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....

Crafty Time

On Sunday afternoon, I headed up to the Streams house to make some crafts. I was a little nervous to say the least, since I am not at all a crafty person. I was also a little sad since Adri couldn't make it due to bad weather. The drive on Highway 6 was absolutely beautiful. It was crystal clear and a fresh layer of snow everywhere!!

Everyone trickeled in Sunday afternoon, but man was it a full house with all the kids and grandkids! We had some delicious dinner (and as many cookies as you could ever ask for) and just kind of hung out for the rest of the night. The following morning, Monica showed up and it was time to get to work. We started at about 11am and I didn't finish mine until about 3:30pm! Crafting is HARD WORK! We did get to enjoy some pizza from BK's though! Thanks Carol Ann!!

Monique, Tiff, and Nat

Aut and Crew

Nat and Aunt Carol Ann

Tiff (showing off her work) and Monique

picture turned out a little too dark

Nat, Aut, and Amber

The little ones wait patiently for us to finish

The finished project

It was so much fun seeing all the girls again. I just wish I hadn't been so sick and could have stayed longer. I hadn't seen them since Stevie's weddding almost 2 years ago!! Thanks you guys for inviting me--hopefully I will see you again in May to finish our 2nd project!!!

Fondue....more like fond DON'T!

So for the first time in a long time, I was SICK on Valentine's Day. There is some nasty bug going around the office and even has a co-worker hospitalized. Well, I wasn't going to let a little cold get my day down. First thing in the morning, my sister in law, Alex, and I went to Marie Calendars to have breakfast with our favorite neices--Madi, Tori, and Elle.

Alex and Tori

All my favorite neices

After breakfast, I told Jason that for his Valentine's present that he could go pick out a new WII game since we had been budgeting lately and Wii games got cut out of the budget. Of course, he picked Tiger Woods 2009. After getting his game, I took a nice little nap and spent some time reading my newest book--The Appeal by John Grisham. (I know what you are thinking--we are so romantic! :)) Earlier on in the week, Jason and I decided to stay in on Valentines Day and have fondue for dinner. So after my nap, Jason started getting the main dish ready--garlic bread, cauliflower, and chicken with chesse fondue. We both tried to take a couple of bites so that the other person didn't feel bad, but never one of us could handle it. It was DISGUSTING!! We ended up having Wendy's $.99 menu for our Valentine's Dinner. Later that night, Jason's mom came over (she was in town visiting) and we made chocolate fondue and dipped a variety of fruits into the fondue. That fondue was much better--but still not so enjoyable. I guess we tried! After the chocolate mess, Jason, me, and his mom played a few rounds of Rumicube and I kicked everyones trash!! Also for Valentine's Day, my lovely husband picked out some sunflowers for me. Sunflowers are my absolute favorite!! and got me a massage to use when I felt up to it.

Even though dinner didn't work out and I was sick, it was still probably one of my favorite valentines cause there was no stress involved and we got to enjoy each other all day long (well except for the breakfast time). I LOVE YOU SUNSHINE!!

What an exciting life I lead...

Still nothing too exciting to report. I have been traveling the last week and a half for work so nothing too exciting to report. The first part of last week I was in Denver for some work training. Than nothing too exciting for the weekend. I swear sometimes I feel a lot older than 26! Than on Monday evening I traveled down to Cedar City for some depositions so I decided to have dinner with one of my cousins, Adri, that lives in Cedar now. We had a great time at dinner and I loved meeting all of her kids. The last time I saw her was at her brothers, Stevie, wedding and that was 2 years ago!

Well, nothing else exciting to report for this week. I don't know what we are going to do on Valentine's Day. I would rather just stay at home and do something special a different day of the week to be honest. And than on Sunday and Monday I am going up to Huntington, Utah to make some crafts and hang out with some of my cousins that I haven't seen in years!! Should be fun and I get a day off of work---what could be better?!

But I hope everyone has a happy Valentines Day or single awareness day--whichever they prefer!

Nothing too exciting to report...

There is not much to report this week. I spent another week with a cold and another week with an inversion in Salt Lake. Jason and I had been talking about taking a trip to somewhere we had never been after getting inspiration from the movie "Yes, Man". We had tossed out the idea of going to Seattle. On Tuesday, Southwest announced that they were putting their flights to Seattle for 1/2 price!! Part of our timeshare (Worldmark) is in Seattle and was available, so we decided to book a trip to Seattle for April. Now we just need to get some passports so we can take the ferry over to Victoria. Best of all, because we have been "budgeting" we were able to pay for our flights and will be getting passports in the next week or so.

Nothing else exciting to report. I have been cooking a lot (like everynight). I have found several cool reciepes from my friends Marci's blog. I never pictured myself in the kitchen, but it is a lot cheaper than us eating out all the time and than I also have lunch the next day and eat A LOT healthier! And I may be a little partial, but I think I am pretty good (well at least I can follow directions). Now I just need to buy some cool new gadgets. Pampered Chef party anyone?

I can't believe January is about over, but that means we are one month closer to the Spring and sunshine and warmer weather and less and less snow.

Utah Parade

On Friday, the city of Salt Lake had a parade to honor the University of Utah football team on State Street. I met up with Amanda, John, Clara, Regan, and Annabelle and we walked down to state street to enjoy the parade.

The "U" flag!

The TailGaters

The Mountain West commisioner

Kyle Wittingham (in the middle)

Regan and Bella

Amanda and CJ

Jeff's Birthday

For Jason's buddy Jeff's 27th birthday, Jason, me, Jeff, and Alyssa went to Wendover Saturday night. And of course we had to take the FUN bus!! Let's just say that the bus ride out was a little interesting....

We ate, gambled, drank, gambled, drank, took some shots, gambled, drank, and than came home. Jason and I only lost about $15 (including paying to go on the Fun Bus) !! Not bad for a night out!

Wendover here we come...

On the way out you get to play Bingo--this was on the back of Alyssa's card

Jeff and Jason take a birthday shot

We didn't get back home until 5am on Sunday morning and man were our dogs excited to see us! Happy Birthday Jeff!!!