearable. yes, it had only been one day. so he decided to build his own. we went to his parents house and he found some scrap wood and built himself his own live trap for the woodchuck. when he asked what to bait it with i told him lettuce. ha ha ha! i think im pretty funny!
so far, we havent caught anything. mike has spent plenty of time at the kitchen window with the binoculars staring out into the field next to our apartment where they live. but they have yet to come back.

CURRENT STANDINGS: WOODCHUCKS-1 MIKE-0

mike planting his garden

so proud of the finished product

after the woodchucks had their feast
this is a couple days after and the lettuce is actually starting to grow back.
if you look at the first couple pictures, you will see that it was a few inches tall in the beginning.

this is how all the lettuce looked right afterwards.
barely poking through the dirt.

THE WOODCHUCK TRAP!!