Two Pups, Two Gals and a Guy

Summer so far.......

2010-07-13T14:07:00.000-07:00

We came down to Salt Lake the 1st part of July for of course a wedding (tis the season!) Although we were only around for a couple of days it was good to see family and friends as always! Colbs bud Walker Willey got married, it was a great party up at Silver Lake Lodge in Deer Valley.

The flowers have finally bloomed here in Jackson and we are just now feeling the summery air and we honestly can't get enough of being outside! Colb shot a few of these pics of Cicily in our neighbors yard.

Top of the tram at Teton Village!

If you look right in the middle you'll see the Grand Teton.

We also made our way over to Eagle, Idaho to visit with Colb's Grandparents. This is a church in Boise that we went to go check out, due to one of the artists that Colby represents in the Jackson gallery. He carved the amazing doors that are behind us, as well as many other sculpture in the church! It was breathtaking, even the pics can't do it justice!

Cicily is everyday, developing this huge personality that cracks us up! She is a total ham!!! She loves the camera and saying cheese, as well as dancing and giggling for no reason! She is saying more and more words everyday and is starting to copy everything we do, too funny!

Cute Lil' cafe in Boise "Rembrandt's", it's filled with art from the old to the new contemporary Masters. We went there with grandparents and Linds &Colby (Bro-in-law) (yummy fruit crepes!!!! Thanks Grandpa!)

Grandpa and Cicily playing at the park, too cute! (Colb is real proud of this pic)

Classic Grandma and Grandpa, Love it!

Loves to play at parks!

Shoshone Falls, on our way home from Boise. Not a very happy girl on this trip, we found out she had ear infections in both ears the next day! But the Falls were breath taking!

Looks like this one was born to be on a boat! Hope to have one of our own one day so she can be on them more often. So thanks to our friends the Wilcox's for letting us tag along with you on your boat, on Jackson Lake (such a gorgeous lake!)

Yup! That happened! (good job grabbing that pic of me babe!)

The water was pretty chilly but she didn't seem to mind, loved being in the water as well as eating on the beach! (just like her mom and dad)

We love this pose cuz most of the time when she sits it is like this, with her legs crossed, it cracks us up!

Happy with Grandma Carol at the top of the tram at Teton Village, (80 degrees at the bottom of the tram and 40 degrees at the top) very chilly!

Riding Lola! Very exciting....... Lola victimized again, story of her life!

Nice babe!
Colb loves going out fishing with a few buddy's here in Jackson. His favorite place right now is Jenny Lake. He's so proud in this picture. It cracks me up.

Play hard and fall hard, these two!

I think this was actually the beginning of June, still soooooo cold. We still have our winter attire at hand, we still just used it last week. In the evening it still can get pretty chilly!

Antler auction at the square! Pretty interesting lil' festival, that really isn't so lil', I've never seen so many antlers!

Stay tuned, were only half way through the summer, more to come!

Good Times

2010-05-08T15:38:00.001-07:00

Here's a little of what we've been up to lately!

Cici is now 15 months and just still a lil' thing! She is 18lbs and 30 inches, and just struggling to be in the 5th percentile! She is now running all over the place and is pretty steady on her feet, although we now have a daily bonking of the head or some other kind of injury from her quick mobility! She is able to try and say words now, although I'm pretty sure we are the only ones who can understand her jibberish and we love it! She is so funny and is starting to realize that she makes us laugh, so she try's harder. It's been fun going places with her in the last few months now that she is more active!

In March we went to Cali to see the Hunter cheerleaders do their thing at Nationals. They did good and had fun and it was a much needed vacation for us too! Cicily LOVED the beach and kind of liked Disneyland! All and all it was a great trip!

This is CiCi with on the beach. He' CiCi's first big crush. They had a ball in the sand. We're lucky that our little one doesn't care to eat it, but Tag thought it was the greatest thing in the world. glad we didn't half to deal with that.

She loved to run down to the water and then run away from the waves as they came in!

Is that swimsuit not the cutest thing ever!

That's my Dad photo bombing our pic! But it's okay Dad cuz your cute!

So strong!

The wonderful Tea Cups at Disneyland! We sat at this are for I swear a good two hours people watching. Seriously prob Colbs favorite part of Disneyland.

Loved the pool and water!

(Pretty funny because my sister was telling how she read somewhere how kids under the age of 7 were given a survey of what they liked best about Disneyland and 90%, or something like that, said the best part was the pool, (at the hotel!) So probably I agree with the fact that next time we bring a child to Disneyland it will at least be off of a napping schedule and able to go on most if not all of the rides!

At the end of April we ventured down to our annual trip to Moab! Which was slightly more active than last years trip when I was still way out of shape after giving birth just 2 months earlier! Even getting on a bike right then still didn't feel too good!

Delicate Arch

Last time Colby and I hiked this was on our 1st year anniversary, so it was fun to come back with a little package!

About to enter the Fiery Furnace! (After a couple of years, we finally remembered early enough to get a reservation for this sweet hike!) To bad it was sooo windy, we will definitely have to go back through this some day!

Skull Arch (it's upside down, can you see it?)

Hot tub fun, a lil' too cold to get in the pool! (nakey!!! with a lil' scab on her nose from an earlier fall, poor lil' monkey!) Hi dada!

Slick Rock! (didn't get to many pics on this ride! Which is a shame seeing as how it was the only one I got to go on while down there, due to food poising the last two days of our trip!!!! Super lame!!!!!!)

Cute pics of Cici walking around

Attempt at pigtails! (cute Easter Dress, thanks Linds!)

Traveling in the car is one of Cicily's pet peeves! She still hates being in the car, which is unfortunate since we have driven a lot in the past couple of months to and from SL and down to Moab. While I was asleep Colby, in desperation of already handing her everything else in the car to play with, gave her a Kleenex box and within 5 min. it looked like this!

Lola, who was close by her, was just a victim!

Also in April I ran the SL Half Marathon!

(This is me getting out of the car and literally starting my run! Colb dropped me off at the starting line right as the gun went off! The starting line is the bridge)

Linds and I after the race!

Me and cute baby girl on Easter morning, just chillaxing!

"it was Bella!"

Winter

2010-04-04T08:06:00.000-07:00

Warning Picture and Dialog overload. Give yourself some time.

This past winter has been a total blast. We've gotten in our share of boarding and fun to hold us off until next year..... That is, if there is a next year season, this one just may be Sar's last time boarding for another two years again! oops....j/k, only talk about nino numero dos.

Super fun day with Sar and the Sisters!

Gorgeous!

Annual Dog sled race. It's at night, when it's freezing cold! We've had three straight weeks below negative 5 degrees up here. The coldest day of the year I think was negative 29. burr cold. Ya, kinda stupid in my mind that they had the dog sled race at night. You'll see the pics didn't turn out that great because of this. But how sweet is it, that the route went right in front of our house!!!!!

This is Cicily's Care Bear suit. We love it, best thing ever. We joke around about the days we pretended to be care bears. "Care Bears Stare!!!"

You'd be surprised just how fast they go, if you haven't seen it in person! We were shocked.

Weekly....no, daily we take the dogs up Cache Creek Canyon. The dogs love it, as do we. It's beautiful. This is the same canyon trail that Sar had the run it with the Moose when it chased her... Speaking of Moose. Sar runs three times a week with some gals. They see Moose every time right here in town early in the morning. The record is 6 Moose in one run.. Apparently the Moose come down and sleep next to the homes to stay warm. We have a few neighbors that half to check through the windows before they leave the house so they don't spook one and get trampled. They're mean...Real mean. We have a few friends that have been chased here in town by them.. Kinda funny. Speaking of animals and funny.... I think this is hilarious. There's a fox going around town killing every ones cats!!! lol.... Nobody seems to be able to catch Timmy the fox, aka prince of the North, and ruler of the east.

bla bla bla, bla bla bla bla, is what Cicily says during our hikes. It's really funny. She gets real talkative. So, ya, it's official I'm a Dad with a kid in a hiking pack on my back...

Swimming!

We've spent 2-3 days a week in the swimming pool at the rec center. She loves it. "Dad!, watch me" I swear she shows off for the camera...Well, not just the camera, she's a total ham when we go to like Albertson's or anywhere public, she makes cute faces and waves to everyone! She gives smiles from ear to ear and tries to work everyone into playing pee ka boo. Another thing she's been doing that Sar and I get a real kick out of, is. She'll walk up to someone and just look up at them, no emotion at all, no emotion. Just a stare, and I swear she's looking right into there souls or something.... What's really funny is that it takes about 10 seconds until the person she's staring at starts to feel uncomfortable, it's soooo funny...In that first 10 seconds most people will try and make her smile or giggle, or even wave... But she'll just stare. After 10 seconds most people look up at us like what the *(%$ is wrong with your kid, or something.. to that effect... So, you get one extreme or another, a super smiley kid or stare down....

Rock Climbing!

Twice a week we go to the rock climbing gym. It's been a serious blast. Sar conquered her first 5.10 the other day. I was bent because I couldn't do that one....Cicily has a crush on one of the workers that watches her during our climbing. In the above photos is brother in law, Cub. He and Lindsey came up to visit this past winter. We went to Targhee with them. While we were there they received literally 19 inches of snow....It was crazy.

Snowmobiling!

The Gustafson fam, and a crazy crazy broken back!

Our friends Alec and Emily came up for a visit. They stayed a few days. Hit Targhee and went snowmobiling this day with us.... Seriously it was one of the most beautiful days of the year, and one of the best days of the winter in general. Up until we had a rather BIG accident. Alec, the goof ball in the front of the picture was on the back of the snowmobile with me when I crashed into a wash. He broke his back in four places! I somehow came out ok. The back end of the machine is what took the worst part of the blow, and it didn't help that Alec was zipping up his jacket when it happened. I've never felt so bad. He was in soooo much pain. In the end we made it out ok, got him some drugs and the next day he made it down to Utah to get x-rayed etc. Surprisingly he's suppose to be back up and doing his thing soon. The fractures luckily didn't need any surgery either. Alec your a champ! I can't believe how well you've been able to handle it.....

Best winter ever! No, greatest winter ever!!

Cici's one year pics!

2010-03-03T16:19:00.000-08:00

At her year check up she weighed 17 lbs 14 oz but since then has been walking quite a bit and is back down to 17 lbs. Which her doctor suggested we not turn her around in a new car seat until she is at least 19 lbs, better than the 20 and I know traveling would probably be much smoother if we could just turn her around, dangit! She finally has gotten some teeth, although her first one came at the end of her 11th month and her second followed a week later. She was starting to take steps here and there, and is now walking all over! She sleeps pretty well so long as we arn't traveling too much, which we have been! She now says: "mama" "dada" "da" (for dog) "lala" (for our dog Lola's name), "ba"(for ball) and "ello" (for hello, when she pretends she is on the phone, and everything is a phone, and she'll hold it to her ear and say it!) She is every bit still the sunshine in our lives and we love, love, love her!

Cicily is ONE!!!! (a month ago!)

2010-03-01T13:19:00.000-08:00

Well we're a little behind as usual, but this is one of Cicily's 1st year pics done by loulouphotography, who is awesome and did a fantastic job, thanks Mandi! Cici turned one on Feb. 4th and we are still in shock it has been a whole year! More pics like these to follow in a few days when we get the rest!

Now for the birthday celebration pics!!!!

We first Celebrated in Jackson on her actual birthday with a few friends and then went down to SLC to celebrate with some family and friends there!

Jackson:

The first cake attempt! (Idea from my very creative and cute friend Becky in Jackson!)
1st attempt mini cake! (the eyes are a lil' scary I know!)

first time having all eyes on her to open presents!

Some friends from Jackson!

SLC:

2nd cake attempt!

2nd mini cake attempt!

She was fairly conservative for what we thought which was good because what kind of mother dresses their child in a white shirt for them to make a mess in!

Grandpa Greg was there to help make a mess too!

Rest of the spread! (the cupcake flowers were also my friend Becky's idea! Thanks darlin'!) And Thanks mom for helping me make all this stuff! Good times at one in the morning!

our lil' fam!

And other friends and fam who came to play!

Cute Tag! (her lil' boyfriend!)

Goin' for a "feelski"

Whose kid is this anyways????

Ha ha, oh ya! Braden did you teach him that one?

In the end she just wanted her mama and her balloons!

Thanks Erica for letting us play at your house and thanks to everyone who came to play!

Happy 1 year beautiful girl!!!!!!

Christmas Vacation!

2010-01-11T12:56:00.000-08:00

Do you think she knows?

Do you think he cares?????

(thanks for being santa sweets!)

Tailynn steals the show every year at the fam Christmas party as "the star" in the nativity! It's my favorite part! Although little angel, Maren squatting in the back is a close second!

Loved opening presents, didn't care what they were! (hope it always stays that way!)

Had to go all the way back to Utah to find some great snow to snowboard on, and a babysitter so we could go together on that snow!
However since i've been back home, not the case! It has totally been dumping here! Snow king here we come!

Babies favorite toy, although it belonged to my dad! We'll have to make it a future present! Maybe for a birthday in a month! (can't believe she is almost 1!!!!!)

Family Photos!

2010-01-02T20:14:00.000-08:00

We got our pictures taken from Lou Lou Photography while we were down in the 801 for Christmas. Amanda, aka "Mandi Lou" was awesome, and made it so fun!

BRRRRRRR!!!!!!

2009-12-09T13:24:00.000-08:00

Well it's good to know that even the people who have lived up here in Jackson for a long time think it is unusually cold for this time of year too! For the past two weeks it has been consistently below ZERO DEGREE'S!!!!!! (AHHHHH!) Apparently, we've heard, it's only like this in January and February! (So Crap! What is it going to be like during those months now!!!!) I've been running in the mornings with a couple of crazy gals who are use to running in weather like this! Yesterday I brought my camera so I could document what running in -8 degree weather looks like!

(keep in mind it was NOT snowing, that is all frost after running!) I love the iced over eye lashes! (Stacy wiped hers away for the pic- Left!)

So what have we been up to during these cold days and nights........ not much!

We actually opened up the only game we have the other night! We are not big gamers usually, and this game happened to still be in it's original wrapping from our wedding 5 1/2 years ago! But it is "America's favorite word game" and it is quickly becoming ours. Lets just say we've been staying pretty busy with Scrabble!

(Let the record show that Colb has not yet beat me, also you should know that it says in a two player game a good score is usually around 300 - 400 points.......neither of us have broken 300 yet! Three and four letter words are our specialty right now, although I think were getting better! Playing with google as our dictionary has helped a ton too!!!)

Other highlights lately have included:

The lighting ceremony in town square!

Why we didn't get a pic after the lights came on, I'm not quite sure, and Cici wasn't sleeping, both pics we took she was blinking, dang it! (So we will post a pic soon of the cute lights in town square with Cici's eyes open hopefully!)

We also went to a little Christmas tree festival and went to listen to the town choir perform Handel's Messiah.

Other than that we've just been hanging out and watching "SYTYCD" (Good Times!)

Some exciting news however is that Cici is now 10 months old and is pretty close to walking! I'll post a video soon but here is a blurry pic, since she moves pretty fast with this little walker toy!

She also loves waving "Hi" and "Goodbye!"

So bye for now!

Update!

2009-11-15T18:51:00.000-08:00

This little one is growing way too fast! Cici is now 9 1/2 months and is all over the place!

Colb took these two pics tonight in the bath, still one of her favorite places!

She says "Mama" when she needs help or is tired!

(also we love this lil' beanie, thanks April your amazing!)

She says "Dada" when she is silly and wants to play! And we are pretty sure some form of "Lola" is now developing!

This is a pic of her as our lil' future snowboarder! She is super silly and still very smiley!

About 2 1/2 months ago (actually right after the post I did of her practicing crawling, the very next day...) she started to crawl and since then, each day she has gotten faster and faster!

Then all of a sudden she was pulling herself up on things and then it began..... She absolutely loves to climb! Every second she gets she bee-lines it to the stairs and climbs them as fast as she can, and that lil' bugger is fast! It also helps if there is a little "Bella" incentive at the top! Of course when she is not climbing the stairs she is into everything else from the dog food to the toilet! (to our horror! ick!) And of course everything still goes in the mouth....Ahhhhh! I promise we pay attention to her!

However, how can you get frustrated at this face!!!!

This cute beanie was made by one of our friends! Thanks Debra we love it!

Of course we did trim down the bow a bit after this, as I think Deb intended!

We also had some visitors this past month! Cici's great Grandma and Grandpa Wilson came up to visit and meet her, along with her great great Uncle Herbie! Her and Grandpa took to each other right away, especially cuz he loved to let her play the "I'm gonna steal and eat your glasses" game!

This little one loved the pumpkins for Halloween but turned out to make the carving process go a lot slower than planned, on account that we couldn't get over how cute she was, when she was sooo happy to be nakie and play with the ewy-gewy pumpkin mess! Turns out we never ended up carving that night!

We did however still carve eventually! The awesome witch is mine and well..... the other awesome one is Colb's! (Apparently I have a lil' more time on my hands then him, sorry hun!)

Me and the lil' girl were lil' wichy-poo's, well she was lil' and I was just a witch!

Man she was cute and the dress didn't even seem to slow her down a bit!

After Halloween we went down to Salt Lake to visit, but mainly to see....

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE!!! (tour, season 5, at the E-center!)

It was Amazing!!!! Soooo fun! Colb and I are seriously addicted to this show!

We also had an early Thanksgiving and Christmas with some of the Fam!

Thanks Grandma!

We also visited with cousins! These two lil' ones are certainly going to be partners in crime! (They are two weeks apart, too cute!!!)

Over all we think this little girl is the greatest thing ever and as you can see we just can't stop taking pictures of her!
Also down in SL we picked up these adorable little flowers that our friend Ashley makes!
Check our her blog at araeofroses.blogspot.com

This is another one she made we love em'!
(Thanks Ash!)

Well we are still up for visitors, even though it's freezing up here now and it's only going to get colder! But on the up-side there is snowboarding or skiing, so come on over to Jackson and play!

Trip to the 801

2009-10-13T12:19:00.000-07:00

The vacations to SLC was fun. Cafe Rio was super duper. Sar and I enjoyed stadium seating at the gateway. We saw Couples Retreat. Way funny! Makes me wanna go on a cruise. We had a hoot down there. However, ya, there's just one small however. the only prob is that it was an 8 dayer vacay. Moving away from family and friends is great in a lot of regards, but one. When its time to visit for weddings, shower, funerals or whatever it is, you go visit and plan for a vacay to do it, it's a vacation that could have been used on something like, the Bahamas, or some sort of beach. Or a lake powell trip, or......I could go on.....Otherwise it would have been just another day in SLC. We did have a blast and all, but, that's just one downfall of moving out of state. I know I know, your prob thinking what a selfish piece of shiz, but I'm just saying it how it is...Don't get me wrong I loved seeing family, friends and relatives. But it would have just been nice to have not taken off work for it. That's all. Now, I will say, that I'm a little excited for Christmas and Thanksgiving, Sar and I are going to kick it up here in Jackson and do our own thing. (i think, lol) It'll be nice to not half to run to parents house to parents house to another parents house during those fun festive days.(that's 3 parents house's) But we'll see if we get home sick.

Well, here's a handful of picks from the week! Enjoy!!

Are you freakin kidding me!? Who would have known I'd have such a doll for a child!

Laughing Yoga and Baby CC smiles

2009-10-03T09:33:00.000-07:00

Have you ever heard of laughing yoga?! If not, go to this link and be prepared to laugh your butt off and see what Sarah has been up to with our ward here. Crazy people! The best is that Sar comes home laughing her head off, and I admit she talks me into some parts. She pulled this video up for me to see what it's really like.....enjoy lol, lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEfjVnYkqM lol, After that one, if you want more this is a good one too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eB3ISAYE-I

Oh, shoot it just kills me! hooo hooo haaa haaa haaaa!

lol, lol, ha ha,...I just die watching these. I hope that all the women in our Ward get together again, I'm for sure doing a sneak attack and video taping it for all of you.

Here's some of the latest shots of the little monkey and some adventures!

This is my all-time favorite shot of the little one!

Bath time!!!

Sar did an excellent job getting real close to these guys, she even crawled down into a ditch to get this shot of Black bear Mama Jane, and her cub frank. He's there, you just can't see him well.

This is Ted. Named after Ted. Did you know if you were to find a bald eagles feather and pick it up, that bamm, you'd have a $500 fine right there? Ya, I don't know why. But that's the law.

What the crap!!! How did we get such a cute little kid! I just love her!

The forest service up here has been doing a bunch of controlled fires, and it's created some seriously wicked sunsets.

Peace out for now. We're gonna be down in the 801 next week, holla if you wanna kick it. If you wanna run into us, we'll prob be at Cafe rio... Oh and of course my sis Lindsey is getting hitched to a cool guy, and we'll be there too.

A Fun Week

2009-09-25T19:15:00.001-07:00

This week was Birthday week for me (colby).

Sar and I had a fun eventful day, started out with a sweet hike, then mostly a day on the river fishin and chillin. We did find a day care for CC. $90 later. It's expensive up here.

The little one is crawling all ove the place right now. She can get to couches stars, and in particular clothes baskets and pull herself up and start to walk around!!!!!!! ahahahah She's not suppose to do that yet! We just love her!!

This is "oxbow bend" in the teton nation park, If you ever come up here, this is the place to go canoeing, fishing, and your garenteed to see moose, and have fun little river otters at your side dancing and frolicking.

This is Julie the moose. she was just taken a dip during our canoe trip.Plenty of fish to catch.
hottie boom balotie

This is mr. bear. aka, Wolly. I think he's a grizzly. Some have said black bear, but he was huge, and and has a slight cinnamon touch. plus his snout is light. I did jump outa my care after almost hitting him and then ran after the guy to get this shot. He didn't care to even turn and look at me for his photo after screaming and yelling. He must be used to idiots like me. Sorry Wolly.

This is good ol Bro. Popp from the ward down in Sugarhouse. Every year he goes up to Idaho to some friends place that owns a 5,000 acre patato farm. I was only a couple hours away and helped him load 4 tons of patotos in his trailer. the ward then has a large feast eating potatoes. I filled up the back of my truck. What am going to do with them? good question.

ya, that's a lot of Potatoes.

Now, if you look all the way to the back you can see the mountain of Potatoes they make. It's about twenty feet high. They have 40 of these large rooms that they fill with Potatoes. We figured out the numbers and figured they have about 130 million dollors worth of potatoes. All will be sold this year.

These next few photos are just some fun ones.

And there ya go, small update for now.

HOLY MOOSE!!!!!

2009-09-16T10:29:00.000-07:00

Well this is definitely one of those times that I am totally kicking myself for not having my camera or even my camera phone with me!
This morning we hiked up a trail not to far from our house called Cache Creek, one we have done quite a few times. I like this one because there is a creek that runs right by it all the way up the trail and the dogs love to play in the little pools and it is really pretty. On our way back down as we came around a little bend there was a baby moose and a mama moose right in the middle of the trail about 10 feet in front of us! Lola who is scared of everything kind of got behind me while Bella, who is our little social butterfly, ran right up to them to say hello! She scared away the baby moose and it kind of pissed off the mama! She came right up to Bella and they starred each other down! At which point I was thinking "okay you two be nice!" Finally Bella came back to me after calling her for the past 2 min. and I decided that we would go back up the trail about 5 feet (back around the bend) and towards that creek (about 8 feet away) and play there with the dogs for a min. until the moose had made their way to the creek and off the trail at which point the plan would be to grab Bella by the collar and escort her down the trail, Lola following and pass where the moose were!
We waited and played for about 5 more min. and then headed back up toward the trail at which point we were met by the mama moose who was coming right toward us. It was a little alarming! Then we heard her baby on the other side of the creek crying at which point she started to run towards us!!!! I think I just about peed my pants at this point, as I had baby in the Bijorn attached to me and both dogs at my side! we turned around and started to run until we were cornered up against the creek, at which point we turned around to see mama moose only 2 feet in front of us! I could have reached out and touched her! She looked really mean and mad, like we kidnapped her baby! Bella kind of stepped forward toward her when her baby cried again but slightly down from where we were and she all of a sudden took off running in that direction through the brush! I about had a heart attack! Although after we quickly made our way back to the trail and quickened our pace down the rest of the trail I kept thinking, what would she have done any ways! I'm not really sure! She was big and I guess could of pushed us hard with her head, or maybe bit us, I really have no idea! But maybe she new that she was already intimidating enough just being really close to us and looking mean! Sorry mama moose for scaring your baby and making you worry! It was also really cool though after the fact! I've never been that close to a moose before, and not sure I want to be again in those circumstances anyways!
But honestly those pics would have been awesome! Although I doubt I would have had a steady shot of the the moose when she was breathing down my back!
Also Colb saw a BEAR yesterday! And if you can believe my luck I wasn't with him, however I was only about a 100 yards away just sitting there outside my car waiting for him and Cicily! It's crazy how close we could be to stuff like that and not even know it! BE BEAR AWARE I guess is right! Pics to come of the Bear, they are on Colbs Camera so I'll have them up later!

Okay!

2009-09-06T13:42:00.000-07:00

I'm sure Colb now feels a little better to get that off his chest! I'm sure most of his last post came from our visit to SLC last week, and how he really does miss Cafe Rio and the fact that it was so fun to visit our ward there and family! It's going to be okay sweetie! We had a great time with our fam and friends and it was fun for Cici to play with her cute cousin's and aunty's and uncle's as well as her Grandpa's and Grandma's.

We also had a couple of new additions to our families! (Cute baby Sky, and cute baby Braxton!) One great thing about living away from fam and friends and Cafe Rio is that it really makes you appreciate them that much more, is I'm sure what Colb was trying to say! Right Babe?

(Cute mama Erica with cute baby Skyler (Sky)

Adopted from day one, this is Sky only a couple day's old! So cute!)

(Adorable baby Braxton with mama

Chels and daddy Brian! Born in June at

1 lb 6 oz and got to come home finally

a couple of days ago weighing around 7 lbs!

Good job lil' rockstar!)

And here's a little bit more of what we've been up to!

Colb has been working a lot of course, but finds spare time to go to Jackson Lake and wake board with his friend Eric, or go fishing, or spend time with the dogs and Cici and I down at the river! Doesn't sound too bad now does it! He has also been spending a lot of time with his photography, and absolutely loves taking pics up here no matter what he says!!! I swear at least a couple 100 a day, and that's being conservative! he posted a few in the previous post.

Daddy giving Cici a Mani! (he's good at it, I still have a hard time cutting her little nails, cuz I'm afraid I'll cut her!)

Dad also always knows how to have fun, huh Ci!

Bella and Lola don't quite feel the same as Colb and they are convinced that they were born to live in Jackson, (a dog Mecca!) by now and can no longer make it through the day without a trip to the river or a near by hike sooo....

Cici and I trek out sometimes twice a day, in between naps of course, to go to the river and/or on a hike! We don't even have to repeat our trails too often due to the fact that they seem to be endless! Sometimes while we are exploring new places we find fun lil' things like this sign! They had them all over these back roads! Someone thought they were pretty funny...... and so did we!

(Is that even legal?)

And of course we can't leave without Lola's Ball, which made it's way into an interesting place the other day! Lola started getting all whiny by the bathroom so I went in there and found this

pretty sight! At first glance I had no idea then it hit me she was probably getting a drink but had mixed feelings about putting her ball down! It took a butter knife and a few min., but everything worked out in the end!

I love our days, although I'd be lying if I told you I would rather hike instead of bike these trails! Although I can't exactly attach lil' girl to the back of the mountain bike on these trail. So the goal for next year is to find a sitter every once in a while so we can take advantage of some of those fun things to do out here without a lil' one all the time!

I've also been doing a lot more cooking despite all this talk of Taco Bell and what not, and I am enjoying that too! We usually visit Colb most days at work, just down the street, and bring him lunch, (Love that he is so close now!) But if you have any fun recipes send them my way!

Love these pics, actually taken today! She was such a happy girl, after church of course!

We each had to have separate shots taken cuz Bell couldn't work the camera!

Cicily is now 7 months old and is now enjoying a lot of different foods, and has been gumming pretzels and fruits and crackers! (Sooooo messy, yet soooo cute!) She loves to eat her feet and has them in her mouth constantly with a big gummy smile, which I'll miss when she gets teeth (not yet by the way!). She is super close to crawling and I know we are in trouble when she can! She is still a very smiley happy baby most of the time and we just love her to pieces!!!!!!

Cic, slobbering on a pretzel as Lola gives very close supervision!

MILESTONES! (had to post these last pics from today!)

I said she is close to crawling here is a pic series of how practice usually goes!

(warm up with a couple of push-ups!)

Look at Mama to make sure she's watching!

Get up on all fours!

Throw self forward toward toys and bink and brace for fall!

Get the treasure, and give an "It's all good" smile!

She also today for the first time pulled herself from her belly to sitting! And not only did mom think it was pretty fancy but lil' girl thought she was pretty amazing herself!

Sorry if this last pic action was a lil' much for some peeps, but it's what we live for these day's and we think it's pretty great! Love ya all!

Also sorry about the formatting! It kind of sucks, but I was done!!!

Just some new photos and fun.

2009-09-05T10:05:00.000-07:00

It's beautiful here, and that's for sure the number one greatest thing about Jackson.

But I'll be honest, I could never live here full time. The idea def crossed our minds after only being here only a couple months. Some people call this area Gods Country. And it just might be. But as time as gone by you seem to miss things like. CAFE RIO, Dodo,HOME DEPOT, (the nearest one is in Idaho Falls, 2.5 hours, they have a cafe rio there too.) WALMART. Ya, there's no Wallymart here, there's actually only two grocery stores and a more than pathetic K-Mart. Most of the gas stations don't have Mountain Dew on tap. There's one place to wash your car. They don't have an Arby's, Olive Garden, Chile's, oh, and the Sushi here isn't anything special, but if you want a Buffalo steak, that's nice. I'm done eating those for the next five years already. They do have a Taco Bell, but the tortillas they use are these huge fat flower tortilas that obsorb every bit of mosture in your mouth so you can't even get through one bit without having to take a pull off your drink to get it down. Ya, taco bell sucks. The worker outside smoking while I ordered sucks too. There's no way she could have washed her discusting hands and gotten to the window in time to hand me my food and tell me to have a nice day. uhhghgh!!

How about movie theatures. Stadium seating doesn't exist up here, but you do have two places to choose from.Yey. thus giving you a total of 6 movies to choose out of. Don't let me fool you, we don't know anybody up here to babysit our little monster, so its not like we're hitting the theatre(s). I could go on, but really. How about Gyms. You'd think they'd atleast have a Golds Gym. No, no gymns here. just the little tiny ones that are all about ciruit training and have 6 machines packed into a little place that was prob once a T-shirt shop. Just to paint the picture.

I'm deeply afraid of the winter time here. I did just get the "sport, nfl" package on our Direct TV service to get ready for the dredded winter. I hope we don't freeze. I'm excited to watch all the World cup qualifiers. Oh, speaking of soccer, it sucks up here, there's no indoor soccer, stupid. How about Ward Basketball, nope. None of that. There's just two Wards up here. Utah here we come. In about two years....

Other than all that crap, life is fab up here, the gallery is doing great. Better than expected. Sar, the dogs and good ol Cicily keep life interesting. I'm having an artist named Malcom Furlow paint our dogs right now, he's doing 2 50 x 50 paintings of them. He's an abstract painter,Fun, fun. Our next adventure is soon to come and we'll be posting about that. In the meantime, enjoy the photos. If you've read this whole blabbing blab cudos to you. I patheticaly usually only look at pictures when surfing blogs.

cute little bug.

It's been fun to see here beggining to interact.

I got only about 4 ft. from one of these guys. Kinda scary.

I love this shot!

Cicily and Daddy! I never knew I could love a little one as much as her.

Life in Jackson Hole

2009-07-22T16:15:00.001-07:00

Here is a little update of what we've been up to in the last month or so! Get ready for a lot of pics because if you know Colb you know that in the two months we've been living here, we have pics like we've been here for 5 years! (here's just a few of those!)

Jenny Lake in Teton National Park (about 20 min. away from Jackson)

Lot's of hikes

One of Colb's beauty's... (purely speaking of the awesome sunset, mountains and reflection of course!)

A little bit of fishing!

Boating on Jackson Lake with some of the only friends we have met in Jackson so far! And they happen to have a boat! Yey!!! (Honestly it is not what inspired the friendship, we found out about the boat much later in the relationship.... about a week!)

CiCi came too and told us she wanted a boat for her birthday! Silly Cici...........Okay!

Colb about to Go big with the Tetons in the back! (always "ABOUT", cuz I suck at getting him in the air! Sorry babe!)

Me, not about to go big, just in case I crash and land in the freezing cold water!!!

Baby girl also debuted her funny cute lil' flower swimsuit cover my mom got her, we and she loved it!

We've been making and eating these delicious things just about every week for the past month, were addicted and can't get enough!

Cicily is about 5 1/2 months old now and has been up to a lot lately, in our opinion anyway! Such as loving this big girl swing at the park by our house...

Eating her first real food, if you can call rice cereal real food, in her big girl high chair! (thanks great grandpa and grandma Wilson!)

Finally fitting in her big girl stroller without her car seat!.....

She loves being carried and observing everything in the lil' baby carrier! We are actually going on our third baby carrier! It just so happens that the move has made Lola a lil' nervous when we leave the house and it seems as though if we are a little careless about where we leave stuff she has been tearing things apart, such as the B'jorn's! Luckily after B'jorn number 2 we found out you can send them into the company and they will send you a new one free, no matter who made the damage! We especially love the B'jorn brand now for this reason!
Cici is now jabbering up a storm and is so close to crawling! I have mixed feelings about letting her practice her crawling so much! No need to be all over the place yet darlin'!

We've seen these animals so far!

Elk

Moose and Buffalo!

N0 bears yet, although every 2 feet there are "Be Bear Aware" signs! I don't want a close encounter, but I've never seen a wild bear before and would really like too! I'll keep you posted on that!

We've had a lot of visitor's, almost every week and love it, so if you want to come we are again extending the offer, Come play!

Tetons and Larsen's

Colb and dad at Ox bow Bend

Old Faithful and Coberly boys in Yellowstone!

Cici trying to eat, or kiss her cousin, were not sure yet! She just loved these boys, and couldn't stop flirting with them!

Da Boys!!!

(except Cici and Bell and Lo!) Sadly the doggies can't come with us into the National parks but lucky for them there are about 100 other lil' hikes for them to go on all over and around Jackson! In fact I'm pretty sure everyone in Jackson owns at least 2 dogs!

Lex and Parker at the top of the Alpine slide at Snow king resort

More fun on the Alpine slide with The vanDijks, who came up to play over the 4th!

We went to the town breakfeast and parade on the 4th! We saw Dick Cheney and his whole huge family, however the only thing worth taking a picture of right then was this cute lil' thing in her 4th of July get up!(thanks Karen for the outfit!) She really did sport these sunglasses for a while!

Cici loves her cousin Kali!

We also tried out the tramps and bungees at the Snow King resort! (A Total Blast!)

Ziek (what a brave 2yr. old) flying high, just not wanting to look how high!

Stephen and Colb getting a lil' crazy at the park!

Ziek also getting crazy at the park!

Later that night on the 4th we enjoyed one of the best firework shows we have ever seen at the base of Snow King Mountain! Baby girl loved it, although this pic doesn't really reflect that, but fell asleep 1/2 way through!

Our one concern is that, if you'll notice the sweaters, coats and thick blankets we have on us, well if it is this cold in the middle of the summer up here then we might certainly be screwed up here in the winter!

My parents came up the next week and watched baby for us the first half of the day while we went whitewater rafting down the Snake and then we went down the canyon to watch my parents go down the river the second half of the day! It was AWESOME!!!!

Colb is in the front on the left and I'm right behind him. The rest of the peeps were a group of friends visiting from Cali. We didn't know them but they were hilarious! Good times! These pics are taken at one of the bigger rapids along the snake, at "the lunch counter!"

The water was extremely cold, in fact this second week of July was the first week they were letting peeps go down without wetsuits! Good motivation to paddle hard through the rapids and stay in the boat!

While waiting for my parents to come through "lunch counter" we watched some guys surf the rapids! It was pretty cool!

Then this was my weak attempt to capture my parents going through the rapids, I only caught my dad (third from the right in the 2nd row! My mom was in the first row, all the way to the left! You can only see her arms! Sorry mom! But holy crap! Go Mom and Dad for battling the Snake River rapids!

And most recently was Colby's Mom visiting, she was awesome and watched CC while went to see the new Harry Potter movie one night and another night while we went to see "Grease" performed as a musical. It was great! This pic is taken at lunch at the Grand Teton Lodge.

So things are going pretty good and were having a lot of fun so far and think it is absolutely Gorgeous up here! Colby can't stop taking photo's, infact I hope he'll post some of the awesome photos he's taken on our facebook. I'll leave you with a pic of Colb and Anthony getting a lil' crazy one night with the antler arches! Looks like they might have had a visit to the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar previous to this pic!

Just Kidding!

Hi! We're in Jackson!

2009-06-15T23:18:00.000-07:00

After about two weeks now, we are officially almost 3/4 of the way unpacked, man do we have a lot of crap! Here's a couple pics of the inside of the house, and what we've accomplished so far!

This is what you see when you walk in the front door, mostly all of our living area!

More of the living area! Lola and Bella Chillaxin' while I fold laundry.... Typical!

Obviously, the kitchen and honestly my favorite part about this lil' house! All new appliances, YEAH!! So nice to have something new after our really old house in Salt Lake! Don't get me wrong though, I absolutely love our lil' house in Sugar House and already really miss it! And on a side note we also really really miss our ward and all our neighborhood friends......another story for another day!

Here is another room completely accomplished recently, Baby's room! And yes that is our lil' camera monitor set up strategically on the boppy, on the chair, watching......

Cute baby Cici sleeping in her swing! She has definitely slowed the progress of getting things done, but honestly it has always been great to take a lot of breaks to play and nap with her! A friend of Colby's is staying in our extra room right now, upstairs so no pics of that for now, and our bedroom along with the rest of the house, not pictured is still a disaster! We actually owe a huge thank you to Colb's mom, Carol for helping us move up here as well as stay for a week and be such a huge help organizing things and watching Cici so we could get more stuff done! Thanks Carol! Cici loved having her Grandma here!

Now it has been extremely rainy, just like everywhere else and the temp has been in the 30's and 40's, so we haven't gotten out a whole lot. However today, after having a bad case of cabin fever we decided to go out in the rain and cold any way! Colb went away with his Dad to go save the world shooting one lil' pot-gut at a time! (He always tells me that they are really doing these farmers a favor cuz the little critters make these holes and the cows step in them and blah blah blah! ) Anyways while Colb has been in Sheridan, WY, the dogs and Cici and I all went to hike Snow King Mountain! This mountain is literally in our front yard! If you walk out on our front porch, it is staring you right in the face, See!
Since the trail to climb Snow King is so close to us we have attempted to climb it several times in the past two weeks, but have been rained out and frozen every time! Today I looked for a clear patch in the sky and went out a little more prepared, in case it did rain on us. It was extremely vertical and a beast of a climb and what's crazy is that people run this all day long. After climbing it today I thought running it would be extremely hard core, but at the end of my hike there were two mountain bikers going up it, so I guess that tops it for me! It said it was only 1.8 miles to the top so I didn't think it would be to bad to strap baby up in the Bjorn and head our with the doggies, however it was a little harder than I anticipated. It was straight up for 1.8 miles and I had about 30 extra pounds to carry, (baby: almost 12 lbs now at 4 1/2 months, and me: with still an extra 18 or so... lbs. on me from carrying baby!) It also rained on us twice during our little adventure, but the dogs loved it and Cici didn't seem to mind and three hours later we were up and down! The best part was the view from the top, absolutely breath-taking, really the camera couldn't even do it justice!!! Here's some pics from our outing!

Starting out, dogs already have a pretty good lead!

About 1/2 way, took a pic cuz I couldn't believe it was still so steep!

Apparently they like to put up big orange pads in case you fall backwards! Good idea!

Hiked right by the top of the ski lift and kept on going!

It started raining at this point and we were already into the hike about an hour! This is my panic face as it got colder! Also notice boy way behind me running up the trail......

This is same boy still running way past me up the trail! I will do this some day! Hey were going to be here at least 2 or 3 years!
Put my rain coat on Cici, she looked really cute! Although this is what she was thinking.....

Blah! I look really annoyed in this pic, wasn't but didn't know I would be in the pic! Love her face though! I couldn't see what she was doing when I would take the pic, so this one totally made me laugh out loud when I looked later!

These last few were taken at the top! Soooooo Beautiful!!!!!!! You can see the whole town, the whole elk refuge, as well as the Tetons in the very back with snow on them! It doesn't even look real, like I am taking a picture of a picture!

This last one was the other side of the mountain! And as you can see the trail finally plains out at the top of the mountain!

Going down went almost as slow as going up, my knees felt like I just ran the St. George marathon, (that course is mostly down hill, not steep just down hill for about 20 miles!) Anyways when I got to the bottom it felt like the same pain! Needless to say I will probably be a lil' sore tomorrow! It was a good way to kick start my "loose the baby weight" work outs again for the 3rd time! Also another lil' side note if you notice in some of the pics I cut my hair about 10 inches, Whoa! It has been nice not to deal with it lately!

Well so long for now, more Jackson adventures to come!

The good the bad and the ugly!

2009-05-13T22:10:00.000-07:00

The Good!!!

Cici, loving her new toy, a lil' jumper! She loves standing and sitting up and we came across this lovely thing and she was absolutely loving it!!! She doesn't quite reach the ground yet but, we made some minor adjustments so that it'll work out for now!

The Bad and the Ugly!!!!

Not referring to the nurse, she was really nice, despite this deer in the headlight pic! However gallbladder surgery sucked a big one and this nice lil' pic is the only one you'll see of this day courtesy of my hubby who thought he'd document my loveliness post surgery! Thanks sweetie! The other photo's we'll never be released publicly! Recovering has been a nightmare, although I am pretty sure I'm over the worst and have returned to cleaning and packing mode! This has only put a dent in the journy on recovering my pre-baby body as well, and workouts will resume momentarily!

"We're going to Jackson"

2009-05-12T09:46:00.000-07:00

So if you haven't heard yet, we are moving to Jackson Hole, Wyoming next month (June). It has all been pretty crazy and really hasn't set in yet! We only found out and decided to go about 2 weeks ago and it has been a roller-coaster ever since! The Rich Haine's Gallery in Park City that Colb works for is opening another Gallery in Jackson and Rich wants him to run it! We are really excited for this adventure and the opportunity for Colb. We don't know exactly how long we'll be there so we are renting out our house till we get a better feel for things. In the mean time Jackson is only like 4 hours away so if anyone wants to come visit we will have a spare bedroom and really want some visitors, maybe it will help to let you know that we are in walking distance of the lil' Snow King Mountain Ski lift!!!!! Come and play in Jackosn with us!!!!!!! More pics of our new digs to follow!

New Pad for now!

The Last Fews Weeks

2009-05-04T23:34:00.001-07:00

The last few weeks have been pretty eventful for the crew. Cicily had her baby blessing, we took a quick two day trip to Jackson, and spent a week in Moab. Life has been extremely enjoyable and hauling the little tike along has made it a blast. However, I will be the first to say it's a B****( having a little three month old in the car so much. Three to four hour rides are her least favorite thing right now. I feel bad for her. Other than that she loves the Bjorn(sp). Here's a few pics to illistrate the fun. ;-)

Baby Cicily Smiles and Cali!

2009-04-08T09:34:00.000-07:00

Went to Cali to see my Cheerleaders do AWESOME at the High School Spirit Championship!

(They hit a perfect routine! Good job guys!)

The Plane ride on the way over, she did great we were really nervous!

I didn't want her ears to blow up or whatever and I didn't want to be the frantic mother with the screaming child! Neither happened, yea!

Thought this pic was funny, a little angle with the light on her that way!

And she was just that!

At the Competition she was all smiles! The cheerleaders got her this lil' outfit,it said "Hunter's smallest cheer fan!" Too cute!

Soon to be daddy "Braden" also fell in love with this one!

(this pic is for you Danie!)

Cute prego Danie and "Weirdo faced" Braden pose in Downtown Disney

(Danie is like 8 months prego and was tracking all over Disneyland, what a trooper!)

Colb loved carrying Cicily allover in the lil' carrier! Well it was actually my idea for him to wear it cuz I thought it would be a cute dad thing to do and also kind of funny cuz I couldn't picture it! But I am pretty sure he loved it too after the initial ridicule!

Trying on Hats in Disneyland, this one was too funny! We had more fun with this than CC apparently! She didn't think we were that funny!

This is everyone at Medieval Times, which is now becoming a squad tradition I feel! It is pretty funny to see these guys get going with cheering for their Knight! Mostly it always reminds me of "Cable Guy" and I enjoy asking our serving wench for things! (sorry bad quality pic!)

Just chillaxing in the 70 degree weather on the last day before we headed back to what we were told was a huge storm in Utah! But mostly this pic was taken to make fun of my sweet scarf I got so I could look like "D-trix" and Hok from So You Think You Can Dance and America's Best Dance Crew! I realize the level of Dork I have achieved, but I still like it!

And now cute baby smiles from the plane ride home!

She just cracks us up!

But did you check out the two cheerleaders behind CC who are sleeping, we got a good pic of them too! Everyone was pretty drained from the trip!

WEDDING CAKE

2009-03-19T13:00:00.000-07:00

So my mom came over to visit CC and I the other day and randomly brought over the top of our wedding cake that she said she found in her freezer!!!!!........ Well a couple things come to mind; One, you FOUND it in your Freezer, I'm afraid to think of what other findings might be in there seeing as how Colb and I are coming up on our 5th year anniversary! Two, we must have totally forgot about the one year tradition of eating the top of your wedding cake, and probably because, Yuck! Who would want that even after a week later! I'm pretty sure there was no inquiry of the cake after one year for good reason!

However, we both had a good laugh over it and Colby and I keep daring each other to take a bite out of it! Neither of us has moved on this enticing dare, me mostly so it doesn't have any nasty repercussions on me or CC. So for now for the cake is just sitting in our refrigerator, who knows why I'm still holding onto it, although I'm pretty sure we'll get rid of it soon. But for some reason if you missed some awesome wedding cake from our wedding head on over and we'll cut you a piece and we'll re-live the magic 5 years later!

And now for some cute pics of CC!

Playin' on the floor with mom! (she's got some long fingers huh!)

Hanging out in one of her favorite places, her swing! (Thanks Danie and Braden!)

CC with Grandma and Papa Larsen ("Happy Birthday Grandma Judy!")

CC's first little dress, courtesy of one of my cute Hunter High Cheerleaders! (Thinking she kind of looks like Aunt Jamima with her bow and lil' sweater!)

2009-03-19T12:55:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gents, My husband...... The little optimistic columnist!

OUR ECONOMY AND WHERE YOUR GOING

2009-03-17T15:44:00.000-07:00

Where are you heading?

Growing up as a kid I've been lucky to have a lot of people in my life filled with wisdom on life and going through it. During which I've gleaned some good advice that has served me well in my business and personal life. One of the pearls of wisdom from a grandparent was, “Wherever your head goes, your actions are sure to follow!”
In these trying economic times no advice could serve us better. We need to be careful not to get sucked into as Zig Ziegler calls, “Stinkin’ thinkin’!” If we allow ourselves to go down the negative rabbit holes we are sure to find ourselves in the dark without a way out. Here are a few tips to help us all to stay on the path to successful living:
1. Surround yourself with positive people and cut ties with negative ones. We become like the people we spend the most time with. When we surround ourselves with negative people, we become negative. When we surround ourselves with positive people, their attitude is contagious.
2. Don’t let yourself talk to yourself. In other words don’t allow your mind to go through the, “What if exercise?” This thinking ends in total futility. Have a “get out plan” by using positive affirmations. We need to replace our negative self talk with positive affirmations.
3. TURN OFF THE NEWS! Be very selective about what you watch and listen to. If it is really important someone will tell you about it. Keep in mind that the media has an agenda and, “Whatever bleeds, leads.” Do not fill your mind with things that are negative and out of your power to change.
4. Keep a proper perspective on life’s cycle. Wise King Solomon said, “For everything there is a season, a time to sow, a time to reap…” you remember the song. From the beginning of time life has had its ups, downs, ebbs and flows. In business and in life we will have fat times and lean times. To think life will always be steady is unrealistic. The good news is although we are experiencing some lean times, change is sure to come.
5. Take time to help other people. Perform some community service or help a neighbor in need. When we help others it gets us out of our own misery. It demonstrates to us that we can have a positive impact on our world.
6. Get in touch with your spiritual source. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen." Faith and hope are powerful! Keep believing in good. What good ever came from thinking the worst?
7. Adopt an attitude of gratitude. Dwell on what you do have. Chances are you have a lot more to be thankful for than you think.
Even when we have a positive attitude we still have days when we don’t feel quite so positive. On those days we may need to take some extra time to review the previous seven tips and remember to not give in to the negativity around us.
Finally; remember that it is the journey, not arriving, that is important. I leave you with this story:
A rich business man went on vacation to Mexico, enjoying the week with his family and the services of a very kind couple as they stayed at there little home on the beach. The business man asked the man if he'd ever thought of developing his land into a huge resort. The man said, no why? Well, the business man told him you could make millions. The man then asked him, then what? Well, you can be like me and enjoy the life I'm living on the beach, in this hamik, sipping on nothin but Gin and juice, and tickling my toes in the sand. The old man then replied. But I do that every day already............
Life is not a contest, let’s keep positive and enjoy the ride!

-Colby

p.s. here's a few of CC's latest:

Dad's 100th & 101st photo shoot! (posted by Cicily Larsen)

2009-03-06T12:23:00.000-08:00

My dad rarely lets me go a day without a huge bow or flower on my head!

My cheeks are getting more chubby and my mom loves it!

I love my tongue! It is by far one of the coolest things I have discovered so far!

Love this guy! He seems to have a camera permanently attached to his face! Hi dad!

Love this crazy lady! Mom your so funny!

Our little Doll

2009-02-14T12:28:00.001-08:00

This was Cicily's first little photo shoot of the hundred she'll be participating in this first year. Her next schedule shoot will be Monday morning. I'm having a blast with her. She's just a little angel. Sar and I are just loving this. We sit there and just watch her, just sit and watch her cute little self make noises. The dogs enjoy it as well. They surprisingly have been awesome, and not only that, but protective. Especially Bella. It's fun to see.

Yey! We're Finally Home!

2009-02-10T13:00:00.000-08:00

After a week in the hospital for me and 5 extra days in the hospital for Cicily we were finally able to leave and come home yesterday afternoon! My labor went so long that I got an infection and a really high fever a couple of hours before baby came out, so when baby came out she to had the fever and infection and had to be on antibiotics as well and monitored for what looked like a week! However she is such a strong little girl that she pulled through the infection a little sooner and we got to go home Monday of this week instead of Wednesday! We are so happy to be home and love not being poked and prodded at anymore!

She had a rough start and was immediately taken to the special care nursery which is a level 2 NICU, ( not as serious as a level 1 NICU)! There she was hooked up to all sorts of monitors, and IV's (yuck, hard to see for a new mommy and daddy!)

She had her own room and her very own nurse 24/7 and was not allowed to leave the nursery, which meant we couldn't be with her all of the time, hated that, so did she!

Visitors were only allowed 2 at a time plus mom or dad in her room and had to scrub in to come into the nursery. Depending on how she was doing couldn't be held sometimes! Sorry Aunty Linds and Uncle Colb!!!

This was a happier day when dad was holding her! Too cute!!!

Finally on Sunday night she was well enough to go into the Well Baby nursery which meant I could now bring her into my room almost whenever I wanted! This was our "happy to have little baby with us", family pic, in my hospital room!

Then Monday afternoon we said "see ya later suckers!" and we went home! Yeah!!!!!

Now we are home and get to see cute baby faces like this all day!!!!! (even if our hands are still all bruised from all of the IV's (mean nurses!!!!)

Happy to be home!

Happy Birthday Cicily Diane Larsen

2009-02-04T16:15:00.000-08:00

Cicily Diane Larsen

6 pounds 12 ounces

20 inches

born Feb. 4th

3:10 am

1 day left at this point.

12 hour night of citotec to soften her cervix, 18 laboring hours, and an hour and ten min of pushing! Then BABY!

Yey Baby is here!!!

"Mom said we have to stay together!!!"

2009-01-21T09:33:00.000-08:00

I've been trying to train the doggies on this new little device for the past few months, making them stay together only inches apart on one leash! Although I feel pretty safe, I can see that this huge prego girl coming down the path with these two huge dogs pulling her every which way has made some people feel a little nervous, as seen and heard by their looks and comments! A regular comment made is "Wow, it looks like there taking you for a walk!" After hearing this comment at least a dozen times every time we go out, my courtesy laugh has now turned into half a courtesy smile, your hilarious my friends! The goal is to get them pretty manageable on one leash so when I can start running again after baby is born that I will be able to take the whole crew out running with me, (rockin' two dogs and a jogging stroller!) I've seen it done before and mostly it is just a show for everyone else on the streets watching, so honk and laugh when you see it! Training so far has been going pretty good, a little of an adjustment at first with the constant bumping of heads, tangles, choking, learning to stop when the other has to go to the bathroom, etc. but now it is mostly Bella leading Lola. However now more than ever Lola feels the need to be right by Bella's side all of the time, whether Bella wants her there or not! It cracks us up!

Down to unwrapping there Christmas spoils next to each other! Although now I think Bella is finding out that this is not all that bad and that it has somewhat inspired a team effort on her part. The other day I looked out the window in the back yard and wished I had my camera near by as to capture this little moment: Bella was standing under this bush/tree in our back yard as Lola jumped her two front paws on Bella's back in attempt to reach some sticks to pull off the tree for them to both play with and chase each other around the yard and then completely destroy into slivers all over afterwards! Great team effort guys, too funny!

The Past Few Months

2009-01-19T16:58:00.000-08:00

We're still alive and doing well fellow bloggers!!! Sarah hasn't had the Baby yet, if she had you'd have a million little photos of tiny feet and fingers to look at. So, instead here's a smiggin of what we've been up to for the last 3 months.

Every Christmas the Fam goes to see "The Forgotten Carols" It's fun every year, and for some reason I understand one more thing in the story. I swear they reveal something new though every year.....

Sar is ready for the Baby to get out of her tummy now. This is her with my Sis Alexis. She's having a little boy in a week or so. I think it's going to be fun that they'll be having kids just a week apart.

I got a new camera. The D-90. It's been a hoot! I've be having a blast with it.

So cute.

For Christmas and birthday presents I took Family photos for a few siblings. It was a lot of fun.

Above is Talin, Brian and my Sis Chelsey.

Chels and Brian.

I love this photo. This is Sar's Sis Erika and her rockin hubby Steve with they're two cute little adopted kiddos, Kalli and Zeik. We just love em.

I can't wait to have little kiddos of our own. I love pics like this.

This is Rachelle and Jeff. Rachelle is the one that dove in the Olympics. She and Jeff live up in Washington and we don't get to see them too often. We love when they come to visit though.

Lastly. I wanted to make sure that you guys had some sort of humor during this blog post, so I thought I'd share why Sarah got pregnant (per my mother) after two and half years of trying.

I'll start by saying my Mom is Buddhist. She is a Reiki Master as well. She's gone on a couple "pilgrimage's" to Tibet, Nepal, the Himalayas area and she's hit Buhtan a couple of times as well.

So.......This last time she went out there she told us about these fertility blessing you can get from the Karmapa. A guy that's kinda like Buddha or the Dali Lama. (Best way to explain a Karmapa)

Well, this Karmapa dude can give blessings and if you want to get one vicariously for someone else, you can. Great. So, there's this fertility blessing you can get and is done with one of two instruments. A wooden penis or a stone penis. The person kneels at the altar, the Karmapa chants a few things and bops you on the head and next thing you know you get pregnant. !!

My Mom asked us which instrument we thought she should have the Karmapa use. The wooden, or stone. We thought it was only natural to use "wood".

So, here we are. Prego. Technically Sar got pregnant two weeks after the bop on my mothers head in Tibet. coincidence? Who knows.... All I know is that it makes a great laugh. The picture above is a typical sign seen on most homes out there. It is a sign for the blessing of fertility or something of the sort. A shlong or penis, whatever you call it tagged on the side of a building is what it looks like to me though. The original photo hangs on our refrigerator with a small heart magnet over the ...... thing. Next time you stop by and say hi, move the magnet to the right or left revealing the graffiti..

Stay tuned for Baby!!!!! She'll be popping out in the next 2-3 weeks!!

*BABY**

2008-10-31T09:55:00.000-07:00

About 95 days left to go!!!!!!

2008-10-25T11:58:00.000-07:00

So, what the crap have we been up to while we've neglected our blog since the SYTYCD show, that Sar and I still find ourselves talking about, not to mention my sick playlist of all the dance songs from the show that I put together for one wicked enjoyment every day to and from work!!!!?...................

Well, we've been up to a whole lot of nothin. Acutally, you know us we can't sit still, so not really. Sar spent a week up at her sisters house in Vancouver, Washington. I've put in some descent hunting hours, with buddies and what not. Rabbit, Deer, Duck and Pheasant. It's been fun to get outdoors a bunch this fall. I've enjoyed taking photos of good old mother nature as well. I stuck a few of my fav shots below. Sar has been consumed by her cheerleaders again. It's that time of year that she choreographs their routine for nationals. There first comp is in December. Nationals will be in March again, and I can't tell you how excited I am to go for the sixth time in a row. ;!> I love Disney land!!!!

Now, what else......ooooh how could I even begin to neglect our little monkey that seems to be incubating ever so well in Sar's tummy. I felt her give a swift kick the other night. She's gonna have a wicked shot. I bet she'll play forward and score goals like crazy!! Sar doesn't think so though she thinks she'll be doing some sort of wicked scorpion, or a laid out double full of the beam.........

Speaking about the little tyke, Sar is feeling a ton better. For those that don't know she was throwing up every day like five times a day and mostly in the evening up until a few weeks ago. Thank goodness that's over. She's been in school up at the U as well this past fall, and I can't imagine being sick and going to school. She's got less than a year to finish up her degree in Sociology. What is she going to do with a degree in Sociology? Probably the same thing every stay at home Mommy does with there degree. Nothing! However she'll probably still be doing her massage, since she loves that too! But she wanted to get it done and we both feel that getting a degree is a must, and def will be for our kids. Anyway, Sar is now about six and half months prego. Can't wait to be a daddy! She's due the end of January!!! I need to get home and take a pic of her freakin cute belly and stick it on here for you all to enjoy.

Well....................

Have a super duper halloween!!! I think Sar is going to be Juno and I'm gonna be Bleeker! Sar's idea, since it's a prego costume for her, although I think she got the idea from one of her friends!

---So You Think You Can Dance---

2008-09-25T09:22:00.000-07:00

For Colbs B-day we went to see so you think you can dance at the E-center. It was truly some of the best entertainment we've seen in our lives.....!! Soooo fun! These were some of our favorite dances of the evening and season! One exception would be the bed dance, pictured here last. Neither Colb nor I loved this one but who could resist a shot of Twitch like that, Right!!!! It looks just like Colb with his shirt off, except not black!!!! Ha Ha!!!!

Sugar and Spice!!!

2008-09-13T08:32:00.000-07:00

Yeah for little girls!

Bring on the pink! We just found out we
are having a lil' girl!!!!!!!

----------------CABIN / LOTOJA-----------------

2008-09-09T08:24:00.000-07:00

Colby's fam has a cabin up in Afton, Wyoming that for about four years now we have been heading up to for the 206 mile Logan to Jackson bike race (Lotoja). The cabin is ideal for this particular trip as the race route runs right along the road into Afton, where the cabin is! Why this trip every year you ask, because my awesome and crazy brother in law, Stephen usually does this insane race! However this year my awesome and crazy sister, Erica who usually carts around her two cute kids while supporting her hubby in this insanely long race, decided to do the race as well. Unfortunately Stephen broke his rib prior to the race while getting involved in some crazy shinanagins in Lake Powell. So he became support crew for his darling wife! Erica did amazing and was incredibly strong through out the race and still had quite the sense of humor at each feed station! It was fun to watch and as always ended with the tradition of eating at the Mangy Mouse in Jackson Hole! Then back to the cabin, about an hour away, for a little R&R! Too much fun! Thanks van Dijks, for giving us a reason to head up there every year! Here are some of the pics from the race and at the Cabin!

The Ick's & Blah's

2008-08-13T12:43:00.000-07:00

Whoa!!, I think I am going to live! After two months of feeling like I was going to die I am hoping the worst is over! Although I still feel sick at night, I'll take that any day over all day sickness! I use to think I was pretty tough, however I haven't even been able to make it over to the computer and sit up right long enough to update our blog, so I guess.... not so tough after all! But I'm still very happy to have a lil' baby growin' inside me!

Here is where I've been the past two months!

And sometimes here!

This has been my view! (And constant companion!)

This is what has been keeping me going!

"The Nurse!" and "The Cheerleader!"

Cute Hubby! (pictured here with nurse!)

(These two also happen to be the head of the

Sympathy committee!......Very good at their jobs!)

Family and Friends who take Colby out and occupy his

"A-D-D-ness," while I can't! (And it seems once again Mikee,

Colb's bro has misplaced his shirt!......there in the first pic!)

"So You Think You Can Dance!"

Go Joshua! Your amazing and totally

deserve it!

And as of lately........

The 2008 Beijing Olympics! Yeah, we love the Olympics!

Especially the Gymnastics, Diving, and Swimming!

Good Job Ladies! You put up a great fight!

Well we are almost to the "fun" part of being prego, so I've been told! Which is finding out if it's a boy or girl and also feeling it move! We have about another month, so I let you know when we know!

*BABY**

2008-06-30T19:30:00.000-07:00

Well not much more than heart beat and apparently not a very clear one, because I guess I didn't drink enough water, but enough to know that there is a little eggo in our prego! This was taken at 6 1/2 weeks, when we first found out, and I am now a little over 8 weeks! We are super excited and have had a really hard time keeping it a secret, well mostly Colb! Our due date as of right now is February 10th, so maybe a Valentines Baby!

The funny thing is we honestly had no idea! I was switching insurances so we could go see another doctor who might be able to help us. The other insurance asked me to take a pregnancy test and have my doctor fax in the results. I didn't think to much of it and went into my doctors office took the test and the nurse came in and was like..."Well it looks as though we have a positive!".... I was completely shocked! Colb wasn't with me nor did he even know what I was doing that day! So when I drove up to Park City to see him that day and bring him an early Father's Day present he wasn't the slightest bit tipped off! I got him this little statue thing with a mom, dad and new baby, from Desert Book, (sooo cheesey)! Even after unwrapping it, he just looked at it and was like... "Oh, thanks, hun!" and then he was like, "I guess you really want a baby!" And for those of you who know Colby, that was just classic! After doing a little explaining so he could understand that WE WERE GOING TO HAVE A BABY, then the celebration began!!!! We are soooo happy and just wanted to share the news with everyone!

Colbs Photography

2008-06-27T13:04:00.000-07:00

For the last two weeks Sar has been at Girls camp and Cheer camp. So, I've obviously been board and decided to do this post............
So, a little hobby/passion of mine is taking photos. I love it!!! I love it soo much that while Sar and I are driving around I'm always commenting on what I think would make a cool photo or what not. I'd hate to be married to a person like me. I'm always wanting to turn around and go back or stop on the side of a road.... When Sar and I were dating I always had a camera with me, not just one but two. That was in the day of 35mm camera's, so I'd always have a camera with black and white film and the other with regular color film. Needless to say we had a good number of photos for our wedding day. Sar sure is a great sport, for putting up with me.
I started to really enjoy photography when I was "a little shit" in my father's terms. I was around ten years old and was given my very own camera. I took photos of everything, until one day I dropped it in the pool and my Mom said she wasn't going to replace it, so tuff luck. Maybe she was happy cause she was done with developing photos with nobody in them and of stupid random things.
later on I really got into photography when high school came around. I shot my very first wedding when I was a senior. I also began shooting photos of some of the girls in high school. Their moms would catch wind of it and have me photograph there girls, usually we'd go out to the garden park ward. (classic photographers heaven). It was fun.
After High School I started college, and ran into a photographer name Scott Green. He had his own photography business and mainly shot models and did weddings etc. I worked with him as an "aprentice" for almost a year. and learned a lot about the body and how to position it in certain ways etc.... I will say I didn't make jack but it sure was fun, . That's what I think photography is all about, the "fun". So, just to share some of that fun-ness I've created a blog and stuck just a bunch of stuff on it. I think next month I'll stick a bunch of my photoshop stuff on it too. so here it is, enjoy. http://www.colbandsar.blogspot.com/ There is a ton, and not all will fit on one page so you need to click on the titles on the right to open more. (fyi)

LAKE POWELL

2008-06-06T15:00:00.000-07:00

So, Sar is the one that does all the posts on the blog. However I'm going to attempt putting together my first "blog". And it goes like this.............

Here we are, happy little couple.

Colb (me) goin big! Go big or Go home, Right?!

This is most of the crew, and there's the house boat in the background. Pres Bush helped us buy into this year so thanks 'B".

Wakeboarding is one of our favorite things of all time!

Sar is so freakin sexy when she wakeboards!

Yey!

Sar and I wake skating. We actually kissed while out there. I wanted to add that photo but I thought I'd keep this pg.

The water was super nice!

The distance between the two splashes is the distance of the jump!

It almost tipped back on us nuckleheads a couple of times. Great entertainment! Chillin..................... Anthony, his girl Daniel, and us, took the kayaks out for a good three hour adventure. We cruised around forever and found some really neet slot canyons to venture up.

This place was soooo beautiful!!

by the time we got here we had the whole left right paddle thing down so we didn't run into the wall too much. A typical comment while rowing was Sar saying "hun, I swear if you do that one more time!.............!

We found a cliff to jump off!

The water weinie!............... It was a stupid idea to even blow it up. You always hear those stories of hitting heads etc. Well you guessed it me and Anthony smacked heads pretty hard. It still hurts four days later.

Bill and Trish, Sar and I just love them. Bill is a great guy with a super dry personality. Trish is like a mother to us and is just so real.

Greg, Tris, Stacie, and Kirby.

We think they're a fun couple. I think they should get married too. I think Dani wanted to kill me after the trip for making so many marriage jokes, but it was fun.

K. So the water balloon laucher is always a highlight of the Lake Powell trip. This year to make it even more interesting we brought down a dozen tennis balls!! in the pic below is Anthony lauching, kirby holding on the right and Greg on the left. That's me way out there on the Sea doo dodging.

This is Sarah being hot.

She's really good at it!

Crazy crater! down inside it dropped down about 200 ft..............but not really, it was only like five, but it still was cool.

NOW!

This here might have been one of the most gorgeous places we've been to EVER!!! It's the narrows at Antelope point. The little indians charge ya a butt load to go down it ,but it's worth it.

The hike through prob lasted a good 300 yards.

We feel like we're still on our honey moon, cause of all the pics we take.

This was a fun attempt at the camera timer!

A true photographers heaven!

Is this not the sweetest place EVER!!

The trip ended at The Point Restaurant at the Marina.

We had such a great trip. Prob one of the funnest Lake Powell trips of all time.

Puppy Love!

2008-06-05T20:33:00.000-07:00

Lola plays really hard now for about an hour to an hour and a half before she completely crashes! And it honestly doesn't matter how or where, she will be out for about 2 to 3 hours! It cracks us up!I was holding her and she crawled up there and fell right a sleep, just like that!She also really likes to spread herself out, and make herself comfortable.........apparently that is comfortable!!!Lo still can't get enough of her Bella! And Bell just doesn't care anymore! So Bella will spoon with her George and Lola will spoon with Bell! And everyone's happy!

Yes she is a girl and yes she really did fall asleep like this for a half hour before adjusting herself!This lil' girl know's how to relax! We luv this kid!

The Cure-Leaders!

2008-05-25T20:27:00.000-07:00

This actually happened a couple of weeks ago, but this is my cheerleaders (Hunter High Cheer), cheering at the Race for the Cure. It was a 5k run, walk held down at the Gateway. My cheerleaders were one of the squads asked to be "cure-leaders" during the race and cheer on the runners and walkers! They were so cute, with the cheers they came up with to help raise breast cancer awareness! They had a great time!
After the race they were part of a little program, where they did their cheers along with 4 other cheer teams, to the survivors, it was really neat and kind of emotional and inspirational to see the survivors and watch them all cheer together! My girls loved it!
This is all of them on the race course. I had to take a pic, cuz they were cheering so loud for me when I came around the course running, I told them I was going to start taking them to all my races!
Yeah!!!!
Everyone, say hi to Colby!

Rachelle's Here!

2008-05-22T09:42:00.001-07:00

Yeah! Rachelle and her cute family came to visit us in Utah! She lives in Vancouver, WA and we absolutely hate having her and her lil' ones so far away! They came down for a week and we were able to hang out with her, Ry Ry and cute lil' Maren, who is getting so big! This first pic is of Rachelle, with baby Maren and my other sister Erica, at our little adventure to Hogal Zoo!

This train ride was hilarious. Now I am not an avid Hogal Zoo attender, however I had not been on the train since about 6th grade and I really didn't even remember they had a train there! So you pay a dollar and you see about 4 animals, the playground, a fake little mining town, and a fake little cemetery, plus the parking lot! We'll I guess you do get to see the mining town 2x! The whole ride is about 30 sec. long, and I am pretty sure that Kalli and Ryan didn't even finish their half P&J sandwiches! Too funny! Although Ziek was loving everything about the train ride!The Zoo was a big hit and mostly hilarious, I love these lil' guys they crack me up! Especially Ry and Kalli in the wagon. These to are like little bear cubs together, however in the wagon they need their own space and please do not confuse the sippie cups!!!

This is Grandma with baby Maren, right before bath time! Although it is a little weird for me to call my Mama a Grandma yet cuz she is still just my Mom!

The are both so cute! And this is a really cute one of a very lil' baby Maren smile! Too fun! I miss these guys already! But we'll be seeing you soon, in July when we venture up to Vancouver for some quality Kunkel time!

Love you guys!

Welcome Lola!!!!

2008-05-15T23:37:00.001-07:00

Meet the newest member of our family!!!

LOLA!!!!

She is a (very white) yellow lab and is 7 weeks old, and such a doll!

In fact Bella is pretty sure that this is her new little doll, to play with! (Look at her face......protective much!!!)

They are sooo cute together, although I think Lola loves Bella a little more. She follows her everywhere and any chance she gets she cuddles right up with Bella!

They both really like to play with eachother, it's very intertaining for everyone involved, even watching!

This was her first bath, she didn't really care one way or the other about it! Not her favorite but she didn't complain!

Favorite toy of the moment! But it really wears her out after about 10 min. But after about a half hour nap she is ready for round 2!

This is really all she does right now, sleep and pee! But mostly Sleep!

Lola with Dad, and her "What's that?" face!

MOAB

2008-05-13T23:28:00.001-07:00

Yeah, we love Moab! This trip was awesome! We went down with my sister, Erica and her family(Stephen, Kalli, and Ziek) and lot's of thier friends! Kudos to Stephen, Erica's hubby, for finding us some sweet condo's to stay in while we were playing there! The weather was almost perfect and It was just georgous! Also a huge thanks to Greg for letting us take down a couple of his 4-wheelers, we had a blast! One of the best parts of the whole trip was that we got to bring our lil' girl down! She had such a great time and decided this was her favorite vacation ever! She loved to follow the bikes and 4-wheelers, but mostly she loved getting in the water! Check out that smile!

We went to Arches National Park and did a couple of small hikes! Colby and I watched Ziek(1 1/2) and Kali(2) while Erica and Stephen biked into and around the park! We had a lot of fun with the little kitties, they mostly wanted to play in the sand and there was plenty of it, especially at Sand Dune Arch, a favorite amongst all the kids in our party!
Just kickin' back on top of Sand Dune Arch!

Well, we did the practice loop at least, and it was really fun, next time we'll do the whole thing! I really only got brave towards the end, and then wanted to do it again, cuz I was getting the hang of things! Colb and Erica were amazing and so hard core throughout the whole trail! Colb and I took off one day to go do the Klondike Bluff trail! It was a lot of fun, even if we added an extra 45 min. to our little ride for Colby getting us off the trail by a couple 100 yards, that we had to climb back up hill, and occationally pick up our bikes and walk through cactus! But all in all it made for a good time! This is us at the top! It over looks into Arches and was beautiful and worth the climb! The real trail is a blast, as we went the right way on the way back!

Yes, I really did that all by myself! And funny enough we saw this t-shirt later on that evening in town, that I thought was very appropriate!However some of these last few pics. did come with a price! Check out my Badges of Honor!

You don't get scars like these from sitting around! Go ahead and either take that for good or bad !

some more fun pics!

>Colby and Stephen did Amasa Back!(You guys are so hard core!)

I love this pic! Zeik is such a lil' man now that he is walking all over!

Even Bella got to ride on the 4-wheelers!

Everyone at Gemini Bridges before we headed out!

Yeah! New Kid's Are Back!!!!!

2008-05-09T15:08:00.001-07:00

So Colby and I are pretty stoked that the New Kids on the Block are back!
And we're lovin' their new song "Summer Time"

I still love ya Danny, however my Colb is Hotter!

St. George!!!

2008-04-29T09:15:00.001-07:00

This was such a fun lil' trip! We went with Colb's fam, and as you can see Colb's dad brought the 4-wheelers, which proved to be a good time for everyone! (Thanks Dad!) On top of doing a lil' 4-wheeling everyone got a little crazy on the tennis courts, in the pool, down at Zions, and in the condos!
This was our first little ride out when we got there. This was just behind the condos, isn't it gorgeous! (L to R: Colb, Me, Brian, Tallin, Chels, and Mike...ya we can't really ever get him to put his shirt on!....) We rode around for a while and watched Greg, Colb's dad get a little crazy on the four wheeler's, Go Greg!!! Next we made our way over to play at the pool, because it was nice and hot, which was quite a difference from the Salt Lake we left that morning! (SNOW!!!!)Good Job Parker and Colby! I see after coaching cheerleading for five years, I have finally rubbed off on Colb!
We also met up with Lauren and Braden from our cruise! We met their 2 lil' girls, who are adorable and then went to dinner. It was after dinner the real adventure began! This picture was right after we went down into this underground cave (full of bats!!! Blah) and spilled glow stick stuff all over us and the walls. This was a classic fun thing to do when I was down at Dixie too, so it brought back good memories! We took some of Colb's brother's and sister with us and we all played hide and go seek! Sounds a little cheesy I know, but it was really fun! Thanks Bergeson's for the great Idea!!!! You guys rock!

The next day, we headed over to Zions National Park for a little hiking and sensational scenery! Colby and I went with his sister Alexis and her two boys on a little hike (which seemed a lot longer then we intended to take the boys on!). Parker, 4 and Hayes 2, did amazing though on their hike, along the edge of a cliff in sandals, there were only a few scares, but not one casualty! All in all it was a success! Here Alexis and I are checking out the ancient hieroglyphics and rock formations left by the early Zion Indians! (ya, I don't know!)

But by far the most exciting part of the hike was Uncle Colby teaching us how to catch lizards! And when we finally caught one we carried it all the way down to the Emerald Pool! But mostly it was funny cuz everyone we crossed on the hike stopped to see this stupid lizard and some even took pictures! It was a pretty amazing find, not just for Colby, Parker and Hayes! Then before we left the pool, of course we had to see if the lizard could fly and swim, by throwing him off the ledge into the pool. I am happy to report that the lizard could do a little of both and was alive at the time of our departure, but probably very traumatized!

Colb and I at the Lower Emerald Pool (pre- lizard base jump)

The trip was great! Thanks guys!

Salt Lake Half Marathon (13.1 miles)/ 04.19.08

2008-04-20T15:25:00.000-07:00

So once again my sister, Erica, and I have decided to run another race together! Well actually I was pressured into signing up with the Chiropractic office, I work at a couple of times a week, as part of a team..(the back crackers!... lame I realize!) But of course mostly all of those people couldn't, wouldn't or shouldn't right! So that's when my sister, Erica got involved, because I told her she needed to sign up and run the race with me! I would've done it alone, however the funny comments I feel I need to remember to share after the race, (that won't really be funny anymore), tend to do a bit better when there is someone there right next to you!(and at least there is a feeble attempt of a courtesy laugh). But then there are moments in the race where there is no need to say anything at all, and you both know it's funny and just laugh! This however does expend all your energy for the full next mile!

This is pre-race, at the starting line. You may notice it's dark that's because it is 6 something A.M.!!! Pictured is me, Erica and her friend, half awake, but excited! The race started up at the University of Utah Legacy Bridge. It was awesome because they had a gospel choir singing on the bridge....so cool! We all agreed that they should have also been at the finishing line! My smile could be weird for the following reason's: I was pretty cold, very tired, I also was a little concerned cuz I hadn't had my nervous pooh yet! And if you've ever done any type of race before, you'll know what I mean and if not well then it's just going to sound weird and gross! (sorry about that!)

Here we come down the chute at the gateway, only .1 miles left to go! Colby and Bella were standing up on the bridge with Stephen, Kalli, and Zeik (Erica's lil' fam!) You may notice that Erica's friend is now gone, that is cuz she totally schooled us right from the beginning! She's a fast one! Good job! I heard she finished like 10 min. before us!

Now we pass under the bridge and on to the finish line! If the picture looks a little blurry it's cuz we were going sooo fast! If not, LOOK HARDER, it's blurry! Whoa!!!

Yeah! We made it! I'd like to thank my sponsor, Thompson Family Chiropractic!(I've always wanted to say that!) As well as our support team (Colby, Bella, Stephen, Kalli, Zeik, and my mom!) I'd also like to give a shout out to Noah and April Springer, who also ran the race and who we conversed with at the starting line and along part of the race and then again at the end! They are awesome! Our time was 2 hours and 7 min. (not bad, not bad!!!)

As of right now there are no immediate plans of running another race. But that's normal! Usually after we are done we don't care to run or think of running for a long time! The new goal is to buy Erica's old bike and start doing triathlons with her! That ought to be interesting (especially the swimming part!) Stay tuned!

I decided that our little racing team needed some titles. So Erica is the going to be the Regional Team Captain and I will be the Assistant to the Regional Team Captain (not to be confused with Regional Assistant Team Captain!) See the funny thing's you can come up with during a race! But like I said, it was really funny to us then......probably not so much now, right!................(We still think it's pretty funny!)

First Blog Post: Life Update!!!

2008-04-15T22:16:00.000-07:00

So we have finally joined the blogging community! Our myspace and facebook were put together by Colby, and I am now attempting our very first blog.....Go me! Just a little update on our life: Colby is working in Park City at the Rich Haines Gallery. He sells art and loves everything about what this job entails. He has been working in the art gallery business for about 2 yrs. and really enjoys it! He has also been having fun selling real estate for the past few yrs.

I am still a massage therapist (going on 5 1/2 yrs. now) and have been doing it out of our house for about 4 yrs. I have also decided to coach another year of cheerleading, at Hunter High. (going on six yrs.--I know I need therapy, honestly only crazy people do that!)

Colb is still playing soccer at least 2 to 3 times a week and I have recently gotten into pilates, as well as taking walks with Bella at Tanner Park and doing a few races here and there with my sister Erica!

We have had a lot of fun traveling in the past couple of years due to the fact that we do not have any kids! In fact I just heard of this little acronym the other day from my friends blog: D.I.N.K. , translation= dual income, no kids! Well that is definitely what we are, Dink's! (Aside from our daughter dog "Bella") Actually we have been trying to have kids for the past couple of years with no luck, but don't worry we've started some desperate measures! Although we are a little sad about this we really haven't allowed it to slow us down. This is what we have been up to over the last little while.....

In November we went and visited my brother David. Colb actually went to meet him now that he is selling his art work (dshprintmaker.com) and it was a great opportunity for Colb to learn more about his work. David lives in San Francisco, CA and so we just made a trip out of it, since neither Colb or I had been there! We went to Alcatraz and also went to see where the "Full House" house's were, and also did the whole Golden gate thing! We had a blast and definitely want to go back!

After San Fran we came home in time to run in the Cold Turkey race on Thanksgiving day with some of our friends in our neighborhood! (The Springer's and the Bailey's) It was really fun and Bella got to run too, her favorite! Following Thanksgiving we made a quick trip to Aspen, Colorado, where Colby went to go work for a couple of days at an Art Gallery associated with the Park City Gallery he was working at! This was really fun but really Cold and our first real taste of winter for the year. We didn't get to snowboard though, because there wasn't quite enough snow, but the atmosphere was really fun! And while Colb held down the gallery I went out and got my hair straitened and done for the first time in like 2 yrs. and also met a massive St. Bernard, named Waldo! He was really old and really nice!

After Christmas we went on a cruise to the southern Caribbean! It was seven days and one of our funnest vacations so far! We went to 6 different islands, and played really hard!

These are the first friends we met on our cruise, Lauren and Braden, and as luck would have it they were from St. George, UT. We hung out with them most of the time and logged a bunch of good laughs and memories! We're actually going down to see them next week!
(pics from some of our adventures)
yup, I know what your thinking......They're real! (ha ha!)
This guy was hilarious! he tried to steal Colb's shoe's out of the jeep in St. Thomas. When we caught him he told us he was in charge of watching that parking lot and that he was taking the shoes so no one else would steal them and that we were lucky he was there! Totally crazy, but had a sweet island accent and was fun to chat with! He gave us an awesome 20 yr. old TV remote control as a parting gift! Colby kicked him 10 bucks for the entertainment.

Right after our cruise I went to visit my sister Rachelle in Washington for a week cuz while we were cruising she had a really cute little girl! (my newest niece, Maren Elisa Kunkel!) She was born Jan. 24th 2008 and was 6 pounds, 10 ounces and 21 inches! She is a doll! And I had a lot of fun holding and visiting her despite the fact that I had no luggage for this trip... it never made it over with me on the plane!

Now catching up a little closer we make it to March, were Colb and I traveled back to Cali, but this time to Disneyland!!!! This is actually an annuall trip we've been making for the past 5 yrs. with the Hunter High Cheerleaders, for Cheer nationals. The past 2 years have been the best as The Natter's (Braden and Danie) have accompanied us. Danie started coaching with me 2 yrs. ago and our husband get along great so the trips have gotten even better! My team has been doing awesome at nationals, and for the past 3 yrs. they have made it to finals every year! This year we placed 3rd in our category (Small Varsity Show Cheer Intermediate) out of 10 other teams! GO TEAM!!!! and Go Danie and Sarah for being such slave drivers and having no life but to hang out with teenage girls with raging hormones all year long! We just picked our new team, by the way, for the 08'-09' year and can't wait to start all over.....from the beginning.....again.....like I said, I'm crazy!!! Colb thinks so too, in fact he's not really okay with it, but we're working on it together!

Well that's it for now! And if you've actually made it this far down the blog, you can look forward to our upcoming fun road trips to St. George and Moab in the next few weeks! I promise they will not be this long!

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Christmas Vacation!

Family Photos!

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Update!

Trip to the 801

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First Blog Post: Life Update!!!

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