I was starting to lament that life just wasn't "blogworthy" anymore. After reading this post, you may agree! So now you all get to suffer through pictures of the boring stuff we've been up to since I blogged last.
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We're back in the game! Baseball is in full swing and the calendar is full again. My questions is... what the heck was Austin doing playing 1st base?!!A moment of peace with Grandma Jessie on the way to Grandma Kathy's house for Easter. Is it wrong to use my children for manual labor? I say "no!" Between Caitlin and Austin, they managed to paint the first coats of paint in their rooms. The second coat wasn't as fun - you couldn't see the difference as much as the 1st coat so I was on my own for that one, but they did keep my Diet Coke filled.Don't you just LOVE Caitlin's hair that was crimped to within an inch of her life? I picked her up from her sleepover the morning of this picture and I wasn't sure who she was.

We went to the BEST. CONCERT. EVER! We got tickets to Muse a while back, but only the night before the concert did I realize that it was the NCAA championship basketball game on the same night. Austin was anticipating being my date, but Brian stepped up and drove through the blizzard (in APRIL!) to the concert. I was all impressed that he would forgo the game until we got there and the tv in our suite was turned on to the game. He didn't miss a basket and had FABULOUS background music.It's a boy!!! We've been awaiting the birth of the little guy here (this is of course BEFORE we realized that Caitlin is more than likely allergic to horses - unfortunately, I didn't get the AFTER picture where she looked like Rocky Balboa after Apollo Creed got through with him). Each time Catie would pet the horse, his nose would get lower into the hay - it was precious! He was just a few hours old here.

A couple of days later, he was up and around his corral and showing off for his visitors. By the way, the momma horse (also named Catie) was the horse that dragged Catie around the arena at the rodeo (July 2009 "Rodeo" post - I couldn't figure out how to link).

One last little tidbit (this is for you Michelle)...Austin went to a party last night in which they went door to door playing "bigger or better." They had to go to a different neighborhood as they've worked over ours pretty good playing this game in the past. Unfortunately, the owner of one particular home didn't answer. Apolo Anton Ohno really shouldn't leave his UPS packages on his front porch (one was from Italy). Maybe they'll catch him next time. (Sorry - no photos of this one).

A tourist in my own town...

So I can't rememer if I've ever been to Temple Square in the spring. I really think I would have remembered considering it was so pretty Friday night (when I didn't have my camera - GAH!) that I had to come back on Sunday for some pictures. The trees were slightly less "bloomy" today, but stunning nonetheless.I DID have my phone on Friday night, so I was texting Mom pictures of the flowers and the siren's call of the blooms was too much for her so she made the trip to the city as well (and Annie came to make it a girl's afternoon).Seriously - it looked like the trees were glowing and this was AFTER they had lost a bunch of blooms.

Ah - the hyacinths! You could smell them everywhere you went.This tulip was about 6" in diameter. I had never seen anything like it (but Mom had - she probably has one in her yard).

Random Thoughts...

Okay, so I've finally seen a drawback for DVR's. As I was zipping through commercials during the Oscars, I missed this little gem. Obviously all was not lost - I surf too much to have missed it totally.



More randomness... while we were watching the Jazz game last Saturday night, I hear Caitlin say, "there is my second husband." This caught my attention so I asked her to explain. She told me that Sundiata Gaines is her second husband in case she and Kyle Korver ever get divorced, but she doesn't think that will happen because she and Kyle are "just so cute together." Here is the video of where it apparently was love at first sight (if she breaks up with Kyle, that is):

Caitlin and I had a girls night out last week (yes - last week... this is the first time my computer has been free between Club Penguin and poker on Facebook). We went to visit my future son-in-law. I guess that is what I should call him since Caitlin calls him "my future husband." We speak of course, of Kyle Korver of the Utah Jazz.

Caitlin: "Mom... did you know that Kyle is only 28?"Caitlin: "Mom, can we get a little closer?"

Since he's been out injured this season, there was a bit of rust, so Caitlin rubbed her jersey 26 times and then stared at him for 26 seconds (I think it was actually longer) and lo and behold, he had the best game of the season!

The Jazz won thanks to Caitlin and her voodoo spell . School night? What school night? Let's go watch the post game interview!

Eventually we made it home through the blinding snowstorm, but it was a great time!

Olympic Flashback

Watching the Olympics every night has made me nostalgic, so we're pulling out some pics from 2002. Here's hoping the games will come back here again one day. Every venue had a preview event to 'test the waters' so to speak. This was at the speedskating event. Those Dutch folks were enthusiastic to say the least. Caitlin had a bit of an issue with how loud it got (again, I blame the Dutch), but she looked cute with her 'merican flag. I still haven't figured out how Austin got a Japanese flag on his forehead, but oh well. Our own Olympic Village. I think they should have tightened security a little bit - look at all these hooligans!

The United States team enters the stadium during the opening ceremonies. This was one of the few pictures I took that didn't have the heads of the Italian folks sitting in front of us in the photo also. They may have blocked my pictures, but they were quite entertaining. Congratulations on the Olympic gold medal Austin! That would be the actual Ladies figure skating gold medal (see below). One of our friend's father was the project manager at the company that made the medals so we had a little preview. They were very heavy and the silver was the prettiest.

Aunt Teri came to check out the festivities.

Was this before or after Smash Mouth at the Olympic Medals plaza? Either way it was an awfully fun night!

Opening Ceremonies... awesome!!

Belated Valentines...

As you can see, Mom went all out for Annie's birthday/Valentine's dinner (with both food and decoration). Don't y'all wish you lived closer because we got more chocolate (insert evil chuckle here). Of course all of my chocolate is gone - I had to eat it up as fast as I could because I gave it up for Lent. I didn't want to have any in the house tormenting me until April.

Um... Austin... Chuck Bass called and said he wanted his look back because you weren't doing it right, but Justin Bieber said you could keep the hair.

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Today seemed like a good day to play hooky. Caitlin was out of school (track break) and Austin's grades were A-OK so we headed to the mountains. I'm here to tell you that skiing will definitely remind you of how old you are. I'm hoping to be able to walk tomorrow (I may have to go on the injured reserve list - although I guess I can still type, so I'll soldier through).

Caitlin didn't miss a beat - she just took right off. Hopefully she's going to learn how to turn instead of just pointing the skis downhill and leaving her mom in the dust.

It was a spectacularly B.E.A.Utiful day today - we worried because it was supposed to snow, but it snowed a bit last night and all that powder fluttered around in the air all day. It was pretty cool because the sky was so blue, but there was snow in the air... I know, the picture doesn't really show that.

I love it when the slopes aren't crowded (I'll only ski on weekdays for this very reason).

Austin had an unfortunate incident in the powder ... it was a little deeper in the trees than he thought it would be - it took a bit of effort to get himself out. He didn't move for quite a while, but he eventually cleaned off the board and took off again.

Ok. It's time for Advil.