We're Flying!

This weekend Scot and his dad were finally able to go indoor skydiving together. It's been so busy that this was really the first weekend that they were able to do it. They had such a great time. For those of you who don't know basically you jump in to this big old wind tunnel and fly around in there for two minutes. It's a blast! On a side note: if you ever do this please where shoes that you can tie on tightly to your feet because there was a group of old ladies in the group ahead of Scot and his dad and as soon as one of them jumped in her show flew off and went straight to the top so they had to stop the fan and I swear it took like 52 seconds for it to come back down. it was kind of sad but really really funny!!

Waiting to fly:




After SkyVenture we all headed over to Jennifer and Christian's house to celebrate sweet Ainsley's second birthday with cake, ice cream and presents, what more could a kid want?

Thanks guys, for a fun day!!

Maltipoo Cuteness

OK, so you can not tell me that this isn't the cutest puppy in the entire world. On Friday night Scot and I stopped at the mall by our house to pick something up and we can't go there without looking at the pet store. Normally we don't see anything too spectacular just a bunch of dogs with poo everywhere stuffed in to little cages but this time was an exception. I have completely fallen in love with Maltipoos. They are the cutest thing I have ever seen and I must have one. I am really working on Scot so we will see what happens. The lady at the pet store says they only get about 4-5 lbs. PERFECT! Jessica Simpson has one so I mean how hard can they be to take care of really? Ha!

What do you think?

Molar Moments

OK so I just had to brag about Scot. He made our dentist's newsletter that went out to all the patients for referring so many patients to their office. We have a great dentist and we love to spread the word about him. All of the girls in the office suprised him at work with balloons and a gift card to the restaurant Marigolds. I am so proud. You go on with your bad self! Love you!

It says: "Congratulations to Scot MacCabe for winning our referral contest. Scot was presented with a $100 gift card and balloons at his work. Scot works in administration at a local surgical center.

'I really appreciate the care I get from Dr. Frost. There may be more [referrals] coming in the future.'

If you would like to be the next big referral winner, we would love to see your family and friends. Our growth is from your great referrals. Our next referral contest is from April 1 through June 30. All referrals will receive a gift from Dr. Frost and a grand prize winner will be drawn at the end of June. Every referral gives you an entry."

Congratulations Scot!!!

Our Weekend in a nut shell...

We just got home from a very long weekend in Rexburg and I figured I better hurry up and blog it all now before I forget all of the things that happened!

On Friday afternoon at about 12pm we set out on yet another journey across Wyoming for a wedding. Well actually they were already married but we couldn't be there so went up to Rexburg for their reception. All was well. The weather was wonderful and cooperating and we were having great conversations in the car. It's amazing the things you come up to talk about when traveling through Wyoming. Anywho...we pulled in to Rexburg around 11:30pm, met up with my parents and then headed off to bed.

On Saturday morning we got up and had breakfast at Frontier Pies with my uncle, cousin and parents. If any of you have ever been to Rexburg you know all about Frontier Pies. It's not the best food in the world but let's face it you are in Rexburg so you take what you can get, but all in all it's a good place, with good people and country atmosphere. So we are all chatting and laughing and having a good old time when none other than Glenn Beck from CNN comes waltzing through and sits at the table next to us with his ontorage (sp?).

OK so Scot and I so are not inconspicuous as we proceed to tell everyone that Glenn Beck from CNN is sitting at the table next to us. I mean really who gets excited about some radio talk show host who is now on CNN? We do!!! Who would have ever thought that Glenn Beck would be in Rexburg at Frontier Pies? That's some good stuff!!

After breakfast my mom and I insisted on hitting some of our favorite Rexburg hot spots. We always have to go to the bookstore to get some memorobilia then we had to go to Porters, our favorite craft store. They always have such great things that I have never seen before. Love that! Once we had shopped we absolutely had to go up to the temple. We so wanted to be there for the open house but just never made it. Rexburg also holds a special place in my mom's heart because she grew up in the area.

You can barely tell but my dad, me and my mom are standing up there...
Rexburg has changed so much in the last three years since I was there. It's insane! The cold NEVER changes but they have a beautiful temple for one, a Walgreens, an Applebee's, 2 Subways, a new steakhouse (which is really gross by the way), and a ton of strip malls. It's just crazy!

After doing all of that running around we went out to Lewisville to visit more family and go to lunch at Chuck-a-rama. It's a big buffet out in Idaho Falls. Such a classic. Next we ran back to Rexburg to go to dinner with Scot's friend Randy, his wife Jessica and their cute daughter Aiden. We went to the aforementioned steakhouse which was rather disappointing for everyone involved but we had a great time catching up and laughing about old times. After dinner we all headed over to the open house of Scot's friend Jared. Jared and his new wife Jenni were married in the Oakland Temple last week. We weren't able to be there so we were so happy that we were able to go to their open house and see them. They are so happy and such a cute couple!

After the open house we stopped by Browlims to get some fry sauce. We always mean to do that but we always forget! We also forgot about how insane the grocery store can be on a Saturday night in Rexburg. Holy college kids Batman. They were everywhere!! Scot and I were talking about it on the way up and we were talking about how much fun it would be to live there again because it's a place that holds such a special place in our hearts but after about 2 hours of being there we decided it would not be so pleasant. Fun to visit no fun to live!

We started to head back to home after breakfast on Sunday morning. Again all was well, converstaion was good, roads were OK, just a couple of questionable areas like the ones pictured below at the top of the Teton Pass before driving in to Jackson Hole...

What?

Well after getting down off of that all was well again and we were on our merry little way. So we get to Rock Springs and one of those big old electronic signs says I-80 closed at Rawlins. The roads were just wet at this point so we thought that they would probably open it back up before we got there. So we were calling the Wyoming Roads Report number and it kept saying closed. Well sure enough as we pulled in to Rawlins and the further away from town we drove the less and less people we were seeing on the road until finally we drove up to the turning around point to go back to Rawlins. We couldn't believe it!!! So we turned around and got back on the freeway back toward Rawlins. We decided to go and walk around Alco (It's a Kmart type store) and use the bathroom and just kill some time before heading back down the highway. Well we were in Alco about 15 minutes and then came out and it was snowing like the dickens. So we went across the street to fill up the car and then we were going to go back down and wait at the gate with everyone else and watch a movie and freeze our hinies off until the road opened. Well as we thought about it and as the snow was falling we decided it might be a good idea to see if we could reserve a room JUST IN CASE we needed it. So we go ahold of my WONDERFUL sister in law Jennifer who helped us out with getting phone numbers, and road reports and she even booked our room for us on line which we did end up needing! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! So we went back down to the gate because at this point we are still holding out hope that we might be able to get home but when Scot talked to the cop that was at the gate and told him where we were heading he told us to head back to town and get a room before they were all taken. So we went back to town and there were trucks and cars that had slid off the road and that's when we really decided to just give up and go check in to our room and stay warm!!! You know it's funny, we always talked about how cool it would be to get snowed in. You always picture it as some warm and comfy cabin up in the mountains, with a fire and big shaggy rugs and plush couches but OF COURSE when it happens to us we are stuck in Rawlins, WY where there's an Alco, McDonalds and Pizza Hut. Great. How romantic. Well just to end my story they opened I-80 about 8:30 this morning and we were on our way.
We rolled in about 1:30 this afternoon and freshened up and headed in to work since we were supposed to be there today. I lasted a couple hours, just long enough to catch up my work and then I was out. Poor Scot is still there but we are so so happy to be home. All in all it was a fun weekend and so nice to see my mom and dad. We miss you guys already!!

Utah Our Friend..

We were in Utah again this weekend for another wedding! It has been so much fun to have the opportunity to go to so many weddings lately. It's so much fun to see family and friends even if it is only for a short time.

My place of employment doesn't exactly like to offer their employees a whole lot of vacation time so we left as soon as I got off work on Friday and headed out to Salt Lake. We only stopped a couple of times once while getting pulled over by the one cop in the entire town of Rock Springs, WY (we didn't get a ticket just some friendly directions to a bathroom) and another time to eat at a shady looking McDonalds. Oh ya and don't worry the GINORMOUS rabbit that lives between Rock Springs and Evanston is still alive because of the awesome driving skills of my husband.

So we got to Salt Lake about 2:30AM on Saturday morning and went straight to bed. We were so exhausted. We got up the next morning and visited with family and then went to get ready for Dirk and Heidi's wedding (Scot's uncle). So we are ready to walk out the door and Scot is looking for his shoes to wear with his suit and low and behold he only has these:

So we had to make a mad dash for Shopco to get him some church shoes. We made it to the temple in plenty of time for the wedding luckily. The wedding was beautiful and we were so happy we were able to be there. So after a full day of celebrating we got up early at 6am on Sunday morning and got to get in the car to drive all the way back to Colorado less than 48 hours later. Woo hoo. Here are some pictures from our trip:

Here we are at the temple...Notice Scot's new shoes, mucho bettero...

Heidi and Dirk...Just Married

Jay and Leeann...

Jennifer and the kiddos...

Katie and Travis and their kiddo Teagan...

Leeann and Jenny...

Bouncy Gwenie and Merilee...

What a fun weekend we had. We miss you all already!!!

Fun with the Ripstik

For Christmas this year I bought Scot a Ripstik. He hasn't had much opportunity to try it out except for in the house on my kitchen floor (ahhhh) so today since it has been so nice he went out to try it out before going to scouts. I went out to snap a few pictures but the wind picked up and I decided to go back inside. He stayed out there for a little bit longer until he ate it and decided he was over it for the day. Lookin' good!

Here is what the ripstik looks like in case you have never seen one. They are actually pretty cool. It is supposed to be the same kind of feeling as a snowboard I guess, because it swivels and moves much differently than a regular skateboard. I can't seem to keep my balance on the thing without holding on to Scot's arms and him running along with me!

Here are some of the shots I took of Scot, check out that balance and concentration!

Parental Guidance Suggested

WARNING: We are posting this for Leeann and Jay because they have never heard it before. We just want to warn you that there is some language and a lot of potty talk so you may not want to let any youthful ears hear it. Besides the language it's probably one of the funniest things we've ever heard. The lady making the call is a comedian named Wanda Sykes and she is hysterical! Enjoy...

Let the Fun Begin...

OK so it all started about two weeks ago. Our lease is up on this house and we have been kind of going back and forth for a while now on what we want to do with our lives as far as do we want to renew our lease?, or do we want to move back in to an apartment to save some money?, we really want to move to Utah sometime in the near future so we were seriously looking at that as most of you know and still plan to make that move some day, or should we try to buy this house? We were oh so confused and just couldn't decide. Well we talked about it and talked about it until we were blue in the face and finally decided that we wanted to meet with the real estate company that we are renting from and see what they wanted for this house and kind of learn a little more about the process of buying a house. So we had a meeting with the owner of the company a couple of Mondays ago and it went great! He talked with us for about 1 1/2 hours about the process of buying a house and all of the many elements that go in to that and he was very informative and answered all of our many questions that we had since we have never done anything this HUGE before. At the end of the meeting he told us to start by meeting with a mortgage company that he really liked to work with to see if we could even be approved for a loan so the next week she called us and began the process of checking our credit and all of that good stuff and we found out about three days later that we were approved! So we are well on our way to buying this house and we are super stoked about it! There are still lots of steps to take in this whole process but the first step has been made and it should be exciting what the future holds for us...More updates to come...

Fox Run Park...

OK so yesterday in Colorado was a beautiful day! It was clear blue skies with LOTS AND LOTS of sunshine. This is something we have soooo been waiting for so after we got home from work we changed our clothes and drove a couple miles up the road to Black Forest where there is a park called Fox Run Park. We love this park! We were there a lot last summer so when there was finally a good day to go we were stoked to go up there. There are lots of little trails to walk and things to see. Here are some pictures of past trips to Fox Run last summer...



And here is our most recent trip to Fox Run. Even though yesterday was a beautiful day it was still a little too early to take a walk up there. There was still lots of snow and MUD as you can tell by the pictures of my piglet feet...


Eeeewwwww....Oh and yes, I know it wasn't very smart to wear flip flops but I love them so sue me.

Anyway, it was fun to get out of the house for a little bit and enjoy the beautiful day and one of our favorite places!

Leeann and Jay's Wedding

I just have to put a post out here for Jay and Leeann! My sister in law Leeann got married last weekend and we are so happy for the both of them! It was a beautiful ceremony and we are so glad we were able to be there. We love you guys!

Here they are on their special day...

It was a great day. Congratulations Jay and Leeann!!!