Happy Birthday Cal!

Today is Cal's birthday, so I thought I would do this tag about him. I am so grateful for him and what a fun and devoted father and husband he is! I love you!



1. He's sitting in front of the TV. What's on the screen?
It would most likely be a football game, or some kind of sports show

2. You are out to eat. What dressing does he get on his salad?
Bleu Cheese

3. What's one food he doesn't like?
I honestly don't think he's ever turned anything down, lol...he eats anything!

4. You go out to a bar. What does he drink first?
We don't go to bars very often, ha ha...(YES MOM I AM JOKING!)...he likes all kinds of drinks

5. Where did he go to high school?
Star Valley High

6. If he were to collect anything, what would it be?
Any sort of hunting/fishing gear

7. What shoe size does he wear?
11

8. What is his favorite type of sandwich?
I would have to say a big juicy burger

9. What would he eat every day if he could?
Prime Rib..his dad's way (his dad is a butcher)

10. What would he never wear?
a pink shirt...anything pink or lavender

11. What is his favorite sports team?
He likes the Broncos

12. What is something you do that he wishes you didn't do so much?
Complain about my body

13. How many states has he lived in?
Six: Utah, Arizona, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Wyoming and went to India on his mission too

14. What is his heritage?
Norweigan

15. You bake him a cake for his birthday. What kind of cake would it be?
Brownies...today was his birthday and I made Ghiradelli brownies with chocolate chips. YUMM!!

16. Did he play sports in high school?
All-state all conference in football and basketball

17. What could he spend hours doing?
Hunting, hiking, biking, snowmobiling, snowboarding & fishing...anything outdoors!!

Mind Over Matter

As some of you know, I have been training for my first half-marathon. And I must say it has been such a positive experience so far! I have a good friend, Marie Schwab, who is a "runner" and has quite the track record (she is still a record holder at SVHS), and she seemed optimistic about my being capable of training for a half marathon in 10 weeks. I have never run before, at least not to speak of, so I was doubtful to say the least! We're on week 8 and up to 11 miles this week and I've become pretty addicted to running, lol! Since the race is 13 miles, I would love to run 15 before, because we're training on an indoor track which I'm sure is much easier than running outside. But it's too cold here to run outside! I'm hoping the elevation and warmer temps in St. George will make it easier though! We've been waking up at 5:30am every day and it has been so nice to have such a dedicated partner! We'll see how it goes and hopefully I'll be able to run a full marathon in November 09 in New York!

I think I got it right this time...

I tried to make an e-card this year for Christmas instead of sending ones out in the mail...but the first one I did was all messed up and I didn't realize it until after I emailed it to some people...oops! I just fixed it and decided to post it on here instead (see below)...Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

HO HO HO!

My cute husband loves to play Santa, and I must say he's really good at it! He does the staff party for the bank and on Christmas Eve, he goes around to houses of friends and family. It's quite exciting for Will! He thinks it's so cool that he's in on the secret that it's not the 'real' Santa. But Anna is scared of him, lol. She says, "Take it off!!" Just like she did when I was the witch for Halloween!

The Tree

We decided to take the kids again this year to chop down a tree. We headed to the south end of the valley and as we drove, I was searching for the 'perfect' tree. I kept telling Cal to slow down so that I could have more time to look through each patch of pines off the road. We finally saw a large patch of good ones, so he pulled over. Of course, the 'good ones' were across the river and of course we had to tromp through the willows (the kind that whip you in the face) with the kids. Cal luckily had his fishing waders in the truck so he was able to carry each of us across the river. When we finally got to the patch, we were OF COURSE disappointed with the trees, because they were mostly 2 trees that were growing together to form what looked like a really full, nice pine. We finally found our poor little siamese twins tree, and decided to chop them (yes our tree is a 'them') down. The trunk starts out as one and then splits into 2. So we just wired the top of them together and VOILA!! It was a fun experience though, and the kids loved it!

The Finished Product