Baseball fun

A few weeks ago we were invited to go to a Colorado Rockies baseball game with Dave's uncle, aunt and cousin and yesterday was the day we went. Unfortunately at the last minute, Dave's cousin was sick and unable to go and his aunt was going to stay home to take care of his cousin. The good news is that we had two extra tickets and were able to invite my sister, Erin, and her boyfriend, Zach, to go with us and Dave's uncle!

We had really nice seats behind home plate and luckily, the seats were in the shade in the 93 degree heat.

The highlight of the game was when Dodger's player Manny Ramirez was put in as a pinch hitter (boo), was thrown one pitch which was called as a strike which prompted Manny to argue with the referee resulting in Manny getting thrown out of the game (yay!). It was pretty funny. I guess that's what you get when you do drugs as a professional athlete!

Everyone had a great time and I'm really glad we got the opportunity to catch up with Dave's uncle and hang out with Erin and Zach all at the same time! Here's to another successful and fulfilling summer weekend!

This one time, at band camp...

Seven years ago today the phone rang in my dorm room. It was the guy I had been on a first date with the night before; the man of my dreams. We had met a week before at a band camp party - he was a drummer and I was in the color guard. We spent the entire week of band camp staring at each other across the football field, taking water breaks together and hanging out at parties. On Saturday night we went to a couple of parties, together, on a date.

I waited all day Sunday for the phone to ring. To see if he was interested in seeing me again. Because I was certainly interested in spending more time with him! Time seemed to creep by, but finally the phone rang. It was him! He asked how my morning was and what I was up to. Then came the big question:

"So... um... do you want to go out with me, and stuff?"

Eloquent, huh? I wasn't really sure what he meant by stuff, but I said yes anyway, and he said ok and he'd see me tomorrow. The rest was history.

Photo taken sometime in late 2003

Seven years later I'm sure glad I said yes to going out and stuff. That man is now my husband and we're living the stuff everyday. There's nobody else I would rather be doing stuff with!

Bike-In Movie

Last week Dave and I did something for date night that was really fun - we went to a bike-in movie! A local business shows a movie on a big blow up screen in the front lawn of their building. The idea is to bike to the business then find a spot on the lawn with your blanket or folding chair to sit back a relax and watch the movie! We had heard of this for the last couple of years but had never gone until this week.

The movie they showed this week was Caddyshack. We've seen it before, but not for a while. It's always nice to see a funny movie again. And thanks to the people sitting behind us, we heard every line of the movie ten seconds before it played on the screen. I think we'll try to avoid sitting near them next time we go.

Embracing Football

This year there will be a change in my household - I am going to watch football. I know, this isn't crazy or far fetched but for some reason when I was growing up there was a negative attitude towards the men in the house watching sports and I seem to have adopted that same attitude over the years. So I'm going to stop.

I like going to live football games and as a member of the color guard in the marching band in both high school and college I have been to my fair share. I understand the rules and how the game is played and I (mostly) know when to cheer and when condemn my beloved team for a bad play. For some reason my affinity for football just never transferred over to watching games at home - but Dave seems to enjoy it a lot. So this season I'm going to welcome football games (for local teams) on our living room TV.

I look forward to cheering on the Broncos, spending some more time with Dave and maybe even learning more about the game. And, if for some reason, I'm not getting into the game I can always go take a nap ;-)

Look out! We might be contagious

Yesterday was a busy day of Geocaching for us and we were able to indroduce some of our family and friends to the concept along the way. Last weekend we found a trackable geocoin in a Geocache and decided to take it to another part of the state to place in another Geocache for someone else to find and move again. We invited my sister, Erin, and her boyfriend, Zach, along for the hike.Apparently after we invited them Zach researched Geocaching and was really excited to head out and try it.

We picked them up Sunday morning and headed up to the mountains for what turned out to be a beautiful hike. It took us a bit to find the Geocache but we finally located it and deposited the geocoin in it for the next people to find.

This cache had a lot of random stuff in it

Putting in the geocoin

The Geocaching crew - Zach, Erin, me, Dave and Gromit

After the Geocaching part of our hike we continued on to a nice lake where we took a break, ate some trail mix and watched as Gromit jumped in and out of the water and then ran around the lake with Dave chasing him. Good times. Gromit also found a nice mud hole and the bottom half of my white dog turned to black mud. Needless to say he got a bath the moment we returned home.

After a while at the lake we headed down the mountain, grabbed some lunch and headed home. I think everyone had a good time and Dave and I hope that Erin and Zach will come along with us another time in the near future!

Erin and Zach

That night we were able to share a yummy dinner with our good friends Rob and Brianna. We got to talking with them about the hike we had done earlier in the day and about Geocaching. When showing them how the Geocaching apps on our phones worked we discovered there was a Geocache really close to their house so we all decided to go out and try to find it. All of the GPS apps on our phones were taking us to the same spot but we couldn't find a cache. We looked at the description and the clues  about the cache hoping for some additional tips on where to look for it but we couldn't find anything like what we thought we were looking for. It was getting dark and we were avoiding sprinklers and were just about to give up on finding it when I went to look one more time and I found it!

It was nice to be able to actually find the cache when showing friends what Geocaching is all about, you know, so they didn't think we were crazy or something. I think we're going to try going on a Geocaching hike with them and our dogs in the next month.

So, family and friends, look out! We've gotten four people hooked on Geocaching in one day and you may be next!