spring time

Not too much excitment at the Locke household. The weather in Salt Lake has been kind of funky the last few weeks. One day it's spring and than the next day it snows! Luckily for us the spring days seem to always fall on Saturday. You see whoever owned our house the last oh 20 years or so never bothered to do ANY yardwork. So now, Jason and I get to take care of that mess. So far we have ripped out a roshbush/tree and three dead/overgrown trees. We still have a lot of work to do, but it's starting to get there. Our truck will even come in handy this year with taking trips to the "dump" with truckloads of roots and trees. Next week we have a few more trees to get out and than start getting the yard ready to plant some veggies. And for those of you that live in Salt Lake....I have FIVE fruite trees so come pick and take whatever you want. I have a cherry tree, an apricot tree (that is already blooming), two apple trees, and a plum tree.


Anyways, on to funner things.....



Jason and I leave to go to Seattle in less than three weeks. We are starting to get excited and plan things out to do. We decided to go to a Mariners game while we are there. So we bought those tickets today.











Among others things we will also catch a horse race (I've never seen one), PIke's Peak Market, the Space Needle, some delish FRESH seafood, the aquarium, a dinner cruise, and some much needed R&R!!

Also we decided a few weeks ago to go to Disneyland again for our anniversary to celebrate where everything began. So today we finally got our plane tickets. We will stay at our condo down there (worldmark). It is one of the newer reasorts and has a rooftop hottub that is perfect for watching the evening fireworks!

There once was a HUGE, OVERGROWN rosebush...

Since the weekend weather in Salt Lake was so nice, Jason and I decided to take full advantage of this spring like weather and get some yard work done. So on Saturday we decided to take on the task of digging out a rose bush in our backyard that was severly overgrown (like 15 years worth of overgrowth). We did not realize how overgrown it was until we started digging. Not only that, the smart people that lived in our house several years ago must have decided to plant this rose bush next to an existing, what appeared to be, tree!! Except they didn't take the roots out of the ground--just left them for us to enjoy!! Needless to say SEVERAL hours and about 200lbs later, the rose bush/tree was out of the ground!! I don't think I will ever look at a rose the same way :)

Keys on Main

On Friday night, Jason, me, Leslie, and Ben went to Keys on Main in downtown Salt Lake to celebrate a friends husbands 30th birthday! I can't believe that I am getting that old to be celebrating people's 30th birthdays!! Well, the VIP section was rented out for the occasion so we had instant access to the bar and chairs, couches, and tables. For those of you who haven't been, it is a dueling piano bar (no, it's not the tavernacle) where you have to pay to hear songs played by the pianist and you can also pay more to have a song stopped. Well we all had a fantastic night out and Jason and I enjoyed getting out of the house for once (we seem to have become home bodies lately). Enjoy the pics!

Jodi, me, and Leslie

Leslie and I (with Jason in the back)

Birthday shots!

Jason and I

Well on Monday morning we told Gus that it was time to "load up" which means that it is time to go in his lennel. He of course ran off like he does almost every morning. This is how we found him in our bed. Now how could you get mad at that face?

Gus gets fixed!!!

We finally got Gus fixed about two weeks ago. He seemed to do just fine. Dash, now he is another story. He was scarred to death of the "cone" on Gus's head. He would not come near Gus and would run as fast as he could away from Gus! Compared to Dash, Gus did really well with the "cone" and honestly didn't seem to mind it on his head! Now let's just hope the "marking the territory" will stop....